>
>
> I think that people have gotten so used to the way the Toyotas and Hondas
> and Subarus run with the temp needle looking like it's painted on the gauge
> until the system  runs out of cooling capacity that they get bothered with
> the way VW designed this.

This is a good point.  I hate how in new cars many of the gauges are
actually idiot lights, in that they're stabilized at some fixed position
within a very large range.  We should admit that new VW's seem to be like
this too.