Why do we make consumer vehicles capable of going double the speed limit?

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(I’m in the US where the speed limit on most highways is usually 65 or 70 mph)

The speedometer on my car tops out at 140mph. Aside from getaway drivers, who would ever need to drive that fast? Is there something about engine design that makes it too hard to have a max speed of 90/100 without affecting the overall function?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

I bought the whole speedometer I’m going to use the whole speedometer.
But really. Many vehicles do govern out at a speed. Fords for a long time were 112 I believe. I owned a few. My Acura seems to get to 120 no issue. I like to open them up every now and then when it’s safe.
They want to keep their customer base happy. And people would just disable it anyway.

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