308 km/h on the QEW

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Joe Bass said:
I remember a few guys putting the Capri bubble back hatch on their stangs to look a bit different.

I loved (and still do) the fox body trunk style....but man that interior was so bland.
And I know it was a bare bones cheap muscle car, but still....my '88 Stellar had a nicer interior.

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Definitely lacking in a lot of areas lol, primarily interior and brakes. But a lot of fun for around $13k new IIRC. Hard to find them now for much less without being a basket case.


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Joe Bass said:
I remember a few guys putting the Capri bubble back hatch on their stangs to look a bit different.

I loved (and still do) the fox body trunk style....but man that interior was so bland.
And I know it was a bare bones cheap muscle car, but still....my '88 Stellar had a nicer interior.

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I actually found that the interior exceeded my expectations, especially the (front) seats. Nobody on the planet makes a car like that anymore, cheap and fast. You might be able to make an argument for cheap and fun. And maybe that's just how it has to be, because you can't even get a base Corolla for less than $20K now. Thank goodness for motorcycles
 
SVeezy said:
There was also the Capri and Capri RS Turbo. I didn’t prefer the styling but it was the same fox body chassis.
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Old GF had the Capri.
 
danp said:
You were very lucky. My dad was never a car guy. My family always had the cheapest and smallest economy cars (plymouth reliant, dodge colt, ford festiva, etc). When I bought my first car (midsized sedan with a V6) my dad told me what a fool I was for buying such an unnecessarily fast car.
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Same here. Dad had 6 cylinder American cars up to the point where they went to rubbish in the 1970s, then switched to 4 cylinder Japanese cars. Dad never had anything with a V8 or V6, although towards the end he splurged and bought a Jetta with a 1.8T gas engine ... same engine as the GTI/GLI but not the GLI, that would have been too flashy and hard to sell Mom on the idea :)

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I'd have to say that in terms of cars and trucks (which I consider to be appliances), I've never had anything with more than the base engine (or diesel engine). I can't be bothered with high end luxury or sports cars ... and if I had kids, I sure wouldn't be buying them such toys.
 
SunnY S said:
Pull up a chair folks, dis gonna be good.....

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Well now what. Supposedly at the time the lawyer made this claim (car is supposedly limited to 250kph), the police still had the car in their custody, so it would be unlikely that anybody re-enabled/re-flashed that speed limiter. I find it unlikely the cop accidentally got the speed of an airplane, given the clearly visible distance reading on the LIDAR.

I wonder if a kid dumb enough to do this, would be dumb enough to disable the speed limiter, and then lie to the lawyer about it
 
SunnY S said:
Pull up a chair folks, dis gonna be good.....

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Interesting defense. It would be hard to prove that the vehicle had a limiter active at 250 km/h on the night in question. Sure you could dyno it or take it to a track now to show top speed but that was easy to change in between.

As far as the "this is a family car, not a race car. Why would the father ever consider chipping it for more power?" What an ass. That is a bs argument when the family felt that 450+ hp was required for their family car. If they really felt that way, they would have got the base car and saved a fortune.
 
TwistedKestrel said:
Well now what. Supposedly at the time the lawyer made this claim (car is supposedly limited to 250kph), the police still had the car in their custody, so it would be unlikely that anybody re-enabled/re-flashed that speed limiter. I find it unlikely the cop accidentally got the speed of an airplane, given the clearly visible distance reading on the LIDAR.

I wonder if a kid dumb enough to do this, would be dumb enough to disable the speed limiter, and then lie to the lawyer about it
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Well the police still having it in custody ups the game but still doesnt necessarily prove anything. I dont know enough about merc tuning, but on some vehicles, playing with the tune is possible without a reflash (key sequence, no limiter in sport mode, bluetooth control, etc). Is this kid enough of an idiot to be hanging out outside the impound yard and updating the tuning module via bluetooth? Sounds like the answer is yes, the question is was that possible.
 
GreyGhost said:
Well the police still having it in custody ups the game but still doesnt necessarily prove anything. I dont know enough about merc tuning, but on some vehicles, playing with the tune is possible without a reflash (key sequence, no limiter in sport mode, bluetooth control, etc). Is this kid enough of an idiot to be hanging out outside the impound yard and updating the tuning module via bluetooth? Sounds like the answer is yes, the question is was that possible.
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From the looks of the lawyer Im guessing, for a few bucks, he could get a number of people to stand outside the impound and do that. If, like you said, it is possible. Judging by the defense I am again guessing it is.
 
Wasn't there an in-car video of him doing 300+ another time posted on social medial?
 
FullMotoJacket said:
Wasn't there an in-car video of him doing 300+ another time posted on social medial?
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Speedometer doesnt mean much. Changing wheel size that throw that off by a ton (or in some cars, you can throw it off by telling it has a different wheel size). I couldnt tell from the pictures what the wheels looked like on the c63. If they increased diameter substantially from stock, you might be able to get speed substantially above the limiter as the car doesnt know what is actually happening.
 
Babble cop shoulda not joked / opened his yak about his fellow cop catching an airplane at 308. That puts "doubt in the courts eyes" right there.
In court, with that lawyer, the kid is walking with a 49 over - max!
 
Gary said:
Babble cop shoulda not joked / opened his yak about his fellow cop catching an airplane at 308. That puts "doubt in the courts eyes" right there.
In court, with that lawyer, the kid is walking with a 49 over - max!
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Then I sure hope the cop has all his ts crossed and is dotted. Otherwise it could be a simple case dismissed.
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