Ask HN: Why do they make cars go so fast if it’s illegal?

Some drive cars on race tracks where it is legal. Also some roads have high speed limits like ones in Germany.

Can't remember where I read this but IIRC it's not a healthy for a machine to constantly run at 100%, hence you make an engine with a peak performance of 200mph which constantly runs at a cosy speed of 100mph.

Tracks, private roads, autobahns, dynos, plenty of places to go fast legally.

Not to mention the extra power goes towards faster acceleration, not just top speed. The same force that gets you an extra 10mph top speed also works to get you from from 0-60mph that much faster.

I used to think about this a lot when I was younger, because it makes very little sense, and as I became older I realized how many more things make very little sense and I eventually came to realize the bug is low-level and there are a lot of rich and powerful people who do not want it to be fixed, because it allows for them to exploit everybody else.

*small sections of some highways