On the positive side, his AR-15-style rifle and 1000 bullets of ammunition had not arrived yet that day... Or maybe it is easier to buy that legally in Kentucky than in the NYC area...

I had to go to our local equivalent of the DMV this morning. While there, I had the pleasure of listening to a guy at the counter refuse to understand for nearly 20 minutes that he had to pay his parking fines in order to renew his license plate. Let me say I hate the “DMV” and all the regulatory nonsense they enforce…

And a MAGA hat.

I had to search for the original Renault R17:

“I have great solar, so fuel is free.”

Maybe. Maybe not. I was around then. My sister had a Vega. I remember it  only because it might be the worst car I’ve ever driven. (I worked in dealerships for 35 years.)

Even by ‘70s standards these were garbage. This has no value. Not as a useful car, not as a curiosity, not as a museum piece, not as a Cars & Coffee attraction. Knock off a zero or two. 

The original years didn’t depreciate; they decomposed. This car is a survivor; I give it that. I was around in my twenties during that era. There was no love for these cars, they were appliances. Nothing unique, nothing groundbreaking, no performance, nothing to distinguish these cars. Not a collectible for me. NO…

Kill it with fire!

A silencer with a tax stamp is legal, to the ATF. It’s not legal in California or NY. Same principle. Federal standards are a *baseline*, not a ceiling.

To be fair, the Performante is pretty much known to be far louder than other models, by design. Owners discuss the volume of it’s exhaust pretty frequently. Exhaust sounds do change on these and other suerpcars based on droving mode (road vs race), but not sure by how much.  I've seen a statement of 52 db for idle,…

Or have a neighbor friendly “Quiet mode” like your more pedestrian mustang

Cool. Then Jaguar should be forced to recall your car and replace the exhaust with one that can meet noise standards.

CARB would like a word.  

Just so the whole thing is legible, and not reduced to gibberish by Kinja’s inability to handle links properly:

It’s a modern supercar with a DCT. Just keep it in auto when in the city and you will cruise around in a high gear and the car can be decently quiet because that’s what it’s designed to do. It’s only when you start dropping gears and keeping the revs up that they can crazy loud.  As long as you are not running in…

From a NY Post article on the same guy:

I don’t disagree with you, but cities and towns can make their own laws on these things. I assume this is whats happening here.

I think that it is ok for neighborhoods/ cities to want a peaceful environment. I don’t think that “unmodified” vehicles should be exempt from sound enforcement you should be able to short shift/keep the vehicle in a higher gear to keep the RPMs down. There is a difference between driving a loud car and being…

Or, and I know this sounds crazy, fine the shit out of Lamborghini until they start putting proper mufflers on their cars. I’m 100% certain that there’s a solution that’s already made for any number of other VAG brands that will do the trick.