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  • delfin
    E30 Enthusiast
    • Nov 2007
    • 1064
    #1

    Finally catching on to the MPG gauge...

    Ford and Honda's next-gen instrument clusters feature trees (a vine in Ford's case) that grow more lush as drivers learn to hypermile — the fine art of maximizing fuel economy.

    http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/12/when-ford-and-h.html

    So they're finally adding what BMW has had all along.
    Advanded Delphin Division
    My e30s: 1987 325i/1994 318iT
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    • e30frosh
      R3VLimited
      • Dec 2004
      • 2170
      #2
      hmpf...I want to burn fuel, not grow pixelated trees on my dash. Waste.

      Every day I wake up we drink a lot of coffee and watch the CNN
      Every day I wake up to a bowl of clover honey and let the locusts fly in.
      Lobsterbacks attack the town again
      Wrap all my things in aluminum
      Beams of darkness streak across the sky
      Pink rays from the ancient satellite
      Every time I look out my window same three dogs looking back at me.
      Every time I open my windows cranes fly in to terrorize me.

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        • Jaygo333
          Grease Monkey
          • Jan 2008
          • 334
          #3
          ^^
          My sentiments exactly.

          My plant won't even penetrate the ground.

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            • Tree18is
              R3VLimited
              • Mar 2004
              • 2703
              #4
              way to complicated. If i wanted to grow a cyber plant I would get a
              "tomagachi"

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                • JasonC
                  Site Manager
                  • Aug 2006
                  • 14451
                  #5
                  Instead of wasting money on stupid stuff like this. They could of done more by spending the money that they put into making the cyberplant, and go out and plant a real tree.

                  1992 BMW 325iC
                  1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
                  1965 Chevrolet Corvair Monza 140hp

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                    • kronus
                      R3V OG
                      • Apr 2008
                      • 13005
                      #6
                      hurrdurr i dont understand economy gauges but trees r cool i guess
                      cars beep boop

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                        • george graves
                          I waste 90% of my day here and all I got was this stupid title
                          • Oct 2003
                          • 19986
                          #7
                          Other car makers are adding a servo to the gas pedal that adds more-and-more resistance to you stomping on the gas.
                          Originally posted by Matt-B
                          hey does anyone know anyone who gets upset and makes electronics?

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                            • devonjordan
                              R3VLimited
                              • Jul 2006
                              • 2386
                              #8
                              I love the comments...

                              My 1984 BMW 318i had one of these...

                              My 15 year old volvo had one of these...

                              Fucking ford is dumb, and honda is retarded too.
                              Hemingway said it best. “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”

                              Help a brother out, buy your detailing products here...

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                                • blunttech
                                  Forum Sponsor
                                  • Jul 2004
                                  • 12850
                                  #9
                                  i love the idea. im going to buy one and get a personalized plate that says "i care" and then go out and move in with h0lmes and be a liberal weedhead and prove to the world how much i care
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                                    • cferb
                                      E30 Fanatic
                                      • May 2006
                                      • 1442
                                      #10
                                      I hate people that don't realize that they're part of the problem too

                                      People will still drive like jerks. The people who care took the 10 seconds it takes to think and learn about how to drive efficiently. The others will continue to peel out from traffic lights, blissfully forcing their children's world into a more decrepit state.
                                      sigpic

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                                        • atomic
                                          R3V Elite
                                          • Jun 2007
                                          • 5691
                                          #11
                                          Even Uhaul has started using these


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                                            • SpecM
                                              R3V Elite
                                              • Oct 2005
                                              • 4531
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by george graves
                                              Other car makers are adding a servo to the gas pedal that adds more-and-more resistance to you stomping on the gas.
                                              Nissan, I think
                                              1989 cirrisblau-metallic 325i

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                                                • DCColegrove
                                                  Banned
                                                  • Dec 2007
                                                  • 2748
                                                  #13
                                                  You could program so the EML would limit acceleration for optimum economy on newer BMWs...

                                                  People would really hate it though.

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                                                    • Collin
                                                      E30 Mastermind
                                                      • Aug 2008
                                                      • 1736
                                                      #14
                                                      Originally posted by JasonC
                                                      Instead of wasting money on stupid stuff like this. They could of done more by spending the money that they put into making the cyberplant, and go out and plant a real tree.
                                                      Or produced a car that wasn't a plastic hunk of shit, or designed a car that doesn't have the grill off a lawn tractor and the body of a b5 passat.
                                                      The Keystone Killers
                                                      Originally posted by Cabriolet
                                                      With 73k+ post, you'd think he'd have learned a little about life.

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                                                        • allwheeldrive
                                                          Wrencher
                                                          • Jan 2008
                                                          • 272
                                                          #15
                                                          Thats gayer than the Prius.

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