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C4 Corvette!

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Speak for yourself. I'd love an easy to read screen.

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The two-tiered cluster of my Civic really grew on me. The speedometer is up really high so it's almost always in your line of sight.

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That looks just like my Sunfire's dash, other than mph being more prominent than km/h and it redlining over 7k rpm.

Is that an S2000?

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Nope. 5th gen Honda Prelude.

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True and based

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Basically nobody actually needs a tach taking up as much space as the speedometer.

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Kia and the mix of two worlds

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RIP anyone that drives a manual, tows, or goes off roading.

On a more serious note I’d imagine they stick around for diagnostics and inclement weather(forcing the car into a particular gear). Since the space is already there they generally have a bunch of other gauges and crap inside of them (all the warning lights that are usually off).

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I am not an off-road guy, but I drove a stick and towed heavy stuff forever. You don't need the tach if you have experience or ears.

The only reason I've ever used a tach is for break-in on a vehicle or for hypermiling.

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Once you have experience yeah…I rarely look at the tach anymore. It’s the process of acquiring that experience that it’s still useful also stuff gets loud or your driver might be deaf. Just helped my sister do something and part of the reset procedure on her car was hold 2000 rpm for 60 seconds. They serve a purpose is all.

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Oh yeah it's worth having a tachometer, but I don't know why you want one that takes up as much space as the speedometer on the gauge cluster. It seems gratuitous to me.

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Man, I miss my Sunfire so much it hurts my heart

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I love the potential of a digital dash.
I hate the wasted potential of actual digital dashes.

Let me fuckin customize it.
Let me put whatever gauges I want wherever I want. I know that the data is available over the CAN bus, let me fuckin see it.

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The thing about a digital display is that you can have things display however you want. You want numbers? Fine. You want gauges? No problem. You want sliding bars and thermometer looking things? You got it. You want a time chart of values over time? Can do.

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I mean, if you actually need an indicator, a shift light and a line of LEDs gets the job done better than a tach anyway, besides I've driven manuals that didn't even have a tach from the factory, it used to be pretty common. I'm pretty sure they stick around now because they make the car feel more sporty.

About the only time I actually needed the tach specifically was.. I actually legitimately can't think of one, nearly everything is by sound/feel and the times I needed specifics, like when troubleshooting, I would use an obd tool / tuner to see the exact values and plot them.

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No idea what that bottom driver is doing, but it indeed does not spark joy

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Even more infuriating when not only is it not customisable, but they layout they do use is just... bad in a thousand different tiny ways.

For example, the tachometer and speedometer on my vehicle have two display modes. The traditional looking dials and a more compact vertical wheel that leaves more room in the middle of the display for other things.

...but those other things are almost always either useless (I don't need to see a little picture of the vehicle I'm driving), or actively worse (the media info screen actually shows fewer characters in the larger mode).

It's not unusable, it's just varying levels of awkward or useless in dozens of little aspects.

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My Seat Leon has a digital dashboard, by pressing the "VIEW" button on the steering wheel it rotates between several different layouts, which can be customized.

I normally just have two normal dials, with a GPS map in the middle, fuel gauges to the left (because the standard place doesn't line up properly) and a media display to the right (shows what song/podcast is playing and the progress of it)

I can make my entire dash be a giant GPS map display, with only a small digital speedometer readout, but that is annoying.

These new digital dashboards offer plenty of customizations, but the formfactor should be the same as a normal dash

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I had a 97 prelude sh 5 speed. Great Lil car and a lot of fun to drive. But then I got my hands on an 02 s2000. Funnest car to drive I've ever owned.