YACT: Was just about to drive a Lincoln Town Car...

[43st]

tach = factory rice.

It's fancy looking crap, along with plastic skirts, rear wings, and bumpy bulges, that they add to cars to make them look fast. It serves no purpose unless you don't know how to drive. And even then it's probably more dangerous to look down everytime you shift than to keep your eyes on the road.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: The_good_guy
My 2000 Focus does not have a tach and its stick. I plan to install a tach someday.

That's just wrong. Good job Ford. You F'd up on that one. :roll:

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
I never use the tach anyways, do you really need it?

You do if you want to go fast and don't want to blow the engine!

I guess if it has a rev limiter then you don't really have to worry about it but then you really don't "need" a speedo either.

 

[VirginiaDonkey]

my Buick Park Avenue had one

the pimpmobile

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Thera
tach = factory rice.

It's fancy looking crap, along with plastic skirts, rear wings, and bumpy bulges, that they add to cars to make them look fast. It serves no purpose unless you don't know how to drive. And even then it's probably more dangerous to look down everytime you shift than to keep your eyes on the road.

right, so you're telling me that when you're at the drag strip, trying to shift at the redline without hitting the rev limiter, a tach is "useless"?

 

[Siddhartha]

My parents own a town car. They do not care how fast the engine is spinning. They just want to start the engine, put it in gear, and drive without having to be concerned about anything else.

 

[xEDIT409]

how does one shift w/o clutch?

 

[Ikonomi]

Originally posted by: Thera
tach = factory rice.

It's fancy looking crap, along with plastic skirts, rear wings, and bumpy bulges, that they add to cars to make them look fast. It serves no purpose unless you don't know how to drive. And even then it's probably more dangerous to look down everytime you shift than to keep your eyes on the road.

I fail to see how an extra needle on the instrument panel makes a car look fast, or even how it qualifies as "fancy". Given the choice, I'd prefer to have as much information as possible about how my car is running, rather than having to rely on my good driver spider sense.

Of course, you don't need a gas gauge or an engine temperature gauge, either, but they put those on every car. If you're good enough at driving, you shouldn't even need a speedometer.

My parents own a town car. They do not care how fast the engine is spinning. They just want to start the engine, put it in gear, and drive without having to be concerned about anything else.

And if that's what you want out of a car, that's fine. I was just surprised that there wasn't an RPM-o-mometer.

 

[PCMarine]

my 2000 Ford Taurus has a tach and it's automatic as well. I probably look at the tach the same if not more than my speedometer just because I like seeing when my car is shifting or how hard the engine is working at a given speed.

 

[Bassyhead]

i know someone who has a manual neon and it doesnt have a tach. i have an automatic protege with a tach.

 

[Actaeon]

My dad's old Chevy S10 was a stick with no Tach.

 

[Squisher]

The best looking tach is the one in the second or third generation vette. Imagine the tach and speedo being two half arcs of two concentric circles. The tach and speedo would race one another as you went through the gears.

I can't figure out why they don't recreate this today with two different color LEDs. That would look cool.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: Squisher
The best looking tach is the one in the second or third generation vette. Imagine the tach and speedo being two half arcs of two concentric circles. The tach and speedo would race one another as you went through the gears.

I can't figure out why they don't recreate this today with two different color LEDs. That would look cool.

Because an analog guage is cheaper and easier to read. I have never been a fan of the whole "digital dash" fad. It's a fix for something that was never broken.

ZV

EDIT: And you mean the 4th generation Corvette. First Generation was '55-'62. Second Generation was '63-'67. Third Generation was '68-'82. 4th Generation was '84-'96. 5th Generation was '97-2003. 6th Generation is currently in production.

 

[LordMorpheus]

My sable used to have a tach, but now it has a gauge with numbers on it, and a needle that moves randomly, but mostly just points to the black space where there are no numbers.

 

[no0b]

I've driven a '93 toyota truck manual with no tach the thing had enough torque (4 banger) that it really didn't matter what gear you had it in.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Thera
tach = factory rice.

It's fancy looking crap, along with plastic skirts, rear wings, and bumpy bulges, that they add to cars to make them look fast. It serves no purpose unless you don't know how to drive. And even then it's probably more dangerous to look down everytime you shift than to keep your eyes on the road.

What a crock of sh!t.

Does a speedometer also serve no purpose? :roll:

How about the temp gauge?

Hell, let's just do away with the instrument cluster all together, since it's so dangerous to look at and you don't need any sensory input unless you don't know how to drive!

:frown:

 

[Thegonagle]

How do you pronounce RPM-o-mometer? är-pE-em-'o-mo-mE-t&r ?



"RPM-o-mometers" are optional on many cars, whether stick shift or automatic.

 

[no0b]

Originally posted by: Thera
tach = factory rice.

It's fancy looking crap, along with plastic skirts, rear wings, and bumpy bulges, that they add to cars to make them look fast. It serves no purpose unless you don't know how to drive. And even then it's probably more dangerous to look down everytime you shift than to keep your eyes on the road.

A tach can be very useful. It will tell you if you are not idleing at the correct rpm. You can identify the proper power at a rpm and if it is acting sluggish you can notice it more. If there is a dip in the power you can notice where it happened in the RPM range(I have no real idea how that would help you) but atleast you can expect it and it might be useful information for a mechanic. For people to learn manual its a huge boost to have a tach. Have you ever driven a stick, when you look at the tach to shift you do it so quickly that it doesn't affect driving at all.