New P Plater laws for N.S.W

[spikeman900]

Ive found yet another reason why the goverrnment hasnt got a clue on how to save lives.

The new p plate laws that were brought in during July has really annoyed the hell out of me. They say that the performance car youth are too dangerous on our roads. Sure the majority of us can behave to a point, but there are some that cross the line now and then. But you cant accuse them, as we all do it, its just a part of being a young driver.

Im inclined to agree that we could reduce the road toll, but the way there going about this is way too stupid.

The government has banned high powered motor vehicles to provisional liscence drivers. But to logically look at this new law, you wonder what type of grass the government was smoking when they made it.

I have recently looked through the list of banned V8, turbocharged, and supercharged vehicles on the rta website, and for starters the list is 98 pages long. With around 30 cars on each page, it equates to around 3000 banned vehicles! For starters, for this law to be enforced, highway patrol officers all around the state would have to have issued lists of all these banned vehicles so that these turbocharged, supercharged and V8 vehicles can be identified. Even with something like this, how would the average cop know what a 20 year old Nissan Exa or something similar looks like, let alone know that paticular model ET Pulsar had the turbo motor. See the logic?

To see it another way. I read through the pages to find a few standout vehicles that were 'too overpowered' for provisional drivers to drive, the Nissan Silvia S13 Turbo, the Toyota Starlet Turbo and the Ford Lazer TX3 turbo.

these cars do not produce over 140 flywheel kilowatts! Yet non turbo family cars such as Camrys or sedan Commodores can produce the same amount of power, if not more, yet these cars are still easily obtainable by provisional drivers.

Yet, the government fails to realise that the cars that are still obtainable by p plate drivers can all exceed the speed limit and all can claim lives by being used to do so, which we still will keep on doing .So why is it that myself and all the other young performance car enthusiasts have to get by on 'normal performance cars', when these cars can kill us anyway.

Sorry for the long story but i just had to get my point across. I havent yet got my Ls, but these new laws will soon affect me and my choice for a performance car, as well as many others that are in the same boat. The government is corrupt as!

[Jago]

you are safe if you have had your P's before 1/7/05, or if you have reasonable cause.

SAU NSW is a CAMS affiliated club, there's your reasonable cause. Join up

[monkeykplunk]

yet another stupid thing with this law that I found the other day was that one of the thousands of banned vehicles on the list is the Mazda MX-5.

Sounds a bit stupid you say?

Some might say big deal...... just get to the point Monkey.....

Well they've banned the MX-5 because it has a massive 1.8L DOHC Turbo, that produces an equally massive 121kw.

Yet, they've neglected to ban the 1.3L NA Rotary RX-8 which produces around 50kw MORE then the MX-5 and a shit load more torque.

Hell, Mazda even boast that it can do 0-100 in 6.2secs..... and thats stock ffs!

So the answer to all P-Platers, look for the NA cars that produce as much as your fav Turbo, and drive that till you can get something different

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