With more and more new-car buyers choosing automatic transmissions over manuals, why do tachometers still have such a large presence on dashboards? The tachometer displays engine speed in revolutions ...

Once you've purchased a new tachometer, thoroughly read the instruction manual. Then determine where you want to position the tach. Locating it on top of the dash may work on a race car, but it can be ...

For decades, the gauge cluster of a German car was a thing of functional beauty. Clean design placed an emphasis on legibility above all else. In recent years, however, the rise of LCD screens ...