Ideal car for getting away from cops?

[WinkOsmosis]

I have night vision on my car and I use it to evade the police. It's a HUD, not head mounted. My roommate and I made it out of a modded video camera and LCD display that reflects off the windshield. There is a filter on the camera that filters out visible light and lets IR through, so oncoming cars don't blind me. We used IR bulbs to help illuminate the road but they aren't necessary. I've used it 6 times so far to evade the police.

 

[oSReApEr]

Hold on, which shelby was in gone in sixty seconds....

Another car you should think about is a 560 SEL benz from 1987-1990. That car has a 160 tacko, a 6.9 0-60 time. and it could break through any police blockade and still have enough guts to go head on with a mack truck and win. Rich wood and leather interior will give you a nice sense of luxury while you can shoot your hk usp at a nearby cruiser.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: FlapJack
1983 Dodge Omni oh yea i almost frogot the most important part... GHL.......

The "Goes Like Hell" package?

Yah, I heard of them (you read Zodiac?)

yah, and If I were drug running, I'd just drive my Sable at the speed limit in the daylight. I'd hide the drugs so a casual search wouldn't find them. I'd obey all traffic regulations, and I would have a false ID (so if i am being watched, my liscense wouldn't set any alarms off)

 

[VTrider]

Man, all you guys are dreaming if you seriously think you can get away from the cops in 'any' vehicle, you be watching too much TV.

I don't care what your driving, I'm not an expert in Helicopters but I'm willing to be that any crappy 15yr old news helicopter can follow the fastest sports car, somebody please prove me wrong.

Keep on dreaming all you kids with fast and furious dreams, the only thing close to reality which would work is what ScottyB suggested....a Delorean with a Flux Capacitor, now that makes more sense than anything I read in this thread.

 

[Freejack2]

It's probably possible to outrun the cops, but it probably requires a lot of luck and timing. Then again if the robbers got out of there before the cops got there they could probably avoid the chase altogether.

 

[Supertastic Fool]

Originally posted by: SackOfAllTrades
a cop car

That is not stock bud. Anyway its a 4 banger.

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
1967 Shelby from Gone in Sixty Seconds?

There is no way that car was stock... didn't it even show him turing on nitrous? (I think that is how you spell it, im to tired and brain dead to care though)


Other than that a new ford GT could do it.

 

[wasssup]

a hachiroku.

you can pretend you're takumi!

 

[Tetsuo]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
This is tough. I was initially going to say an M-998 Humvee because there's nothing that they could do to stop it, but they would ALWAYS be right on the bumper (Unless I went offroad - at which point I still couldn't lose the choppers). And you certainly can't blend into a crowd, and you can't ditch it because it would be so obvious if they found it later.

Then I was gonna say McLaren F1. Choppers would have a helluva time keeping up if it were downtime on a freeway. But it's too expensive to drive like that, and you don't need to be commiting crimes if you can afford one. That, and reinforcements could just pull onto the freeway 10 miles down and wait there with nasty presents.

Solution? The I-95 drug runner's special. Lambo or Ferrari, completely blacked out. All lights killswitched, windows dark tinted, non-reflective black paint. At night you can literally dissapear. Since the advent of EZ-Pass systems, they don't even have to get off I-95 to get around the tollbooths. Cruisers can't catch 'em, choppers can't get on scene fast enough, and once they get where they're going, they dissapear into a warehouse not to emerge until the next night to head back for more goodies.

Any crime you want at night. If you're driving one of these and near a highway, you're free and clear.

I had a run-in with one once, was on I-95 northbound about 1AM. Nothing in the mirror, I'm in the left lane cruising along. Suddenly VRMMM. This invisible... SOMTHING flies by on my right side. Only later do I find out from people that live along I-95 that these things exist and what their purpose is.

:camera:'s????

 

[dtmbb92]

BATMOBILE!!!!

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
This is tough. I was initially going to say an M-998 Humvee because there's nothing that they could do to stop it, but they would ALWAYS be right on the bumper (Unless I went offroad - at which point I still couldn't lose the choppers). And you certainly can't blend into a crowd, and you can't ditch it because it would be so obvious if they found it later.

Then I was gonna say McLaren F1. Choppers would have a helluva time keeping up if it were downtime on a freeway. But it's too expensive to drive like that, and you don't need to be commiting crimes if you can afford one. That, and reinforcements could just pull onto the freeway 10 miles down and wait there with nasty presents.

Solution? The I-95 drug runner's special. Lambo or Ferrari, completely blacked out. All lights killswitched, windows dark tinted, non-reflective black paint. At night you can literally dissapear. Since the advent of EZ-Pass systems, they don't even have to get off I-95 to get around the tollbooths. Cruisers can't catch 'em, choppers can't get on scene fast enough, and once they get where they're going, they dissapear into a warehouse not to emerge until the next night to head back for more goodies.

Any crime you want at night. If you're driving one of these and near a highway, you're free and clear.

I had a run-in with one once, was on I-95 northbound about 1AM. Nothing in the mirror, I'm in the left lane cruising along. Suddenly VRMMM. This invisible... SOMTHING flies by on my right side. Only later do I find out from people that live along I-95 that these things exist and what their purpose is.

:Q

:Q

 

[ViperMagic]

Originally posted by: Kmackalopogus

Originally posted by: SackOfAllTrades
a cop car

That is not stock bud. Anyway its a 4 banger.

What kind of cop cars do you see? Around here they drive Crown Vic's with the Big-boy V8s, as do the majority of the police officers in the country. Some drive Impala's with the 3.8L V6, which isn't an engine to be toyed with.

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
I have night vision on my car and I use it to evade the police. It's a HUD, not head mounted. My roommate and I made it out of a modded video camera and LCD display that reflects off the windshield. There is a filter on the camera that filters out visible light and lets IR through, so oncoming cars don't blind me. We used IR bulbs to help illuminate the road but they aren't necessary. I've used it 6 times so far to evade the police.

I wanna see pics and instructions for this... :camera:

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: VTrider
Man, all you guys are dreaming if you seriously think you can get away from the cops in 'any' vehicle, you be watching too much TV.

I don't care what your driving, I'm not an expert in Helicopters but I'm willing to be that any crappy 15yr old news helicopter can follow the fastest sports car, somebody please prove me wrong.

Keep on dreaming all you kids with fast and furious dreams, the only thing close to reality which would work is what ScottyB suggested....a Delorean with a Flux Capacitor, now that makes more sense than anything I read in this thread.

It depends how far you have to go and how much info they have on you. I was doing top speed tests in my 1966 GT and all of a sudden I saw christmas coming for me down the end of the road....so I took off into the residential area (I wasn't going extremely fast through there, but just at a steady clip)...I had the advantage of being a delivery driver at the time (I was 17 maybe 18) and the cops were 'rented' by our town from the city, so never knew what roads went where at the time.

Anyways it was clear they were both up the neighborhood from me and behind me....so I pulled into an open garage and shut the door. I then just waited and waited....finally the homeowner came out and asked me what the hell was I doing in his garage .

I made up a story that I was told to come over and what in the garage of [a close address to the one his was] and they'd be home in a little bit. I told him they said they left the garage open for me. He was then pretty nice and told me I had to go down the block a few houses. By now maybe 10mins-15mins had past and the cops weren't heard anymore. I went back home and we took my brother's car back out.

From where they started chasing me to where I lost them was about 7-10miles maybe a little more.

 

[Ciber]

Modern high-end night vision gear will NOT blind you.

 

[RedRooster]

Many states and provinces have imposed a "rule" within their county/municiple police to not even try chasing motorcycles. They have no such thing for any car though, which shows there are no four wheeled vehicles on the road which they think pose a threat to their methods of persuit.
If I had a million dollar car, I still wouldn't run from the police in any circumstance. On a bike however, if I was truly scared for some reason, I'd definately make a run with a better than good chance of getting away. I'm not a good enough rider to ever try it, yet. j/k

 

[Amorphus]

hey, quick tip.

fast car is necessary, but what will get you out is nerve. you have to be more reckless than cops. and you can't have a conspicuous car, either. if oyu get into a tunnel, choppers can't follow you, so all you have to do it get rid of the ground pursuit.

you can also do the traditional pull-into-a-parking-lot and walk-into-nearby-store routine. you need a stolen car to do this, and your own car in the lot, too.

 

[cerebusPu]

you guys watch the getaway in stockholm videos?

they basiccally drive around until they run into police, then they outrun them thru the city. i think they usually drive a porsche.

my friends apartment is in the video, so its confirmed as stockholm.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: VTrider
Man, all you guys are dreaming if you seriously think you can get away from the cops in 'any' vehicle, you be watching too much TV.

I don't care what your driving, I'm not an expert in Helicopters but I'm willing to be that any crappy 15yr old news helicopter can follow the fastest sports car, somebody please prove me wrong.

Keep on dreaming all you kids with fast and furious dreams, the only thing close to reality which would work is what ScottyB suggested....a Delorean with a Flux Capacitor, now that makes more sense than anything I read in this thread.

Most Civil 'Copters top out around 140Mph AFAIK. The advantage they have is not having to follow the road

McLaren F1 if it hasn't already been posted. It is the fastest production car ever made.

 

[chasuibao]

chitty chitty bang bang

 

[lowfatbaconboy]

DIHATSU!!!!
http://www.microcar.org/1999/0299.html

 

[5ayle]

Originally posted by: notfred
Watch the race.

This truck!!!

w/ kill switch.
screw silencing it.
NV for sure... nm FLIR mounte behind the grill or in front.
F-350 would eat ditches up

 

[Rickten]

the only time I've ever seen someone get away on live tv the guy was on a bike. The news chopper camera kept zooming in on the guy until the camera guy could simply zoom no more. Unfortunately he crashed and died but the news crew was pretty much admitting that they had lost him.

 

[EXman]

General Lee with Daisy driving

WOOOHOOOO!

 

[Banana]

Originally posted by: conjur
Buick Century

I agree==you need a car that would blend in and disappear. Ricer would be visible for miles!

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Kenazo

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
This is tough. I was initially going to say an M-998 Humvee because there's nothing that they could do to stop it, but they would ALWAYS be right on the bumper (Unless I went offroad - at which point I still couldn't lose the choppers). And you certainly can't blend into a crowd, and you can't ditch it because it would be so obvious if they found it later.

Then I was gonna say McLaren F1. Choppers would have a helluva time keeping up if it were downtime on a freeway. But it's too expensive to drive like that, and you don't need to be commiting crimes if you can afford one. That, and reinforcements could just pull onto the freeway 10 miles down and wait there with nasty presents.

Solution? The I-95 drug runner's special. Lambo or Ferrari, completely blacked out. All lights killswitched, windows dark tinted, non-reflective black paint. At night you can literally dissapear. Since the advent of EZ-Pass systems, they don't even have to get off I-95 to get around the tollbooths. Cruisers can't catch 'em, choppers can't get on scene fast enough, and once they get where they're going, they dissapear into a warehouse not to emerge until the next night to head back for more goodies.

Any crime you want at night. If you're driving one of these and near a highway, you're free and clear.

I had a run-in with one once, was on I-95 northbound about 1AM. Nothing in the mirror, I'm in the left lane cruising along. Suddenly VRMMM. This invisible... SOMTHING flies by on my right side. Only later do I find out from people that live along I-95 that these things exist and what their purpose is.

First of all, Bullsh!t.

The police caught a runner from Detroit who was driving to Cleveland in a black Lambo at night... they were tipped off as to the routes taken and set up spike strips near hidden cruisers. I believe they put several rows of spike strips, and 2x4's painted black in the road so that even if he made it through the spike strips, he wouldn't be able to maintain control going over all the 2x4's.

Do you have a link to a story? Sounds like an interesting read. ... driving like that, who needs to use drugs? The adrenaline rush of going 200mph with no headlights would be amazing.

Was a while ago, when I was in grade school, so... about 13 years ago I believe... I remember watching stories on it on TV and reading about it in the Detroit News.