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Originally Posted by GenkiElite
So if they're on the metric system why is fuel economy rated in MPG and how on earth do they come to those figures?
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Units of measurement are a bit of a mixture over here.
We still use MPH, and road signs etc are in miles/yards but many other things like buying furniture or carpets is metric. All food and drink weights/volumes are metric, unless you're in the pub when you're beer will still come in pints! But if you order a bottle of beer that will be metric!!! It can be confusing to say the least.
You also have to look out for 0-60 times measured in UK mags. Sometimes they are 0-62MPH as this is 0-100Km/h.
The general measure of a cars emissions (used to calculate road tax and company car tax here) is used across mainland Europe (metric only remember) so is calculated by CO2/Km.
The reason our MPG figures look different to US MPG is because a US gallon is a different size to a UK gallon. 1UK gallon = 1.2 US gallons.