[USMA:36571] Re: Chevrolet

[Mike Millet]

I think that this is far more common on new cars. As a side note, I know that many cars have had dual unit displays in the US and Canada for many years, and also in the UK. The problem is that the km/h numbers are in fact quite small on many of the older vehicles. I wonder what they will do if the US finally converts, perhaps have some sort of decal you can stick on the speedometer with larger numbers for kilometers?

Also I'm not sure if odometers calculate internally in km or if many of them are still in miles.

Mike

On 4/15/06, G Stanley Doore < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

The year 2000 Deville has an Eng/Metric toggle switch which convents all units between English and SI units.

 

Stan Doore

----- Original Message -----

From: Michael Payne

To: U.S. Metric Association

Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 9:55 PM

Subject: [USMA:36568] Chevrolet

Recently by chance, while on vacation ended up with 2 separate rented Chevrolet Impalas, this has a menu where you can change the speedometer display and information from "English" to Metric. The speedometer is analog, it changes the display to km/h from mph. Not only that, the menu now displays all odometer and trip odometer information to km, fuel economy to L/100 km, average speed to km/h, tire pressure to kPa for each wheel, and the external temperature to Celsius. I'm not particularly enamored by these cars, but I have to admit GM has done a good job changing the display to accurately display everything in SI. I found it particularly interesting that the tire pressures were 210 kPa cold and heated up after driving to about 240. The display was displayed to the nearest one kPa.

 

Michael Payne
Potomac Falls Virginia USA