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Two drawn recreations of 1980s electronic instrument displays, each run in the browser with a key, an accelerator and a brake.
Display recreations
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Cars with digital clusters
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Era
Digital dashboards

Recreations

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    Amber LCD bar graph

    LCDAfter the Chevrolet Corvette (C4)1984–1996

    A backlit liquid-crystal dash in amber: a rising bar-graph tachometer, large slanted speed digits and segmented fuel and temperature gauges.

    LCD clusters
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    Blue-green VFD sweep

    VFDAfter the Aston Martin Lagonda (Series 4)1987–1990

    A vacuum-fluorescent dash that glows blue-green: a widening arc of tachometer segments, upright speed digits and vertical fuel and temperature stacks.

    VFD clusters

Original design inspired by 1980s digital dashboards. Not a replica of any manufacturer’s instrument cluster. They follow the display technology of the cars named, not their layout or artwork.

Cars with digital instrument clusters

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An LCD, vacuum fluorescent, LED or CRT instrument cluster, as standard or as an option.

1 car more with photos. See all

4 more not yet photographed: Buick Riviera (7th generation), Austin Montego (LM11), Subaru XT (1st generation), Aston Martin Lagonda (Series 3). Add a photograph

Photo credits

Photo credits (8)
  1. Chevrolet Corvette (C4), cockpit“W6074 Landreau BasBriace ACAL2025 Chevrolet Corvette C4 TunedPortInjection 26457XA2” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Llann Wé² · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
  2. Aston Martin Lagonda (Series 4), cockpit“Dornbirn-Oberhuber Concierge-Car Show-Aston Martin Lagonda-02ASD” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Asurnipal · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
  3. Buick Reatta, cockpit“2016 Northeast Texas Buick and Classic Car Show 18 (1989 Buick Reatta interior)” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
  4. Audi quattro (Typ 85), cockpit“1990 Audi Quattro 20V - Flickr - The Car Spy (9)” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: The Car Spy · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
  5. Aston Martin Lagonda (Series 2), cockpit“AstonMartinLagonda-interior” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: dave_7 · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
  6. Cadillac Seville (2nd generation), cockpit“Morsang-sur-Orge, France (3651124316)” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Mic from Reading - Berkshire, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
  7. Mitsubishi Cordia (1st generation), instrument cluster“Mitsubishi Cordia 001” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Tennen-Gas · CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
  8. Austin Maestro (LM10), cockpit“Maestro vp” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Decampos · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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