[83457]

My wife's has driven a Yaris for 10+ years which has everything on center console. You get used to it within minutes of driving it. Obviously it is perfectly legal

[Tepix]

Here's the law for Germany:

StVZO: ( https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stvzo_2012/__57.html )

    B. Fahrzeuge

    III. Bau- und Betriebsvorschriften

    §57 Geschwindigkeitsmeßgerät und Wegstreckenzähler

    (1) Kraftfahrzeuge müssen mit einem im unmittelbaren Sichtfeld des 
    Fahrzeugführers liegenden Geschwindigkeitsmeßgerät ausgerüstet sein.

Translated: "the speedometer has to be in the immediate field of vision of the driver". It's somewhat murky.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

> Yaris which has everything on center console

Last time that I drove a Yaris, and that was a few years back, there was a Head Up Display which put a few things against the windscreen, directly in front of the driver.