Isn't it a tad premature to declare this inferior to a car no one has ever seen or driven yet? What do we really know about the model 3?

There is a possibility that performance cars will go electric before they manage to fully convert to forced induction.

It might be a tad late, but I feel most submissions fall into one of 2 categories that shouldn't really count, at least in my opinion.

This is a fairly typical needle movement

Agreed, screens are awesome in their flexibility. So if you need a flexible display that can be switched between different modes to display a ton of information, a digital screen is the way to go.

But that the thing, an lcd screen has a whole bunch of tiny crystals, surrounded by little bitty individual heaters, all encapsulated in layers of polarizes, epoxy and glass. It's not that dissimilar to a huge array of light bulbs.

Light bulbs have no moving parts...

Had no idea there were non DI diesels out there. Learn something new every day

Huh, I heard the opposite version, that carbon buildup was mostly not a problem, until DI became popular. Of course, everything is opposite in BMW land.

Something isn't right here. The whole point of a direct injection system is that there is no fuel in the intake tract. The fuel is injected directly inside the cylinder, right by the spark plug. The top side of the valves never see any fuel (good or bad, sticky or slick). The carbon comes from the oil that gets into…

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an LCD screen (and its driving circuitry) is much more complex than a needle. True, screens are cheap (which obscures just how fantastically complicated they are), but so are needles.

The reasons seem to depend on who is giving them, but cars keep getting heavier. I'm always amused to see that the old, heavy, muscle cars of the 60's can be rather light by today's standards.

Isn't vtec a mechanical system?

With todays voice activation technology the car will drop you off and proceed to drive and park in Toledo.

That is not what electronic ignition means.

But then they loose the advantage. If a digital display is going to spend the entire time showing a picture of an analog needle, why not just have an analog needle to begin with?

Yep, for every pound we save with new technologies, we stuff 2 pounds of new must have crap in vehicles.

That's interesting. Carbon build up is a problem because fuel no longer washes the top side of the valves. I'm at a loss at how fuel additives are supposed to help.

They have a pretty impressive reliability record, going back decades. Maybe one day digital screens will as well.