[USMA:27026] Re: Mexico

[CarletonM]

In a message dated 2003-09-21 10:17:20 Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Canadian Motor Vehicle safety regulations do not mandate that speedometers & odometers in cars for the Canadian market display anything other than km/h & km (respectively).   That being said, the speedometers of most cars sold in Canada do have both both km/h and mph (with the km/h being the larger numbers).   Keep in mind that the majority of the population of Canada lives within 150 km of the border, so there is a pretty high possibility that a car owned in Canada will travel into the United States at some time.  Having the mph on the dial can be helpful, when driving on US highways.   Stephen Gallagher Last year when I was in Montreal dealing with my 14 year old car's engine dying (for good) on the Champlain Bridge, I went to a Saab dealer to try to get it fixed.  I noted the speedometers on the new cars -- km only, NO mph.  At least for Saab, this has been the case in Canada for many years.  (The car that died, a 1988, had a speedo I bought from a parts place in Ontario, and even then, km/h only.)   The 1999 9-5 I bought from my repair shop here in Maryland has mph on the outside - green back-lit numbers, and km/h on the inside - orange back-lit numbers.  Unlike many other cars, where km/h is grudgingly included so small as to be invisible, on this car they are quite easy to discern.   Carleton