M4 180mph - what was the car?

[simonrockman]

From the Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12909617/...

The great investigative powers of the paper fail to identify the car. He's outed himself on Snapchat.

So what is this?

[sjg]

It’s a Mercedes dash. C63 according to https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/driver-arrested-18...

[Demented]

I would say a W204 C63 AMG.
I really don't understand the people that post themselves doing these kinds of speeds on public roads. It's just asking for yourself to get nicked...

[Thomas Trent]

Looks like a Mercedes to me. Possibly C or E class, 2010ish.

[Leon R]

Is it phone GPS data that proves when and where it occurred?

[anonymous-user]

couldn't care less if these vermin kill themselves, but not right that they should put other people at risk. Bring back corporal punishment, preferably by repeated kicking in the balls.

[Debaser]

Looks more like 170.

[coolchris]

Remember the muppet that posted himself hitting an indicated 200mph on the m23 during the day in an rs6 going past lorries like they were stationary.Bloody madness.If one wants to try to explore the limits of a car get on a track day.On a public rd one only has to pull out and its total carnage.

[Ffordd Ar Gau]

It’d be funny if it were reading in km/h These seem the type of pond life that it wouldn’t even realise, and then their record is not half as impressive utterly ridiculous.

Or maybe they’d taken inspiration from this thread and had just got slightly lost…
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...


Seriously though, it is nutters like this that ruin things for everyone else

[wiliferus]

Debaser said:

Looks more like 170.

Indicated 170 which means 155 at best. Not that that’s ok on a public road. But declaring 180 when you’re clearly no where near….

[Caddyshack]

wiliferus said:

Debaser said:

Looks more like 170.

Indicated 170 which means 155 at best. Not that that’s ok on a public road. But declaring 180 when you’re clearly no where near….

I would have thought a modern Merc speedo was accurate to within about 3-5mph.

I often use Waze and the gps speed is very close to the speedo in my bikes and cars.

[Heaveho]

wiliferus said:

Indicated 170 which means 155 at best. Not that that’s ok on a public road. But declaring 180 when you’re clearly no where near….

Even my 2005 Boxster S is within 3 mph at an indicated 170......

[waremark]

coolchris said:

Remember the muppet that posted himself hitting an indicated 200mph on the m23 during the day in an rs6 going past lorries like they were stationary.Bloody madness.If one wants to try to explore the limits of a car get on a track day.On a public rd one only has to pull out and its total carnage.

So which track day is suitable for a vmax run?

[ChrisH79]

waremark said:

So which track day is suitable for a vmax run?

Vmax at bruntingthorpe?

[survivalist]

coolchris said:

Remember the muppet that posted himself hitting an indicated 200mph on the m23 during the day in an rs6 going past lorries like they were stationary.Bloody madness.If one wants to try to explore the limits of a car get on a track day.On a public rd one only has to pull out and its total carnage.

Straight line speed isn’t exciting without some risk. Besides, at those kinds of speeds everything is trying to slow you down anyway, so it’s not hard to lose some speed.

[Dingu]

waremark said:

So which track day is suitable for a vmax run?

Any are more suitable than the M4 funnily enough.

[survivalist]

Dingu said:

waremark said:

So which track day is suitable for a vmax run?

Any are more suitable than the M4 funnily enough.

Nah. Many UK tracks are too twisty to get anywhere near vmax for a lot of cars.

[Giantt]

waremark said:

coolchris said:

Remember the muppet that posted himself hitting an indicated 200mph on the m23 during the day in an rs6 going past lorries like they were stationary.Bloody madness.If one wants to try to explore the limits of a car get on a track day.On a public rd one only has to pull out and its total carnage.

So which track day is suitable for a vmax run?

More to the point,which driver's are?On public roads I'd say none,it's the other road users most likely to decide if an accident occurs?

[waremark]

ChrisH79 said:

Vmax at bruntingthorpe?

No longer available.

It's a terrible idea to drive very fast on UK motorways but you cannot do vmax on normal track days.

For most of us high speed performance is irrelevant.

[OzzyR1]

waremark said:

coolchris said:

Remember the muppet that posted himself hitting an indicated 200mph on the m23 during the day in an rs6 going past lorries like they were stationary.Bloody madness.If one wants to try to explore the limits of a car get on a track day.On a public rd one only has to pull out and its total carnage.

So which track day is suitable for a vmax run?

Finding the limits of a car isn't just hitting vmax, no idea why top speed is such a big deal.
You can buy an Easyjet ticket for £20 to Europe and hit 500mph into the bargain.

Barring that, go to Santa Pod or Bruntingthorpe on an open day & use their space.