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Old 6th November 2019, 08:17   #24
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No, l love the whole dash, the instrument binnacle, the wide expanse of African Cherrywood unsullied by the ugly radio grille & the huge full width parcelshelf. The cherry on the cake was when they moved the time clock over to the curved wooden corner of the facia for the MkIII & the 'B', just lovely.
And imagine my delight on first driving her at night when l discovered that the toggle switches lit up individually.
As l said, l did add the coupe clocks many years ago but l'm not sure l would now. They do rather mar the unfussed dignity of the saloon & you only gain the oil pressure gauge & tachometer. The coupe was for the slight bounders of the establishment who couldn't bring themselves to drive a Jaguar whereas the saloon, well the saloon was the personal transport of The Queen.

Bache was an advocate of minimalism which certainly showed with the first generation P6, which has such an integrated interior that it's very difficult to add extra instruments without them looking like awkward afterthoughts. Practically impossible in fact.
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