The new layout is bizarre. In mine (2005 4/4) and I think Dave W's similarly aged Roadster, both speed and revs are directly visible in front of the driver. This is ideal. You should also be sufficiently attuned to your car to be able to tell the revs for a gear change by ear without looking - how often do you rev to the red line? In daily driving the road speed is the most important variable. You can't do anything about the water temp, voltage and oil pressure, and the fuel gauge is useless anyway.

Frankly only a race or rally car has any need for a central tacho with a vertical red line! And in such a car all other gauges are arranged so that optimum readings are vertical. I only know one person who has such an arrangement, and he is a serious classic race/rally owner/builder/driver with 4 competition cars.