Comments by "Golden Croc" (@GoldenCroc) on "American Reacts to Why Driving in Europe is BETTER than America" video.

Yeah the speedometer error is programmed by the manufacturer so you got a tolerance of error to compensate for a bit different tire diameters, etc. Its a combination of fixed number error and a percentage, often something like +5km/h and then 5-6% of total speed on top of that.
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@YekouriGaming The error is different on every car, but the most common on cars that are older than quite new are what I wrote. I have coded my main car to show the correct speed on the digital speedometer, since the car itself knows it. Yes, I know of the regulation. I dont really agree it has to do with engine size, its more that newer cars interface their gps module with the speedometer more. Older cars with larger engines have just as big of an error as smaller engined ones. Cars of the same model with different engine alternatives have identical speedometer error, with a few exceptions and in those cases the larger engines actually have more error. This is because they want to satisfy the demand of the customers buying larger engines to see the car "go fast". One such example is older BMW M3 vs a normal 320i, where the M3 has more error.
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@alisonrandall3039 You will be pleased to know you live in a positively metropolitan are compared to me... Not far from where I live the bus only shows up twice in a day. So yeah. But even if thats not all that uncommon in the country where I live, the rest of europe is most often more densly populated. Cheers!
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Depends on the car really, but yes most cars consume the least fuel at about 80km/h, but for many the consumption dont increase incredibly much at higher speeds (within reason of course). Regarding the 130km/h for long periods, I would say just about every car on the road is designed to do 130 km/h more or less indefinitely, and 150 km/h as well. Its not a problem. In the old days of less traffic in germany, many people would take any car to more or less its top speed and stay there for hours on the end if they wanted. It used to be that When you get passed by old Peugeot 205 diesels with 60hp doing 160-170km/h (100-105mph), you knew you had arrived in Germany. I long for those days, now its so clogged up.
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Its accurate if you live reasonably close to a large population center and work office hours. He obviously havent experienced more rural areas and shifts that start/end earlier/later. But for the majority of population of western europe, what he said holds pretty true.
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@YekouriGaming I can believe that, but that seems more a peculiarity of those models rather than anything else. So its not the engine size per se, as seen in models of cars that offer many different sizes of engines as options. But it can well be that "sub compacts" or "super minis" as the class is often called commonly have calibration like that. Cheers mate.
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@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188 Yes? Not really sure exactly what I wrote above that you are commenting on, perhaps you could clarify a bit more, adding a literal quotation perhaps?
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Yeah but there is only one real answer: Tax incentives. Would be a pretty short video :)
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