Should We Have Our Road Signs Changed to KPH?

He's an accountant - he can do them in his head while preoccupying his mind with the change in rolling circumfrence that will result in the optimum fuel consumption varying with tread pattern and rubber density for a given terrain and speed.

Having grown with litres/100 Km and then moving to the UK where people talk mpg I had to figure out a quickly convert figures between the two.

I came up with the following: divide 282 into the consumption figure you have and you'll get the inverse one.

Example 282/14 mpg = 20.1 litres per 100 Km (or the typical consumption of a 280 GEL Auto!) 8)

Another one 282/14 litres per 100 Km = 20.1 mpg (or the typical consumption of a 300 GDL Auto) :wink:

Easy, init?

@marcus :D 95% if not all distances are in kph
and all of the speed signs already are in kph
it takes a bit of adjusting to ,especially with i live on the border with mph and kph, so i would like it all kph

and the second thing is the EURO or YO YO as it is called localy , we have to carry both currencies in the wallet :roll:

Its perfectly practical to have a speedometer read in Miles per hour when the infrastructure has already been put in place to match it.

You should try it... it is extremely exciting, except when the Matador gets away with it!, I mean all those guts and blood scattered all over the place (the Matador's of course) are just the thing to lift your apetite before Tea. 8)

This is, in fact the precursor to bullfighting, but we run short of lions in Hispania and they attracted a lot of sextertii in duties when imported. So we trained some bulls instead. The rest is history.

Absolutely right. We should go back 500 years and have the King divorce his barren Spanish wife to marry his mistress only to have her head severed from her body when she was suspected committing incest with her brother so that the royal daughter of the two could declare war on Spain and have them defeated and humiliated when the incumbent Spanish emperor dared to attempt invading these (sorry, those) shores and when failed claimed that it was the weather, not the islanders who defeated him.

Problem is that individuality in this case is picturesque, but not at all practical...

And no problem, I still love being considered an honorary Englishman 8)

"This is great britain" dont make me laugh....
Horse and carts were good 4x4s too I suppose we should have stayed with them....Great or not so great britain is no longer independant anything, its a melting pot of nationality, religion and language.
If you dont look froward you will only go back in the long run..
I cant say much though i am so disaffected by GREAT Britain I left and now live in France

I love this one, ha, ha, :lol:

Er, can I vote or will you throw me to the lions? :roll:

its time to move with the times
and with the euro as well

Ive got it already in France and it is fine you soon get used to it. The rest of europe is metric already it is about time, speed was the same.
It will be the Euro next!!

In kph it always seems like I get to where ever i,m going to more quickly. Distances just seem to fly by.

But really there is no reason at all why we should n,t be in kph already.

Bugga that, not now. :lol: Not just after all the performance of changing my speedo to MPH. If you had asked me a month ago, i would have said it was a great idea :lol: :wink: .