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Originally Posted by heavyD^2
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Originally Posted by rak299
Those who have said that analog gauges only appeal to "well seasoned" (old) drivers miss a basic point. Many of the buyers of the manual transmission are in the same demographic. If you want to keep the MT option available, an analog option might keep some geezers from going over to the dark side. My daughter is now 40. She was never an enthusiast, but she drove a manual until a couple of years ago. She told me that none of her friends that were her age could drive her stick-shift car.
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I'm not exactly sure what you are talking about here. The vehicle still come with a tachometer. Two different ones actually, one in regular and one in M-mode. All we ever hear from the manual transmission fanboys is how they enjoy the "feel" and connectedness" of a manual and now you are changing the goalposts to analog tachs or nothing? Man some of you will never be happy. I feel sorry for manufacturers as no matter how hard they try to cater to a group of people you have people complaining about every single thing. If you are going to go to the "dark side" because a manual transmission isn't good enough without an analog tach then by all means please go there because you are probably never going to be happy with any new car these days. Also what does your daughter driving a manual have to do with analog gauges? |
How bout can we have tachs that go in the same direction (clockwise) as the past 100 years of driving cars? Lets say you are the old age of 31, a real geezer right? Then you have been driving 17 years of it that way. Its visual memory and familiarity, why would changing that be good? So that the map directions for a road trip can be bigger and centered? Seems like real performance progress right there. When can I get that?