The real reason Mazda didn't give us an analog speedo....
 

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Because the fuel gauge would move faster than it!!!!!!! :rock:

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hopefully u guys have enough of a sense of humor to just laugh it off :)

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Hahah, i was expecting a real answer!,
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because its so much easier to read and keep your eyes on the rpm redline. sorry to put all you guys down... but they did it for me. I came off a 1991 maxima with a digital speedometer so they didn't want me to have to adapt to looking at a pin.

i like the digital speed, but I would like to have analog and digital, the late 90's/early '00 porsche gauges has to be my fav gauge cluster

dang, 133 views and like 3 replies. Guess my joke wasn't funny :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

A digital gas guage would be even more frightening.

^^ lol agreed

although im getting good gas milages right now for some reason.. im not even at half a tank of gas and im at about 160km...
so i shjould be getting 320-350km this tank of gas... This is in Liters BTW... my usual is about 300... i came from drving a v8 trans am.. so 300km a tank with premium.. is still the same.. just now im driving a better looking car :)

Sorry to inject a notion of seriousness to an otherwise silly thread, but it dawned on me the other day that Mazda made the speedo digital because the speedo is the only gauge that truly requires displaying a specific measure of units, MPH or KPH. All the other gauges display something relative, or RPM which is not metric or "english". Even the temperature gauge does not need celsius or fahrenheit units, just a relative display of hot or cold... perhaps they should have made a speedo that has no numbers, just :

slow, fast, illegal, and "if you live, you get away with it"

waap waaaaap waaaaaaaaaaap *hits the drum twice, than symbol*

I like my RX-8 cluster 10x as much as my '00 Boxster S's. Ours is variable, after all.

if that was the case they would do it like every other car... a pin with measurement of mph on outside and kph on inside...

haha, my maxima has a digital gas gauge, yes it would be scary on the 8. I would probably fill up everytime i reach 1/2 a tank.

I laughed. :)

I hate digital speedometers. It's one of my gripes about my car.

Proper cars have analog gauges, damnit.

I think it comes down to preference. I'm more of a exacting person. I'd rather have the numbers than an estimate. If it came with all the gauges in Digital, with a much higher refresh rate, I'd be all over it.

I can't tell time on an analog clock. The numbers confuse and enrage me.

haha, so true too. I think I'm averaging right around 14-15 mpg since I bought the car in Feb. 05.

I especially like how fast it goes from 1/2 tank to 1/4 tank.

The worst thing about the digital speedo is it is now even easier for the wife to lean over and see just how fast you're really going. :nono: :spank: :mdrmed:

Remember the old 'forced perspective' argument we all used to use with an analog speedo:

"Honey, I'm not really speeding. The needle just looks that way from where you're sitting."<said in your most conciliating tone as you continue to keep your right foot buried> :mdrmed:

Normally I prefer analog over digital. Seems faster to read. That's one of the reasons I prefer an analog watch. You can read analog at a glance—a bit faster than digital—because you don't have to take the extra time to actually "read" and process the numbers. Don't know why—maybe the eye can read "position" faster than it can read numbers.

But in the 8, I actually prefer the digital speedometer—no way to mistakenly confuse it with the analog tach.

Personally, I think you adapt reasonably quickly to either. Repetition is the key to quick recognition. Once you're used to a given set of instruments (even IS200 :mdrmed: ) you tend to read (and process) them without undue delay.

The 8 is my first car with a digital speedo. I was initially resistant, but very quickly found I liked it better than analog. The point was driven home recently when I had a rental beast with an analog speedo, and I *really* struggled to read it.

I was going to comment how my wife can't see the digital read-out from the passenger seat! Why do you let her lean over like that? Don't you know that it's unsafe to lean away from her seatbelt like that and also to distract you from driving. You should tell her, for her own safety of course, to stay in her seat! :spank:

If it wasnt for our digital speedo, the cruise control would not be as fun for me. :hahano:

Ha ha ha... :mdrmed:
Yeah... I often wonder if there was a hole in my gas tank