Originally Posted By: fdcg27
Toyota was clearly aiming for minimalist simplicity in the design of the interior.
This explains the lack of gauges cluttering the dash.
Gauges in modern cars are invariably heavily damped anyway and the needles never move after warm-up unless something drastically wrong happens.
Drive an old car with real temp and oil pressure gauges and you'll see what I mean.
I find this car to be one the most attractive and interesting designs to come from Toyota in many years.
I consider most current Toys *****.
All the dampened gauges that I have encountered let me glean a lot more info and in a more timely manner than any idiot light. For example, even a dampened coolant temp gauge lets me see when the thermostat opens and when the temperature exceeds normal operating temperature way before an idiot light raises [censored]. Maybe on some cars dampened gauges are as useless as idiot lighst, but I haven't come across any just yet. The other thing is that I like what many probably consider clutter: speedo and tacho, coolant temp, oil temp, oil pressure, Volts, Amps, fuel gauge. I prefer analog instruments vastly over numerical readouts. Easy to see and to evaluate data with one glance. All my recent cars lack instrumentation, and I don't like it.