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As mentioned in the reddit thread, the limitation device will be promptly removed by whoever bought this.

And then they take it in for inspection and get hit with a $100k tax bill, with a fine on top for tax evasion.

Here in the US there are definitely people that uninstall-reinstall equipment to do emissions checks so I imagine that might not be the biggest risk, but in one of the comments on the article it also mentions that you could still be pulled over for speeding if someone sees you going over 55 and could likely lose your license.

> you could still be pulled over for speeding if someone sees you going over 55

That risk is mainly significant when there's a "general speed-check raid" going on, the periodical drives the police undertakes to remind motorists that speed limits exist and should be obeyed. If you're just going between 55 and the speed limit in this thing, it's not all that likely to attract the attention of any passing traffic plice officer so they even aim their radar at it, since it looks pretty much like any other (penis-envy variant of) pickup truck.

Or just reinstall it for inspections.

If it's just a matter of tuning the computer (most likely), all the owner needs to do before inspection is plug the tuner back into the ODB-II port and reset the computer to factory settings. Super easy.

It's an import tax, so removing it after the fact may be a legal loophole.

Some US companies were doing that by e.g. adding pointless seats. One that ripped the seats back out after import got fined (many, many years later), another one was leaving the (barely usable) seats in for the owners to rip out and IIRC got away with it.

Remove it drive 130 or 140 on motorway. Have the cop run the plates and see oh N2... That is now instead of regular fine a bigger bunch of day fines, which probably with person with that much money to buy one of these means a few tens of thousand in fine. Or potential jail time and losing license.

I’m kind of hoping it’s a big bright red fuse in the fusebox labeled “government fun preventer”.

Probably not, but you can dream.

Back in the day the R32 GT-R had a boost restrictor marked in bright yellow. Removing it gave an extra ~4PSI from the turbos good for about 60 extra HP.

This is usually done by setting the variable in the ECU for top speed. Tuning software (which was already used on this vehicle to mod it) like hptuners can change this in 1 minute. So it is easy.

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