Test drove a 5.0 Today

Pharmacist · 08-14-2010, 01:22 PM

is it me or is that center console plain retarded? look at how the speedometer and tachometer are displaced sideways. instead, right in front of the driver, we get the fuel gauge, coolant temp gauge, oil temp gauge, and battery voltage! how often would you check your fuel level or battery voltage compared to how often you check the tach or speedo? why are the minor gauges front and centre, while the major gauges are thrown sideways in the peripheral vision and probably blocked off by the steering wheel? i guess it's at least better than the camaro where you can't even see the minor gauges unless you take your eyes completely off the road and get down to the centre console, leaving the car to pilot itself during those few seconds. it's such subtleties that american cars always get wrong again and again.

370Zsteve · 08-14-2010, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Pharmacist

is it me or is that center console plain retarded? look at how the speedometer and tachometer are displaced sideways. instead, right in front of the driver, we get the fuel gauge, coolant temp gauge, oil temp gauge, and battery voltage! how often would you check your fuel level or battery voltage compared to how often you check the tach or speedo? why are the minor gauges front and centre, while the major gauges are thrown sideways in the peripheral vision and probably blocked off by the steering wheel? i guess it's at least better than the camaro where you can't even see the minor gauges unless you take your eyes completely off the road and get down to the centre console, leaving the car to pilot itself during those few seconds. it's such subtleties that american cars always get wrong again and again.

GM and Ford just can't get interiors right. At least in the USA. I'm currently in the UK, and cars from both companies over here are so much nicer (been that way for decades).

PapoZalsa · 08-14-2010, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Pharmacist

is it me or is that center console plain retarded? look at how the speedometer and tachometer are displaced sideways. instead, right in front of the driver, we get the fuel gauge, coolant temp gauge, oil temp gauge, and battery voltage! how often would you check your fuel level or battery voltage compared to how often you check the tach or speedo? why are the minor gauges front and centre, while the major gauges are thrown sideways in the peripheral vision and probably blocked off by the steering wheel? i guess it's at least better than the camaro where you can't even see the minor gauges unless you take your eyes completely off the road and get down to the centre console, leaving the car to pilot itself during those few seconds. it's such subtleties that american cars always get wrong again and again.

It just the cheap a$$ interiors that I hate about all the domestic cars.

08-14-2010, 01:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
Pharmacist A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2009 Location: Toronto, Ontario Posts: 1,249 Drives: 09 370z Sport 6MT Rep Power: 19	is it me or is that center console plain retarded? look at how the speedometer and tachometer are displaced sideways. instead, right in front of the driver, we get the fuel gauge, coolant temp gauge, oil temp gauge, and battery voltage! how often would you check your fuel level or battery voltage compared to how often you check the tach or speedo? why are the minor gauges front and centre, while the major gauges are thrown sideways in the peripheral vision and probably blocked off by the steering wheel? i guess it's at least better than the camaro where you can't even see the minor gauges unless you take your eyes completely off the road and get down to the centre console, leaving the car to pilot itself during those few seconds. it's such subtleties that american cars always get wrong again and again. __________________ 2009 370z Sport Touring/Nismo shift Knob/Z1 motorsports 34 row oil cooler

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