What we expect our vehicles to do?

[bigpaul]

I always amazes me when ever I read about other peoples vehicles, you know "mine is a 3.8 turbo injected" or "a 5 litre V8"...why?? the MAXIMUM speed limit is 70MPH, as long as I can do 80 or 90 if I ever need speed to get me out of trouble why have a vehicle that will do 150MPH ??, my 2007 Berlingo 1400cc petrol driven MPV will do 80 or 90 without raising a sweat but its more useful to me as a CARGO vehicle given that I live 30 miles away from the END of the motorway system and mostly drive on unclassified back country roads.