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Originally Posted by davey90
my cousin worked for Ford Service and parts. Now working for Kia Service and Parts, He told me that when new cars come to Australia they limit the horsepower a little lower then what is being shown on paper. Not sure if it's true or not. He also mentioned the only cars that don't get their power tuned down are emergency vehicles (cops,ambulance,fire brigade...so on) and race cars.
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A long time ago when i used to work at a Holden dealership I heard the same thing but it was in relation to the poorer quality fuel we have in Australia, something along the lines of our best premium unleaded is 98 Octane whereas Japan, USA and Europe can get 105 octane.
Also when i used to work for Subaru we used to have the petrol octane discussion regularly and I also heard you can achieve 105 octane with Australian premium unleaded by adding an octane booster though i don't know the specifics and what sort of effect it would have on new car warranty.