The full quote in dirty imperial units:

I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I’m free.

– The Fast and the Furious

How was this translated to metric?

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      Can’t say about other countries, but here in general you just say “n liters” dropping “per 100 kilometers”. Another metric that conveys the same thing.

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        Interesting-- does the word exist at all? Can you talk about a reliable appliance as something you can “get a lot of mileage” from?

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          We’d say: ‘What is the usage (of fuel) of your car’ it’s usually expressed in his expressed in kilometers per liter.

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            Right, but beyond that we’ve got further definitions of the word meaning “usefulness” or “getting benefit from”. So like a clip that had lasting support throughout a political campaign that can be used over and over could be described as something you “get a lot of mileage out of”. Does that exist in metric countries?

            https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mileage

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              I’m not aware of a specific idiom that conveys that meaning in my language. We’d say ‘it’s economical/thrifty’ but there’s no car related idiom. A combined word like ‘kilometerrendement’ might be conjured up, but isn’t in common use.

              As sayings go, they predate the petrol engine like : ‘that’ll keep the stove burning for a while’ or ‘sailing with the wind’