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Speedometer in the middle of the dashboard?
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The rev counter was useful, the speedo was there because the law said it had to be.Ganga said:
Spoke to a MG owner many years ago and he said the same ,years ago the engine revs were more important than than road speed.AdrianC said:
No, they were that way round by design - because in motorsport the tacho is far more important than the speedo.lordmountararat said:My first car was a 1937 MG TA. The rev counter was bang in front of the driver, while the speedometer was well over to the left, in front of the passenger. I often wondered it they had been accidentally fitted the wrong way round.
Tall, dark & handsome. Well two out of three ain't bad.0 -
LOL. What happened to him?Manxman_in_exile said:Never mind where the speedo is - make sure you get a Yaris with rear brakes.
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My car has a digital speed readout, much easier to see your exact speed, and it's projected on a pop-up thing just above the dash (along with things like basic directions if using a sat nav), took me maybe a few minutes at most to get used to seeing a number rather than a needle and looking over the dash towards the road rather than down at it. Humans can easily adapt to things
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I once had a Citroen Xsara Picasso and that had a central dash module with speed display as one of the items in the middle. I really quite liked it after a while - it was very easy to see and read. I think the reason for arranging it like that was to make less change between LHD and RHD versions of the car, so it was done for a practical purpose also.0
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Doesn't everyone have head-up displays nowadays?
Tall, dark & handsome. Well two out of three ain't bad.0 -
This picture brings back many happy memories from 1963, but mine wasn't nearly as nice as that.AdrianC said:
No, they were that way round by design - because in motorsport the tacho is far more important than the speedo.lordmountararat said:My first car was a 1937 MG TA. The rev counter was bang in front of the driver, while the speedometer was well over to the left, in front of the passenger. I often wondered it they had been accidentally fitted the wrong way round.0 -
EssexExile said:Doesn't everyone have head-up displays nowadays?The Boeing 787 does ;-) Very pretty it is too!
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Even a Ssangyong Turismo has a centre gauge cluster. It's far from the weirdest feature.0
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