One, two and three strokes
03/26/2021
Imagine a modern ID.3 or Tesla driver sitting in a Mercedes-Benz 200 from the 1980s and looking at the speedometer. What are these line markings for? Roman numerals on a speedometer?
Of course, classic car drivers and people who grew up with these cars still remember them. These were the latest shift points for changing from 1st to 2nd, from 2nd to 3rd or from 3rd to 4th gear. After all, many cars didn't have a rev counter back then, so at least you had an indication that the next gear was due. Most of the time, however, you had it in your ear anyway.
But it's probably not just electric car drivers who are irritated by the dash markings, because even people who grew up in modern cars with combustion engines can hardly remember the time when four forward gears (or sometimes three) were enough to master all driving situations.
P.S. Of course, some of the dashes were also found on cars with rev counters - after all, it was cheaper to use the same speedometers for all versions ...
