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When I bought my present car in 1996, I had the dealer install a speedometer I'd had shipped from a Canadian dealer. This speedometer was indeed entirely different to the US model, It lacked a service reminder light and reset button which the US model had. I doubt wether they have a switchable speedometer in any country other than the US and the UK where both miles and km are required by law.
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Michael Payne
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Sent: 03-Dec-04 06:07:28
Subject: [USMA:31548] Re: Digital Car displays
I just bought a Honda Insight (2000 model). It has a button to switch the entirely-digital displays to metric from the usual US mode. Honda has quit making this car, I think, but I think that the button probably appeared on its other-country models as well. They would have had to change the computer and dashboard to not have it that way.
I must say that it is annoying to use the metric display and have to relate to US speed limit signs at the same time. Another reason why we really won't achieve what we want until the feds have the guts to change things.
There was some Canadian being interviewed on ABC TV the other day. I remember that he made the statement (he was talking about the horrible election results, of course) that "...it is the US that really is the exceptional country." He wasn't speaking of excellence, but of being different and at odds with the rest of the world.
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