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Dent13 t1_jd3o2wj wrote

Reply to comment by Boondala in U.S. driver charged with stunt driving 'didn't realize' Canadian speed limits aren't posted miles by agaric

Cars with no intention of being sold in the American or British markets won't have MPH. And older (like 1980s or older) American cars don't have KPH.

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permabanned007 t1_jd3sl6e wrote

American cars do have KPH. It’s smaller and underneath the MPH. Even have their own tick marks.

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Dent13 t1_jd3y9pg wrote

Not all older cars do. Especially pre 70s oil crisis cars. Pretty much anything made stateside pre 1975 (the year Canada switched to metric) was mostly sold in the States and Canada and there was minimal sharing of parts between production in the US and in other countries. There was really no reason to include KPH on them so they didn't, and even reproduction parts for the cars that managed to become classics tend not to include KPH unless it's on digital gauges.

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permabanned007 t1_jd41taz wrote

Thank u for the info. Most running pre-1975 cars here are “classics” that are extremely rare to see on the road if there isn’t a car show that day.

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