The best steering wheels define a car – and some are works of art


What happened to steering wheels? They used to just be circles that you turned to send your car in a different direction, but now they’ been turned into overcomplicated, rotating control suites littered with buttons, knobs, switches and scrollers.

Car makers have long been toying with their shape and layout, adding function after function and literally ‘reinventing the wheel’ by straying from the traditional circular rim in a bid to improve usability – only to actually make them worse.

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