Opel Astra Driver Sent Fine After Allegedly Doing 432mph
A Belgian motorist received a nice little surprise through the post recently - a speeding fine which alleged he’d been travelling at 696kph (432mph).
The man apparently clocked the speed in the town of Quiévrain near the French border. For the sake of comparison, that speed is a little slower than the cruising speed of a turboprop airliner, and almost as fast as Speed Demon - the current record holder for the fastest car powered by an internal combustion engine.
Of course, he wasn’t actually driving that fast. After writing to local authorities questioning the absurd claimed speed, it transpired that the figure was the result of an “encoding error.”
That’s not to say he got out of paying a fine, however - the Opel driver was actually doing a more modest 60kmh, which is still over the posted limit…
Source: The Telegraph
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Proof that the chavs were actually hiding something….
Speed traps and camera should be outlawed everywhere.
Talk about a sleeper
Forget about Bugatti,Koeniggsegg and Hennessey….this Opel is more than 100 mph faster
All the speed titans (Bugatti,Koenigsegg and Hennessy) are gonna be jealous…. So,so jealous
They say a Brazilian driver of a VW Bug replaced its engine with a Ford 292 V-8, God knows how. It took up the rear seat; he disguised it by making it look like it was full of packages. He’d often be caught dragging his b*tt at 150 km/h or so, but always talked his way out of the tickets. It was wasy to convince the Highway Police that a VW, especially one so “overloaded”, could be so fast, so it mush have been an error in the radar.
Well the rentals are the fastest cars in the world
To make up for the lack of speed cameras, the french part of our country just slightly moves the comma, hoping no one will notice
devel : challenge accepted
Devel will be trying their hardest to get some faulty speeding fines to go with their imaginary stats hahaha
Joke’s on them. There actually WAS a jet turbine in the back.