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Ted King wrote:
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.
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.
Ted King wrote:
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.
Dad... ?!?
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:
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.
Agreed. A tach in an automatic-equipped car is every bit as useful as tits on a boar.
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Looks like a foreign model, but it is a Chevy.
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Always liked white on black(or vice versa) instruments with glass practically touching the needle. Just like what you have.
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nice trucker wheel ya got in your kit car! :burnout:
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what do you think about the new, reported MG Sedan (china)?
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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.
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what about Avanti cars? A guy in the neighborhood I grew up in used to have one.
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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?
