It wasn't, not really important to the plot? If it was half a mile or mile nothing would have changed. I have no idea how many bananas is it.
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I guess it being a 1/4 mile isn't directly relevant to the plot but the 1/4 mile is a standard measurement for a drag race.
It does have meaning.
It does have a meaning, but not knowing how long is the race track changes very little.
72 gum-gums.
Haven't seen the movies in German so I can't tell you what exactly he says. But distances in miles are generally kept in miles for German localisation (except for VERY rare cases), using the German word "Meile". Especially when it's not actually about a physical distance but vibes. We may not use miles to measure anything but we still have expressions like "meilenweit gehen" (to walk for miles, i.e. a very long distance) so it's not like we don't know what a mile is.
Could say, "I live my life 9 seconds at a time."
Lots of people call it the 1320. So just call it the 402. It doesn't have the same linguistic rhythm but that is just semantics.
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Feels like "I live a half kilo at a time" would be excellent.
The first thing that comes to my mind with kilo is weight.
Yeah, Coke and quarter miles.
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