“i want my night driving experience to be like Lindbergh’s probably was when he was crossing the Atlantic”

Night mode in my Etron is pretty fantastic. A few just bright enough red lights to illuminate the console and back floor if people are there and the main screens turn off and only leave the secondary panel on in a dark red. The speedo goes minimal and red as well.

If they matched the control light to a sensor bar they had in the MK7, then you might get that clean dark aesthetic until your hand approaches the controls. Then it could light up, which would be a pretty impressive trick.

Good old Saab 93

Funny, Saab solved that decades ago, and didn’t have to remove traditional buttons or gauge clusters to do it.

No William Daniels either.

Concur, dashboard lighting is an absolute scourge 

“i want my night driving experience to be like Lindbergh’s probably was when he was crossing the Atlantic.”

Audi and BMW has the best solution in the mid-90s to mid 2000s; make all essential controls glow a dim warm shade of red.

It’s funny, this is one of the things I LOVE about my Model 3. At night there are exactly zero lights in front of you. No gauge cluster, no dash lights, no steering wheel lights. Below the windshield is effectively invisible. Obviously the big ol screen is close by, but in night mode it’s pretty unobtrusive. It’s the…

Although lacking even actual buttons.

MacBook Touch Bar says what?

When I had a Tacoma with a Camper Shell, adding even just a small stack of three windsurf boards to the roof racks made freeway mileage drop from around 19mpg to around 16 or 17. When I replaced the camper shell with a TracRac (think ladder rack that’s just a couple inches higher than the cab) and put a big-ish roof…

Will those tires get caught on the wheel well if they go over anything larger than a cell phone? I highly doubt that will rock crawl. 

I mean ND all the way, but it’s a strange place for value.  If it were a manual or a turbo it would clearly be an abomination.  However, if you must do this to a 300ZX, I’d rather it be to a 2+2 with a salvage title.  On the other hand, with looks like that, surely you wouldn’t want it to be based on the slowest Z32…

This is what shows up if you wish for a 300ZX on the monkey’s paw. No dice. 

So, don’t post while taking pain meds. Completely missed stuff like this

It’s not the worst deal I’ve seen lately. $3900 isn’t a lot for a car that someone will probably actively seek out. 

The Venza was very roomy and wide inside. Sure, it foregoes the usual faux tough guy SUV styling touches, but so what?