IN-VEHICLE CONSOLE WITH VOICE-RESPONSIBLE CONTROL

A vehicle includes a vehicle body, a console and a control system. The vehicle body has a passenger compartment including seats in a front row and one or more other rows. The console is located in the passenger compartment, at least part of the console is a movable portion that is movable from a first position in which the movable portion is received between the two seats in the front row and a second position in which the movable portion is spaced in a fore-aft direction from the two seats in the front row. The control system is associated with the console and has a processor and programming executable by the processor. The control system includes a microphone communicated with the control system to enable detection of verbal inputs received by the microphone.