|
|
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Higgs Field
Posts: 22,573
|
I'm Calling "B.S."
Trooper claims he had this kid doing 208 mph in a 2011 Mustang. No way in hell, unless it fell down a mineshaft or something.
19-year-old in custody after driving over 200 mph during pursuit | KOMO
__________________
Jeff '72 911T 3.0 MFI '93 Ducati 900 Super Sport "God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn't rule the world" |
||
11-15-2016, 08:47 AM
|
|
|
Counterclockwise?
|
Sounds like the pursuit vehicle clocked him. What are the cops driving?
__________________
Rod 1986 Carrera 2001 996TT A bunch of stuff with spark plugs |
||
|
11-15-2016, 08:54 AM
|
|
|
resident samsquamch
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Cooterville, Cackalacky
Posts: 6,815
|
SHEEESH! Was the kid driving this
 
__________________
-jeff back in the saddle: '95 993 - just another black C2 *SOLD*: '87 930 GP White - heroin would have been a cheaper addiction... "Ladies and Gentlemen, from Boston Massachusetts, we are Morphine, at your service..." - Mark Sandman (RIP  )
|
||
|
11-15-2016, 08:54 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Hinsdale, IL
Posts: 3,428
|
A quick YouTube search shows a 2011 gt500 doing 190 on the autobahn. 208 is absolutely ludicrous. A 2013 Hennessy modified barely achieved that on a controlled test. He should actually be able to get this thrown out.
|
||
|
11-15-2016, 08:55 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
Posts: 48,484
|
Yeah, the GT500 had a claimed 200mph top end..but to really do it? Yeah, I also call BS. Although one magazine was able to almost get 200 on a track in very controlled conditions...
__________________
"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent." -Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.) |
||
|
11-15-2016, 09:43 AM
|
|
|
Get off my lawn!
|
A Carrera GT will do 205. Made of a carbon fiber tub and built by the factory to go that fast. A 918 only does 210 or so. It is silly to think he could do 208 in a steel Mustang. If he had over 1,000 HP and new gears and some big aerodynamic wings I doubt he could do 208.
The cops have the idiot arrested for felony eluding and reckless driving. They did not even charge the speeding ticket from what I saw. The car was impounded and the idiot 19 year old will have a lot of points. He should lose his license for a while.
__________________
Glen 49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America 1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan 1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood! |
||
|
11-15-2016, 09:46 AM
|
|
|
|
Bill is Dead.
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Alaska.
Posts: 9,633
|
"200 miles an hour ... That is extremely fast," Timmons said.
No schite, Sherlock.
__________________
-.-. .- ... .... ..-. .-.. -.-- . .-. The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them. |
||
|
11-15-2016, 09:56 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: west michigan
Posts: 26,369
|
Canadian County....maybe they are using KPH...
__________________
78 SC Targa Black....gone 84 Carrera Targa White 98 Honda Prelude 22 Honda Civic SI |
||
|
11-15-2016, 10:04 AM
|
|
|
Checked out
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: On a beach
Posts: 10,127
|
My Maserati does 185,
and we know a Mustang is faster than a Maserati. So seems plausible. |
||
|
11-15-2016, 10:10 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,001
|
Canada does use KPH, so 208 KPH is about 129 MPH
|
||
|
11-15-2016, 10:17 AM
|
|
|
B58/732
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Hot as Hell, AZ
Posts: 12,313
|
What a steaming pile.
If he was going 208 mph--with his lights off, no less--how exactly did they catch him?
__________________
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ I don't always talk to vegetarians--but when I do, it's with a mouthful of bacon. |
||
|
11-15-2016, 10:19 AM
|
|
|
Get off my lawn!
|
Quote:
__________________
Glen 49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America 1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan 1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood! |
||
|
11-15-2016, 10:24 AM
|
|
|
|
Gon fix it with me hammer
|
Did it have a jato Rocket ?
__________________
Stijn Vandamme EX911STARGA73EX92477EX94484EX944S8890MPHPINBALLMACHINEAKAEX987C2007 BIMDIESELBMW116D2019 |
||
|
11-15-2016, 10:45 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,001
|
Ah, so sorry...
Quote:
|
||
|
11-15-2016, 10:49 AM
|
|
|
Unregistered
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: a wretched hive of scum and villainy
Posts: 55,652
|
Quote:
chuckle on several different levels. 
|
||
|
11-15-2016, 10:49 AM
|
|
|
Unregistered
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: a wretched hive of scum and villainy
Posts: 55,652
|
Maybe it was a wraith!
Right Bro? Bro......? BROOOOOOOOOOO!?? Were either of these guys driving it?  
Last edited by sammyg2; 11-15-2016 at 10:54 AM.. |
||
|
11-15-2016, 10:52 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
Posts: 48,484
|
Quote:
__________________
"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent." -Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.) Last edited by pwd72s; 11-15-2016 at 10:58 AM.. |
||
|
11-15-2016, 10:55 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Lawrenceville GA 30045
Posts: 7,376
|
Quote:
I lost my license, now I don't drive I have a limo, ride in the back I lock the doors in case I'm attacked.
__________________
Mark '83 SC Targa - since 5/5/2001 '06 911 S Aerokit - from 5/2/2016 to 11/14/2018 '11 911 S w/PDK - from 7/2/2021 to ??? |
||
|
11-15-2016, 11:11 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Higgs Field
Posts: 22,573
|
Even more rare than 200 mph road going cars are 200 mph public roads. Anyone who has ever driven at high speed on our public roads will tell you how quickly you become limited by the road itself. A perfectly smooth highway at 70 mph can be almost completely un-drivable at twice that. If this was keeping a 2011 Mustang on the road at even 70% of what is claimed, he has a bright future in a Cup car...
__________________
Jeff '72 911T 3.0 MFI '93 Ducati 900 Super Sport "God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn't rule the world" |
||
|
11-15-2016, 01:02 PM
|
|
|
Registered
|
At very high speeds it is hard to get accurate numbers; time goes by so fast that a slight error effects readings enormously.
__________________
Rutager West 1977 911S Targa Chocolate Brown |
||
|
11-15-2016, 01:42 PM
|
|
Carrera
BimForce the Third, Esquire
1977 Porsche 911S Targa
