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TarikBos

6:19 PM on 8 April, 2009

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that center screen is cool but come on on a car you want real dials!

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Chris

7:04 PM on 8 April, 2009

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I tend to agree. There's a place for good old dials - that's why I have an analogue watch and why eBook readers have 'e-paper' displays.

However, I'm sure they're 'virtual' dials for a reason - probably because the display switches to 'night vision' like it does on the current S-class.

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ChrisC

7:44 PM on 8 April, 2009

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The only function this car needs in one which helps the driver park in one space in the supermarket carpark, rather than straddling at least two.

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Jay4d0

7:51 PM on 8 April, 2009

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lets just hope they don't break every 10 seconds Land Rover arn't known for their reliability, the last thing a driver wants is that the dashboard switches off while their driving.

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Eggburt1969

8:17 PM on 8 April, 2009

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Blimey, my physics degree course is actually coming in useful!

I think you'll find that torque is measured in lbf.ft, not lb/ft. Pounds force x feet.

If you are a metric man like me, then its in Newton metres (N.m):

375 lbf.ft = 508 N.m

461 lbf.ft = 625 N.m

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Hugo

12:07 AM on 9 April, 2009

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I copied and pasted with the slashes from the press release - not an excuse, just an explanation. I should know better still...

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MarioM

4:54 PM on 9 April, 2009

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@ChrisC - I'd bet good money that Range Rover drivers would pay for a system that automatically straddles two parking spaces perfectly, rather than squeezing into one, minimising the phantom risk of someone touching their stupid tractor. I hate it when they do that.

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Chocoa

6:09 PM on 11 April, 2009

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@MarrioM

Welll, as a Range Rover driver (not the new models)and a previous 'observer' (read instructor but the law won't allow this) with the Institute of Advanced Motorists I have to agree and defend at the same time! But then I live in the country and as an ex farmer who learnt to drive them properly - towing animal box and all. - Not just to deliver kids to school and go to Waitrose.... I agree with the issue of abandoning the tractor rather than parking it :-)

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Bluepork

6:25 PM on 13 April, 2009

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19mpg? And that's an improvement?!

These vehicles just annoy the hell out of me. If you live on a farm, fair enough. But other than that, how do sane people justify owning these child killing petrol guzzling monsters?

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J2

11:38 PM on 14 April, 2009

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For the record, lb/ft is very much the accepted convention for what I suppose you would call the imperial measure of torque. Likewise, the metric measure drops the '.' in favour of simply Nm. Nobody in the media (nor car companies in the materials they produce for external consumption) use lbf.ft or N.m.

Personally, I quite like the idea of virtual dials - the dials would be electric anyway, rather than mechanical, so virtual dials are no more or less likely to drop dead, and they give you lots of options for reconfiguring for both context (eg foreign trips) and personal preference. The virtual dial on the latest Merc S Class works well. But I do think a very high quality screen is a must - and an LED backlight, given that CCFL backlights lose oomph pretty rapidly.

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Kaurisol

9:58 AM on 8 January, 2010

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@Bluepork

With the number and height of the speed humps around here, I'd be tempted to buy a 4x4, just to have something that could cope with them and allow me to travel over them at a legal speed.

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