WOW, this is a truthful, and kinda funny review of a 2014 Nismo

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Hell yes, great review considering it's not even a car publication. Kill the water temp dots on the left info display, and make the high-center triple-meters be "oil temp", "oil pressure", "water temp". That right there would be a huge improvement on any 370Z. Nifty to see that even a CNet reviewer sees that right off the bat.

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I don't think Nissan want the oil pressure and water temp on there for the simple reason that most buyers don't care for it or understand it. That is unless the car is modified and then it would be appreciated by the car enthusiasts. I think Nissan should a digital gauge of how much hp the car is putting down at specific rpm and a performance gauge (0-60, 1/4 mile, lateral G). Functional and understandable.

Mt Tam I am

Nice find.

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Yeah, but... the point is this *is* a sportscar, not a minivan for soccer moms. Oil pressure is more informative and critical than oil temp (and the 350 had oil pressure rather than temp), and water temp is a really important indicator even just canyon-carving on public roads.

The water temp dots are particularly egregious because they're non-linear and no legend is given. The dots in the middle represent very broad ranges, and then as it goes out to the edges they represent progressively smaller ranges. Basically any water temp within a very broad "normal" range all reads the same center dot - when you'd really like to see those variations to know when things are beginning to get a little too hot and you want to back off a bit. The coolant has to be way off the chart to even move that dot-meter, and at that point it basically dances all over the place quickly as the non-linear steps fall off in distance.

So basically, the whole point of the strip of dots is "as long as it's sitting in the middle you're ok, worry otherwise". It might as well be one big LED that's either red or green. A sportscar driver deserves a little better feedback than that.

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