Tony you'd be surprised how many imports over here have had there 180 cut
outs removed, it's a thriving business in auck. Personally I can't stand
these idiots who go to these illegal drags, it's super dangerous, and I
don't believe most of these kid's can control a car at speed in an emergency
situation.
My two cents worth Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: out goes L16, in goes L20B
> > I just heard of someone who was hit by a car in NZ
> > travelling 200 km/h in a 50km zone it was pretty horrific by the
> > sounds of things. Just brings the whole modified car scene to a lower
> > level when people drive stupidly in built-up areas, then the general
> > public assumes the person behind the wheel is a danger to everyone.
>
>
> Here's what a friend of mine in the Supra club said about this incident
>
> -- quote start ---
>
> According to the police reports the car was doing 200km/h when the
> pedestrian was hit,
> >Just watched the 20/20 report that screened on sunday
> >night. I reckon there is a lot of bollocks in there
> >about our cars.
>
> I saw the same thing, and there's a few things that did stick out.
>
> >Anyone else notice they were
> >exaggerating the performance of the car to make it
> >more plausible the boys were travelling at 200kmh in
> >residential street?
>
> I'm pretty sure that the car in question was a 3 litre turbo. It was
> definitely a pre-face-lift auto which would tend to indicate a 3 litre
> rather than a 2 litre. It'd obviously had some attention to it as it had
> the late model Mk-III mags (that look very much like Mk-IV mags) and
bonnet
> scoops. It's conceiveable that it's been worked enough to meet the claims
> made.
>
>
> >They also said quote "the supra is a turbocharged
> >sports car capable of reaching 180kmh in 15 seconds."
>
> I believe they said that *his* one was capable of doing 0-150 in 15
seconds.
> Again believable - I do 0-160 in sub 14 seconds in road trim.
>
>
> >I was just wondering if the police knew the car was
> >limited to 180 kmh when they claimed the car was
> >travelling at 200 kmh. If not, sentencing issues
> >arise.
>
> Well, more than that - if the Police claimed in court he was doing 200,
and
> the vehicle was functionally incapable of doing that speed then the case
> should be thrown out.
>
> This was the glaring point that showed up when I was watching the article.
> While the 180kph limiter is not THAT difficult to remove, we all know that
> there are very few people who have actually made the modification. To my
> knowledge there is only one Mk-III in the club at the moment that has the
> 180 defeated (even mine's back to having it again now that I'm on stock
> ECU/LexusAFM) and three that don't have one being NZ new.
>
>
> The thing that I was confused about with the statements made was the
> distance that the girl was seen at, the speed and reaction times. They
> said:
>
> * He came around a *corner* 70 metres away from her
> * He was travelling at speed
> * He failed to stop/avoid
>
> Something wrong there. The corner had to be sufficiently sharp so that he
> couldn't see someone 70 metres down the straight flat road, in which case
he
> wasn't cornering at 150... Assuming he did manage it at 150, that means he
> was covering 41 metres per second, or just under two seconds between the
> corner and the impact. Two seconds isn't enough to brake from that speed,
> but it's enough to avoid, particularly given there was no other traffic on
> the road. If he were doing, say, 100kph at the time, that's just under
> three seconds to brake/avoid. Plenty of time to avoid or at least slow
down
> to sub-lethal speeds. But he didn't. I'm pretty sure that he never saw the
> girl at all - note also that it was twilight which is a particularly
> difficult time to see into the distance.
>
> All in all it doesn't quite add up the way the Police said it did.
> Personally I think the guy is still guilty as hell and got off really
> lightly. However the worrying thing is that the Police do seem to be able
> to concoct whatever story they like and ramrod it through the courts. Nice
> that they got the little idiot put away, not nice for the rest of us who
> might someday end up on the wrong end of some cops' imagination...
>
> Cully.
>
> --- end quote ----
>
>
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