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I have a post about a car, that's not mine and not even a Volkswagen! I rented it on a recent trip to the San Antonio area and I have to say I was intruiged and impressed. The car was a Chevy Malibou, which is not certainly not a car that I would gravitate to, but I picked it with my usual Zen method of car picking. It wasnt' even the model that I'd picked when I did the paperwork, but that's what I ended up with.
The first thing, which was surprising and neat, is that it was so quiet. I think it's close to the quietest driving car that I've ever ridden in. It was just whisper-quiet. I liked the way it drove...it was nice and smooth.
But that's not what I wanted to write about. The car's intstrument
panel was...different than any I've driven before. The numbers come
from lights inside the dash, and aren't illuminated when the car is
off; then the dials are just blank:
When you turn on the key, the dial nuumbers slowly fade in, like this:
where you can see the numbers are still dim. And here the self-test
is done; the numbers are fully bright.
Oh, and it has a USB jack on the radio for power:
And I have to say--I've always liked the status displays that tell you
that you've just engaged the cruise control:
Aaaaaaaand...if that wasn't neat enough, the dash status display will
give you the pressures in the tires. Awesome!
