New proposed EU speeding law?

goonarmy

alastairq wrote: »

Many ways to do that....as many racing formulae use?

Ie, restrictions on carburettor size, inlet manifold diameter, amount of timing advance, final drive gear ratios [ for example, I have a 'special', which used a 1300cc engine....but with gearing of 5.5:1, it would barely do 65 mph at around 5000 revs]............or..simply, a self-imposed limiter attached to the driver's right foot?


One of the by-products of speed governance for general use, as I see it, would be the removal of a need for large & powerful engines......?

For years, the old rear-engined Skodas made use of appropriate gear ratios to utilise their engines' modest power outputs to the full [like racing car builders try to do?]...which resulted in fairly low top speeds,, but a lot of fun with what was left.


So, small [more efficient?] engines with appropriate gearing might be the way things might have gone?

Ill put my comment into context: hard to imagine in an econmically feasible and non reversible way. All restrictions will be "undoable" in a car without ecu's with pretty standard tools.