I was going to say that too. I have an 01 Malibu with both Miles and Kilometers inscribed on the speedometer. My dad has a Buick or Olds, I believe. When one hits the English/metric button it affects how the needle reads on the gage and not the gage itself. Its kinda cool to swap while driving, the needle jumps to anew designation. Its real nice because you are not distracted from the units you don't want to read and no matter what units your using, they are the most prominent on the dial. Those driving the car in Canada will not feel like second hand citizens. Also, GM will not have to make two dash boards with larger metric numbers for Canadian cars with smaller English numbers and vis versa for US cars.
The switch is nice also because it changes other gauges as well, for example the distance. On my Malibu I can only read distance in miles. Howard Ressel, Metric Manager NYSDOT Region 4 Howard Ressel Project Design Engineer, Region 4 (585) 272-3372 >>> "Phil Chernack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/20/03 11:46PM >>> Was the speedometer digital or analog? If it was digital, like GM uses, there is a metric/customary switch on the dashboard. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Norman & Nancy Werling Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 8:43 PM To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:27014] Chevrolet Malibu with only MPH speedometer On Friday, September 19, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution featured any analysis of the all-new Chevrolet Malibu. The picture of the dash shows a clear picture of the speedometer with solely MPH readings, not a trace of km/h. To me this shows an American regression from use of metric. If anyone is interested, I could scan and send this newspaper picture. But I won't unless someone asks. Norman
