Proposal In Place For Banning Of 101+ MPH Cars In Europe

If you read the title and are in disbelief, you are certainly not alone. The proposal over in Europe is to have all cars capable of going faster than 101 MPH banned. They have many different reasonings behind this, namely that cars that are capable of such high-speed weigh too much, causing a great amount of CO2 to be released into the atmosphere.

The second thought is that 101MPH is 25% over the speed limit in most Euro Countries anyway. For one thing, banning cars that go faster than the speed limit would be like banning television sets that have the capability to deliver 999 channels, when your cable provider utilizes only 250 of them. Second, cars don’t weigh more because they go faster. They weigh more because they are getting bigger and beefier, partly in thanks to all the added safety features.

We’re all for increased safety – such as the proposed standard fitment of ESP stability control – but to claim that banning the making of cars capable of over 101mph would create a dramatic reduction of CO2 is incorrect.

Source: Autocar