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19th November 2011, 22:42 | #81 | |
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20th November 2011, 05:36 | #82 |
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The passenger seat for the wife!
As i will not let her drive my 190!
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20th November 2011, 10:06 | #84 |
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i would say the most pointless feature on the 75 is the temperature guage
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Although I'm not sure about point a) - the driver will still have to lean over more to access the contents then just to open it if it had a handle. Good thinking with the valet security. I wonder how easy it would be to break it open though? It's only made from plastic. My Austin Allegro has a lockable glovebox but I'm sure that you could break it open very easily with just one hand....... making it more pointless than the Audi's electric opening. I think the self-closing doors are the winner of the 'most pointless feature award'. |
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20th November 2011, 12:59 | #86 |
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I ONLY EVER USE F on my temp gauge
The guy who said F should die is well out of sinc..........I and my wife who own a 75 each only ever have it on F, never in C format.
when its nice and warm F > for flaming is for me. Its like those EU instutions , about metric.....FEET AND INCHES ALL THE WAY.. none one wants 190cm tall do they...get real , we are the same as the yanks and always have been and they have got it from us MILES TO THE GALLON.... AND FEW FEET HERE AND THERE... Not a few MM to the left.....C is just another EU push job , like metric... GOOD ON ROVER TO HAVE F on the temp,
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miles on british roads is here to stay!!
IN DECEMBER 2008
BY The British Governement not the trumped up EU. voted to retain Britains hertitage and Miles is here to stay, Also they is a big push currently to re-introduce imperial weights as you can now see LBS coming on foods rather than just metric, rubbish,, by the way i was taught metric, imperial is better. They is also something else going on with Britain and its EU traders or should i say ***** . Nope Britain is going in the right direction and back to what she should be doing. I used to love buying things in LBS not kilos....the whole country is eradicating itself FOR WHAT?. The BBC is the worst,, they had an artice in the website last night about who owes what to which nation. This would never happen in America, they would be blood on the streets. They did it all in Euros, well I am not sure that the BBC know this, but Britain is not even in the euro, and never will be.But the monies were in euros to show a British based audience of who owes what.???? brain washing thats all they are doing..nope imperial for me, because its true to our nation.....and I am a metric kid and i use imperial all the time its good for spacial thought you can visualise feet and inches..ROMANS KNEW THAT, ALSO. SOUND AS BRITISH POUND.....WELCOME BACK IMPERIAL MEASURES.
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Unfortunately I don´t agree at all. All this nostalgia is just going to make things more awkward (read expensive) with our dealings with the rest of the world. 100 units in most things are easy and in line with the rest of humanity. Keep the mile for old times sake but who wants to go back to 12oz = 1lb. 14lbs = 1 stone. 1520 yards (or what ever) to a mile. I had to go through all that as a kid. Waste of time.
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It WILL die eventually since its no long taught, and rightly so. Using imperial measurements in anything adds complication to formulae. Even Americans dont use imperial in scientific work and it has been officially sanctioned in the US since 1866. Use of the liter and milligram are extremely common.
Metric is standardised so that all measurements are equivalent to each other without conversion, all measurements are the same in all countries (which they aren't in imperial), and all measurements scale perfectly on a logarithmic scale. Its not an 'EU' push since it existed before the EU, metric is simple logic. The use of imperial in Britain is pure British empire stubbornness. The notion that it is a new EU creation is totally wrong. Imperial 'isnt true to our nation'. It was the British Association for Advancement of Science (BAAS) that proposed the standard use of metric units in 1861!
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The metric system originated in France.
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