Driver caught speeding 146mph in Oregon

[Pencil_Pusher]

Why oh why would you pull over at this speed? You're doing 146 and see a cop car or your radar detector goes full tilt. You are so hosed anyhow, just keep going. Save for a roadblock or someone waiting ahead, how are you to know you're being pursued?

 

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003010559_dige22m.html

[Dechristo]

Motorola is faster.

[John Frieh]

Wasn't me... my license is suspended till next month so I am driving the speed limit

[RogerJ]

Wasn't me... my license is suspended till next month so I am driving the speed limit

 

Ha ha... My first reaction was to wonder if it WAS you

[Off_White]

Yeah, just keep going.

 

 

Me, I wondered if it was Snowbyrd, though I think she only got tagged for 96 on the way to Tuffyfest.

[John Frieh]

Why is it that "the shack" comes before "the girl" Does "the girl" live in "the shack"

[Off_White]

I highly recommend that you watch the movie, one of my all time drive-in faves.

[Couloir]

Looks like OSP is at least trying to address the issue.

 

http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=85437

[Couloir]

Looks like OSP is at least trying to address the issue.

 

http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=85437

But then again, maybe not!

 

... and posted a best-in-class top speed of over 145-mph.

[111]

"A Multi-Displacement System that at cruising speed shuts the system down to 4 of the eight cylinders for increased fuel economy. Estimated EPA fuel economy is 17-mpg City and 25-mpg Highway. "

 

pretty snazzy!

[billcoe]

I highly recommend that you watch the movie, one of my all time drive-in faves.

 

Vanishing Point.

 

Seen it. Unimpressed. Pointless stupididy.

 

Think an uninteresting version of Thelma and Louise except that the ending involved some nit ramming his car full-tilt into a D9 Cat blade at near supersonic speed to evade police capture instead of trying to jump something which resembles the Grand Canyon.

 

end of movie. Good-by, good riddance. If Gena Davis or some hot equivalent had been in it she could have saved the movie, but alas.

[Off_White]

Probably you just weren't in the proper "drive-in theatre" mode. + In contrast, I thought Thelma & Louise was a bit of a snooze. Bear in mind, I haven't seen Vanishing Point in almost 30 years

 

How about Master of the Flying Guillotine? Surely you couldn't be so dismissive of that fine celluloid entertainment?

[kix]

the funk phenomenon, the funk phenomenon, the funk phenomenon, the funk phenomenon, the funk phenomenon, the funk phenomenon, the funk phenomenon, the funk phenomenon, the funk phenomenon, the funk phenomenon, the funk phenomenon, the funk phenomenon,

 

hell yeah.

[rbw1966]

Master of the Flying Guillotine kicks MAJOR ass!

[JoshK]

"A Multi-Displacement System that at cruising speed shuts the system down to 4 of the eight cylinders for increased fuel economy. Estimated EPA fuel economy is 17-mpg City and 25-mpg Highway. "

 

pretty snazzy!

 

...for a low-tech amurican POS engine. Japanese and Euro manufactuers have been getting way better numbers for years by simply designing engines not based on 1960s technology.

 

My subbie's 2.5l 4cyl turbo makes 370hp and gets over 27mpg on the highway. Not to mention it gets to 60 nearly 2 seconds faster than this straigh-line amurican POS.

[Pencil_Pusher]

Is there something you're trying to compensate for, Josh?

[John Frieh]

My subbie's 2.5l 4cyl turbo makes 370hp and gets over 27mpg on the highway. Not to mention it gets to 60 nearly 2 seconds faster than this straigh-line amurican POS.

 

Sounds like open season for all deer on cascade river road if you ask me... huh Ivan?

[ivan]

[quote

Sounds like open season for all deer on cascade river road if you ask me... huh Ivan?

well, as far as i've witnessed, josh's only batting .500 against these majestic mammals - he does certainly have a taste for fine moose-killing motorcars though...

[John Frieh]

 

deer.

 

deer.

 

FUCKING DEER!!!!!

 

thud.

 

[JoshK]

Ivan, when the hell we going back after that momma deer any way??

[ivan]

i think she died of grief soon thereafter - made some vulture damn happy though!

 

we, like the chinese, have the capacity to swallow sorrow

[mountainmatt]

Doh!

A deer!

A female deer!

[ivan]

bitch zigged when she shoulda zagged 'zall

[JayB]

"A Multi-Displacement System that at cruising speed shuts the system down to 4 of the eight cylinders for increased fuel economy. Estimated EPA fuel economy is 17-mpg City and 25-mpg Highway. "

 

pretty snazzy!

 

...for a low-tech amurican POS engine. Japanese and Euro manufactuers have been getting way better numbers for years by simply designing engines not based on 1960s technology.

 

My subbie's 2.5l 4cyl turbo makes 370hp and gets over 27mpg on the highway. Not to mention it gets to 60 nearly 2 seconds faster than this straigh-line amurican POS.

 

Is that the new engine for the WRX? I had a friend with one of those, and remember him saying that it had something like 240hp, which is still a hell of a lot for a 4 cylinder engine, even with Le Turbo - and the thing was superfast. I can't even imagine a small car with 370hp.

 

I just hope that you are making sure that you only accelerate from 0-60 at a rate equal to a Prius so that you can keep that anti-SUV rage going with a clean conscience.

[dbconlin]

The Impreza WRX STI gets 300 hp and is rated at 24 mpg, according to Subaru.com (the regular WRX gets 230 hp, 26 mpg). That must be one pimped out engine to get 370 hp, 27 mpg!!!