www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/hyundai/ioniq-2016/

The article looks like a cut-and-paste job of an original article sourced in the USA, with a few adjustments and comments from a UK-based contributor. The photographs show a UK registered RHD model, but there is an irksome mixing-up of terms throughout the article, e.g. 1.6 litre/petrol engine/motorway speeds on page 1, then hood/center of gravity/liter on page 2, so the article switches back and forth.

A foot-operated parking brake is not "old-fashioned" to British drivers; it's something we never used to have (excepting some older RR/Bentleys, Mercedes and oddballs like Phaetons and XMs.)

Most people would be happy to read an article 100% in one variety of English, be it British or American, but not a mash-up like this, which is a poor effort of the "could try harder" variety. (Detention and 100 lines!)

Perhaps you should have asked at the gas station for a lube job?

Using one set of measurements or another is not a question of being American or French or anything else; in an ideal world everyone would use one standard set of measurement. Internationally, BTUs are widely popular in air conditioning; flight altitude in 000s of feet, TV screens in inches and so on.
But I despair of the mish-mash of metric here and imperial there, which is particularly common in the motoring world. Why so many stubborn inconsistencies? (Tyre sizes; mpg yes/gallons no?)
Why are there no standard road signs for bridge and tunnel height and width in metric (and only in metric) and an end to HGVs getting grounded and buses getting their roofs ripped off? (Human error notwithstanding, ahem...)
I for one would happily see the back of ft.lb, PSI and the like, as well as the ridiculous units that have to be multiplied by 8, 14 or 16. (Does anyone seriously propose going back to shillings and pence?) I've yet to meet a defender of Imperial units who could tell me what a kilderkin, perch or rood actually measures.
It's down to a very simple trade-off: if the rest of the world is taking the trouble to learn our language, it's only fair for English speakers to adopt the systems of measurement the rest of the world is using. Do we have a deal?

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Edited by Avant on 12/09/2018 at 01:28

Nothing wrong with miles, yards, acres, gallons, horsepower, tons, pound foot of torque, cubic feet for the boot space.

There is EVERYTHING wrong with yards, acres pounbd feet of tiorque. Living in the 20th century.

Most of use move with the times- except old fuddyduddies:-)

In many respects American Engish is very logical. We might choose to call it simplistic, but given they had to inculcate tens of millions into the country, it is no surprise that changes for the sale of speed and ease crept in.

Sometime annoying, but remember aluminium? The Americans got it right with Aluminum.

So many phrases and terms we use each day came from America and we accept them. Heebee geebees is one such example. And yet if terms come across in our life time, we get uppity.