Are hire cars limited?

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Just wondering if this is a technique used for hire cars? Reason I ask is that I was following behind a Nissan Rogue and the next time I looked down, I was doing 95mph which resulted in me realising my foot was nearly all the way against the pedal stop. It just wouldn't go past 95mph. Either that, or this car is broken. :o
 
Lucero said:
Just wondering if this is a technique used for hire cars? Reason I ask is that I was following behind a Nissan Rogue and the next time I looked down, I was doing 95mph which resulted in me realising my foot was nearly all the way against the pedal stop. It just wouldn't go past 95mph. Either that, or this car is american. :o
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fixed for you:D;)
 
In theory, it's a 3.2v6 so should be able to do more than blow the skin off of a rice pudding. £30 to fill the tank too (71 litres). :(
 
when I used to frequent Europcar for rentals I have seen some strange ways to limit the cars, such as something fixed to the bottom of the go pedal to stop you mashing it all the way down.

But I have not seen any proper sophisticated limiting. Probably too much for these rental guys to manage.
 
Ezah said:
when I used to frequent Europcar for rentals I have seen some strange ways to limit the cars, such as something fixed to the bottom of the go pedal to stop you mashing it all the way down.
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Yup, throttle stops are quite common on American hire cars.

Starting to become more widespread in the UK as well.
 
jamoor said:
111mph limiter on an impala for some odd reason.
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112mph perhaps like Japanese cars?

FWIW the car I hired from Hertz in Australia wasn't limited in throttle pedal travel and you could turn ESP/TC on/off.

Don't know if it was speed limited or not as I only went very slightly over the limit once.
 
burns said:
No more so than the car just being under powered in the first place though surely?
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If you're driving through a green light and on the periphery of your vision you see a car hurtling along you from right about to t-bone you, being able to step on it and hit redline will get moving a long a lot faster to avoid any collision than it would be if you stepped on it and it hit 3.5k revs and stopped, requiring a change gear.
 
TS7 said:
If you're driving through a green light and on the periphery of your vision you see a car hurtling along you from right about to t-bone you, being able to step on it and hit redline will get moving a long a lot faster to avoid any collision than it would be if you stepped on it and it hit 3.5k revs and stopped, requiring a change gear.
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But it's throttle limited, not rev limited. It wouldn't just hit 3.5k and stop, it'd just be slower at picking up revs...
 
mattyprice4004 said:
But it's throttle limited, not rev limited. It wouldn't just hit 3.5k and stop, it'd just be slower at picking up revs...
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In situations like I just described above, your car being slower at picking up revs would be the decider between having and avoiding a collision. So if I had a car deliberately set up like that, I wouldn't be happy.
 
mattyprice4004 said:
But it's throttle limited, not rev limited. It wouldn't just hit 3.5k and stop, it'd just be slower at picking up revs...
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One and the same thing really isn't it?

If you can't fully depress the throttle the car will never get to it's max RPM in a given gear.

That's why when you can leave the throttle in one position and keep a constant speed, from what your proposing the car would keep on accelerating to it's max rpm but the throttle dictates the speed at which is does this.
 
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