The phrase "centre console" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the control panel in the middle of a vehicle's interior, typically found between the driver and passenger seats. For example, "The centre console of the car has a touchscreen display and Bluetooth capabilities."
And inside, instead of multiple dials and switches, a large touchscreen dominates the centre console.
As we drove around in Colin's car listening to Cleveland rap, we'd keep our wallets in the centre console.
AFTER hailing a taxi in La Paz recently, your correspondent was intrigued to see that the car's centre console was in Japanese.
This saves weight and makes more room for all the toys, such as the giant touchscreen that dominates the Tesla's centre console.
The new six-speed manual gearbox has a sweet, precise shift, and its conventional handbrake has a Z-shaped lever so it encroaches minimally into the centre console.
The dashboard looks streamlined and futuristic, and top models have gentle ambient lighting at night under the dashboard's trim strip and diffused over the centre console.
It remains vastly preferable to the carlike centre-console-mounted shifters offered by Ford, Ram and Toyota.
A bit of centre-console ductwork makes for very little room above the gas pedal, and slows the switch to the brake pedal – a design that nearly made me a hood ornament to a Land Rover as I inched out of the hotel driveway.
There are plasma screens broadcasting television channels from their countries of origin and a recreation centre with games consoles and exercise equipment.
Mark Ronson, for one, has unintentionally demonstrated the pitfalls awaiting studio wizards who step from behind the mixing console to centre-stage, only to find themselves stymied by a debilitating charisma deficit.
The travelling Blackpool fans were attempting to console their centre-back, and to lighten the burden imposed by the touch with which he had inadvertently diverted the ball past his own goalkeeper to give Manchester United a 3-2 lead in the 74th minute.
