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Re: Do you like this car interior/dash? - Thrift Store Scott - 11-30-2009
Ted King wrote:Perhaps GM is making amends for all the years their products were the worst offenders in the "The entire interior looks like all of it was molded from one sheet of dull grey plastic" fad.
When it comes to style alone I can understand how some people would like the look of that dash, even though to me it's way too garish.
Ted King wrote:Dad... ?!?
But, maybe because I'm old-school about driving, I don't get having an automatic transmission in a "sporty" car. Real men drive sports cars with stick shifts.
Seriously though, sports cars have been sliding down the slippery slope towards greater creature comforts ever since MG chose to fit *gasp* roll-down glass side windows to their new MG-B in 1963.
Also, knowing now what car this interior/dash belongs to, I'd say that it's designed to look sporty rather than to actually be sporty.
Ted King wrote:Agreed. A tach in an automatic-equipped car is every bit as useful as tits on a boar.
Okay, that may be a bit hyperbolic but you gotta admit that having a tach in an automatic is almost entirely about looks and not much at all about function. Even with my stick shift Miata, I only use the tach occasionally.
Re: Do you like this car interior/dash? - Grumpyguy - 11-30-2009
Looks like a foreign model, but it is a Chevy.
Re: Do you like this car interior/dash? - davester - 11-30-2009
THIS is a dashboard...
Re: Do you like this car interior/dash? - Mac1337 - 11-30-2009
Always liked white on black(or vice versa) instruments with glass practically touching the needle. Just like what you have.
Re: Do you like this car interior/dash? - AAA - 11-30-2009
nice trucker wheel ya got in your kit car! :burnout:
Re: Do you like this car interior/dash? - davester - 11-30-2009
To tell the truth, that is the dashboard I would LIKE to have. Here are the dashboards of two cars I actually own...not too different:
Re: Do you like this car interior/dash? - AAA - 11-30-2009
what do you think about the new, reported MG Sedan (china)?
Re: Do you like this car interior/dash? - davester - 11-30-2009
I really have no interest in sedans or badge-engineered vehicles. Any sedan made in China is not an MG, no matter what the nameplate says.
Re: Do you like this car interior/dash? - AAA - 11-30-2009
what about Avanti cars? A guy in the neighborhood I grew up in used to have one.
Re: Do you like this car interior/dash? - davester - 11-30-2009
The original Avanti had somewhat interesting bodywork, though as a car it was no great shakes and was built on a number of different standard sedan platforms. I really don't understand why someone would spend a bunch of money on a "tribute" car based on a 1962 design, though admittedly I don't understand why the big interest in the current crop of tribute cars which are somewhat cartoonish caricatures of the originals. Is there no originality left in the auto biz?