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I use the imperial system beascue it easier man

 

I wouldn't call it 'easier'.

Likely in your case it's just easier to use because you have grown up with it.

Anyway I'm getting off topic.

OT: What on Earth happened to the small Island revamp which was teased like over a year ago

 

Maybe beasuce it on hold until they revamp more maps.

 

12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 2 yards to a fathom, 5.5 yards to a rod, 40 rods to a furlong, 8 furlongs to a mile, 3 miles to a league. What's so confusing about that you simpleton?

My freshmen CS professor use to say that if Aliens landed in America and saw the imperial system they would look on another planet for intellegent life.

OT:
Concerning significant modifications, now that the ceiling for official content seems to have been raised in 0.18...
The Miramar and GM could really use a stretch limo. Imagine the carnage a couple of those on the Hirochi figure 8 could cause.

 

Maybe-
Nah you still sound dumb. Metric makes infinitely more sense (And that's coming from a US resident) than our ludicrous Imperial system. Even the name of the damn thing sounds old c'mon.

 

From now on I'm only measuring things in fathoms and furlongs.

 

The imperial system sounds more gibberish imo. Yeah, I would like to see the wagon variant for the GM too.

 

>5.5 yards to a rod
Even the base measurements are garbage.

 

Interesting note on Imperial units: the only country I know of that still uses Imperial units is the UK, and even there most things are measured in metric anyway. The USA uses US Customary Units, which have the same names for measurements but are slightly different in size. Either way, unit conversions make metric superior to Imperial/US Customary for measuring everything (except temperature, for people who have never touched a science textbook)

Why the Miramar, may I ask? I am not familiar with the history of limousines.

 

The Miramar could see a config inspired by the Nissan Prince Royal limo. Just stretch it, give it a big engine, and give it an interior worthy of an Emperor. Presidential limos are perfect for demo derbies


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Yes, you recycled a comment even though I already explained why it's small... Here is the first time I posted that if you must see it. It doesn't add anything to the conversation though.

 

The difficulty with switching from horsepower to KW is that KW is a significantly lower number. People like to talk about how their car has 130 HP instead of 95 KW. Bonus points for only being 2 digit instead of 3 in this case. This is one of the reasons why KW just struggles to be used even if it has been the official unit for a while now.

Next one being simple that people historically understand HP values which makes comparsion between lets say 130 KW and 150 KW less enticing than 177 HP to 204 PS. And again...the human factor.... TWO HUNDRED and 4 HORSEPOWER sounds so much more powerful than ONE HUNDRED 77 HP.

 

Man, that limo looks cool =D

OT: I think a Miramar limo would look really weird. The Miramar is a very small car. I feel like a Bluebuck or a Burnside limo would make more sense for the game, but that's just my opinion though.

 

The Miramar is noticably smaller than the normal contemporary Nissan Gloria's and Toyota Crown's (1050kg to 1300kg; not sure about the footprint), so it certainly isn't a perfect match for a luxury stretch limo, but I think it could pull it off.

As for the Bluebuck limo; as far as I can tell it's in a similar situation as the Miramar. All the limo's I know of from the era were Lincoln's and Cadilacs, with a couple of Imperial's, all of which were larger than the Bluebuck.


There is a notable exception though. I've seen maybe two '65 Ford Galaxie limo's floating around the web, which is very similar to the Bluebuck compared to the aforementioned luxury cars. So although atypical, it appears it wouldn't be completely unprecedented.


As for a '53 Special limo, as far as I can tell this is a typical limo for the time.

So, not out of the question either.

 

There's already a limo version of the Burnside. https://www.beamng.com/resources/burnside-special-limousine.7129/

 

Longside Special.

 

Thanks for the information =)

 

Converting to metric, first of all, would be ruinously expensive; we would need to identify and replace literally millions of signs - and not just road signs either - which still use US measurements, which seems an unwise use of money when we're already hanging way out over the debt/deficit cliff just to fake what prosperity we currently have. Second, it would create a pointless generation gap between the older, educated mainly in US measurements, and the younger, educated only in metric, forcing the older to re-learn weights, distances, and so forth when they're already used to a different system and making communication between members of different generations more difficult that it really should be.

And all of this is for what? Just to be "just like" the rest of the world, I guess. Never mind that the current measurements work fine for 99.9999999% of everyday life, we have to be just like everyone else for... some reason! Thus, converting to metric would also be a victory of systems-logic - of the dry and theoretical - over human considerations, and of globalization over localization. Just as The Party in 1984 didn't know or care about the struggles of the pint-loving old prole who didn't think a half-liter was enough beer but no longer had the bladder strength to drink a whole liter at once, proponents of metric conversion don't care about the expense and difficulty of converting to metric, just that it makes more sense on paper. Can't any place or thing be safe from the Cult of Efficiency constantly standardizing, rationalizing, and systematizing everything just for the sake of doing so and regardless of any need to do so?