Wizofaus,
Your suggestion would not cause an increase in price at all.
It would simply be programmed into the existing engine management system.

However to get more fundamental, Potty is a dinosaur driver.
I presume he is under 20 years of age, maybe even 17.

Potty,
You are unlikely to be able to afford a V8 or anything like it
in a couple of years or so time.
Do your budgeting on either $4 a litre or petrol rationing.
Do not bank on the ration being proportional to engine size either.
It will be the same amount for every private owner.

We might be lucky to hold petrol at $4 a litre but then maybe not as
something like $5 to $10 a litre is not wholly out of the question.

22 years of broken sleep as early morning recalls to work, or call up for road rescue.
So many deaths on the Pacific highway, I understand why we limit young drivers, to save lives theirs and many Innocent victims.
Ask police who can No longer serve road rescue crews road workers Ambos and firemen yes even NRMA people who saw far too much death and we may all know why .

We will never have petrol rationing. This isn't a communist country.

this regulation is completely wrongheaded. there's way too many people, and way too many cars. anything that prevents then from coming together at high speed is a mistake.

Freediver; errr, what has communism got to do with the price of fish ?

Anyone who thinks petrol rationing is not on the agenda in the next
five to ten years is living in la la land.
It might depend on how fast we can convert our cars to gas and provided
the Chinese allow us to break our natural gas contracts with them.

Australia is 45% depleted and we will either not be able to afford to
buy the 50% of our usage or we will not be allowed to buy it.

The V8, four wheel drives and other high consumption cars will have zero
2nd hand value and may not even be in the dealers showrooms in 5 to 10
years time.

The effects start in the poorest countries and work up the richness
scale which is why there is widespread power blackouts in South Asia
and Africa. (They mostly burn oil in their power stations).

Peer PRessure and Fuel Costs are NOT worries of me, this is a car use issue. I need a V8 to comfortably tow a trailer and a boat on the weekends, and also i am not inclined to hoon with it, it is simply a way to get around, no hooning of being silly.

I believe that if i can get a 253 thats not even that powerful and keep it stock that it will serve my needs well, and because of the age of the vehicle i intend to buy it will be easier for me to do repairs and to ork on it fixing anyhting and keeping it running well, as im going to be a mechanic anyway. People always talk about how bad drivers are these days, especially young ones and ones with cars that are powerful, funny thing is those people who say this had cars with the same poer output as the car i want when they were my age, and had V8's and they are now becoming so 'concerned' about young drivers, who by the way are over represented in fatal/non fatal car accidents.

Another reason for the ute is so my father can use it too and it would be a good asset to have, and fuel costs arent of a concern to me, im not gunna be driving alot, as i also have a bike and use public transport. I initially was merely thinking that it was stupid these new laws, as a 18 year old who just got their p's can drive a 200kw Toyota Aurion or 190kw Ford Falcon, both '6' cylinder cars.