What he wanted to do was make the front look like a seemingly abandoned warehouse, without doors, so that a section of wall would appear to lift when the dashboard button was pushed.

To improve visibility, the three rear-seat headrests flop down, at the touch of a dashboard button, like a trio of vaudevillians taking a pratfall.

Also, the full-time four-wheel-drive system is a complicated affair that combines dashboard buttons with a shifter on the center console.

One company is selling built-in sprayers that at the touch of a dashboard button, squirt people outside the car with a special mix of noxious onion-juice gas.

My only complaint with the G35 coupe was one I have with other Nissan vehicles: the dashboard buttons are too small and some plastic interior parts feel too cheap.

Chrome has returned with a vengeance to edge windows and fenders, top grilles, even dashboard buttons.

This software allows for the volume, brightness, eject and media controls buttons to work properly, though the Exposé and dashboard buttons still do nothing because Windows lacks this functionality.

The host of duplicated controls on the steering wheel means you may never fumble with many of the dashboard buttons.

Toyota customers can subscribe to Helpnet, an emergency service that lets them reach the nearest hospital or rescue center with the push of one dashboard button.

In the event of the vehicle being hit by a petrol bomb, as was not uncommon during civil disorder, a dashboard button was pressed.