I thought the 120 (ish) mph limit was a function of the MG being redlined at that speed. IF I'm remebering correctly, then they would not be able to remove that speed limit.

 

In Vancouver BC, between 5-10% of all cabs are TCH's and Prius.

 

NY has a 5 year plan to go 100% hybrid taxis

 

ROTFL -- I had this vision of a hypermiler traffic cop chasing a hypermiller speeder in a Prius. Both accelerating at some very small number of feet/sec/sec to keep the FE up, cop has siren off to save energy and only one light flashing. Neither one would exceed 42 MPH in the downtown area to stay EV mode, and both would be in the right lane with traffic passing on the freeway while they scoot along at 55 or so.

One thing about Hawaii though -- the cop eventually wins because there is no where to go. No need for high speed persuit. The California TV statons are not gonna like this!

 

Is that an oxymoron?
Maybe he'll get ticketed for driving 40 MPH on a 65 MPH road?

 

That's what made me grin -- a slo' mo' world.

 

believe it or not, I actually witnessed such a chase few years ago. I was somewhere in South East, NC or VA not sure now, in some small town eating breakfast at McDonald around 7 am when I saw this car going maybe 40 MPH, being chased by 2 police cars. It was really weird, the person being chased even put signal lights when making turn at intersection. About 5 min later they came back, going opposite way, guy up front with 2 police cars chasing him behind with lights flashing, but moving slooow. It was so unreal, like watching slow motion video. If I had to make a guess I think the person must have been on some drugs where his perception of speed was highly impaired and cops didn't want to turn it into bloody mess by being more aggressive, especially in the middle of town.

 

Yay! Patrols cars I guess should really be much faster than those Camrys... Just like the Dodge charger.. hehehe.

 

Maybe this is why that famous white Ford Bronco was going so slowly back in '91. It was actually an early prototype they were testing for maximum MPG?