>>>>>>>14 deg C
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>>>>>>Celsius? What's that? You and your crazy metric system.
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>>>>>Mike if u think about it even England switch from the english system to the metric system that everyone uses around the world, I have several American friends that told me that US tried that during the end 70's and 80's, but Americans was just too dumb and didn't want to learn. :-)
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>>>>At that time, the U.S. actually put up some highway signs in the metric standard, but apparently the drivers thought they were just some new kind of thing for target practice.
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>>>I also heard that they read kilometers as miles and were happy to drive 61% faster.
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>>I don't think it's the case with US-built cars, but cars for UK consumption have always had miles and klicks on the speedo. I've driven the odd US built car that had only miles, and French and Canadian market cars that had only klicks.
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>>We've always been pretty hybrid
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>Canadian cars, since roughly 1980, have shown clicks most prominently and miles in a lesser 'font' on the dial scale.

Sorry, yes, I was mistaking French obstinacy for Canadian purity; the Canuck cars DID have the 2 (whereas in the UK the miles are more prominant), but the US cars were intransigently miles only. :-)