pissedpuppy

no clue, when I'm not sitting in traffic my foot is through the floor

certain my mileage sux

alexb76

+1.

I am getting 15 MPG (mostly city driving)!

petee1997

Do not take this as criticism but why is the US not using the metric system officially? Most of your manufacturing and tooling is metric. Hell, even your drug dealers are using metric measures. It's a much more accurate system and much easier to use. Besides most of the world is metric.

ADias

Why is the metric system of units more accurate? Just a technical question.

Tcc1999

There's a long answer tho this but the short one is politics. Many things here are dual labeled but what regulator wants to go out on a limb and require metric only. All that buys is people complaining and businesses crying about how much it will cost them to utilize metric standards. I can't think of a political upside. OTOH, change is occurring, albeit at a glacial pace - e.g. people here think of engine sizes in liters instead of cubic inches as a matter of course now.

Don't take this as a criticism either (because it is meant as value neutral) but since when did the collective mindset of the U.S., in pursuing its' interests ever care what the rest of the world was doing?

zanwar

Fuel economy also has a lower limit. I thought I was driving remarkably consistanly at the track, because my computer always said 9mpg. Then I calculated my mileage after filling up at the end of the day, and it was quite different

petee1997

Simplicity, it's digital. One m = 100cm or 1000 mm. Try dividing a yard in a thousand units.

To the OP, Does the US care? Of course they do. The US is a leading world trader and the world is metric. Why would they want to do the work twice to accommodate exports. Every little cost hinders competitiveness.

Personally I don't care, it was just a question. I think someone gave me the answer, it's political and I am not so presumptuous to go there. I did not mean to be offensive.

mten

Hah! Totally agree...

ADias

I just quibbled with the 'accuracy' comment. Systems of units have nothing to do with accuracy. One can measure as accurately in english units or in metric units. I grew up with metric (SI) and when first exposed to english units found it odd, but it's a question of being used to it, it actually makes sense from a human reference perspective - a foot is a foot, an inch is a thumb, and so on.

P.S. - 1/1000 of 1 yard is 36 mils or 914.4 microns

chrispeart

2009 c2 with 6-speed. I have a pretty dream set up, flat to downhill around 45mph for the first 6 minutes to and from work, just enough to get the coolant temp to 175 (oil still usually is<150). 25 miles of highway with no stop and go. then another few minutes flat to uphill to get home/work. I get about 25.5mpg each tank. 90% highway. Computer always reads about 2mpg higher than my calculated MPG at the pump. Tires not overly pumped up, 65-80 on the highway, per the computer 65 gives me reading around 32mpg each way, 80 26mpg. 3-6 spirited sprints with each tank. Nice california weather. Warm weather gives me better MPG.

petee1997

And what's easier to work with, 914.4 microns or 1mm.?

Chris from Cali

Ugh... I bring up the imperial gallon thing and it comes to this??

FWIW, my C4S over 17K miles and two years is sitting at 17.6 mpg lifetime.

xraydog

I can't stop laughing at this image.