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Switzerland’s hatred of the car could be about to move up a notch after the youth section of the country’s Green Party proposed a law to ban all vehicles weighing more than 2.2 tonnes or those emitting more than 250g/km of CO2.
The proposal would outlaw Lamborghini, Ferrari, AMG, M division and most Porsche vehicles in the country that gives us the Geneva motor show every year, leaving only four and six-cylinder cars, and superminis.
Like Californian law, Switzerland’s political system allows any individual to propose a law providing they get a sufficient amount of signatures to support it.
And while it’s only a proposal at present, the idea might no be so far-fetched; Switzerland banned all forms of motorsport in 1955, following a fatal crash at that year’s Le Mans 24 Hours in which 80 spectators were killed, and that law wasn’t relaxed until last year.
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