The relevant question is what you own when you purchase a car. If I own something, nobody else should have the right to disable features of it remotely unless

The relevant question is what you own when you purchase a car. If I own something, nobody else should have the right to disable features of it remotely unless I pay them indefinitely. If I've bought a car with an engine in it of some specific number of HP, it shouldn't be up to anyone else to tell me I can't actually use all the HP because I'm not paying them forever. That's some real mafia-type of arrangement.