View Full Version : Gentlemen's Agreement to be scrapped!
6'bore
08-22-2005, 06:05 AM
From the Septhember edition of EVO.
The "Gentlemen's" agreement between maintsream German car makers to electronically limit the top speed of their cars to 155mph may be abandoned, in much the same way that the Japanese recently decided to stop restricting peak power output to an arbitrary 280PS (276bhp).
In the past it has been possible to ask your dealer to remove the limiter on some cars, but with the increased speed of even GOlf/Focus class cars, the likes of Mercedes, Audi and BMW are obviously thinking of once again putting distance between their autobahn stormers and the rest of the pack.
Brilliant :D
Cotterik
08-22-2005, 06:33 AM
thank god
R34GTR
08-22-2005, 06:34 AM
Very good news :D
RazaBlade
08-22-2005, 10:23 AM
yes! That is awesome!!
ScionDriver
08-22-2005, 10:36 AM
Nice. I didn't even know that there was an agreement.
my porsche
08-22-2005, 01:32 PM
because we all need to go 160 as apposed to 155? :p
cmcpokey
08-22-2005, 01:51 PM
no, we all need m5s that can go over 200
spi-ti-tout
08-22-2005, 02:11 PM
The best thing that has happened all MONTH :D:D:D
I'm so happy :D
VtecMini
08-22-2005, 03:21 PM
Yeah, that's awesome. I always found it difficult to sleep at night knowing that german people with more money than me can't go faster than 155mph...:rolleyes:
h00t_h00t
08-22-2005, 03:24 PM
Porsche never agreed to this anyway did they? I think they just want to have their sport models compete better.
6'bore
08-23-2005, 07:11 AM
Porsche never agreed to this anyway did they? I think they just want to have their sport models compete better.
Nope. The article went on to say that "Porsche was never a part of this agreement, as the picture above shows" and it shows a picture of th edials of a CGT flat out.
woodstock827
08-23-2005, 07:24 AM
people can remove the limiter on request anyway... so what's the big deal on this?
h00t_h00t
08-23-2005, 03:44 PM
BMW don't do it sometimes. I'm sure one of the companys required you to have a racing drivers license to remove the limiter, though that didn't last long.
Acura/subarufan
08-23-2005, 05:07 PM
and japenese cars with high horse power are on the horizin! ( if the damn gas prices ever go down)
h00t_h00t
08-24-2005, 03:40 PM
Gas prices won't make a difference, anyone with enough money to buy one can probably afford to fuel it too.
ZeTurbo
08-25-2005, 02:18 PM
gas prices are going nowhere but up.
Vtech mini really sums up what i think quite well.