Litres V cubic metres.

[gavroche]

Why is the luggage capacity of a vehicle measured in litres? I would have thought that cubic metres would be more appropriate and easier to visualize. Just a thought on a wet and windy Saturday morning.

 

[Profpointy]

surely multiplying / dividing by 1000 isn't beyond the wit of man?

 

[Levo-Lon]

Not many cars will hold a cubic metre..
cubic feet would be easier..for most over 40's

 

[screenman]

Not many cars will hold a cubic metre..
cubic feet would be easier..for most over 40's

Nearly 60 here and metric works fine. You old young un's have got to get with it.

 

[winjim]

Because the capacity of luggage itself is measured in litres? Or simply to make it sound bigger.

 

[screenman]

I think we should go over to the size of Wales or Belgium method for working out area. Something like a fire the size of Wales, or Belgium. We could then have a boot capacity of 0.00000000000001 the size of Wales.

 

[vernon]

When I did A-level chemistry we measured the volume of solid reagents in 'Rice Crispies' and 'Sugar Puffs'.

 

[vernon]

Why is the luggage capacity of a vehicle measured in litres? I would have thought that cubic metres would be more appropriate and easier to visualize. Just a thought on a wet and windy Saturday morning.

Cubic metres are rarely encountered and are more difficult to visualise. Litres on the other hand can be visualised using cartons of fruit juice to model volume.

 

[stephec]

[QUOTE 3968774, member: 259"]It's a spin-off from the days of the booze cruise.[/QUOTE]

This.

Everyone can visualise a 2L bottle of cheap cider, so now you can work out how many bottles your boot will hold.

 

[vernon]

Why is the luggage capacity of a vehicle measured in litres? I would have thought that cubic metres would be more appropriate and easier to visualize. Just a thought on a wet and windy Saturday morning.

I measure the capacity of vehicles in bikes.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Vehicles? My bicycle is my vehicle. It generally holds 0.08 cubic metres of me, i.e. 77.23 litres.

 

[winjim]

I think we should go over to the size of Wales or Belgium method for working out area. Something like a fire the size of Wales, or Belgium. We could then have a boot capacity of 0.00000000000001 the size of Wales.

Wales is for area. Capacity would need to be cubic Waleses.

 

[Tin Pot]

Volume should be measured in Tufnels.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Tufnel

 

[Profpointy]

volume should be in furkins - a consistent set of units based on the furlongs fortnight, firkin system

 

[ColinJ]

Cubic metres are rarely encountered and are more difficult to visualise. Litres on the other hand can be visualised using cartons of fruit juice to model volume.

I used them to give an idea of weight. Most of us know what a litre carton of OJ feels like, so I invented the 'OJ-ometer'. It was intended to give a visual demonstration of how much weight I had managed to lose. Here is the reading when I had lost 5 kgs. (A litre carton of OJ does not weigh exactly 1 kg, but it is not far out.)

Unfortunately, I exceeded the capacity shown. Imagine another pile of 21 cartons, all ticked off PLUS those 5.