Imperial or Metric?

[Bonner]

12 minutes ago, gamestrolley said:

44 miles per gallon sounds better than 9.8 miles per litre

I am almost fully metric but litres per 100km means nothing to me. At university we used American textbooks for some topics so I had to get my head around Slugs in measurement of viscosity.

[Bonner]

5 minutes ago, Crofter said:

I was talking to some Americans a while back, moaning about my car that only does 40mpg.

We were talking at cross purposes for some time, because over there that would be considered exceptionally good. I'm not sure that they really believed me when I said I used to get 74mpg on a long run in my diesel Golf.

74 miles per US gallon would be very good

[Crofter]

10 minutes ago, Bonner said:

74 miles per US gallon would be very good

That's a fair point, it probably did sound impossibly good to them. Equivalent to about 90mpg in our money!