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Originally Posted by JavaBrewer

my '86 911 was very well placed and thought out. I could adjust anything without having to take my eyes off the road.

I always thought that my old '88 was a great cockpit, gauges, controls, everything.

My '08 boxster is nearly as good, but not quite. The dumbing down of the gauges is the only bad/frustrating thing. There's the large central tach (good) with a digital speed read-out in the bottom (good). Then there's a large speedo to the left of the tach (bad, NEVER look at it). Then there's no oil temp, oil pressure, voltmeter which would be the perfect multigauge to replace the useless speedo. I also liked the old oil level gauge in my old 911. The ONLY method for checking the oil in the boxster is a pain (no dipstick or even any way to retrofit a dipstick).