God is in the details and creating those details keeps thousands in the automotive industry gamefully occupied across the globe. 

Spending time with a car reveals more and more of them. Running a long-term test car gives you the best opportunity of all to spot and savour them.

My current long-termer is an Audi A6 Avant. Here, thus, is a running photolog of these details.

Up close and personal with an Audi A6 Avant? You’ve got it…

Aircraft-style centre console lighting at night, complete with red downlighters.

Remember the crescent-shaped auxiliary dials on the Porsche 996 and 997? Here they are, in digitised form.

The feature-packed climate control display up front is, as an option, replicated in simplified form in the rear too.