So the radio controls are weird because it comes from Europe? Are you saying that its only European cars that use primarily buttons, and not knobs for radio controls? My Accord doesn't have a rotary knob for anything but volume, its all buttons. My wife's Odyssey is pretty much all buttons. Except for the volume, the radio in my US-built SuperDuty is also buttons (actually "soft buttons", because its done through the touch screen on the nav system). Maybe you haven't noticed, but the past few years the trend was for buttons on radios and climate controls, not knobs and sliders. That trend is slowly disappearing, but this isn't a "European thing", its an industry-wide phenomenon.
At least most of the content of the article actually discusses things like driving, storage, usability, etc, not like so many on this site that are 3 paragraphs of "review" and a page and half describing the different trim levels and available options (info I can get from the manufacturer's web site). Perhaps someone should now introduce you guys to a couple of test tracks and you can do some instrumented reviews as well.