Okay, I've had my Mini for a year and a half now and I just gotta ask this: How many of you actually use the big speedometer in the middle? I sure don't!

 

Digital speedo on the tach all the way...

 

I'm one of the few who actually likes the big speedo.

 

I have an '05 with the chrono pack so I don't have the large speedo, mine has all the different gauges in what would be the speedo but honestly I've never really liked the look of it. I've had loaners with it and never gotten into it.

 

I have the chrono pack now, but on my old MINI I had the BIG speedo, and I LOVED it, but used the tiny digital one on the tach.

 

I like my big speedo, and use it some. I tend to drive more by the RPMs on the tach though.

 

I use it as a mounting point for my GPS! Haha.

 

Mines got the chrono pac also. I love the look of the big center one but its not as functional. Looks like most who commented on this thred have the chrono. Most who have the big one hate on the chrono but I love mine. Esp with the refresh on the 05-06 models, looks great at night with the LEDs shineing on it. The each his own...

 

I use that little digital speedo in the tach. The big speedo ends up being a way for my daughter to say, daddy the speed limit is 65. And I say, right...73. It's going to come back and haunt me later.

 

I Love my big spedo, but use my scanguage mounted under my tach. I only do that because the big one isn't accurate @#$%ing BMW.

 

I don't have a Mini (yet!) but i think the big speedo is great ascetically but not very useful in reality. It's a good thing they also allow the speed to be displayed in the tach.

 

Stupid question. What is the Chrono pack?

 

I don't really look at it much... actually never . And a while back just after I got it, someone made fun of it saying it looked like it should belong on Flava Flaves neck.....

 

I love looking at the temp recently because it's getting warmer, so I find myself looking at the centre speedo because my tach has the temp.

If I need to know an accurate speed (based on cops hiding, etc) I will look at the centre tach, but I drive based on the revs and which gear I'm in for speed as I know how fast I am usually going just based on that.

I don't like the look of the chrono pack, but I like the extra guages.

 

 

I kinda like it. But I still really like my HUGE spedo.....

 

I rarely use it. I drive by RPM in the R50 and I drive by traffic in my R56, no need ot know how fast I am going until the radar detector alerts

 

I wish I had that.

While the large center speedometer is one of the "trade marks" of a MINI, it is too far out of my field of vision. To check my speed, I have to take my eyes off the road for too long, to look over to the center, and orient my vision for it (because I am looking at it at a pretty sharp angle... I think its called Parallax distortion?).

 

I have the Chrono pack on my '08. Is that still an option? I was at the dealer last month for service and didn't see any floor models with chronos.

 

I loved the big speedo in my R53 and never looked at the digital. On my new R56, I have the Connected with NAV so the speedo is around the edge of the screen, still trying to get used to it.

Annette

 

I must say I like the chrono pack. I'm one of those weird people who likes to know what the engine is doing. Oil temps and pressures, etc.

The wife loves the BIG speedo so she can constantly tell me to SLOW DOWN!

 

MINI Connected +1 . It makes far better use of the real estate devoted to the speedo gauge, and it just plain looks better too. And with the occasional corner-of-the-eye glances over to the moving map, audio selections, etc. I'm much more likely to notice the position of the speedo pip...much more so than the center stack gauge in my old 1st Gen MINI.

 

No, I don't think any of the R56's have the Chrono package.

 

I do that too!

Dave

 

same here, drive by tach...
I leave the digital display on the MPG thingie to keep me uh... slow.