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      10-06-2010, 12:46 PM   #125
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Originally Posted by dexx View Post
What liability? There are many cars that can't rev to 5500 rpm or exceed 105mph, ever.
And those cars are advertised as such.

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There is no more liability than the variable redline we get on our cars cold.
Neither of us know for sure. All we can do is speculate. There is a scale involved here. Allowing the car to rev too high when cold was probably considered more of a risk than not doing so. And in fact, every engineering and marketing decision has a monetary risk involved, so they probably ran through the math and what we are left with is the final product. This is how product design works.

I'll maintain that simply saying "they dont prevent this, so it must be ok" isn't a demonstrating good deductive reasoning at all. I'm sure you are going to continue to disagree, so I'll guess we just have to agree to have our own opinions and leave it at that.
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