On 2010/06/11, at 05:07 , Martin Vlietstra wrote:
The European industry uses litres if only one decimal place of
precision is needed and cc if more precision is needed. Thus, I
drive a 1.6 L car, but my registration documents say that its
engine is 1598 cc. The real reason is that Europeans do not have a
hang-up about converting between cc and litres.
Dear Martin,
Here we would be inclined to describe your car as 1600 millilitres,
and like you if it had a larger engine (what we might refer to as a
'hoon machine') it could be described as 5 litres.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see
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From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On
Behalf Of John M. Steele
Sent: 10 June 2010 11:12
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:47632] Re: Metric motors in the USA
He doesn't get much sympathy in the comments.
One "fact" he has wrong. The auto industry wasn't targetted. The
Big Three CHOSE to go metric in the early 70's, mostly because of
their foreign operations. We drove our suppliers including the
steel industry. The steel industry claimed to Congress that the
cost of conversion would be astronomical. When GM said they were
buying metric sizes, the industry said "what sizes would you like,
sir." The rest of us followed in their wake. No other industry
supplying us put up much of a fight.
However, I will freely admit that if it really sold more cars, we
would be glad to divide the engine displacement by (0.254 dm/in)³.
I'm not sure why we prefer liters and the European industry prefers
cubic centimeters.
I hope the author doesn't think engine displacement is the only
thing metric on the car. :)
From: Pat Naughtin <pat.naugh...@metricationmatters.com>
To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu>
Sent: Thu, June 10, 2010 2:58:54 AM
Subject: [USMA:47631] Metric motors in the USA
Dear All,
This item from USAToday might interst you:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2010/06/metric-madness-how-automakers-refuse-to-give-it-up/1
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide,
seehttp://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html
Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has
helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the
modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that
they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or
selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources
for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial,
industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and
in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google,
NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and
theUSA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com/ to subscribe.
