German cars can’t be imported with rear spoilers or alloy wheels, those performance parts are just too dangerous, but once they’re imported BMW can pay a shop to add them on before being sold and that’s perfectly ok.
Italian cars can’t be imported directly and must sit in a musty English garage for 20 years before being allowed in.
2 door roadsters are sporty so to keep people safe we won’t allow them to have over 200 hp, but for whatever reason we won’t consider a 5 door hatch a sports car and they can have whatever engine you feel like.
Automatic transmission shift gears too fast so they can’t have wheel widths larger than 8”, hand brake levers, aftermarket gauges, be painted the color red, or have rear parachutes because we all know how much people just love to put parachutes on their cars. Manual transmission cars can do whatever they want.
RIP Hearing Protection Act(s), in all their varied forms and merits - that one time(s) a bill title actually coincided with what it set out to accomplish.
There’s always hope though. Randomly checked legality of switchblades in my state a few years back only to learn they’d recently been legalized again! (as a fully legal ‘flipper’ currently in my pocket could probably be opened faster, & was never outlawed)
Still don’t have one myself, but it’s a good example of dumbass legislation.
Gun nuts will never pass up an opportunity to tell you how stupid you are for not knowing the difference between a mag and a clip, and how it invalidates your opinion on wanting less kids getting killed at school. It’s more fun to shoot guns at paper and pretend to fight off tyranny than it is to have stupid rules saying I can’t have lethal toys just because some dummies are using them to kill a ton of people
Jesus, someone is bringing gun-legislation levels of stupidity to car regulations.
No one needs a high capacity assault transmission.
My car has a shoulder thing that goes up.
Bro, there’s like zero legitimate purpose for a shoulder thing that goes up.
Please tell me you didn’t paint it black.
German cars can’t be imported with rear spoilers or alloy wheels, those performance parts are just too dangerous, but once they’re imported BMW can pay a shop to add them on before being sold and that’s perfectly ok.
Italian cars can’t be imported directly and must sit in a musty English garage for 20 years before being allowed in.
2 door roadsters are sporty so to keep people safe we won’t allow them to have over 200 hp, but for whatever reason we won’t consider a 5 door hatch a sports car and they can have whatever engine you feel like.
Automatic transmission shift gears too fast so they can’t have wheel widths larger than 8”, hand brake levers, aftermarket gauges, be painted the color red, or have rear parachutes because we all know how much people just love to put parachutes on their cars. Manual transmission cars can do whatever they want.
Banning silencers is on the same tier as banning car mufflers. It’s literally just safety equipment, but legislators watch too many movies.
RIP Hearing Protection Act(s), in all their varied forms and merits - that one time(s) a bill title actually coincided with what it set out to accomplish.
There’s always hope though. Randomly checked legality of switchblades in my state a few years back only to learn they’d recently been legalized again! (as a fully legal ‘flipper’ currently in my pocket could probably be opened faster, & was never outlawed)
Still don’t have one myself, but it’s a good example of dumbass legislation.
my state legalized switchblades but not gravity knives, which are definitely slower except on maybe jupiter
ugh - bizarre
A lot of states allow switchblades but only if they are comically short.
At least arizona overturned their law banning nunchucks (not a joke).
Ah yes, nunchucks. The bane of law abiding citizens & top choice of criminals everywhere.
Can you go salivate over guns somewhere else? This is a car subreddit
Gun nuts will never pass up an opportunity to tell you how stupid you are for not knowing the difference between a mag and a clip, and how it invalidates your opinion on wanting less kids getting killed at school. It’s more fun to shoot guns at paper and pretend to fight off tyranny than it is to have stupid rules saying I can’t have lethal toys just because some dummies are using them to kill a ton of people
Right? This author is one step away from wanting to ban assault sedans.
It’s the SUVs that are randomly running over parades all by themselves
Car enthusiasts: “they don’t know anything about what they’re trying to ban!”
Gun owners: “First time?”
Another thing they have in common: the regulation never actually shows up, the fear if anything just stokes the market.
You’ve heard of assault style features on rifles, get ready for racing style features on cars.
Spoiler? banned.
Skirts? banned.
Car’s too heavy so you need more than 2 pistons per caliper? banned.
M badge? believe it or not, straight to jail.