Sammi Gray-Jones wrote:
On 08/09/2019 15:38, Recliner wrote:

Engineering went metric many decades ago. Nobody would dream of
engineering a new British car using imperial measurements. In fact, no
engineers still working would have any experience of anything but SI
units.

And why do you think car acceleration timings in the UK are quoted for
the 0-62.5mph range? They gave up on 0-60 long ago.


Engineering in my experience still used imperial measurements where I
was working in 2005, sometimes we got orders in for plate steel in feet
and inches, yet a metric thickness and I also saw them in metric sizes
but a specific gauge. They *have* to understand the difference between
the two to prevent any misunderstandings with American companies who
still use feet and inches on a regular basis.

And as you rightly point out it's now 0-62.5mph, still in miles per
hour. Not 0-100 kph.


It's quoted that way for the benefit of ignorant Brits, but what they
actually measure is 0-100 km/h. Many cars are limited to 250 km/h,
described as '155 mph' for ignorant Brits.

I know the length of my British car in metres, and its weight in kg,
because that's how it was quoted when I bought it. And I'm sure the British
engineers who designed it also used metric.