langey
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taken from the BBC website...
A driver caught by police doing 145mph on a motorway has escaped a ban after a court accepted that the speed did not represent dangerous driving.
Police recorded the speed of company director Ian Tyre's Honda NSX sports car on the M4 motorway at more than double the legal limit.
Cardiff Crown Court was told that the car, which is capable of 180mph, was going so fast that a patrol car could not keep up.
Prosecutor Caroline Rees told the court that Mr Tyre accelerated from 95mph to 145mph on a downhill stretch of road.
"At that point he pulled away," she explained. "The top speed of the police car was only 140mph."
Speed monitored
Police monitored the car's speed using an onboard computer.
Miss Rees said: "The officer kept his siren off to make sure he recorded an accurate reading of the speed.
"He was finally stopped on an A-road after pulling off the motorway three junctions on."
Mr Tyre, 43, of Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, was charged with speeding and dangerous driving.
He chose to go to a crown court trial to contest the charge of dangerous driving.
Defence barrister Nicholas Jones said his client admitted driving at 95mph but said: "This was not dangerous driving.
"Even if Mr Tyre was driving at 140mph, that is not dangerous either.
"It is a case of a very experienced driver in a car in very good condition, not drunk and displaying no loss of control".
The jury took an hour to find Mr Tyre not guilty of dangerous driving.
He will appear before magistrates at a later date to face a charge of speeding.
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Russ
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yay 
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Mattb
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it'd still fecking hurt if he lost control at that speed tho
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Rob H
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But remeber kids, this was done in an NSX, which is a sports car thats designed to do those speeds.... Your 1.2 corsa is not 
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Mattb
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob H
But remeber kids, this was done in an NSX, which is a sports car thats designed to do those speeds.... Your 1.2 corsa is not
Let'd corsas arent designed to go that fast either... but they do 
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Nath
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Good stuff Still he wouldve got fucked over for doing 145mph surely? However dangerous it isn't.
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Ian
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Its a fairly long ban if nothing else.
And yes, the car is designed for that. You wouldn't catch me in a LET Corsa at that speed, however capable!
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Nismo
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Mazin result im off up the M4 with a full tank and a fire extingusher 
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ed
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Its a fairly long ban if nothing else.
And yes, the car is designed for that. You wouldn't catch me in a LET Corsa at that speed, however capable!
Yes, it is a scary expirience. I am getting used to it now though 
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nik
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Same here cya in 30 mins
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bradfincham
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try doing 150 mph with your arse 3 inches of the floor, thats different i tell ya!!
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SteveW
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off the clock at 140mph in my corsa is actually pretty smooth...
LET'd corsas ROCK 
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ed
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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!
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mike_1.2LS96
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quote:
Originally posted by bradfincham
try doing 150 mph with your arse 3 inches of the floor, thats different i tell ya!!
is it when you fall from a tower block and are just about to hit the deck
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bradfincham
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no when your sititng in a hyabusa turbo'd dax rush kit car on the m1 on a sunday morning early!!
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by bradfincham
no when your sititng in a hyabusa turbo'd dax rush kit car on the m1 on a sunday morning early!!
nice kit that  although i prefer a robin hood or westfield mind
Although, if you loose control of a kit above about 120 your gonna be in hostpital eitherway and at 150 you would have been splattered around the M1
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Nath
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quote:
Originally posted by bradfincham
try doing 150 mph with your arse 3 inches of the floor, thats different i tell ya!!
I did 140mph in a Caterham 7 R500, well not me personally but i was a passenger Grin factor is huge!!
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ed
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You'd probably be dead in any car going over 90mph...
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Craig W
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Ive seen that article and it's from 1999... 5 years old. probably be a different outcome now.
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Nath
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quote:
Originally posted by 1800ed
You'd probably be dead in any car going over 90mph...
Assuming you crash yeh? Not just driving normally, hit 90mph, dead...........
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ed
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Thats what I meant...
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bradfincham
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nice kit that although i prefer a robin hood or westfield mind
someone that has no idea about kit cars obviously!
Robin hood are the cheap and nasty along with the locost.
Dax is better than westfield but not as good as caterham only reason noone can copy caterham part for part as they have the rights!
dax has anti camber kit as well!
We have 2 kit cars and the dax is by far the best mainly cos of engineering and the engine planned to go in.
But anyhow yes its fun!
The same when going into paddock hill bend when driving at 80 mph and it drops away!!
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by bradfincham
nice kit that although i prefer a robin hood or westfield mind
someone that has no idea about kit cars obviously!
Robin hood are the cheap and nasty along with the locost.
Dax is better than westfield but not as good as caterham only reason noone can copy caterham part for part as they have the rights!
dax has anti camber kit as well!
We have 2 kit cars and the dax is by far the best mainly cos of engineering and the engine planned to go in.
But anyhow yes its fun!
The same when going into paddock hill bend when driving at 80 mph and it drops away!!
GTF
Robin Hoods are great kits. Yes they dont offer the same as a caterham, but with a rollcage they will still withstand alot of bashing about.
As for westfield....you completely wrong there  there one of the best and beat dax kits by far - read the reviews you will see And also i spoke to a TVR touring car driving who said that he would rather own a westfrield over a caterham because it was generally a better ride.
eitherway, stop replying like a complete stuck up toffy twat and instead of thinking that you know ever inch about kits cars, which to be frank you dont (as you have had only experienced your old mans kit), use your car properly and drive it around a track, instead of putting other people lives at risk by storming down the M1 at 150
p.s - and before you reply with some lame post about saying how i dont know anything etc etc You are correct, i have so so knowledge in this area - although i know a few people who own a collection of kits, so majority of my knowledge is pretty accurate
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SteveW
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i saw a thingy a while back with a Dax.. had a Cossie engine in there...
that was quite swift
ok i lie.. it was ripping up the track at a really silly rate
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liamC
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got the link to that story mate?
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