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Old Aug 3, 2005 | 03:27 AM
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W140 chase on cops :)

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was watching TV the other day and there was a white W140 car chase. it was a 400SE and the cops were chasing it for miles and they kept trying to ram it and run it off the road but "the german car was designed to stay planted" lol . you could hear the cops cursing trying to figure out how to stop the thing b/c it was pretty much a tank. ultimately he got caught b/c of bad driving but it was still impressive to see the W140 handle like that. The cops could barely keep up so they had to send one of those high speed mustangs after it. Again i don't advocate running from cops but still it was interesting to see what a W140 could do against one.
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Old Aug 3, 2005 | 12:07 PM
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Yeah, I saw that a while back on "Worlds Wildest Police Videos". They had to do the PIT maneuver a few times to bring that car down. When they were none with it, the car was trashed.
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Old Aug 3, 2005 | 02:25 PM
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i want to see some race car driver steal a clk dtm and put a chase on that on a semi empty highway..... that would be awesome. not that im advocating anything....
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Old Aug 3, 2005 | 04:14 PM
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Yupp..I have seen in on Worlds Wildest Police Videos...its my FAVE chase,LOL i find my self rooting for the the W140 to beat the cops...LMAO...good video..and just shows it take more then One cop to stop W140!!!
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Old Aug 3, 2005 | 04:38 PM
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Yah i've always wanted to see a pro race driver run from the cops in some super car, like a carrera GT, slr, clk dtm, just something seriously fast.
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Old Aug 3, 2005 | 05:20 PM
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helll even an old E30 M3 did it but you could tell the cops show made it seem like they caught up to him but they never did (just kept replaying same footage). most of those shows are pure propaganda to make cops out to see super human, i'm sure there are more cars that get away then we think.
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Old Aug 3, 2005 | 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by OmeyHomey
helll even an old E30 M3 did it but you could tell the cops show made it seem like they caught up to him but they never did (just kept replaying same footage). most of those shows are pure propaganda to make cops out to see super human, i'm sure there are more cars that get away then we think.
yea i heard about that one. thats funny. some cops aren't that... smart. well at least they are better than the mexican cops! give them 3 bucks and you won't see them again. lol
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