[gregoriol]

You probably would better like a digital display that shows a number instead of a needle

[mschaef]

Some cars also use unevenly spaced tick marks on an analog dial. Nice in that it gives you the sweep needle and range of scale without overly compressing the range of most interest.

Analog tachometers for race cars do/did the the same thing:

https://www.primusracingparts.com/Racetech-tachometer-0-8-rp...