With more and more new-car buyers choosing automatic transmissions over manuals, why do tachometers still have such a large presence on dashboards? The tachometer displays engine speed in revolutions ...

With more and more new-car buyers choosing automatic transmissions over manuals, why do tachometers still have such a large presence on dashboards? The tachometer displays engine speed in revolutions ...

Ever since the first race cars were built, it's been helpful for drivers to know their engine speed. It may sound obvious, but engine power is always a function of engine speed, so accurately knowing ...

A tachometer used to be an accessory added to the dash of only the sportiest of cars, but now they’re pretty much standard equipment on everything from sleek coupes to the family truckster. If your ...

Dear Car Talk: I have a new 2017 Honda Ridgeline. The speedometer is digital; it shows numbers only. It has no dial. However, it still has an analog tachometer. The transmission is an automatic ...

The 2022 Nissan Frontier was unveiled last week and on first impressions, it appears to be far superior to the outgoing model. However, there is one oddity that has caught the attention of some social ...

Freshly minted motors need to be broken in gently so all their fast-moving components seat properly. The C8 Corvette uses its fully digital gauge cluster to remind you of that, which is kind of neat.

Aftermarket tachometers have been around for decades but in our market segment we've seen a paradigm shift away from the monster-tachs of days gone by to newer, lighter, more precise units. The aim is ...

Once you've purchased a new tachometer, thoroughly read the instruction manual. Then determine where you want to position the tach. Locating it on top of the dash may work on a race car, but it can be ...

The cars we're focusing on are the '87-'93 Fox-body Mustangs; the project is the replacement of a factory tachometer. A '92 LX 5.0 hatchback that recently became part of our stable of Mustangs had a ...