The 2022 Nissan Frontier was unveiled final week and on first impressions, it seems to be far superior to the outgoing mannequin. Nevertheless, there may be one oddity that has caught the eye of some social media customers.
Nissan elected to showcase the 2022 Frontier within the off-road-focused PRO-4X trim that comes full with a number of orange accents each on the outside and all through the cabin. These orange accents proceed throughout the tachometer and speedometer and whereas there’s no problem with making the outer ring of the speedometer orange, there is a matter with the tachometer.
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Ordinarily, analog tachometers characteristic black font across the edge which turns pink for the redline. Nevertheless, the Frontier pictured has orange from 0 rpm all over to six,000 rpm. Past that, there are simply the markings on a black (or darkish gray) font till 8,000 rpm – and should you look very carefully you would possibly discern that, from 6,500 rpm onward, there’s one thing that appears like it might (or might not) be lighting, most likely for when the engine’s working.
Press pictures offered by Nissan of the pickup truck and picked up by Reddit present it with the ignition turned on however the engine switched off. There’s an opportunity that the part of the tachometer from 6,000 rpm (or perhaps 6,500 rpm) to eight,000 rpm lights up when the engine is on to make sure drivers can really see the place the redline is, however don’t know for certain.
Regardless of the case could also be, it appears form of backwards, and it’s an odd selection for Nissan to make.
