Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
> In article <fvkiem12nrp@news2.newsguy.com>,
> Nate Nagel <njnagel@roosters.net> wrote:
>
>>> No--insisting that cars be built with such gauges is idiotic.
>>>
>> I'm not insisting that they be built with them. I'm just stating that
>> they'd better be damn appealing - more so than most new cars - if the
>> manufacturer expects me to buy them
>
> But since you are one of three people who cares like this, the real
> world says manufacturers wouldn't care about you and your wants even if
> they knew about you.
>
> I'm talking real world here.
>

Note from the real world: lots of cars DO still have adequate
instrumentation. Just because a couple of little shitboxes from a couple
of shitbox-specialist manufacturers don't doesn't mean the rest of the
world will follow.