115 Mph? You Must Be Joking

[NFS4]

LONDON (Reuters) - A British man accused by police of driving at 115 mph in a Fiat Punto thought the accusation so ridiculous he enlisted an expert driver to help prove his new car was incapable of going that fast.

Law student Steve Lucas, who risked a large fine and losing his driving license if convicted of being so far over the 70 mph limit, said his small Fiat hatchback was just too slow to have reached such a speed, British newspapers reported Saturday.

"I was happy to put my hands up and admit that I was driving at 85 mph but the idea that my little Fiat Punto 1.2 liter could manage 115 mph was laughable," he was quoted as saying.

Lucas spent 18 months fighting the charges, hiring a traffic consultant to test drive his Punto on a private racecourse. He found the best the car could manage, going downhill with a following wind, was 104 mph.

Police were finally forced to drop the speeding charges, although Lucas was fined $70 for driving without due care and attention.

 

[MrCodeDude]

lol

 

[Spooner]

Wow... that's just plain hilarious

 

[mugs]

Haha

 

[brigden]

I love it.

 

[UNCjigga]

Blundering Bobbies Batman!

 

[Tremulant]

rofl, fiat.

 

[Vic]

Nice. Kinda like when they said Rodney King was doing 115mph in an 89 Hyunda Excel.

 

[Apex]

They didn't even Rodney King him.

Edit: Bah, Vic beat me to it.

 

[lokiju]

Do you have the link for that?

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: blazert40
Do you have the link for that?

What, you don't trust me?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne...&u=/nm/speeding_dc

 

[PoPPeR]

hehe

 

[Ausm]

LMAO

Ausm

 

[Childs]

Are they on the metric system in the UK? I didnt think anyone else used MPH but us backwards Americans.

 

[Eli]

That's great.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: Childs
Are they on the metric system in the UK? I didnt think anyone else used MPH but us backwards Americans.

it's called the english system for a reason

 

[Zenmervolt]

Reminds me of an old cartoon with a guy in an original VW Beetle and a traffic cop. The guy in the VW has an amazed look on his face and the caption was, "Honest? That fast?"

ZV

 

[blurredvision]

Nice.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

I had a friend get a ticket for doing 85MPH up an 8% grade in a 3 cylinder, 1 litre, Geo Metro (55HP).


...he had even gotten on the freeway 3 onramps past the grade while getting off of work. In the US, if the cop saw you breaking the laws of physics, you did. You're guilty until proven innocent. And reasonable doubt is something on the cop's side.

 

[her209]

Quotas need to be done away with.

 

[Shawn]

LOL

 

[Viperoni]

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: Childs
Are they on the metric system in the UK? I didnt think anyone else used MPH but us backwards Americans.

You kiddin right?

 

[Klixxer]

Originally posted by: XietyCOM

Originally posted by: Childs
Are they on the metric system in the UK? I didnt think anyone else used MPH but us backwards Americans.

You kiddin right?

He probably has no idea where the american system comes from.

Actually, the UK system is a mix of both nowadays.

 

[Bulk Beef]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP

Originally posted by: Childs
Are they on the metric system in the UK? I didnt think anyone else used MPH but us backwards Americans.

it's called the english system for a reason

Miles make sense, but the British make up for it by driving on the wrong side of the road.