Customer demand is pushing a return of tactile controls in vehicles. BMW Group and Mini will balance digital and physical interfaces, using screens alongside buttons. Mini’s plans to improve its OLED display while preserving the brand’s analog character. Touchscreens are still a hot topic. Shortly after the rise of the iPhone, automakers went all in on screen technology, adding massive, all-encompassing displays to the center of their vehicles. It was all in an effort to appeal to the next-generation of buyers. Here’s the problem, though: customers quickly bucked against touchscreen overload, demanding automakers return even the most basic of tactile…

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Longtime Vancouver Canucks play-by-play broadcaster and legend Jim Robson passed away at the age of 91, though his legacy in Canucks history will last for lifetimes. Robson has been at the helm of some of the team’s most momentous occasions, from clinching sudden-death Game 7s to scoring massive playoff goals. Relive some of his best calls and some of the moments that came about with them below.“Greg Adams! Greg Adams!”Throwback: Greg Adams Scores the Game 5 Winner in 2OT vs Maple Leafs (May. 24, 1994) (ALL CALLS) Throwback: Greg Adams Scores the Game 5 Winner in 2OT vs Maple Leafs…

Thrust into the captain’s role for LIV Golf’s Smash GC after Brooks Koepka’s return to the PGA Tour, Talor Gooch is already putting his stamp on the team — starting with chemistry.And when that team happens to be halfway around the world in Australia with the Super Bowl on the schedule, the solution is simple: host a little soiree.AdvertisementGooch, whose first LIV victory came at Adelaide back in 2023, said he joined new Smash GC member Harold Varner III and others in preparing for this week’s tournament by watching the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots battle. Varner and…

Shane Van Gisbergen didn’t come to America to keep racing on road courses, he could have remained in Supercars to do that, so the decrease in road courses and a key NASCAR rule change doesn’t bother him any.Maybe more important to his success is that NASCAR reverted to the Chase for the Championship format this season, meaning ‘SVG’ can no longer simply win his way into the playoffs. He won five times last year, all on road and street courses in his full-time rookie season but otherwise would have finished outside the top-20 in a straight-up points battle.AdvertisementHowever, he also…

Roberto De Zerbi has left his position as head coach of Olympique de Marseille, but this is not expected to change the transfer agreement between the Ligue 1 side and Juventus for USA international Timothy Weah.Will Marseille still sign Weah from Juventus after De Zerbi sacking?Inter and Juventus both have players out on loan at Marseille this season: The Nerazzurri sent Benjamin Pavard to the Stade Velodrom at the end of the window, at the same time that they brought in Manuel Akanji from Manchester City, while Weah had joined from Juventus a few weeks earlier.AdvertisementThe deal for Pavard was…

Mini plans to lean more into the outdoor aesthetic with the Countryman. Head of design, Holger Hampf, says the SUV ‘hasn’t played all of its cards yet.’ More Countryman iterations are likely on the way. Off-roading and overlanding are all the rage these days. More automakers are leaning into that rugged aesthetic, be it with heavily cladded iterations of their unibody crossovers or entirely new SUVs designed to go off the beaten path. Mini probably isn’t the first name you think of when you hear “off-roading.” Historically, the British brand has been all about urban mobility. And yet, the company’s…

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