Koenigsegg CCXR... not going anywhere fast..

Mr^B · 30 Jul 2010 at 22:27

TangoSixteen said:
Someone I used to know managed to get out of doing 168mph in his Porsche one one occasion, with a £10K per day solicitor that got him off on a techicality. You have to respect that I feel.

What specific made-up technicality was that?

You are Jay from The Inbetweeners and I claim my £5.

So rich people always get a good deal eh?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/07/swiss-record-speeding-fine

Fr0dders · 30 Jul 2010 at 22:32

Dup said:
As owners of a well known brand with such obvious cars, they should be setting an example rather than rubbing people up the wrong way.

The law is the law and the markings on the road must be obeyed or they will face the concequences. There's no doubt London is a nightmare place to park and congestion is a big issue, why should they be given prefferential treatment just becasue they have rather unique and expensive cars they are clearly proud to just show off for the sake of a parking fine?

really ?

I honestly couldnt give a damn that the Quatari royal family werent setting a good example.

You say they shouldnt get preferential treatment, but in london money talks, and they almost certainly do get preferential treatment everywhere they go, even more so back home in quatar where they are the royal family.

Doesnt bother me at all i have to say.

Giddy · 30 Jul 2010 at 22:41

TangoSixteen said:
with a £10K per day solicitor.

LOL, was that lira?

doofer · 30 Jul 2010 at 22:44

I wonder if they'd think twice about Parking if the Fines were Income Based like Scandinavia or Switzerland ($250,000+ Fine for a speeding Ferrari driver a while back) I'm sure they'd feel those sort a fines, even if only a tiny bit.

Janesy B · 30 Jul 2010 at 22:49

Giddy said:
LOL, was that lira?

Zimbabwe Dollars

TS7 · 30 Jul 2010 at 23:00

inferno said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTXHaoHtAqc

He gave a chap a ride in it

They seem quite friendly. The arab with the Veyron and SLS was happy to get out and talk to people about the car.

Re thread: If they have damaged it then if the owners can be bothered they can take the neccessary steps and claim the damages, if there is any. However a £1.2m car and they've just spent over a £1bn on Harrods I find it very unlikely that they have the time or need to go chasing around for money to fix it.

Gerard · 30 Jul 2010 at 23:14

inferno said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTXHaoHtAqc

He gave a chap a ride in it

What a bloody racket that thing makes. :eek:

snowdog · 30 Jul 2010 at 23:45

mk1_salami said:
Well they shouldn't park on double yellows / reds and it won't happen. Simple.

Janesy B said:
This really. Park illegally and face the risk.

The punishment is a fine, not a ****ing £xxxx(x) bill. ( okay fair enough, nothing may have happened, but still...)
I'm glad the monkeys here in Amsterdam stopped using clamps a while ago.

It's a shame space is so sparse in that area.

v0n · 31 Jul 2010 at 00:06

Kensington And Chelsea (with which I have my own battle with, for ticketing, then within 30 minutes clamping my car with valid parking ticket behind windscreen) have this funny way of dealing with parking:

If it was such a crime to park there that it justified risking damage (even if minor) to 1.2mln worth of property (parked, nota bene, in front of their own 1.5bln workplace) then why was the car immobilized? Surely if the utmost urgency was to unblock the road, they should not be preventing the driver from moving the car to unblock it? It strikes me as "in soviet russia, the road illegally parks you" type of cartoon action.

hurfdurf · 31 Jul 2010 at 00:39

TangoSixteen said:
The whole parking thing is just a money making scam. People should just be allowed to park wherever the **** they want.

I too am a libertarian idiot when it comes to parking.

BRB just parking my transit van across your drive way. Feel free to get rid of it useing your power and influence. If it takes your time up and causes you annoyance, well, that's just the way things are, maybe you should work on becoming more important.

G-MAN2004 · 31 Jul 2010 at 01:38

Those SVs seem to everywhere around London, all with a huge SV vinyl on the side. Love them.

PardonTheWait · 31 Jul 2010 at 03:35

NathanE said:
Not very. Even if its not touching the alloy. They would have needed to wrap the chains around the suspension. I'm not sure about the Lambo but the Koenigsegg has powder coated wishbones which will now be badly scratched from the chains being dragged across them.

They better hope the owner isn't a Garage Jewellery Owning ******* (GJOB) that likes the underneath of his cars to be just as clean and perfect as the top. Otherwise they may regret ever touching somebody elses property that they didn't understand enough to not damage.

Ooooorrrrr... don't park like a ****!

horseunderwater · 31 Jul 2010 at 07:04

Damn what an awful colour

Freefaller · 31 Jul 2010 at 09:27

Janesy B said:
Yes, it is causing an obstruction and posing a risk for pedstrians and motorists. It's bad enough with all the stupid taxis and buses in the area. If you can't work out how an illegally parked vehicle could be an obstruction and a danger then I feel sorry for you.

If we're talking about principle here, why shouldn't a couple of billionaires adhere to the same rules you and I have to follow?

You're exaggerating a little, as I'm sure you know that part of town, where it's parked wouldn't really cause much of an obstruction....

I agree with you re: principles though, absolutely. However, let's face the facts, there's no reason why they shouldn't park there, I'm not saying what they did is correct, and they should have been ticketed if that's what the rules state for that piece of road.

However, whilst I don't expect them to be above the law (though is parking offence a law or a council regulation??), I'm rather envious of their ability to do that!

Westyfield2 · 31 Jul 2010 at 10:19

Freefaller said:
To be fair, if I had that much money, I'd just keep parking it and paying the fine.

There's a car-park in Bath that the "fine" for overstaying is £15 a day. It's the best car-park in the city so anyone with a nice car just pays the £15.

Re the OP, clamping a car and stoping it from moving really makes sense when it being there is such a problem.....

iaind · 31 Jul 2010 at 11:09

What the he'll is all this about scratched suspension? :confused:

NathanE · 31 Jul 2010 at 11:12

I don't think they were parked illegally because there are clearly cars either side of them which haven't been clamped. There's no road markings that suggest parking there is "illegal". So that means their parking ticket/permit had expired. Which OK breaks a rule in some obscure private parking company's (or council's) view, but doesn't really break the law. You'd need to be parked on a yellow or some other highway coded situation to be breaking the actual law.

NathanE · 31 Jul 2010 at 11:14

iaind said:
What the he'll is all this about scratched suspension?

Steel chains being dragged across powder coated wishbones tends to do that. Considering the Koenigsegg has flip-up clamshells to expose the beauty underneath including the suspension, it could prove to be an annoyance for the owner.

iaind · 31 Jul 2010 at 11:17

But everyones just making the assumption that the chains were clumsily dragged across the suspension components....

Either way, its a neat way of means testing the penalty

NathanE · 31 Jul 2010 at 11:20

iaind said:
But everyones just making the assumption that the chains were clumsily dragged across the suspension components....

Either way, its a neat way of means testing the penalty

It's a fair assumption to make given that it's the only way to clamp a car when the clamp is of a chain'n'padlock-dependant variety.