> I don't need to know if I'm doing 110 or 111, but the position of the needle will tell me at a very quick glance if I'm venturing towards 120 or slowing to 90

> I don't need to know if I'm doing 110 or 111, but the position of the needle will tell me at a very quick glance if I'm venturing towards 120 or slowing to 90 You're not the first to say this here, and it honestly has me surprised. My Civic did away with the needle entirely, and has a numeric digital display. I have not even once missed it. Acceleration is something your body can easily gauge, velocity is not. If you're at 110 kph and you can't tell whether you're slowing down or speeding up, we have significant physiological differences.