Chris wrote in USMA 21120:
>Unfortunately, the HP is still widely used, even in French car ads. I suspect that the French car manuals use the "cheval vapeur" or "CV". It is defined as 75 metre kilogram-force = 735.50 W = 0,986 32 horsepower. There is, or was, also the "cheval vapeur fiscal" which seemed to bear no relation to CV. Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
