MSYoung

Let's see.

A 22 year old with a two year old BMW and an 18 year old with a new Honda.

I see kids with more money than brains. The fine will probably be just pocket change. Give them six months community service instead. Perhaps cleaning up at crash sites where other stupid people weren't lucky enough to be stopped by a cop before they did themselves in.

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Ancient1

I prefer "take their money and let Darwin sort them out"...

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MSYoung

The problem with letting Darwin sort it out is that they may take someone with them that did not need to be sorted out. If we could be certain that only they would go when the gene pool was flushed, I'd agree with you.

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Archibald J. Cox

What, like no one here ever went street racing in their 71 Chevelle SS 396? Maybe not 140mph, but then again, 160 isn't exactly "safer"!

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monkeylizard

hmmm...has Arch entered the PBXInfo confessional?

Since we're on it, Top speed was about 130mph with the cruise control set, but that was on the Autobahn. Even in my invincible days of youth, I considered much more than 115mph to be nuts on US roadways. We just don't keep our road surfaces in the condition they need to be in for those speeds. And we're all the poorer for it.

gei_spot

Dude... If you haven't been past 150 MPH you haven't traveled

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slagburn

My highest was in the high 140s out in the desert - about as fast as my car will go.

Longest sustained was 105 for about 15 minutes coming back from up north on the I5. (Didn't realize I was going that fast, just keeping up with a Lexus in front of me and the person behind was keeping up with me)

Do Honda Accords come with tires rated to those speeds?

JulianW

Over here the car manufacturer is obliged to supply the car with tyres that are rated beyond the maximum the car is capable of. Costs me over £100 ($200) each.

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MSYoung

I5 north of Los Angeles is not watched that close by the Highway Patrol (at least it wasn't a few years ago) and I owned a Nissan 350ZX at that time. I was driving up to San Francisco and decided I wanted to see what the car would do so for about an hour I was cruising at about 120 (that is as high as the speedometer went). The car rode very smooth and handled well but I am sure that if something went wrong it would have been all over.

I finally slowed down for the rest of the trip but the funny thing was that while I was driving at 120, some cars were passing me. Not a lot, but the cars that passed were Ferrari's, Lamborgini's, and cars of that ilk.

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