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jackal

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11,250 posts

305 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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Everyone just plods along these days.

What happened to a world where it was RIGHT and PROPER to go on the motorway and occasionally see a lambo, a 911 or a ferrari scream past everyone in the outer lane at 130mph plus ? If I see a Gallardo or a 360 Challenge Stradale or a GT3 on my travels, IT DAMM WELL SHOULD BE DOING MACH4, that's what they were built for.

You don't see this anymore, not round my way. In fact, on any particular journey i've only got to up the pace a little in my crappy 1998 1.8 litre passat and I don't get overtaken all journey. This isn't a brag, just an observation that the whole country seems afraid and constrained and boxed in. Ok, so you get the odd range rover sport or Audi A5 mowing everyone down in the outside lane but in a funny kind of way they are the very cars you don't want to see going very fast.

Show me the big fat twin blower GT2, the 12 cylinder Murci or the Skyline GTR and show it to me at 150+ please .... completely banzai and blitzing up and down the country like a man possesed. F**k the magistrates !

V88Dicky

7,362 posts

206 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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Speed kills.

bad company

21,408 posts

289 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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May I suggest Germany for your holiday this year!;)

grgrgray

790 posts

191 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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V88Dicky said:
Speed kills.
Speed doesn't kill. Slowing down rapidly kills.

g3org3y

22,120 posts

214 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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E30M3SE

8,485 posts

219 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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jackal said:
F**k the magistrates !
Those sorts of speeds could result in a stay in one of Her Majersty's finest hotels, and I wonder if you would be saying that when you are grabbing your own ankles.


Petrolhead_Rich

4,659 posts

215 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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Of course, back then this was a busy motorway:



(notice they still had outside lane hog's!)

BadDriver

580 posts

189 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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Here here!!

It's probably because people forget they are supposed to be better drivers with practise not worse!

And tbh it's people just wanting to be akward and sit in the outside/middle lane and mutter " fook you - I'm doing 70 what do you want"

BadDriver

580 posts

189 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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Here here!!

It's probably because people forget they are supposed to be better drivers with practise not worse!

And tbh it's people just wanting to be akward and sit in the outside/middle lane and mutter " fook you - I'm doing 70 what do you want"

jackal

Original Poster:

11,250 posts

305 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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Petrolhead_Rich said:


(notice they still had outside lane hog's!)
lol !

nothings changed then laugh

Rawwr

22,722 posts

257 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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jackal said:
<some poorly thought out nonsense>
Why don't you shut your damn pie-hole?

Rawwr

22,722 posts

257 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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I don't even know why I said that. Carry on.

AndrewW-G

11,968 posts

240 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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It’s simply what you get from imposing targets on an increasingly politicised police force . . . . . . .

halo34

2,890 posts

222 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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Sad isn't it - I haven't seen a decent car giving it beans around here for a while either.

Chavved up shopping trollies doing 55 in a 30 dont count however, plenty of them.

mnkiboy

4,409 posts

189 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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Petrolhead_Rich said:
Of course, back then this was a busy motorway:



(notice they still had outside lane hog's!)
Probably becuase the camera car seems to be taking up two lanes. Probably on his mobile phone.

slipstream 1985

13,532 posts

202 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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your looking in the wrong place, why would those cars speed on a motorway where the roads are boring and dull. good quality A roads/ B roads are where youl find real car enthusiasts

Efbe

9,251 posts

189 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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jackal said:
Everyone just plods along these days.

What happened to a world where it was RIGHT and PROPER to go on the motorway and occasionally see a lambo, a 911 or a ferrari scream past everyone in the outer lane at 130mph plus ? If I see a Gallardo or a 360 Challenge Stradale or a GT3 on my travels, IT DAMM WELL SHOULD BE DOING MACH4, that's what they were built for.

You don't see this anymore, not round my way. In fact, on any particular journey i've only got to up the pace a little in my crappy 1998 1.8 litre passat and I don't get overtaken all journey. This isn't a brag, just an observation that the whole country seems afraid and constrained and boxed in. Ok, so you get the odd range rover sport or Audi A5 mowing everyone down in the outside lane but in a funny kind of way they are the very cars you don't want to see going very fast.

Show me the big fat twin blower GT2, the 12 cylinder Murci or the Skyline GTR and show it to me at 150+ please .... completely banzai and blitzing up and down the country like a man possesed. F**k the magistrates !
because every time you go over that completely pointless speed limit set by someone that couldn't drive for a reason that should have been dealt with in a different way, that could be set to any number from 50 to 100 with no other effect, 10 babies die. think about it

Bowler

915 posts

234 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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jackal said:
What happened to a world where it was RIGHT and PROPER to go on the motorway and occasionally see a lambo, a 911 or a ferrari scream past everyone in the outer lane at 130mph plus
It depends if you know the right places to do it (and when).... wink


aclivity

4,072 posts

211 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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BadDriver said:
Here here!!
Where where?

slipstream 1985

13,532 posts

202 months

Friday 29th October 2010
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aclivity said:
BadDriver said:
Here here!!
Where where?
there there