Maybe they buy their speedometer units from the same American company that GM, Ford and Chrysler do.
Maybe someone in Canada can do an informal survey to see which companies do metric only. I wonder what VW does as its North American cars are made in Mexico. Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 2004-04-03 23:09 Subject: [USMA:29421] Re: To Pat Naughtin (comparison to Canada). > > > > From: "BigChimp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2004/04/03 Sat PM 12:30:21 EST > > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [USMA:29416] Re: To Pat Naughtin (comparison to > Canada). > > > > 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. > My 2000 Toyota, purchased new in Canada, has both > km/h (in large type) and MPH (in small type), and it was > made in Japan, so that's obviously not a universal statement. > > Stephen > >
