Bellow
Hardcore MB Enthusiast
I'm 5 foot and 200mm tall and weigh 8 stone and 3kg. Makes perfect sense don't you think?
AMG badge......
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I'm 5 foot and 200mm tall and weigh 8 stone and 3kg. Makes perfect sense don't you think?
Bellow
Hardcore MB Enthusiast
My badI get it now
It isn't just combining imperial and SI units that makes it stupid.
At 5250 rpm, power in hp and torque in lb.ft are exactly the same and the two when plotted on a graph will cross at 5250rpm. So, with a Pmax @ xxxx rpm, Tmax @ xxxx rpm and lines drawn from each to their intersaction at 5250 rpm, you can as good as draw the graphs (in your head) from the two headline figures and the rpm at which they occur. Only when the units are imperial though.
Go metric by all means (and lose the above) but quote power in kW - too weedy for the needy?
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*Technically speaking* the last “proper” AMG was the C36/E36 model of the early 90’s.
Well we buy fuel in litres but talk about miles per gallon...
Ken555
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What about tyres ?
20" diameter
265mm wide
20" diameter
265mm wide
RedGull
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So if I new AMG is not a proper AMG,and my AMG sport is not a proper AMG,can I leave the AMG edition badge on?
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You can do whatever you want, it’s your car... stick a BMW badge on it if you want buddy
RedGull
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Might do that! Never owned a bmw! Wife will be pleased!
Imperial or metric.....who cares. Thanks for some of the useful info info on the AMG specs and a little bit of history too!
I work with imperial drawings but use Mazak machies.... METRIC....what's this world coming too??!?!?
I work with imperial drawings but use Mazak machies.... METRIC....what's this world coming too??!?!?
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If it your car do what you want with it, and yes I have an AMG badge on mine which balances things up on the tail end.
I once saw a three pointed star on the front of an E Type Jaguar being restored at the time.
It was of course placed there as bit of a joke as the particular body shop specialised in Mercedes and Porche.
I once saw a three pointed star on the front of an E Type Jaguar being restored at the time.
It was of course placed there as bit of a joke as the particular body shop specialised in Mercedes and Porche.
A long time ago, I went to a local timber yard to buy some 4x2 for a diy job. So I asked the guy for some 4x2 and he said
"Sorry mate, we've gone metric. You mean 100x50"
"Ah, ok" says I, "my mistake".
" No problem mate. How much do you need? It comes in 14ft lengths!"
"Sorry mate, we've gone metric. You mean 100x50"
"Ah, ok" says I, "my mistake".
" No problem mate. How much do you need? It comes in 14ft lengths!"
A whole new level.
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Not only this post but all the other discussing mixed systems ......
Why do the British people insist on continuing to use the archaic and difficult to use imperial system.
Scoops1972
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We like it because the non-British find it difficult to use.
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We like it because the non-British find it difficult to use.
Fortunately for me, I was educated in both systems and can switch between both without any difficulty or getting confused
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Because going over wholesale to the metric measurement system is seen by many as losing something that is thought of as 'British' and part of our way of life. Whereas the metric system is considered 'foreign'.
Going to the pub for swift half-a-litre doesn't quite work does it. I'd like a pound of sausages please. Etc.
We still describe someone as being 5ft 10" tall and 12 stone and the person we are talking to knows what that looks like.
So the old system is very ingrained in our society and our language. In engineering however, the U.K. adopted metric decades ago pretty much across the whole piece. Unlike the USA where it is still a horrid mixture of both, metric, imperial and "mercan" (density in slugs, temperature in Fahrenheit etc.). Metric is so much easier to work with mathematically.
