I say drive the crap out of it and videotape it all

 

Just like jangy

 

+1

if you drive it like a grandma, then sell it and get an old buick.

 

Be careful. I got pulled last spring for 140 mph. The cop was raging. He almost cuffed me and brought me to jail. In Florida, this is "racing" and you can lose your license for a year - its a second degree misdemeanor, like DUI, not just a "speeding" ticket. Your insurance would be canked, etc. and its punishable by up to a year in jail! After paying a good lawyer $3500- and a gift certificate to Ruth's Chris for him and his wife, he got the criminal charge withdrawn and re-issued as a basic speeding ticket. I was sweating it for awhile, though, and haven't driven over 85 since (but I am stupid, and a slow learner, so I will probably make another foolish mistake in the future with the Beast - how can you help it with this car?!?). Bottom line, I guess, is to make sure that you are not a hazard to others.

 

The only problem I see with this is people over here don't drive like they do over in Germany or Italy and aren't anywhere near as aware of what is going on around them.

I certainly enjoy the power of our cars. Most of my speeding is done on the highway or two lane roads. I am always very cautious when lanes are ending or construction zones as you never know what people will do and what is the need to speed in those circumstances anyway?

Of course, I'm not going to crucify someone on how they drive (until they hit me) but restraint should be used in certain circumstances.

 

You got a ticket for doing 140 mph? Was the cop flying an aircraft. Speeding over 100 you go to jail if you got bolls to 140 you should have it to keep going. Catch me if you can. No way I am doing 140 and a cop at a standstill catch me.

 

It depends on the conditions. The smart thing was to pull over. If you keep going, usually they will radio you in and it won't turn out too pretty. Not that I haven't had my share of running from the 5-0

 

Doing 140 one should know the road and exit. No stoplight no big corner.

 

I saw it done a few weekends ago. An M3 and Bentley GT were "coasting" at 140 and blew past a CHP and he caught up. No tickets (11-99 FTW!!).

 

Where 10 miles down the road or did they slow down

 

Never slowed down. The cop said it took him 16 miles and that he had 3 waiting at the next exit. It was out in the booneys on the 15, so not many exits. The patrolman had already come into sight by the time anyone heard anything on the scanners and called the drivers.

Think about it this way, it only takes a number of seconds to get up to speed and even if he was only going 150, he'd be netting 10mph on the fellas. It ain't that much room to make up. I'm not too scared to sit on the side of the road and chase a car that goes by at 140 .

 

It would be funny to see the E55 Mercedes running from the helicoptor on the Amazing Police Videos show on TV. It might be the first time the car has lost the helicopter!!!

 

 

LOL, no Benz was involved. Actually, it was kind of funny since I came up on them as they were on the road side. We had made a wrong turn and were making up time when we saw a cop on the side with the blues. I slowed to about 120 and blasted right past them. I called into central and let them know about the snags and went on. Then, I ended up running out of gas about 30 miles from the finish. So, I'm sitting on the side of the road thinking back on the great day when the M3 goes by (about 2 hours later) blowing the horn and laughing at me.

 

Just like Gone in 60 Seconds lol...

I saw a video where a Porsche outran a helicopter. It was pretty cool, but of course, the guy got off on an exit and once he was on the side streets he got nailed.

 

*no comment*

just watch the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-GDaCGvRFc

 

ohh thats nasty!

 

Some people are being a tad hypocritical...

Gime' a break...who hasn't done 110? I regularly do that, and even though it *looks* like a big number, the reality of it is that there are usually several cars next to me, in front of me, and on my tail who are cruising along at about the same rate or maybe just a little bit slower. Here in FL, unless there's traffic, everyone drives 90 anyway, so it's really not a big differential at all.

The stoplight right-turn lane is a totally douchey thing to do... That's just plain rude, since you're inevitably going to be holding up everybody who wants to turn right while you wait for the light to change. Quit that crap.

As to the highway gap-shooting, that's a toss-up and it depends on the situation. If someone is being a left-lane-vigilante and trying to "teach you a lesson" by holding you behind them when you really want to be around them, then ya, just go for it...screw 'em, they deserved it. Same goes if you are in the right lane, and every time a gap opens you notice the ***** next to you flooring it so you can't get over. People like that are infantile and should be in the right lane going 70, not trying to play cop by holding everyone else back, so let them have it.

But if it's just some grandma cruising along and you're going to be taking up her 20ft or 30ft worth of braking distance, then no...that's a rude thing to do. Everybody needs enough space to respond properly if the line of traffic in front of them slams on the brakes, and you don't want to start butting into that space.

Other than that, enjoy your car. Everyone here has, at some point or another, done the same stuff. I have owned fast cars and slow cars, and when making the slow-to-fast switch it's pretty entertaining at first but the novelty eventually wears off. You will get used to the car and then you will find yourself cruising along normally again.

Also, invest in a radar detector. Doesn't matter what you're driving, it will come in handy.

 

#1 This is just idiotic, I don't know what else to say!

#2 If you speed excessively in the absence of traffic and only endanger yourself, I see no harm in this. Although, you should have seen the cop that pulled me over in one of my AMGs on a Saturday morning for doing 130 in a 65 and then slowing down to the speed limit when I finally came up on traffic after it took him a mile to catch up to me on a motorcycle. Completely safe in terms of not endangering others but I was VERY lucky I didn't go to jail and have my car towed. I left with a 14 point ticket and only kept my license because the officer acted like a total horses **** and I kept my composure so the DA threw out 6 of those 14 points. The moral is that whenever you are speeding excessively (for whatever reason), you risk your license. So do as you will but be safe. If I was driving my other car which was far from a 4 door sedan and was bright red, I would have gone to jail so the AMG saved my butt!

 

Now, now boys......Let's behave ourselves here!

 

Thread closed. Take it offline.

 

Thread is open again. IF CWW or Improviz take it off track again - they will be banned.

thanks
brad

 

See nothing wrong with the original post. Seems like it's like masterbating, people do it but don't like talking about it?

Speed but be careful and watch out for the 50.

 

I thought the cop are not allow to do high speed chasing?

 

Let' see here...

Newbie resurrects 3 year old thread and has link to a website in his sig. Boo.