RE: Time for Tea? All hail the digital dash!

[LuS1fer]

BonzoG said:

I think these are highly under-rated - there's a choice of about 7 different backlight colours to suit day/night driving (or just your mood?) and despite the obvious drawbacks of a digital speedo, it's one of the nicer ones to actually use.


Would be cooler if the binnacle/clamshell above it opened and closed like the flap over the radio.

Edited by BonzoG on Tuesday 14th August 21:16

What idiot thought putting instruments in the middle of the car was a good idea so you have to look a long way away from the field of your view. Only the driver needs to see most of that and it should be in front of the driver. Bloody fashion! I blame the Mini.

[em177]

LuS1fer said:

BonzoG said:

I think these are highly under-rated - there's a choice of about 7 different backlight colours to suit day/night driving (or just your mood?) and despite the obvious drawbacks of a digital speedo, it's one of the nicer ones to actually use.


Would be cooler if the binnacle/clamshell above it opened and closed like the flap over the radio.

Edited by BonzoG on Tuesday 14th August 21:16

What idiot thought putting instruments in the middle of the car was a good idea so you have to look a long way away from the field of your view. Only the driver needs to see most of that and it should be in front of the driver. Bloody fashion! I blame the Mini.

Means you can use the same pod for left and right hand drive I'd presume. And It's no different than a normal speedo to be honest. You just glance across rather than down

[Marvel]

Mazda put a digital dash in the 323 gtx of the late 80's and im sure some of the early MX-6's

[annodomini2]

em177 said:

LuS1fer said:

BonzoG said:

I think these are highly under-rated - there's a choice of about 7 different backlight colours to suit day/night driving (or just your mood?) and despite the obvious drawbacks of a digital speedo, it's one of the nicer ones to actually use.


Would be cooler if the binnacle/clamshell above it opened and closed like the flap over the radio.

Edited by BonzoG on Tuesday 14th August 21:16

What idiot thought putting instruments in the middle of the car was a good idea so you have to look a long way away from the field of your view. Only the driver needs to see most of that and it should be in front of the driver. Bloody fashion! I blame the Mini.

Means you can use the same pod for left and right hand drive I'd presume. And It's no different than a normal speedo to be honest. You just glance across rather than down

It's done for cost reasons, in large volume automotive, where you make millions of cars, saving a few pence can net you £100,000's.

[traffman]

ZesPak said:

This thread is incomplete without this:



But these must be photoshopped, as they are working.

Back when the Lagonda was introduced , certain people decided that 2 occupants were required to control the car , one to steer an the other to man the dashboard.

[mph1977]

Astra Dan said:

ZesPak said:

This thread is incomplete without this:



But these must be photoshopped, as they are working.

Nova stalks?!

generic 1980s Vauxhall/ opel parts bin ...

[Type R Tom]

My Dad had a Fiat Tempra diesel with a digital dash, used to love watching the bars on the boast gauge go up and down as the car accelerated.

[mat205125]

Lexus LFA does it best

[Prawnboy]

What a great thread.....i want one of those lancia orca for the sony stereo alone. love a stereo in a different place.
with all its futuristic dash, the aventador still has to have a little bulb illuminate for the handbrake. is this because they know one day the digi-dash will give up and only half of it will work.

[ajprice]

mat205125 said:

Lexus LFA does it best

Hadn't seen that before, it is pretty funky.



Startup - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdoNW9C4eXk

Menu options - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4iEu0HCKAw

[TheTurbonator]

LuS1fer said:

BonzoG said:

I think these are highly under-rated - there's a choice of about 7 different backlight colours to suit day/night driving (or just your mood?) and despite the obvious drawbacks of a digital speedo, it's one of the nicer ones to actually use.


Would be cooler if the binnacle/clamshell above it opened and closed like the flap over the radio.

Edited by BonzoG on Tuesday 14th August 21:16

What idiot thought putting instruments in the middle of the car was a good idea so you have to look a long way away from the field of your view. Only the driver needs to see most of that and it should be in front of the driver. Bloody fashion! I blame the Mini.

If it's high up, it's actually a better place to have them because when you glance across to look at them, your peripheral vision is still on the road. When you look down at a convential speedo, you take your eyes off the road completely including you peripheral vision.

I thought it was a stupid place to put things too, but then I bought a car with them high up in the centre and you realise it's actually very good place to have them.

[WallyCarrera]

Re analogue vs digital - I've got a Boxster, which for anyone unfamiliar with their dashboard, has a combined analogue speedo with embedded digital display. I only ever look at the digital readout. It probably doesn't help that the analogue dial is marked in 25mph increments, which misses all of the main UK speed limits.

[Alanok]

Not exactly vintage digital but the dashboard of the current Civic Type-R is a nice example of at first glance a mess but in actual fact very intuitive to use after a while.

[mat205125]

jaik said:

Vector W8

OMG, that is fantastic! That's the kind of interior that Darth Vadar would sit in, and there aren't enough functions of a normal car to justify that number of buttons, so a good proportion MUST be for guns, oil slicks, sheilds and cloaks etc.

[V6GTA]

GeeTeaEye said:

I spent my early years on the Tomy Turnin' Turbo Dashboard driving simulator of 1983!

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/361591/the-top-ten...

Jesus I had one of these!

[Munich]

Current Jag XJ is missing from the list.

[hussein]

Okay, I know its new... but something about that dash looks like it belongs in this thread.

Edited by hussein on Wednesday 15th August 12:00

[hussein]

Also,



Mercedes S-Class and CL! Were these not the first to have an actual fully configurable TFT Screen?

Edited by hussein on Wednesday 15th August 12:00

[Coldfuse]

Honda CRZ aswell.

I would say Lexus LFA, but i think it was JUST mentioned

I have the pleasure of using both an Analog and a Digital dash on my two cars. My S2000 feels very different at the wheel to my DC5 and i think thats alot to do with the Digital dash. When the soft top is up its pretty black in the S so with the dash on its like a little beacon infront of you.

And to the people who think its easier to read a digital dash...

Do you find this difficult to read?

Edited by Coldfuse on Wednesday 15th August 12:51

[MichelV]

Coldfuse said:

Do you find this difficult to read?

Edited by Coldfuse on Wednesday 15th August 12:51

No but I do find it ugly to read ;o)