Originally Posted by
PTravel
Indeed. And, "I'm sorry, officer, this is a rental car and I'm just not used to it," works surprisingly well.
I'm 0/1 with a similar approach. However, I did get out of a ticket last weekend when I burned out with an SS at 2AM with the top down. As I approached the last corner near my temp apartment, I decided lay on the gas as I started the turn. Little did I know there was an officer just ahead of me that was stopped waiting for a green light. I parallel parked and he backed up to "pull me over." After he (and 2 other of NC's finest) were thoroughly convinced I wasn't drunk (I could touch my nose and walk a line without issue) and I didn't have anything illegal (they searched every cranny of that car), we joked about my boneheaded move and they went on their way.
Originally Posted by
Mabuk dan gila
I had a Ford Ranger pickup from Budget a few years back that was limited to exactly 100MPH. Even on a steep downhill it always lost power at EXACTLY 100MPH. Just last week though I got a brand new AVIS KIA Rio up to 107MPH on a downhill and I think it would have gone faster but I let off because I felt I was perhaps driving a wee bit to fast.
Yeah, the Ford's I've tested were limited between 107-110.
Originally Posted by
WIRunner
I had a Taurus this weekend. Probably should've tried to find the key with the limiter, it cruised at 75 with out trouble, and no wheezing when I needed it to go faster. And I still got 28 mpg!
I've only been going around town so far, but I'm only getting 21 MPG with the Taurus I picked up today.
The Taurus is key-less and only has 1 key on the remote (tomorrow, I'll see if there's another in the trunk). I wonder what the car does if it has a MyKey and you have both in the console.