Best car chase EVER!

[TerryBPP]

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/mustangspin.wmv

[Neilk]

Welcome to yesterday!

Sorry, couldn't resist

[bigrubberjeep]

I always wondered, will the insurance stll cover the car?

[JNadal]

I dont understand why he didnt try to drive faster than he did, that Mustang should have been able to top out at least at 160.

Once youre in a highspeed chase youre screwed anyways: If you go fast enough/ crazy enough, cops wont risk killing themselves to catch you.


not that Ive ever done this

[svandamme]

you guys should see that car chase show they have with UK car chases...

[warpspd]

file would not come up for me?

[Jeff Higgins]

It worries me to see police officers intentionally forcing a car to lose control at such high speeds. Is that what they are trained to do? The potential for harm to people not involved in the chase just seems to be too great. What kind of infraction justifies this level of risk? Was it simply a traffic violation, or did the guy kill some one while robbing a bank?

[Lormax]

Originally posted by JNadal
I dont understand why he didnt try to drive faster than he did, that Mustang should have been able to top out at least at 160.

V6....

[911pcars]

Nice driving. Idiot.

Sherwood

[joelkaplan]

I can see controlling 1 360 spin BUT 2?........good driver!

[widebody911]

Almost looks like a video game.

[Bill Verburg]

Bullit spoiled me for everything else

[epbrown]

I prefer Ronin, or a good episode of "The Rockford Files."

Emanuel

[Bill Verburg]

Yeah, Ronin was good but I had a '70 Mach1 and lived in a hilly town for Bullit(being young and impressionable(read that stupid) added to the effect)

[84toy]

Funny thing is the part that I noticed first is the typical way people drive in the fast lane including the truck and this guy was going so fast in the right lanes passing everyone. We need to take lessons from Europe......Rarely does anyone sit in the left lane there. California is really bad about that.

[techweenie]

That's a great video. it's refreshing to see it before all the tire screeches and hysterical narration is added on 'Americas Wildest Police Chases.'

Considering the level of adrenalin involved, all parties aquitted themselves pretty well here.

If you can find it, there's a video where the driver of a stolen Corvette tries to snake between two semis on the freeway. That one delivers a pretty spectiacular result.

[svandamme]

Originally posted by 84toy
Funny thing is the part that I noticed first is the typical way people drive in the fast lane including the truck and this guy was going so fast in the right lanes passing everyone. We need to take lessons from Europe......Rarely does anyone sit in the left lane there.

eeh

no

we got left lane nerds here too, and lot's of em
difference being that it just results in agrevated drivers that

tailgating within 3 meters or less at speeds up to 140 km/h or more, like you guys see when watching NASCAR with the added effect of flashing the high beams to indicate that you want the other one to move over

right side overtaking ( or leftside for the UK folks)

all this ... even in the rain... and i'll admit , when i was driving for my work , doing 100 000 km + a year ... somehow i developped a "road warrior" mode...

it's basically a switch that turns on automatically when you get in your car for another 100 km + driver to get to the workplace...
results in :
- basically not beeing sane when driving
- breaking any speedlimit you see
- right side overtaking
- tailgating at speed ( had a crappy car renault megane 1.8 diesel, no turbodiesel , tailgating gave me 20 km/h top speed .. just had to look for a big bimmer and follow him) less speeding tickets , since the camera can't get the second car....
- actually timing yourself on exits, to see if you can break your own record on one of the big exits with a highspeed turn in it , or a low speed one....example : 100 km turn , wet tarmac...enter it at 160, in a FWD car, then say , feck... i had to slow down to 130 .... damned road designers it's gonna take me another 20 secs to get back up to speed
- beeing able to get to work at 5 in the morning, and beeing in trance most of the drive..."how did i get here?!?!'
- racing with fellow comuters , same company car determines your class... beating a better car improves your rank, pulling off a high speed trick gives your fame ( think 360 spin in the rain coming out of a fancy turn see the selftiming thing above )
- when at work.. speeding tickets .. keeping score on the whiteboard who has the most of em...having a cop to stop you and bull****ting your way out of the ticket= braggin rights
- wrecking the suspension of the company car on country , rally roads...then then blowing up the engine of the replacement car after 4 days( they gave me a ford fiesta 1300cc which wasn't up to the job, and probably had some maintenance problem... the lack of maintenance i mean).. then complain to your manager about the crappy lease cars you got.. demand a bimmer cause the french cars suck( i got an Audi A4 which was sweet)...
- basically all the stuff you guys do at the track...and more...

for the record, i live at 5 minutes from my work now
and the road warrior mode has been discontinued

leftside driving is actually something you can get a fine for in most Euro countries, but only in Germany do they actually strictly enforce it because of the no speed limits(and the germans beeing a bit anal when it comes to rules and procedures )

[84toy]

Stijn, I'm sure your are correct that you have "left lane nerds" in Europe as well but I would just say the precentage is much much lower because people are taught that the left lane is for passing only which results in some weaving in and out of traffic as you pass and move over. Here in California, that will get you pulled over for suspicious driving and violates the common mentality of "pick a lane you like and stay there". Flash your lights in Europe and people move over. Flash your lights here and you get the finger! It never really bothered me that much until I went to Europe a few times and recognized how much nicer it works. Sorry for the rant, it's a big pet peave of mine.