Mother-of-pearl is used as a pristine gloss on the instrument cluster, knobs, and clock.

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The instrument cluster is designed to be user programmable, offering a wide variety of functions and displays.

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The integration mostly amounts to an iPhone dock as well as a car-optimized iOS app that can play music, read messages aloud, take photos and augment the instrument cluster.

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Instead of a regular ol' speedometer in the center of the driver side dash, you'll encounter a 7-inch instrument cluster that you'll be able to customize based on your specific auto info needs.

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It features similar exterior colors, carbon-fiber elements inside and out, enhanced leather equipment and numerous acid-green accents on items such as the brake calipers, illuminated sill plates, interior stitching and instrument cluster needles.

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The center stack is dominated by the 8-inch touch screen, above a gloss-black panel with the rotary controller for the Sony sound system (there's a smaller LCD between the gauges in the instrument cluster).

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Perhaps you could put on demonstrations for the local high-school physics club, using the g-meter built into the car's instrument cluster to show exactly what more than 1 g of lateral acceleration feels like.

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The scooters are unmistakably MINI, thanks to design features like their circular central instrument cluster and speedometer, the prominent indicator lamps that originally appeared on classic Mini cars, and the chrome trims on the body of the bike.

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