Maserati fined for noise in London today!!

[hoegaardenruls]

rainmakerraw said:

wack said:

I have a 4200 that blips the throttle on downshifts, if the car is standard and that's how it came out of the factory when it was type approved for EU use there's no way i'd be paying that fine

The MC Shift has the same type or robotised gearbox with a clutch, its not an automatic

This. If it's EU type approved then they're on a hiding to nothing, Shirley? It's not like he was ragging the nuts off it and causing a blatant nuisance; he was driving in traffic and slowing down for the bus!

I don't think the car is standard.

I recognise the plate, and remember being followed down Sloane St and along Kings Road one night - the car is noisy enough to attract attention, so given the area maybe attracted a complaint earlier in the day? Still seems a bit much though based on what's in that short clip..

EDIT: just seen on the local news it's part of a crackdown this weekend..

Edited by hoegaardenruls on Saturday 9th July 18:00

[Blaster72]

Dodgy looking front window tints too, notice how they lower the windows before the Police catch up.

As for the Police, don't they have a fitness test any more? That last officer looked like a yellow beach ball Not much chance of chasing after anyone.

[castex]

I've often thought modern Masers are a bit too shouty.

[rs990]

Durzel said:

It's all very well downplaying the grief the residents suffer based on you/watchers visiting once, experiencing isolated incidences and figuring it's no big deal, but they have to live there. Why should they put up with this culture of anti-social driving and the reckless spotters that come with it?

Some of the supercar drivers in that area are lunatics. A couple of days ago, I saw a Lamborghini launch from the traffic lights outside the Royal Hospital, hammering up Lower Sloane Street. God knows what speed he was at when he reached the crossing around the corner.

I am all for people having fun in their supercars, but there is a time and a place. If you are driving like a clown in a busy area with a huge amount of pedestrian traffic you deserve to have the book thrown at you. If your car can wake the dead (be it an Astra or an Aventador) then you are an antisocial prick.

[foxsasha]

The Crack Fox said:

Even if it was an innocent (if noisy) downshift, filming the cops like a petulant tt doesn't help his cause, does it.

If I got stopped and fined for what was shown in the video then I would also do everything possible to embarrass the police. He is being punished regardless, filming the process has no effect on immediate result. If the footage makes the police uncomfortable with their (on the face of it) unreasonable actions then great.

[jdw1234]

I've seen that car being driven like a dick.

I am glad they are clamping down on those dheads lien a ton of bricks.

When I used to live in Hurlingham I used to cruise home in 6th so it was as quiet as possible (Ferrari F355 with capristo level 2 - long time ago). It isn't hard to be considerate.

They need to start impounding and crushing cars (and IPhones) in Knightsbridge.

[swimd]

I'm afraid a zero-tolerance policy is the only way to deal with this problem. I'm a petrol head myself but was shocked when I last visited London and went shopping with my wife. It's fun for the first few minutes but all the Lamborghinis banging the limiter in neutral got old really fast. I cannot fathom how the residents must feel about this.

Edited by swimd on Saturday 9th July 18:26

[ZX10R NIN]

jdw1234 said:

I've seen that car being driven like a dick.

I am glad they are clamping down on those dheads lien a ton of bricks.

When I used to live in Hurlingham I used to cruise home in 6th so it was as quiet as possible (Ferrari F355 with capristo level 2 - long time ago). It isn't hard to be considerate.

They need to start impounding and crushing cars (and IPhones) in Knightsbridge.

But it wasn't being driven badly when he got pulled over I bet if someone saw you enjoying your F355 they might have had an opinion on you to.

[ZX10R NIN]

jdw1234 said:

I've seen that car being driven like a dick.

I am glad they are clamping down on those dheads lien a ton of bricks.

When I used to live in Hurlingham I used to cruise home in 6th so it was as quiet as possible (Ferrari F355 with capristo level 2 - long time ago). It isn't hard to be considerate.

They need to start impounding and crushing cars (and IPhones) in Knightsbridge.

But it wasn't being driven badly when he got pulled over I bet if someone saw you enjoying your F355 they might have had an opinion on you to.

[MrBarry123]

Blaster72 said:

Did they really put on the blues and twos and pull him over for that? Hard to believe that's all it was for.

Quite.

It's likely just some sYouTuber modifying the story - perhaps in ignorance of the facts - to boost his views and/or following.

[Mastodon2]

All the cries of "The car has an auto-blipper, it's how it left the factory!" will come to nothing as it's clearly not running the factory exhaust. He had this coming, he would have known they are cracking down on this sort of thing and to blip a shift right in front of a police car in London is asking for trouble. He then promptly fails the attitude test by sticking a camera phone in their faces, what a knob.

The car sounds good though.

[PGNSagaris]

Mothersruin said:

So the Mazzer has a normal downshift which the Police think is too noisy, so they put on their siren which is twice as loud.

Makes sense.

Haha. My thought exactly. Fine those stupid rozzers, their shrieking siren was painful. As was the 17 point turn

[Mr2Mike]

Is the Maser running a completely standard exhaust?

[InitialDave]

If thirty dheads a day are revving the st out their cars and generally being knobs, yeah, I can see them putting something in place to deal with the nuisance, and if number thirty-one is someone who isn't really doing anything that knobbish, unfortunately he's going to get the stty end of the stick all the same.

It's no different to having a preferred driving road under too much scrutiny to let you get away with possibly-a-little-outside-the-law fun thanks to lots of other people being complete tts and ruining it for everyone.

This is why, in my experience, as much as the general public dislike some of the behaviour of people with fast/modified cars, "true" car people really hate them, because they get to share in suffering the consequences when people finally decide they've had enough.

[jdw1234]

ZX10R NIN said:

jdw1234 said:

I've seen that car being driven like a dick.

I am glad they are clamping down on those dheads lien a ton of bricks.

When I used to live in Hurlingham I used to cruise home in 6th so it was as quiet as possible (Ferrari F355 with capristo level 2 - long time ago). It isn't hard to be considerate.

They need to start impounding and crushing cars (and IPhones) in Knightsbridge.

But it wasn't being driven badly when he got pulled over I bet if someone saw you enjoying your F355 they might have had an opinion on you to.

I expect (from what I observed of that actual car in person) he was previously driving like a tool.

FYI Surrey police did issue me with a Section 59 or whatever they were called. I was driving like a knob (as any 25 year old would do!) but at least I wasn't in a residential area. Now I am over 30 I have earned the right to be a grumpy old git!

I particularly dislike the idiots in Knightsbridge as they have made me hate modern super cars. I just associate them with dick heads now.

Edited by jdw1234 on Saturday 9th July 18:54

[Jimmy Recard]

An aftermarket exhaust doesn't need type approval in the UK, as far as I'm aware. Cars get repaired with third party components all the time.

[Tony 1234]

Driver looks like a 'powerfully built company director' so probably an average PH member

[Mr GrimNasty]

Jimmy Recard said:

An aftermarket exhaust doesn't need type approval in the UK, as far as I'm aware. Cars get repaired with third party components all the time.

Clearly louder than it left the factory - so it's illegal.

tts with loud exhausts and stereos deserve every fine they get. End of.

[kambites]

Jimmy Recard said:

An aftermarket exhaust doesn't need type approval in the UK, as far as I'm aware. Cars get repaired with third party components all the time.

Indeed, however it is illegal to modify a car's exhaust system to make it louder or to create "excessive noise" on the road in general.

[Durzel]

swimd said:

I'm afraid a zero-tolerance policy is the only way to deal with this problem. I'm a petrol head myself but was shocked when I last visited London and went shopping with my wife. It's fun for the first few minutes but all the Lamborghinis banging the limiter in neutral got old really fast. I cannot fathom how the residents must feel about this.

Edited by swimd on Saturday 9th July 18:26

I would guess that they're sick to death of it. It has been going on for years now and it's only relatively recently that Kensington & Chelsea council have introduced specific legislation to give Police the powers to deal with it.

I would tend to agree that generally speaking it's a rather sweeping, subjective and open to abuse piece of legislation - but this area badly needed it.