Still beats me how so many people concentrate on their fuel consumption, and every one of them has to convert the litres they buy into gallons - or rely on their car's computer to do it for them. When did anyone in the UK last buy a gallon of fuel (or anything else) ?
We laugh at the Yanks for using more Imperial units than we do, but we can't throw off our MPG. I aim for 14mpl from my diesel and 10 from my petrol.
The generations brought up on imperial and the generation brought up on dual use doesn't easily adjust to ALL aspects of metrication, particularly for those aspects we don't use much.
For weights, I use tonnes, kg and gms despite being taught imperial but I can easily convert to tons and lbs as I'm often in discussion with US petrolheads over the interweb.
For distances, I use miles, yards, feet and inches but can handle metres, cm and mm just as well.
For volume, I use litres, ml, gallons and pints.
All the others I can't easily handle with mental arithmetic as I just don't use them often enough.
Anyway, since johnny-foreigner, brought up on metric, uses litres/100km for fuel consumption then WTF is "mpl" ?
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