The Honda Civic is only sold with km/hr in Canada, we just bought one and the manual states that the Canadian model is metric only. I wished I could have got my USA one that way, I spent years driving a 1972 Datsun 1200 with mph only in a metric country. It used to fun to remember the conversions,
Also the most powerful argument that is available to change from imperial to metric is life safety
90,000 people per year die of medical errors, one of the common ones is conversion errors in weight which causes needless child death - use this to scare silent the imperial thought police
Save the Children - Go Metric.
Euric can you cut back on the number of emails it is very distracting and makes the conversations a bit one sided.
John
Subject: [USMA:31078] RE: km/h on speedometers
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:16:56 -0600
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My understanding it that most, it not all, Canadian cars display both
km/h (in larger font) and MPH (in smaller font) on their speedometers,
in the reverse order of the U.S. Not sure what their laws say, but they
do that to accommodate drivers who travel into the U.S. with their cars,
probably the same reason both units are universally displayed on U.S.
cars, for when they are driven into Canada.
With the new English/metric button system, that probably means that
Canadians can switch the speed display to MPH if they wish, but there's
not much incentive to do that with all the road signs in metric (just
like there's not much incentive to use the km/h units in the U.S.
without corresponding road signs).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Euric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 2004 September 10 13:48
> To: Hillger, Don; U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: Re: [USMA:31071] RE: km/h on speedometers
>
> I would hope this applies to USA models only and GM cars sold outside
the
> US
> are metric only.
>
> Euric
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hillger, Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, 2004-09-10 14:05
> Subject: [USMA:31071] RE: km/h on speedometers
>
>
> > NOT true. As has been pointed out here on the listserv, GM has gone
to
> > a system that looks like it has only MPH, but an English/metric
button
> > causes the dial to move to show either MPH or km/h. My wife has
this on
> > her new 2004 Bonneville, and Paul Trusten mentioned it being in a GM
car
> > he rented.
> >
> > Besides the dial moving, a LED lights up behind either the "MPH" or
> > "km/h" to show the units being displayed. Pretty nifty system I
think.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On
> > Behalf
> > > Of Jason Darfus
> > > Sent: Friday, 2004 September 10 11:58
> > > To: U.S. Metric Association
> > > Subject: [USMA:31069] RE: km/h on speedometers
> > >
> > > All the current Cadillacs have MPH-only speedometers. Go check
out
> > the
> > > interior photos at http://www.cadillac.com
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sep 10, 2004, at 13:44, Phil Chernack wrote:
> > >
> > > > However, I have not seen a speedometer on any car
> > > > manufactured after 1977 for use in the U.S. that did not include
> > both.
> > > >
> > > > Phil
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On
> > > > Behalf
> > > > Of Terry Simpson
> > > > Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 1:36 PM
> > > > To: U.S. Metric Association
> > > > Subject: [USMA:31064] km/h on speedometers
> > > >
> > > > Do cars in the U.S.A. have to have km/h on them by law?
> > > >
> > > > Is it Federal or State law?
> > > >
> > > > What date did it become mandatory?
> > > >
> > > > Is the actual law available online?
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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