While cars are coming with increasingly complex instrument panels, you might notice one feature is missing from your new vehicle: the coolant temperature gauge.
Over the past several years, we've noticed the trend across a wide range of vehicles. Such is the case, too, with the latest versions of the Mazda3 introduced last year, and with the new 2012 Mazda5 we drove this past week.
And it actually has nothing to do with cost-cutting, or with lean instrument-panel design (although we do like the new hooded gauge clusters in Mazda's latest vehicles, with their large round dials).