Porsche just labels the numbers. To switch from
km/h and mph there is a button sequence in the
cockpit....I think it's the clock adjustment.
I'd think the Benz was the same way, but I'm not
100% sure, which is why I posed the question.
That's the reason you passed on a
Boxster? Come on...there had to be others. :)
At 21:48 2009-02-15, Victor Jockin wrote:
I didn't know that was a law ... I just thought
manufacturers did it because people might drive
to Canada or Mexico. Porsche also uses miles
only on their speedometer, one reason I recently passed on a Boxter.
If that law is on the books, we should remind
Mercedes and Porsche that miles only ist
verboten. Does anyone know whether there still is such a law?
From: <mailto:[email protected]>Brian J White
Sent: 02/15/2009 8:29 PM
To: <mailto:[email protected]>U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:43020] Re: More companies primed
to pounce on metric-only labeling
What gets me about sign changing, is...whatever
happened to the DOT requirement that cars must
be sold with both km/h and mph on the speedo?
Mercedes over the past 3-4 years seems to be
getting away without it...they are mph only it looks like.
I know GM has numbers only with a legend that
switches between mph and km/h, but the Mercedes
cars look to be mph only all the time. Makes
for a suck time when driving to Canada I'm sure.
My wife's old Honda Civic (I hated that car.)
had both mph and km/h markings, but only MPH
illuminated at night. Talk about a bozo design
feature right there..... I tried to talk you
out of the Honda again Nat, but to no avail. :)
At 19:36 2009-02-15, STANLEY DOORE wrote:

The NIST has drafted legislation to
provide for metric only product labeling. If
Congress would pass it and the President sign
it, there would be a great move to go all metric.
If ALL people would contact their
Congressional representatives, then perhaps
something would happen. No single
organization can do it alone. However, most
companies want to go metric and many already
have gone metric like the auto industry has.
With the current stimulus bill recently
passed and it's called a jobs bill, it would
be appropriate to have all road signs changed to metric very quickly.
Stan Doore
