SL55/63/65/R230 AMG: Forbes says SL "car most likely to get a ticket"
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Forbes says SL "car most likely to get a ticket"
and we thought we were crazy over in the E55 forum. Congrats you animals.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/10/13/car...s_slide_2.html
http://www.forbes.com/2010/10/13/car...s_slide_2.html
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I am mostly bummed because it says 59% of the SL drivers are women!
Because:
1. I don't think it's a chick car
2. I am still waiting to see a smokin' hot chick driving one!
Maybe I should move to South Beach or L.A. (of course when you combine it with the fact that the avg. age driver is 53, that may explain part of it...)
Because:
1. I don't think it's a chick car
2. I am still waiting to see a smokin' hot chick driving one!
Maybe I should move to South Beach or L.A. (of course when you combine it with the fact that the avg. age driver is 53, that may explain part of it...)
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Wow, totally weird accumulation of data. The #2 car is a Toyota Camry which is about as vanilla as a car can be. I guess people incorrectly assume that a nondescript car means you can run red lights and speed.
The #5 car is a Scion xB which I KNOW wasn't ticketed for speeding. It's way too slow for that.
Must've been running red lights and flipping off cops.
-ROOK
The #5 car is a Scion xB which I KNOW wasn't ticketed for speeding. It's way too slow for that.
Must've been running red lights and flipping off cops.-ROOK
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I wonder if the data collection folks at Forbes know the difference between an SL and SLK. Although I rarely see SLs here in Indy, I have never seen a female driving one. I more frequently see SLKs and they are almost always driven by women. When I do see a women driving an SL, she most certainly will be speeding and will be an extremely hot 53 year old.
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I wonder if the data collection folks at Forbes know the difference between an SL and SLK. Although I rarely see SLs here in Indy, I have never seen a female driving one. I more frequently see SLKs and they are almost always driven by women. When I do see a women driving an SL, she most certainly will be speeding and will be an extremely hot 53 year old.
I've had girls mistaken my car saying something like "oh yeah I have that...SL " then they have an SLK and think it's the same car lol
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I am under half the average age :o
but I do find it strange that I got pulled over in my old eclipse about once a month and I am yet to be pulled over in my SL and I have had it for 5 months.... *knocking on wood*
but I do find it strange that I got pulled over in my old eclipse about once a month and I am yet to be pulled over in my SL and I have had it for 5 months.... *knocking on wood*
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Since I got the SL63, I have 1 exhibition of speed, 2 speeding, and been let off with a warning. all this in less than 7 months of ownership. I dont knw if im becoming an a-hole, or they are picking on me. Maybe a little of both.
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I have been abusing roads in all kinds of exotica for a very long time, and the only time I get to met my 'personal banker' in blue is when I am in some nondescript rental.
Never got a ticket in a Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini or the SL55 for that matter.
Never got a ticket in a Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini or the SL55 for that matter.
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Do you have to smoke the tires for exhibition or just a quick burst of WOT? I got a seriously stern look from a local cop the other day after I lit up the tires. Problem was, the cop didn't know if it was me or the vette in the lane next to me who was minding his own business.
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that's the thing about the SL...most law enforcement don't see it as a sports car, it's considered a roadster...and if driven docile it keeps to that stigma just fine...these guys don't know the difference in the engine trim lines let alone b/w the SL and SLK most of them I bet...
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yeah, whenever I get to talking cars with clients and tell them I have an sl600 they look at me like I told them in Chinese or something. I have started just saying a v12 convertible benz, much easier this way.
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Never got a ticket in SL63 (knock on wood),had 4 tickets in 3 months in a White Scud,no tickets (yet) in 458 (since July).
Go figure...
Go figure...
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I don't undestand. Every time I drive be it in the SL. the Cobra or a supercharged Vette. the cars that are allways going the fastest and passing everyone are Hondas. Hondas must be the fastest cars?
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i must say i agree with most of the posters
out of all my cars through the years (im just 24 but had approx. 10 cars; not simultaneously) i think that the sl got the least tickets.
but then again it makes sense cause i have 20's and live in brooklyn, so unless i want to get rims every 13 mins or so, i have to drive speed limit
...also it might be that i grew up from the ***** out, switching lanes while traveling twice the speed limit teen days
out of all my cars through the years (im just 24 but had approx. 10 cars; not simultaneously) i think that the sl got the least tickets.
but then again it makes sense cause i have 20's and live in brooklyn, so unless i want to get rims every 13 mins or so, i have to drive speed limit
...also it might be that i grew up from the ***** out, switching lanes while traveling twice the speed limit teen days
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-ROOK
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I can attest to the SL being a ticket magnet. I get 80% of my tickets when I drive the SL, all for speeding. Mind you, speeding tickets where I live is mostly an automated matter: Cop installs speed camera and snores until his shift is up. I tend to overlook one from time to time.
And unfortunately radar detectors and laser shields are illegal...
And unfortunately radar detectors and laser shields are illegal...
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Although I find they have been taking the fun out of driving throughout the whole of Europe in the last decade
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