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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t know honestly … all I know is that the A6 had about 5,000 km on the odometer and everything was pristine new … it was the most luxury brand new car I ever drove. We had to haggle the rental guy to upgrade our rental from a standard rental to one size up … he didn’t have anything in our range but said that he would look into upgrading us further and we ended up with the A6.

  Like I said, we were on a nice long downslope in the country side. It was easy to floor it and build up speed but the car seemed to max out at 255 260 and I couldn’t get it any further. The best part was that Mercedes flashing us from behind and wanting to pass.

  Later on on the same trip, we noticed to helicopter flights overhead carrying cars away from an accident … they don’t seem to bother calling in tow trucks to carry things away because the pieces of cars that are left from a high speed crash are small enough to be carried away with a chopper.

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maxing at 255-260 was almost certainly the speed governor. Most German cars come with a 155-160mph limit from the factory. You can remove it, but rentals absolutely will leave it in place.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe it didn’t have the limiter because it’s not specified to be able to go above anyway?
    Congratulations on the upgrade, I haven’t tried it myself, but I’d imagine it was amazing. 😀

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    • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This was also about 15 years ago so I don’t know of limitations, regulations, vehicle type or anything else had to do with it all

      We did that 260 kmh for about five minutes in the south of the country driving to Nuremberg and it was just that once. We were too afraid after that and just drove the same speed as everyone which was an average about 140 to 160 kmh

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• Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It probably was indicated 260, real 250. Even the S6 is limited, and for the RS6 you have to buy an option to rise the limit.

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or, just tweak the ECU, and also get more power

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I doubt a rental car company will tweak their ECUs

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      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well of course. But you can if it’s your car, is my point.

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• SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s an American law, so vehicles weren’t faster than police vehicles, there was ways to remove the governor though.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It doesn’t make sense an American standard would use km/h.

    www.theuth.co/…/11102/

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    This limit at 250 km/h dates back decades and has origin in Germany.

    You:

    so vehicles weren’t faster than police vehicles

    Article:

    They reached a gentlemen’s agreement to electronically limit the maximum speed of its models to 250 km/h.

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    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lol, too cheap to provide the right tires, so let’s make a cartel agreement to hobble our vehicles. Yeesh.

      Thats worse than the American reasoning.

      So I just want to point out, that’s it’s not unusual for people to convert while discussing. 250 is very close to the metric equivalent (it’s rounded to it for this reason) of 160 miles. Which conversely is also double the sped limit of most states, which is what governers are usually mandated at.

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  • tantalizer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s not true. Cars are normally capped at 250 km/h in Germany. But it’s completely legal to pay extra to get it removed.

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    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So you need to pay to unlock the full potential of the vehicle?

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      • tantalizer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I never said it’s a good idea. I was just saying that it’s true that that’s a thing in Germany.

        I think it’s good that they lock it but I also think there shouldn’t be a way to unlock it apart from race track use.

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      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        www.discounttire.com/learn/speed-rating

        250kmph = 155 MPH

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• x00z@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why should it be if it’s not illegal to go vroom vroom? Makes no sense.

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  • potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The rental company will be down $50,000 if they total it in a crash. I don’t like speed limiters on personal vehicles, but I do get them on rentals.

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    • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s why they have insurance though no?

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That you’d have to ask Audi about. I just know they do it.
    www.theuth.co/…/11102/

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