Car designers (usually) work hard to arrange the driver’s cockpit an orderly, coherent, attractive manner. The understandable result is that the overwhelming majority of instrument panels are laid out symmetrically. Sure, the actual gauges will differ from one side to the other, but in general, one side of the instrument panel will be mirrored by the other. But sometimes, a design team deliberately mixes things up, not only arranging the components asymmetrically, but actually giving the dash panel an asymmetrical binnacle. How many? Good question, if I do say so myself. How many cars can the Hooniverse Hivemind come up with?
The Caveats (there are always caveats):
- It should be obvious, not subtle. We want noticeably and deliberately asymmetrical examples.
- We’re talking about the overall shape of the instrument panel, not just the arrangement of the instruments within it. An odd number of idiot lights or squeezing the gas gauge into the bottom of the tach on one side won’t cut it.
Difficulty: Neither super easy nor particularly difficult. So moderate it’s the Joe Lieberman of Hoonatica entries.
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Image Source: ExtremeTech.com (It’s an attractively cropped version of a GM interior press photo.)
