US car makers tend to have
MILES km on cars sold in
the US and km miles on cars sold in Canada. Japanese and European cars just have metric
only gauges on cars sold in metric countries and the dual type in the US and
UK. this way they only have two versions, whereas the US companies have to
keep track of three versions.
There is a price to be paid to advertise FFU.
Euric
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, 2004-04-03 11:36
Subject: [USMA:29415] Re: To Pat Naughtin
(comparison to Canada).
> may be others.
>
> cm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of Stephen Gallagher
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 12:05
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:29400] Re: To Pat Naughtin (comparison to Canada).
>
>
>
> I will add that Canadians encounter mostly
> the same experiences as below, with the
> exceptions listed:
>
> (snip)
>
>
> Same in Canada, although Canadian cars also have MPH
> listed on their speedometers, typically in smaller type
> the same way that US cars also have km/h listed.
> IIRC, Australian speedometers are solely in km/h.
> But then again, very few Australians drive their
> cars to the US.
>
> (more snip)
>
> Carleton
>
>
