carl3989

Call me an old fogey but I love to look at an analog gauge. I like the way the dial's indicator moves back and forth when I start the engine. Then again I like a wrist watch with an automatic gear movement over a digital version. Sure the C7's digital dash gives you more options, yet the C6's analog gauges seem more honest. So am I an old fogey or does any one feel the same way?[URL=http://s183.photobucket.com/user/bullhead3989/media/002_2.jpg.html][IMG]

wayback

While I like the C7 digital dash for an analog dash the C6 is close to perfect IMHO. Everything is easy to see with just a quick glance. Nothing wrong with it at all.

But I do like all the tecnology in the C7.

BJB714

Yes, you are an old fogey. Just kidding.

Everyone gets comfortable with the technology from their own "era" and new technology items are somehow "not as good", when in reality they are as good or better.

Just like the guys that insist it is not a sports car without a manual transmission. They are stuck on the technology from their "era". Someone that came of age in 1910 will tell you it is not sports car without manual spark advance and hand pumped fuel pressure!

I find if you do some homework and learn the new systems (all the new options available with a digital dash) you get to where you would miss these new features if you didn't have them. I certainly would not want to go back to the car radios from 1968. Or no cell phones and stopping to use the payphone.

In any case to each their own. If you like the C6 dash better - stick with the C6.

Mikado463

yes, you're an old fogey……….as am I.

donwil

Whats a fogey? I like the analog more. I really disliked the c4 dash. The 63 thru 67 was always the coolest to me. (the cars were pretty good too!)

donwil

What was wrong with the radios from 1968? Remember when you could get a radio with a reverb? I thought that sounded so great back in the day!

Grimlock13

I prefer to have things simpler in a car. Only thing I miss in the vette is to have a digital speed in the DIC,


p.s. at 37 I wouldn't consider myself old by any means, t when I am driving that is what I do, not look at a phone or want to play with gadgets.

Sky High

Analog gauges in a race/performance car is pure tradition in my mind. If I wanted a digital dash I would stay home and play video games. I think a corvette was meant to be analog especially the C3 with the center stack.

4SUMERZ

With the Heads Up Display, I seldom if ever look at the analog gages in the C6.
The HUD has all the info you ever need depending the mode you select for the HUD.
I have the speed and Tach on my HUD. Any alarm comes up there as well.

to the OP...I like your steering wheel and your gage trim rings to match the exterior color

jrose7004

That digital dash would take some getting used to but you finally would and you would wonder how you ever got along without it.

Tech

Old fogey, confirmed.

dvilin

RocketDawg

I like the analog gauges too. Besides, we get digital for things like temperature, gas mileage, etc., as is, and with HUD, you get digital speed ... but still have the "normal" gauges.

Virtual Geezer

This is an instrument cluster from the C2 (1963-67) -- I really like this configuration, and that's why I appreciate the C5 and C6 clusters.

In the 80s we had 'Tokyo-By-Night' digital dash displays. Now we have 'Beijing-By-Night' (or Seoul or Cupertino, CA [Apple]).

Considering all vehicles sold in the US, the vast majority feature electronically-controlled automatic transmissions. Here's something I see as silly: Almost every vehicle, high buck or not, features a tachometer. Virtually no one ever pays attention to it. It must be a feature that customers expect to see, but never use.

ncvette_1FUNRIDE

Give me a dash that quickly gives me the important information that I need without a lot of extraneous information and easy to read.

The C6 dash does that perfectly IMO. C7 dash is more like a video game.

I love the C6 dash at night too.

09C6inWA

Old fogey? No if that's what you like, then that's what you like.

I got to drive a '14 C7 3LT with all the gadgets (I drive an '09 Base 1LT) and the C7 was way cool to me. I've never driven a car with HUD and that got me thinking about having an HUD installed in my car.

JCOA

It doesn't matter to me, as long as the information is easy to digest. Also like that I can display oil temperature on the DIC. Next to the tach, I probably look at that more than anything, mostly because it isn't warm enough yet.

R&L's C6

Newer is not always better. Curious, what more does the C7 dash tell you that the C6 does not.

69L79

IMO a digital dash is much more likely to have "problems" than the analog dash. Read the C7 Forum. In all the years I have been on this Forum I never remember a post about a malfunctioning dash on a C5 or C6.

vettesmith02

Analog dash vs. Digital dash...

I like analog....

Makes me an old fogey.