Do we have the most useless mechanical speedometer ever made?
 

I was looking at this thing today and you have to be doing 80mph to register (not even) 1/4 way around the face.

Who designed this? Haha

https://i.imgur.com/UcjD8bh.jpg

Huh? What the fuck are you talking about? You have difficulty registering your speed?? Because of the Speedo design?? Jesus H.

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I suggest you never drive an Aston Martin.

If the speedo makes you cringe, the tach in an AM will drive you nuts.

lol you're spicy today

I never said I struggled to read the speed; it's digital ffs. I am just saying the mechanical speedo is a stupid design.

Go meditate or something before you drive someone off the road

When I first saw this speedo I said to myself Wow I can go 260 km.
After driving it for some time within permissible speeds I don’t see it or view it anymore
As it being way too difficult to monitor my speed.
the digital one is all I need.

Im just used to my other car where the top indicated speed is half of that and the
limited sweep is more suited to general legal driving.

Didn't someone say it was setup to have 86 at the horizontal position? Or something? lol

EXACTLY.

I find myself having to look at the bottom of the gauge cluster to see the needle under normal driving conditions. The digital speedo is all I watch for driving. But it seems odd it is scaled as it is.

The dial isn't mechanical any more than the digits are.
Could be one small way to reduce weight by deleting the redundant system.

I think that might be just for the tach in the refresh, having the 7000 RPM mark right at the horizontal 12 o clock position (pre-refresh 7k is a bit past that mark)

I dont know if the speedo ever got that kind of attention.

If the digital screen ever malfunctions or dies I'll be pretty glad it's there. I don't use it because I don't need it having the digital one available (and the needle usually reads about a mph higher than my actual speed), but I appreciate the redundancy because shit happens, and it'll still be important to know how fast you're going.

I have had mine to 12 o’clock. I see no issue with it.

I like it. I keep my digital speedo in mph and reference the needle for kmh conversion. My last snowmobile had a 200kmh (120mph) speedo with a 270 degree sweep. Couldn't even see the needle half the time, useless.

ah haha! This is the correct response :burnrubber:

To be fair, most "mechanical" (analog/pointer) gauge only use 2/3 the face or 240 degrees of sweep, and 0-80 isn't 1/4 full sweep (90 deg), it's more like 1/3 or 120 degrees. So 80mph is *half* the "normal" 240 degree sweep range.

But surely everyone goes by the digital readout anyway...

At least major hashmarks are 20mph increments with 10mph sub-increments and 5mph sub-sub-incrrements, unlike some Porsches which have 25mph major increment with 5mph sub-increments, pretty dumb...

For such a nicely designed car, I have wondered who the f made the decision to include that redundant and barely readable speedo needle. It's about as useless as tits on a bull.

Well said...I'm just bitching. I go 80 maybe once a month haha. But I do agree if the digital fails, I appreciate having an analog readout.

Reminds me of the time I got a speeding ticket in my brothers 2006 honda civic si. Cop leaned down, looked in the window and said "Does this thing even have a speedometer?":paddle:

It’s definitely useless, especially next to the super legible digital speedometer readout. They should have used that space to display oil pressure and temp. Or digital dash.

Most of the cars I ever had that had a tach were speedo on the right tach on the left. For the first week or so with the FRS I would keep looking at the left gauge to see the RPMs. They were always very low in the sweep!

"I sure get up to 7,000kpm fast" haha

Could never quite break that Mach 6 mark.

You didn't set it to ludicirous speed!

Couldn’t. I was surrounded by assholes.

My 981 Cayman (2014-2016) had a speedo like this one. The only exception is mine was a base model who's speedo only went up to 175mph. The S and GTS are like the picture below:

Beautiful cluster, though.

Any worthwhile car is tach in the middle, speedo off to the side.

Who needs a speedometer. Just try to stay with the minivan in front of you.

That's what she said.

No argument with the placement

Any worthwhile car has no tach. Tachs are for noobs!

I can't even see that speedo behind my aftermarket gauges :iono: