When economical driving was still digital ...
09/23/2019
Today, complicated bar charts and precise fuel consumption displays down to the decimal point remind us how economically we are driving. In the sixties and seventies, drivers had to have a sense of how economically they were running their engines. In the eighties, more or less sophisticated fuel consumption displays came into fashion. BMW, for example, had an analog display that announced the number of liters of gasoline per 100 km.
Toyota did not want to go that far with the Celica model in the mid-eighties. Two LEDs had to suffice here. If the green diode was lit, then you were driving economically, if the yellow one was lit, then you were obviously accelerating too much or revving too high. This was hardly really useful, especially as the Toyota Celica was a sports coupé and certainly very few drivers cared about these two LEDs.
The driving report on the Toyota Celica 2.0 GT-i 16 Liftback from the late 1980s is of course also available to read.
