What would you expect as punishment if you a) drove at over 80mph in a 30mph limit b) drove at over 100 in a 60mph limit c) drove at 156mph in a 70 limit
And it would be the same here.
About ten or so years ago, we had a young local boy struck by a motorist doing 50 in a 25 mph (when children are present) school zone. When school is not in session, it's a 45 mph street. Whether or not speed had anything to do with the boy crossing safely, I don't know.
About six months later, I was doing the required 45 mph at the time, at that same spot where the boy was killed, at around 5:00 pm. From behind came a police cruiser driven by a cop who lived up the street from our home. He left me like I was standing still, at least 20 mph faster than my vehicle. On a call? Nope. Just going home for the evening.
The next morning, I spoke to the desk sergeant, and explained what had happened. He blew me off, of course.
About a week or so later, the same cop did the same thing, and blew right by me to get home for the day. Apparently they didn't even speak to him about his driving.
Imagine what would happen to any "non-cop" doing this in that heavily monitored radar zone.
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The officer was joyriding and got caught. Good lawyers can do wonders ;-)
What Make/model was this car that needed to be tested at such a speed??
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A Vauxhall (UK only GM brand) Vectra GSi 3.2 V6. New and untested as a highspeed pursuit vehicle by that force.
During both of our trips to the UK in the early nineties, my wife and I rented a Rover automobile. I don't remember the model, but it was new in '93. While the mileage was too low to show rattles or troubles, I was impressed with the Camry-sized vehicle. It was quite peppy, handled well, and seemed thrifty on your at-the-time two-pound,
25 pence per gallon fuel. I totaled three thousand miles for both trips, so it certainly was a fair evaluation.And I loved the roundabouts. Every time we got lost, I would hug to the inside while my wife consulted the map. Sometimes it took several circuits before we got our bearings. Very handy.
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Same thing here. Most departments buy the biggest porker they can find - SUVs are in now - and drive them like sports cars. Very dangerous not to mention un-professional. They're fun to watch in 'normal' everyday driving too. Rarely see one traveling at the speed limit, using lane change signals - maybe an option on these 'pursuit vehicles. YOU, OTH, are expected to obey all the rules.
Rovers have always been seen as soft boring old mens cars (even when they made nothing but big cars). Jaguars were sporting gents cars. And MG were for the young single man or young couple with no kids.
Unfortunately, Jaguar is now ford. MG and Rover became part of Leyland in the 70's (as did Jaguar until it was sold to ford). Leyland became rover group, and did deals with Honda to make solid reliable cars. Then the deal ended, and BMW bought them. The sold them, with debts, for £10. Then this year they folded. men out of work, factories closed, and cars unsold. The chinese were supposed to buy them. Insteads they backed out at the last minute, with license agreements that allow then to produce Rover designed cars in China. They also get a look at the plant tooling to buy them, and make more cars.
So now the current Rovers and MGs (now just small hatch and sedans with different badges) are the last of the great car brand.
Have as search for the Rover P4, P5/5b and P6. The P5 and P6 used a V8 engine that Rover bought and developed from Buick, and was still in use as a 5 litre until last year, developed from it's original 3.5 litre. Fantastic engine.
The rental did well on your single lane roads in Devon or Yorkshire. Far better than a larger car would have done.
For certain, neither of the rentals had V8's. ;-)
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No that didn't get a V8 in any of the family cars, the V8 went into the Rangerover (part of Landrover, who ford bought, not Rover oddly). Later Rangerovers had BMW V8's instead of Rover ones.
Although there was a LTD Rover 75 and MGZT (same car different badge and interior) that got a Ford Mustang V8 engine, toward the end of Rovers life.
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