On top of announcing the sixtieth Anniversary Edition, Ford revealed that it has just a little treat for all current-generation Mustang owners. Using over-the-air updates, Ford is adding a brand new custom gauge option for the digital instrument cluster, and it emulates the gauges of the unique.
The latest instrument panel features skeuomorphic graphics which have the twin circular speedometer and tachometer like the unique, down to the chrome ring and needle centers, narrow font and red needles. Though it’s only the speedometer and tachometer that adopt the retro look, with coolant temperature, center information section and fuel gauge remaining more modern in design. But they’ll retain the identical color scheme because the retro graphics to help them match.
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Based on the pictures, the look seems to work quite well. We’ll have an interest to see them in person, and the way they work. Afterall, the unique gauges, as shown within the above Instagram video, have a great deal of depth and dimension to them, being physical gauges from an era when automakers were still willing to make ornate instruments.
This is the second retro gauge cluster Ford has released for the current-generation Mustang, too. When the automobile launched, it got a set of gauges based on the late-model Fox Body Mustangs, down to the pale green hue for after they’re “illuminated” (for the reason that screen-based gauges are all the time illuminated to some extent).
The update is totally free for each current-generation Mustang, no matter powertrain or trim. It shall be available to add wirelessly starting today. And it’s a really neat way to include more Mustang owners in on the celebration of the model’s history. It also leaves us wondering what other Mustang gauge designs shall be added in the long run. Let us know what you’re thinking that within the comments, and tell us what gauges you would like to see added.
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