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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.

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I had an s2000. My redline was about 9000 rpm and the gauge cluster was lit up orange, but lit up in such a way that it didn't really look like it was back-lit. It was an amazing gauge cluster.

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The best looking dials on a dashboard I have ever seen is the dashboard from the Saab 9000 CSE.

This isn't exacty what I remember, but close enough:

I love the green and orange colors, the car diagram, the turbo, temp and fuel dials are just great.

Granted I was a kid when we had that car, but the colors were beautiful

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I've dailyed six manual cars and two of them didn't have a tach (both Fords?), and one of those was too old to even have a shift light. Honestly, even when I was new I barely looked at the tach when I had one anyway, and I didn't really start to look at until I learned how to really get good at rev-matching for heal-toe and dropping gears. I just shift by ear and ass like 90% of the time.

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Gen Z: Can't read analog clocks. "What speed am I going? There are no numbers!"

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Wow, I didn't even notice the displayed values

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she is a very small and cute little sandwich

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Lmao, high beams, no seatbelt at 108kph for a 30kph speed limit. Ooof.

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Don't they sell add-on projector Huds which snake a wire down to OBD-ii port?

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Don't they sell add-on projector Huds which snake a wire down to OBD-ii port?

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No, I'm building a replacement unified speedo/tach for my motorcycle, the tach is huge and analog, speed is digital in the middle.

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Nah man, if you see your tach wobble, you know you've got a carb jet issue, or dirty injectors.

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Of course it doesn't spark, is electric

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I use it because on my bike I need to set the correct minimum RPM after cleaning my carbs. Also sometimes I want to go faster than I should in 6th, a quick glance at the tach tells me how much headroom before redline I've got.

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Can you give examples?

Both clock and auto?

Because other than time, I'm having a hard time seeing what else a clock is telling you by being analogue.

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It’s a screenshot from MKBHD’s latest video.

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Is it detecting a car in front as well?

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An advantage of a proper dial is that you can instinctively see the change in speed by how quickly the needle moves.