When you pay my note and my taxes, you can tell me what to do with my property.  Until then, it’s not your business.  My neighbor has a 40-foot catamaran sitting derelict covered with decaying tarps alongside his house.  I don’t care.  It’s his house, not mine, and his derelict catamaran is not a hazard to me and…

It always staggers me when people think it’s any business of theirs what happens on someone else’s property. It’d be one thing if you were dumping nuclear waste or something, but you just have a few junky cars. Who cares?

I had an ‘89 LE through high school and college (also in black), and that car is still one of the favorites of all the cars I’ve ever had.  I’d leave from university to go home for break at about midnight, and that 3800 had no problems running 100 miles per hour for miles and miles and miles on end.  Only reason I got…

And that Merc you’re going on about cost twice as much as the Bonneville did. I’d expect it to be a decent car for top-tier money. I had an ‘89 Bonneville, and it was a great car. Rode well, handled surprisingly well for such a big car, and was reliable as the sun. Got me through high school and four years of college…

I had an ‘89 Bonneville LE back in high school, and I lusted after the SSE and later SSEi. I still love the styling of that generation of Bonnies. It drove well, rode well, and I imagine in SSE spec was really something to behold.

Hard disagree. This is the perfect pickup for folks that haul building materials. With this, I could ride up to Home Depot, load out a whole bunch of drywall, put up the gate, and drive off. Long bed is the only way to fly, and it’s why I keep pumping money into my old beast despite the rust and the mileage and the…

You’ve kinda stumbled into my point, though.  Most implementations of digital were easy to read, superior to analog, and just worked.  You keep on about the C4 while missing Lincoln, Toyota, Chrysler Corporation, and all the random GM implementations that were fine.  There were some oof analog gauges (the Astro hockey…

He’s going 0. He’s also getting 33 psi of oil pressure and he looks on the verge of overheating (250 degrees). Even in 2005, there were vendors out there refurbishing digital clusters, including several that even refurbished the flaky CRT touchscreen units from late ‘80s Rivieras/Reattas/Toronados.

I imagine the thrust of it is whether rate of change information or current state information is more important. A sweeping needle will convey rate of change more readily than a ticking/pulsing/rapidly changing digital readout. I’d assert that in automotive driving situations, rate of change (of speed) is relatively…

Let’s see some evidence. In my current car, there’s an analog gauge and a digital speed readout. I literally never look at the analog one because its a whole lot easier to glance and see a number. I mean, are you going to tell me “9" is harder to understand than working out where the gauge is in its sweep to figure wha…

I imagine sitting in the car and looking at the cluster before driving away would easily clue one in as to what’s going on, unlike a 2013 YouTube video. Every car I’ve been in from that time with digital gauges, including the 1989 Riviera I owned in 2005, was perfectly easy to read in all conditions. 

“Analog gauges were pretty well dialed in by then.”

Any of ‘em really. This example is from the 1989 Buick Riviera I had in 2005. Concise, easy to read in all conditions, Told me everything I needed to know, outlasted the rest of the car.

A cheap microwave oven, by today’s standards. They were still superior to the analog gauges of the time.  

Eh, Ford says no special break-in is required. Jaguar says 2,000 miles. I think my Honda Element specified 800 miles, but I no longer recall for sure.

This is why digital clusters are so great. Had boomers in the ‘80 s not been terrible and rejected the back then we could have been a lot further along in development and concepts of how to use them. Instead we’re just now figuring out we maybe don’t need to waste a bunch of space so a needle can sweep a field, most of…

Looks cool. I’d have to see it in person to get a gauge of the real size, let alone the build quality. As for safety... Can’t be any worse than the rusted tanks running around Detroit (including my own F-150) with compromised structure.

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1st: I like the broad approach GM’s taking. Obviously it remains to be seen how much of this is just press releases and how much gets actually made, but the approach seems smart on its face, anyway.