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Sadly this is one of the most noticeable areas where Ford appear to have got Volvo to cut costs.

Up until around 2005-2007 all Volvo's had lovely backlight crystal clear aircraft like instrumentation, I remember it well on my 440, then 850, V70, C70, V50 and XC90 etc.

Then they went cheap and nasty front lit and it's crap by comparison - around the same time as they ditched temperature gauges on most models. The only exception was those models with Active TFT instruments.

They have reverted back post Ford though, my 2012 V40 has the nicer old style backlit instruments (but still no temperature gauge...) and all the newer stuff has much nicer instruments.