Motor Australia – May 2019

26 may 2019 whichcar.com.au/motor

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SLOWDOWNONSPEEDLAWS

I HAVEa fewthoughtsonthenewsAustraliamightstipulatenewcarsto

befittedwithspeed-limitingdevicesin linewithEUlegislation.

One,I domyspeedingatthetrack,doesthismeanI cangeta

‘speeding’licencemuchlikeI amabletogeta ‘firearms’licence?I

understandwhytheyaregoingtodoit, butsurelythiswillforceallrev

headstoneverbuya newcaragain.Or,maybetheGPSsystemin thecar

couldremovethelimiterwhenit detectsyou’reona track?Sure,I canlive

withthat.Butsometimesa zero-toleranceapproachdoesn’twork.

Lookathowthe‘lawenforcers’crackeddownonmodifiedcarscenes.

What’shappened 15 yearslaterafterthattimeis manufacturers

aremakingcarsoutofthefactorysohotanyonecangettheirhandsona

300kWfamilycar.Speedlimitthese?Noworries,theywillconcentrateon

marketinghowfasta carcangetfromzerotothelimit.Thenextminute

wearealldrivingcarsthatwillknockover100km/hin threeseconds.

RyanClarke,viaFacebook

Thewholeideais fraughtwithunansweredquestions.It seemsanyGPS

speedlimiterwillbeabletobeoverridden,buthowlongwillthatbe

a thing?Andif so,howwillstategovernmentsreplacethelostannual

speedingfinerevenueofaround$1.1billion?That’sjustthetipofit.

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MUSTANG MUSCLE
I purchased a 2018 Mustang GT last year
with the 10-speed automatic and the
MagneRide suspension as the only two
options. Its 0-100km/h time is tested
at around 4.5 seconds. I can’t recall
anywhere that figure has been bettered
in a ‘tuned Mustang’.
I mean, if a locally tuned Mustang is
genuinely massaged up to 373kW, for
example, I expect 0-100 times in the

mid-three second range. I ain’t seen it.

Peter Steele, via email

Yeah, it’s a thing. We have seen tuned

Mustangs go considerably quicker than

stock ones, though. The supercharged

CSV, twin-turbo CSV, Mustang

Motorsport 727 and supercharged

Streetfighter ’Stangs – all cars we’ve

independently performance-tested –

have registered 3.78sec, 4.0sec, 4.19sec

and 4.27sec 0-100km/h respectively.

Quite a bit quicker than if they were

stock, so it is possible...

BARRA THE MAG!

A long time reader of MOTOR here,

love the mag, but it would be great to

see more content on the locally made

Barra engine. Maybe a tribute feature,

displayed on the cover too?

Aaron Wilkie, via email

We’ve done a fair bit of Barra stuff in

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