You ignored my points. Change brings winners and losers. Sometimes the losers are obvious, while the winners are not. You said money is leaving the country and not coming back. Do you think it's used for toilet paper?
As far as I know, there's no statutory or regulatory limitation on top speed of a US car.
That's a gentleman's agreement between BMW and Mercedes.
Not officially, true.
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There is no statutory limitation, but there is something called litigation, which is BIG in the USA - so manufacturers 'voluntarily" limit the performance of their vehicles to what they consider to be "sane" or "legally defensible" levels of performance - something more than the top 15 performance drivers in North America could be expected to handle safely.
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