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Originally Posted by Hersbird
The car was tested in various modes and both the sport and the N mode put the car over the 95 decibel limit. That makes those track or off road modes only. The 95 limit is not just California, it's the limit here in free Montana as well. Nobody wants the peace and quite shattered by excessive, pointless noise whatever it's from. So leave the load exhaust for the track or at least some backroad and not neighborhoods like this kid.
Used to be just "lake pipes" named for the dry lake high speed competition. But if you un capped the lake pipes on the street you get a ticket. The N mode is basically like factory installed lake pipes. It makes a legal street car illegal at the push of a button. Exhaust cutouts used to be legal too, but too many people used them on the street and got them 100% banned most places even if closed and using the factory mufflers.
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While I'm in agreement that loud cars are obnoxious, these "offroad" modes don't seem to be advertised, or even stated as being offroad modes, anywhere obvious in what's available to consumers. As such, how is a consumer supposed to know that if they press the prominent button on the steering wheel, their car will suddenly never be allowed on a public road again? That is essentially what happened in this case, because once that button was pressed, and a police officer noticed, there was no fix, and no possible resolution.