Re: 720s Spider Choice
JR-550:Do you really think the car manufactures are going to make special UK editions? Keep on dreaming. If the UK wants to sell to Europe they have to apply to the European lwas. In this case do you think the UK producers are going to make UK versions?
I assume McLaren will do two or three versions, one for the EU, one for the US (and maybe the UK) and one ROW version. I can also imagine that the EU version will be exported to California for example or some sort of special version of the US version.
Or...they make, like other manufacturers, one version only because I can imagine the logistics and manufacturing nightmare if they need to do several different versions.
I give you an example: There was a court case in Germany with a Jaguar F-Type V8 S. This car is, as many of you probably know, extremely loud (factory). The car is certified at 96 dB (comparison: my Performante is certified at 94 dB , my former Audi R8 was certified at 100 dB and the Audi R8 RWS was certified at unbelievable 107 dB, which probably was some sort of error because this is insane).
So the police stopped this guy in his F-Type a couple of times, car was technically OK (no mods) and they fined him, even confiscated the car twice. The F-Type owner went to court and...lost. The judge argued that it doesn't matter if the car is street legal or not, he cannot drive around, revving high, especially not at night or in the city center. He is supposed to keep the noise level as low as possible, this is really the law, I didn't even know that.
He sold the car and Jaguar has, in the meantime, changed the software of the car and lowered noise emissions to prevent a mandatory software upgrade to reduce noise.
This is how it works nowadays, the days of loud cars are over, we need to deal with that and we cannot provoke other people, just because our cars are street legal. It doesn't matter, the authorities will always take the "other" side and literally f.ck you if you provoke others with your car too much.
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RC (Germany) - Rennteam Editor Lamborghini Huracan Performante (2019), Mercedes E63 S AMG Edition 1 (2018), Mercedes C63 S AMG Cab (2019), Range Rover Evoque Si4 Black Edition (2019)