EU Considers Car Warning Labels, Banning Performance-Related Ads and Restricting New Cars to 101mph
The European Union may soon force automakers to include health/global warming warnings on their car advertisements, similar to the list of possible side effects required on US drug ads. MotorTrader (MT) reports that English MEP (Member European Parliament) Chris Davies has submitted a report on the proposal to EU chiefs, who will debate the idea in October. Davies' report also calls for a Euro-wide ban on any car ad that promotes a vehicle's high speed performance (as is currently in place in the UK) and ban the sale of cars that can drive faster than 101mph. According to MT, Davies "noted that the power of new cars increased by 28 per cent between 1994 and 2004, making them heavier and thus increasing the amount of CO2 output. This increase is completely unnecessary, the MEP said, as no country has raised its speed limit to allow cars to use this additional power."
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the only good reason to ban cars going +101 mph is that some people dont like the type of person that drives it-too much an independent thinker-too dangerous,to nonconformist. their argument in this article is wrong and the comments for it are plain wrong. the toyota prius weighs in at 2921 pounds -my car(94,rx-7) that ive had going 168 mph weighs 2850 pounds ,a new corvette weighs 3118 pounds-a new vw rabbit weighs 3040 pounds gets about 25 mpg est. and the corvette gets 28mpg freeway:) the picture of that dude holding the light bulbs (why?)should point out that the old light bulb contains no mercury while the new one in his hand contain 5 grams hmmm. --point is fast cars are lighter than the average car and this guy should know this basic fact before he trys to take away a freedom.
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How long until this chap's desire to impose upon the rest of society his own thoughts about what is and isn't necessary turns to the "necessity" of auto racing? It wouldn't be a huge leap from his latest scheme to the concept that F1, NASCAR, Supercar, etc., only add to global warming, waste precious fuel supplies just for sport and encourage engineers to focus on increasing speed when they should otherwise be focusing on increasing fuel efficiency at the expense of speed. I hope this never happens but I wouldn't put anything past the over-reaching power grabbers of the EU.
"It wouldn’t be a huge leap from his latest scheme to the concept that F1, NASCAR, Supercar, etc., only add to global warming, waste precious fuel supplies just for sport and encourage engineers to focus on increasing speed when they should otherwise be focusing on increasing fuel efficiency at the expense of speed." All very good points!