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Which brand of car did you end up buying? I've heard Mazda and Toyota were pretty good at keeping essential command controls as physical buttons.


Ford Focus, recent enough to have the Sync3+ software (2018+). Except for the Carplay interface, everything has physical buttons, and even then - the physical media controls (and on-steering-wheel buttons, including a physical "activate siri voice control" button) will do what you expect with the connected device. It has both digital speedometer (as an optional page in the dashboard) and physical speedometer.

However, I haven't looked to see if this is continues with the more recent models/focus line alternatives.


Interesting. Last time I rented a car, I had a choice of multiple SUV brands, and I ended up picking the Ford one because it wasn't too big, had Carplay, and had lots of physical buttons. It was a pleasurable experience.

However, we've owned several Fords in the past 30 years (Sierra, Mondeo, and Fiesta) and they all have had a few reliability issues, mostly electric. I'm not sure I would buy another Ford today. I hope you have better luck. But I must say that in terms of driving comfort and driver experience, they've all been great.




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