--- Stephen Humphreys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thnk it might be something like: > > "Here's the nought to sixty figure, so you know how > quick it will accelerate > on the road." > > and > > "And here's the nought to 100 figure, just for > information y'hear? Of course > you'd never test that would you?"
Here in Canada I would, because 100 km/h is an allowable highway speed. What I was getting at, is that some people have pointed out that in Britain celsius is often used to report cold temperatures because 0 and below give an "appearance" of being "cold", but they prefer Fahrenheit in the summer because saying that the temperature is 90 degrees (not that it happens often in Britain) "sounds hotter" than saying the temperature is around 30 degrees. In other words 30 degrees doesn't seem hot to them, but 90 degrees does. Using that same logic, if Britain used metric speeds, instead of reporting a car's 0 to 60 mph time, the new standard could be the car's 0 to 100 km/h time. Doesn't 100 sound faster? Or is 60 "just right", because it's what you're used to? Stephen Gallagher
