MEPs call for ban on fast cars

Autocar ^ | 6/7/07

[billbears]

Ah yes, great song. They can call for the ban if they want but I don’t think Germany and Italy are much going to go for it.

[perfect stranger]

I have never noticed the likeness before.

By the time I saw the movie 'Forrest Gump' everybody and his brother had quoted the lines so often that I considered Tom Hanks to be a pale imitation of what I knew.

[reg45]

Fast car (drivers) call for ban on MEPs.

[Malsua]

CO2 is a trace gas. Global Warming is a canard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBO2IstMi2A

[Billthedrill]

...to claim that banning the making of cars capable of over 101mph would create a dramatic reduction of CO2 is incorrect.

We can't help but think that, say, Mr Davies not flying from his Stockport base to Brussels every week would help a bit more.

Politicians and celebrities are special people with a God-given right to make rules for the rest of us that don't apply to them. Just ask one.

As for me, I very seldom drive that fast, but the surest way to make sure that I do is for some po-faced twit to tell me I can't. The old SVX doesn't like it either. The engine tells me so.

[dalereed]

Just trying to set back progress 60 years, that’s about as faar as a cop car was when I was street racing in the early 50s.

[Winniesboy]

You rightly point out that power and maximum speed are two very different things. Leaving the question of compulsion aside, and also leaving aside the questions of self-preservation/common sense, etc, I've never really understood the commercial point, either from the seller's or the buyer's perspective, of selling cars capable of speeds never realistically achievable on the crowded roads of this country (England) anyway.