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