If it's late, the motorway clear and the weather conditions good I have no issue going over 100mph. If I catch up to traffic, I back off. Once passed I speed up again. I have killed no children and I have not totalled my car. Doing those speeds is only deemed unsafe because the law says so. Germany get by perfectly fine and their roads are smaller and more dangerous than ours. I think after 10/11pm the motorway limit should increase to 100mph.
Driver caught doing 154mph and only gets 56 day ban!
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So you've got to be driving a Ferrari to be safe over 150mph?
NO, but it'll definitely be safer in a Ferrari
Complete tosh.
i would rather smash in a decent sized family hatchback with air bags all around than in a supercar that crumple's like a piece of paper due to light weight materials or burst into flames lol. Look how many celebs have died over the years as a result of there supercar folding into a tin can as soon as they hit something.
Well, it would be safer in a Ferrari because if something were to happen you'd be able to slow down/stop quicker than in a normal car.
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True but then you'd also be going a lot faster than if you were in a normal car so those points pretty much cancel each other out.
I think you'll find that supercars survive a huge crash MUCH better than the average car. Reinforced carbon fiber tubs the driver sits in, not built to a budget. All the videos/pictures I've seen of high speed wrecks in supercars the drive has walked away.
He was talking about the benefits/disadvantages of a "normal" fast car doing the same speeds as a supercar. When I'm driving a Ferrari / Lamborghini it certainly feels more stable and has better braking force at high speed than my Jag, even though my own car is built for extended high speed driving.
The only reason why I don't do 100mph+ on a clear stretch of motorway/dual carriageway is A) my licence is essential to me and B) Fuel consumption goes through the roof!
I often travel on absolutely dead dual carriageways at 3am and even doing 80mph feels very slow when there's nothing else around. 154mph is plain dumb though. Having travelled at those speeds, things happen so quickly especially when the vehicle you're in is a hatchback which is pretty much at its Vmax.
I often travel on absolutely dead dual carriageways at 3am and even doing 80mph feels very slow when there's nothing else around. 154mph is plain dumb though. Having travelled at those speeds, things happen so quickly especially when the vehicle you're in is a hatchback which is pretty much at its Vmax.
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I was driving West to East to the Polish border. In fact I was quite surprised how terrible the roads were compared to UK motorways. Plenty of derestricted areas which were bendy too. I tried to get some kip while the missus drove a 2 hour stretch but was too bumpy as I am a light sleeper.
There are some nice (pretty straight, wide and newer surfacing) unrestricted autobahns to the south of Munich IIRC. Much of the rest of the system I've been on (pretty much up and down the western side from Calais to Austria and back) is not great.
I've never been in a Leon Cupra FR, so can't give my opinion of that kind of speed in that car, but have been in other cars where it's perfectly stable and no real drama is observed.
Obviously if a tyre blows or something jumps out from the side, you're pretty much stuffed.
I didn't think much of the guy in the article until I read the for sale advert he posted. Can't even string words together, so can't be relied upon to drive safely, whatever the speed.
Obviously if a tyre blows or something jumps out from the side, you're pretty much stuffed.
I didn't think much of the guy in the article until I read the for sale advert he posted. Can't even string words together, so can't be relied upon to drive safely, whatever the speed.
exactly...........esp in the New Forest, because here you cant spot a laser speed detector van until it's too late........there's always a bush or a tree blocking your view around every corner.
but once you've lived here ages you know where it's safe to speed and it's usually best from 9pm onwards............ or change your style and just drive in short fast bursts, dont hammer it all the time.
laser vans are a real problem though, because you just cant tell where they will be
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Around where I live, even the police go above it... you'll find that odd young copper that thinks he has all the power and will most likely stop you for it. But no one cares, just do the 30 if there's no camera...
Around where I live, even the police go above it... you'll find that odd young copper that thinks he has all the power and will most likely stop you for it. But no one cares, just do the 30 if there's no camera...
Well the way it officially works is that it shouldn't be enforced by police.. it should be enforced by using speed bumps and so on "traffic calming measures" I gfind it hard to do 20 tbh,neither gear feels right! I feel that it simply frustrates drivers who still end up doing 30+
I've never seen any late evening or during the night. They aren't even manned by police any more, just contractors who won't work overtime and knock off at 5pm on the dot
I see a lot of people just driving around with no front plates these days (most cameras face the front). Not enough traffic cops left to care/notice and the others have more important things to do.
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I see/know some people who have that tinted/shaded rear number plate thing. Apparently it means that cameras can't read the numberplate if they take a photo/flash.