Interiors and Dashboards (interesting and awful!)

[CitroJim]

Yours is much prettier than my Pixo Neil!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Yours is much prettier than my Pixo Neil!

The nice pink glow from the Pixo will get better as darkness falls Yes I did shove a blanket over the dashboard and my head, to simulate darkness at 15.40 in my photo of the Micra dash!

Neil

[CitroJim]

Yours is much prettier than my Pixo Neil!

The nice pink glow from the Pixo will get better as darkness falls Yes I did shove a blanket over the dashboard and my head, to simulate darkness at 15.40 in my photo of the Micra dash!

Neil

That's a good idea Neil

I'll get Pix's dash when it's dark as the pinky/red glow does look quite pleasing

[Jay-Bruce]

I liked the cockpit of the merc EV shown about half way through this thread, it genuinely looks like a spaceship in a game I used to play,



And talking of spaceships, I've always loved 90's TVR interiors, they look so organic and abstract:




I'm not going to comment on video screens used as instrument clusters, as you can put anything you want on those screens, as can be seen on the multitude of "themes" available for the aftermarket one I am saving for to fit to my BMW:


But I will comment on physical clusters, and I'm surprised that in the preceding 28 pages, noone's brought this up, given it hails from one of our three marques; the third generation Citroen C5 (X7) cluster is, IMHO exquisite:

It's hard to see from that picture, but the needles orbit around the circumference of the guges, and point inwards, best seen on the fuel gauge to the left. intelligent use of the 3 screens contained in each gauge face gives a plethora of information, such as oil and water temperatures etc. It's interesting to look at, and also informative, and intuitive, a great piece of design.

The X7 speedo comes a close second to my all time favourite speedo, which is found in the Toyoata Altezza and it's less performance oriented luxury upbranded sibling, the Lexus is200:

There was an alternative arrangement:

Later iterations of it also had a screen in the bottom right corner:

To me that speedo cluster is like an expensive wristwatch, and, YES! That tacho does need to go to 10,000rpm.

[NewcastleFalcon]

I liked the cockpit of the merc EV shown about half way through this thread, it genuinely looks like a spaceship in a game I used to play,

This image https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/VwEAAOSw ... s-l500.jpg didnt display on my machinery Jay but the URL ref takes you to the page.

Nice debut on the thread, it's accumulated a decent bit of content, but always more to find Have a look around at some of the other threads on the Off Topic Section of the forum and give them the usual thorough Jay treatment .

I would regard "Lights Interesting and Awful" as a sister thread to this one, have a look and see if you can come up with some additions. This was the thread-starter from yours truly in 2018, and 21 pages have been accumulated so far

viewtopic.php?p=593332#p593332

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

They haven't done the static photo's yet for this Citroen GSA which Bobins picked out here from the Mathewsons building catalogue for their April Sale later this month, so here's a screenshot from the video... Enough of interest in the GSA interior and dashboard, and a surprising nice touch of tartan on that upholstery.

Screenshot

REgards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Mathewsons have now shoved up the photos, as well as the video for the Citroen GSA so its time to bathe in the glory of the tartan-trimmed doorcard.

Listing
https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction/lo ... 6&pn=1&g=1



Neil

[CitroJim]

The GSA for the Scottish market

[NewcastleFalcon]

I trailed this TR7 a couple of weeks ago

viewtopic.php?p=750727&hilit=detectorist%2A#p750727

and now the pictures are loaded up.

https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction/lo ... 8&pn=1&g=1

Very nice too, but what on earth were Triumph thinking of with the upholstery. I enjoy the quirkiness of the usual TR7 tartan, I would still call this interesting in an odd, shocking sort of way but...

https://mathewsons.blob.core.windows.net/stock/10147-21.jpg?v=63816912356327

They really should have upped the colour saturation for a more dramatic effect

NF artistic licence

Neil

[CitroJim]

Lovely I have a real soft spot for the TR7... And that interior is just so bonkers it becomes magical... Sorry Mick, I know you're not a fan...

[mickthemaverick]

Lovely I have a real soft spot for the TR7... And that interior is just so bonkers it becomes magical... Sorry Mick, I know you're not a fan...

I don't mind the actual, it was the enhanced version my comment was aimed at!

[CitroJim]

Lovely I have a real soft spot for the TR7... And that interior is just so bonkers it becomes magical... Sorry Mick, I know you're not a fan...

I don't mind the actual, it was the enhanced version my comment was aimed at!

Ahh! Understood

[NewcastleFalcon]

Got a couple of comments and directs the viewing public to the thread, that's a win in my book .

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Wonder where these are from

Wonder no more
viewtopic.php?p=753679#p753679

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Over on Zel's blog here
viewtopic.php?p=754579#p754579

he put up a little teaser of a forthcoming aquisition. Of course I couldn't resist, but have got nowhere apart from a brief American diversion in the Oldsmobile direction, and a Daf33 probably vastly different ends of the spectrum.

All will no doubt be revealed shortly by Zel when he takes possession but for now this is all there is to go on...
..and if you do happen to take up the search at this stage and come across some nice/interesting dashboards...fill the thread with them. The Daf 33 is obviously the wrong answer but the image is nice so might as well show it off!

https://frenchcarforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=754579#p754579

Neil