I had my Z4MC detailed at Reeves BMW in Tampa today and they gave me an automatic 328i for the day. Overall, a most excellent car but not a Z4MC. 
I kept staring at the speedometer and could help myself but finding it odd. Then I realized that the dial was in mph and the inner dial in kph. How bizarre is that? The canadian-based BMWs have only a metric dial for a speedometer.
Why would that be? Since Canada and the U.S. of A are neighbours with different measurement systems you would think that the speedometers would show both scales, with the main scale being the scale of the base country. IMO, it is more likely that a canadian will travel to the U.S. of A than the opposite. Who in their right mind would want to willingly drive in Canada? :lol:
I wonder what is the rationale for BMW to do that if they have even considered it other than saving the cost of a different dial for a small market like Canada? I would imagine that the speedometers in Europe are all metric-only except for the U.K-bound cars who would have an Imperial-Metric speedometer, which would explain the speedometer on the U.S.-bound cars. For Canada, you would need an additional speedometer which would be metric-Imperial, therefore we get the metric-only speedometer. A minor annoyance in any case. :x
I kept staring at the speedometer and could help myself but finding it odd. Then I realized that the dial was in mph and the inner dial in kph. How bizarre is that? The canadian-based BMWs have only a metric dial for a speedometer.Why would that be? Since Canada and the U.S. of A are neighbours with different measurement systems you would think that the speedometers would show both scales, with the main scale being the scale of the base country. IMO, it is more likely that a canadian will travel to the U.S. of A than the opposite. Who in their right mind would want to willingly drive in Canada? :lol:
I wonder what is the rationale for BMW to do that if they have even considered it other than saving the cost of a different dial for a small market like Canada? I would imagine that the speedometers in Europe are all metric-only except for the U.K-bound cars who would have an Imperial-Metric speedometer, which would explain the speedometer on the U.S.-bound cars. For Canada, you would need an additional speedometer which would be metric-Imperial, therefore we get the metric-only speedometer. A minor annoyance in any case. :x
) ... The odometer is also accurate (the distance reported under trip matches what calculated by Google maps)... So how does it work: both the speedo and the odometer take the reading from the diff, which is "correct", but the speedo "shows" a higher speed (as simple as having the scale tweaked in such a way... now that I think about it the angle between 0 and 10 is smaller than every other... could this be it?), or the speedo gets it from a "wrong" diff sensor, and the odometer from the "correct" ABS wheel sensor??? Is the diff speed used by anything else (eg ECU, cruise control, ABS)?
