P Plater Laws NSW

[Miller]

In my opinion the list of banned cars needs to be revised.

First of all, I can drive my EF, weighing just over 1500kg stock standard 158kw. BUT, I can't drive my old mans 79 LTD with the big scary 5.8L 351 that outputs a whopping 147kw. Not to mention the car weighs probably close to 2000kg. I can still drive 192kw BA-BF xr6s, 193kw honda s2000s. But I can't drive a 90 odd kw turbo nissan exa. I can drive my old mans 2.8L 900kg Pontiac Fiero, but I still can't drive his LTD.

This makes it hard for my old man because we use the LTD to travel out west to our property, it is a 6 hour trip and it is a bit hard on him making him do the whole 6 hour drive himself, knowing that I could get into a lot of **** if I drove. I applied for an exemption twice, but both times it was rejected. They don't understand that a hyundai excel has a better power to weight ratio than the LTD and probably has a higher top speed too. The excels tend to crumple in accidents too, this thing is solid, yet I still can't drive it.

They need to actually think about the cars that they are putting on the list, rather than just going through and banning every single turbo and V8 out there. Some of the cars I can understand why they are on there, I remember when I was on my Ls and I was driving my mums xr6t (she was in the car of course) and I gave the car a little squirt. I know that if I had an xr6t on my ps that I would probably be dead by now, because those things are phenominal. The RTA needs to do some research before making bandaid fixes.