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When I still lived in Blighty I noticed that the road construction signs that said things like "Road Works 300 yds" occasionally said "Road Works 300m" as they tried to go metric, a bit - although it failed to get traction - which is why I said "trying to use". 
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Metres we can just about cope with. Kilometres will still get you burned as a witch in most places. 
Although I still wonder why nobody ever seems to use megametres, gigametres, etc. Even in sci-fi, short distances in space are given in "million kilometres".
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It's a silent protest against total metrification! We can't stop it, but we can slow it down. 
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Yeah, but we stick to miles-per-hour for speed limits, and miles-to-town for direction signage.
I suspect we have never (and will never) switch to KPH or Km-to-go because of the sheer cost and time involved in switching over all the aluminium signage!
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Another nail in the Anti-Brexit League's coffin?
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And of course, miles being bigger than kilometers you need fewer of them to get anywhere.
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Which has to be good for the environment.
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I don't think it has anything to do with money.
It's just a part of your national schizophrenia pride.
On one side you're the most inventive people on the earth, there's no coincidence industrialisation started in the UK.
But at the same time you can be extremely averse to anything "not invented here", and having a non functional management culture, which together explains the death of the British car industry (and brexit, but let's not go there ).
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Around here (Canada): Mileage. Even though all road signs and odometers are in metric.
I come from a long family line of auto mechanics, and I've never heard anyone talk about a "low kilometerage car".
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Neither have I, although I wonder what word they use in québecois French. Probably the same as in France, but that's not always the case.
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we use kilométrage.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Interesting. I live right across the Ottawa river (eastern Ontario) and have heard plenty of Quebecers say "millage". Must be a regional thing. Are you closer to Quebec City perhaps?
(as in, "comment de millage qu'y a, ton ostie d'bazou?")
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nope, in Montréal.
Maybe a cultural thing or usage; it is not a word I use often as I don't have a car.
I might say mileage in casual "speaking", but most often will say kilométrage.
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In South Africa we use mileage - like 'What mileage does your car have?' Growing up, it was very confusing to say the least 
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In New Zealand we just use mileage.
Due to our history we used to have imperial measurement and hence this was the term that become ingrained in the language to mean a cars consumption.
So the term does not really mean anything to do with miles anymore but just a term to refer to a car consumption.
The answer would be in liters per 100 kilometers
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RossMW wrote: liters per 100 kilometers
Perhaps the dumbest unit of measure ever thought up. 
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Can't disagree...
But, its what you get used to.
Coming from imperial usage in the dark ages, there are a number of these inconsistencies where both can be used. Particularly for us old farts.
e.g. Tyre pressures is still more commonly defined in psi rather than bars.
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Here in Italy: "How many kilometers?" does the job.
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I could speak for Australia, India, and New Zealand. It's called mileage as well, even though kilometer is the official unit used in all 3 places.
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Yeah, but in Commonwealth countries mileage refers to fuel efficiency. In the States it refers to miles on the odometer.
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You weirdos.
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I think the last time I asked it was "What is the economy (of the car) like?"
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For the "fuel consumption per distance"-measure there is no direct equivalent (in the sense of being somehow related to kilometers) in Dutch. We use "verbruik" which means 'usage' but with the specific connotation that it's a consuming type of usage (the related word "gebruik" is the normal not-necessarily-consuming type of usage).
The word for "what the odometer measures" is kilometerstand.
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fuel consumption. in litres per 100km
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David Crow wrote: What is the mileage of that car?"
Since when did US folks start getting concerned about mileage? The last time I went there about nine years ago, nobody spoke about mileage, and they said that only people in lesser countries bothered about mileage.
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