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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

£600 for the mighty Signum and £600 for the Tata.

Not quite a Porsche then, just several omegas. 

I'd guess around a dozen.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Twelve Omega......£1200.

[Nick W]

Ah....just £1900. What's not to like.

We'd need a bigger internet to be able to answer that.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Dont you start. 

The thing not to like will be the cost of new tyres, and if anything goes seriously wrong with it. 

[STEMO]

Twelve Omega......£1200.

And, if they were all 3.2's, another three grand or so in VED. 

[New POD]

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-9512583/New-Renault-Dacia-models-speeds-limited-112mph.html

The decision by Volvo - and now Renault - comes as new rules, provisionally agreed by the EU in 2019, could see Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) systems become mandatory for all vehicles sold in Europe from next year.......

There'll be loads of Dacia owners out there scratching their heads and thinking 'my Dacia didn't  reach 112mph anyway', so it won't need restricting.   

The speed limit is 70, why not set the speed limiting software to 77 (What my wife's Astra shows on the clock when the GPS on the sat nav says 70 mph.

Just install my wife in every car and when you get to an indicated 70, (real GPS figure 65 mph) you can get an auditable warning from.inside the car.
Even when she's not installed, I get the warning in.my head.
Mind you I found out my sat nav records the max speed. Pointed out by my son who borrowed it. My excuse some sort of weird under bridge connectivity issue. Lucky he never mentioned it to his mother.

[Doctor Gollum]

Restricting speeds to the legal limit leaves no safety margin. Braking isn't always the safest option.

[LC0112G]

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-9512583/New-Renault-Dacia-models-speeds-limited-112mph.html

The decision by Volvo - and now Renault - comes as new rules, provisionally agreed by the EU in 2019, could see Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) systems become mandatory for all vehicles sold in Europe from next year.......

There'll be loads of Dacia owners out there scratching their heads and thinking 'my Dacia didn't  reach 112mph anyway', so it won't need restricting.   

The speed limit is 70, why not set the speed limiting software to 77 (What my wife's Astra shows on the clock when the GPS on the sat nav says 70 mph.

Just install my wife in every car and when you get to an indicated 70, (real GPS figure 65 mph) you can get an auditable warning from.inside the car.
Even when she's not installed, I get the warning in.my head.
Mind you I found out my sat nav records the max speed. Pointed out by my son who borrowed it. My excuse some sort of weird under bridge connectivity issue. Lucky he never mentioned it to his mother.

The Motorway speed limit in France is 130KPh -  about 82MPH. There is no Motorway speed limit in Germany (some parts at least). So that's at least 3 different speed limiters required depending where the car is being driven. Manufacturers aren't going to fit something that needs to be different in every country unless it's easily changed/updated. If it's easy to change/update, then every Joe Bloggs will do it. If they're forced to by legislation, then the customer will ultimately pay - meaning more expensive cars.

And I really don't fancy driving in a speed limited 70MPH car on a German autobahn where 140MPH+ is 'normal'. 

[Kevin Wood]

And I really don't fancy driving in a speed limited 70MPH car on a German autobahn where 140MPH+ is 'normal'.

I've done it in a VW Lupo (top speed about 90) and it was scary enough.

[Sir Tigger KC]

And I really don't fancy driving in a speed limited 70MPH car on a German autobahn where 140MPH+ is 'normal'.

I've done it in a VW Lupo (top speed about 90) and it was scary enough.

Try driving a truck at 56mph on an unrestricted German Autobahn!   

[Doctor Gollum]

And I really don't fancy driving in a speed limited 70MPH car on a German autobahn where 140MPH+ is 'normal'.

I've done it in a VW Lupo (top speed about 90) and it was scary enough.

Try driving a truck at 56mph on an unrestricted German Autobahn!   

There's a reason they're stuck in lane one during the day and banned at weekends 

[biggriffin]

Wish I could turn the speed limiter off on my company motor

[Sir Tigger KC]

And I really don't fancy driving in a speed limited 70MPH car on a German autobahn where 140MPH+ is 'normal'.

I've done it in a VW Lupo (top speed about 90) and it was scary enough.

Try driving a truck at 56mph on an unrestricted German Autobahn!   

There's a reason they're stuck in lane one during the day and banned at weekends 

This only applies to stretches of the Autobahn and mostly you can overtake, otherwise you'd end up with 'truck trains' with loads of trucks stuck behind some old Turkish or Iranian dog. 

I once saw an old Merc bull nose wagon and drag on Iranian plates going along the Autobahn at about 45mph in a cloud of black smoke, and I think the 10-15 blokes crammed into the cab were as surprised to see the driver of the truck overtaking them sat in the passenger seat as I was at their crowded cab!