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Metric here.

Metric only.

Imperial (Mph, Hp & Torque)
&
Metric (Bar & KG)

Imperial here - what can I say old habits die hard

imperial the same as my road car, im sure it says KM on there too but i cant say i use it much

I've never heard of US Customary, I thought they used miles and metres like the rest of us bi-uniary halfbreads .

Quote from Becky Rose :

I've never heard of US Customary, I thought they used miles and metres like the rest of us bi-uniary halfbreads .

It's just what they call imperial, because that would sound too British.

For the majority of 'Mericans, there is only one system. But we do call it "Imperial".
However, when you ask about feet, depending on who you talk to, you might get the question of which "feet"? US Survey foot, or International foot. They are different. illepall
Then we could get into the Texas Vara. A unit of measurements that is exactly 1/3 of 100 feet. Talk about a pain to use, lol.

Personally, I wish we would just switch to metric. I work in a field were measurements are critical and using multiple systems causes a bunch of errors and complications.

I use Imperial in LFS. I don't like KPH because there is too many ticks per unit so to speak. A MPH analog gauge is readable, a KPH guage is hard to read.

Quote from Hallen :

I use Imperial in LFS. I don't like KPH because there is too many ticks per unit so to speak. A MPH analog gauge is readable, a KPH guage is hard to read.

Don't Americans use imperial standard for one's height? Like five six, or six two. What gauges do you use in America, MPH or KPH?

Quote from wE1l :

Don't Americans use imperial standard for one's height? Like five six, or six two. What gauges do you use in America, MPH or KPH?

Yes, I am 6' 2" as an example. We use MPH for all cars, but KPH is also listed on all of them too.

We use pound (lbs) for weight instead of Kilos, and gallons for fluid (which is different than European gallons).

All metric here, fortunately and surprisingly it hasn't been a problem in the UK though.

Quote from Hallen :

Yes, I am 6' 2" as an example. We use MPH for all cars, but KPH is also listed on all of them too.

We use pound (lbs) for weight instead of Kilos, and gallons for fluid (which is different than European gallons).

Er...I mean what is an International foot? It sounds to me that both the English foot and the International foot is used in the U.S.

Quote from wE1l :

Don't Americans use imperial standard for one's height? Like five six, or six two. What gauges do you use in America, MPH or KPH?

Like Hallen said they use "Imperial", it's always great fun seeing an American plated car whizzing down a Canadian Hi-Way at 100MPH because we use Metric in Canada (100KPH). I would suspect Americans have paid for much of our roadwork here in Canada, which I might add has some of the Best road conditons of any nation, not to mention some of the longest streets and Hi-ways in da world.

Being an old fart I still use MPH and PSI for driving, but I always use grams and Kilos for weight

metric fo shizzle! :>

Metric here

Quote from Hallen :

which is different than European gallons

European gallons?

Litre for the win! Also no whacky mpg, it's ltr per 100km, damnit! And you english man can bugger off, you're not counting as European

Quote from AndroidXP :

And you english man can bugger off, you're not counting as European

Fine by me. If our government still had balls you still all be the British Empire anyway

Imperial of course, is there any other type of measurement for car related stuff?.

Dan,

The day the world salutes one flag will be a great day indeed*.

*Depending upon the colour of the flag.

DOH!

imperial. I want to make my own measurement.

Quote from wE1l :

Er...I mean what is an International foot? It sounds to me that both the English foot and the International foot is used in the U.S.

The standard used by pretty much everybody is the "International" foot. The "US Survey foot" was based off an older standard and is slightly different. It only comes up because many of the land surveys done in the US are based off of the older definition of the foot... Painful, isn't it?illepall

I was in the military for a lot of years. We used metric units for all distance calculations. For example, I used to know that at 90 KIAS (Knotts Indicated Air Speed) that I was doing 3 Klicks (Kilometers) per minute. All our maps were metric.

Metric all the way!!

Metric. No imperial entanglements.

(From the Star Wars car buying parody.)

Quote from Becky Rose :

The day the world salutes one flag will be a great day indeed*.

*Depending upon the colour of the flag.

DOH!

lol, well red, white and blue of course.
Hmmmm, how many flags are there with those colors?

Quote from Hallen :

The standard used by pretty much everybody is the "International" foot. The "US Survey foot" was based off an older standard and is slightly different. It only comes up because many of the land surveys done in the US are based off of the older definition of the foot... Painful, isn't it?illepall

I was in the military for a lot of years. We used metric units for all distance calculations. For example, I used to know that at 90 KIAS (Knotts Indicated Air Speed) that I was doing 3 Klicks (Kilometers) per minute. All our maps were metric.

Got your point, thanks for your patience to explain all these.

It's always metric that gives me a direct idea of how fast/long something is, but I have no problem with the imperial units, sometimes it's even a bit interesting to change them around.

I use both in specific cirumstances, here's what I can relate to properly:

Speed: KM/H
Power: HP
TQ: lb/ft
Pressure: PSI
Displacement: Liters OR IN3
Mileage: MPG or L/100KM
Weight: LBS