Jerome

Although this is old news, the trial has just started. It will be interesting to see what the outcome is.

Naughty boy

Buckrogers

Fancy not turning the video recorder OFF!! He nicked himself!

fatherpierre

Can't be true.

159 in a Vectra????

Harry_Boy

159mph. Not bad for a Vectra....

Scooby-Mark

How can he have the nerve to deny the charges when there is video evedence there

Scooby-Mark

Must have been on a downhill section

GC8

What sort of horsepower do you need to reach 160mph? About 300bhp Im sure. Perhaps he will use a similar defence to the import WRX driver: 'it cant go that fast'.....

Simon

Diesel

My 310 HP Scoob wouldnt have done 160... I reckon you need more than that in a Vectra shaped/weight car...

fatherpierre

The 159mph record must, in itself, be a good line of defence!

Kieran_Burns

iTrader: (1)

3.2 V6 - and it's going to be tuned.... my 260 brake Cally Turbo was hitting 150 easily (ish!) enough so 160... yeah possible

fatherpierre

On the clock, maybe. Not a true record.

Baggers

Police cars are not breathed on, the engines on motorway cars are standard.

PJ's Scoob

They don't tune them where I live it invalidates any warrenty and the speedo's arn't standard there removed and replaced with calibrated ones from I.R.S of Notts. so unless he was being pushed down a steep slope god only knows how he reached that.

SiDHEaD

He's gotta test the car. I see no report of heavy traffic. Sure if I went out and did it and got busted I'd have no excuse, but the car was being tested for its scum-chasing potential

Poor Guy

159, thats quite impressive. And in a vectra. Hope the brakes were uprated as well as the engine.

Shark Man

Vectras don't have ****ty intercoolers with scoops that stop working above 120mph!

Some nice fast dual carriageways round Telford too
If I was still 17 I would happliy brag of the speed that I have "crawled" along there at

There is a slight down hill section, which even I managed to push a standard 1.3 Polo well off the clock.

kammy

Good on him i say. While im at it, we should be more like the French and protest against most these shi!tty laws against drivers.

Hope he gets let off, and promoted to a decent role.
Kam

dpb

In France you can pay at the roadside tho, right......

johnfelstead

Neither do Impreza's.

Shark Man

True..the ones on imprezas stop working at their full efficiency above 100mph

Pauleds2

He should get off.

harvey

iTrader: (48)

Keep us updated Jerome. The guy was doing his job, testing a car, at night, pressumably on an empty road and he considered maxing it out was a reasonable part of the testing. Afterall it would be sensible to know what the car was capable of in the event it was used in pusuit of other quick cars.
I wonder what internal politics are at play here and what sort of fellow officer/supervising officer would insist on bringing this to court.
If the vehicle was on test was the equipment calibrated?

Regardless of the outcome I would think there are some scores to be settled.
All very P.C.

Pauleds2

You have hit the nail on the head Harvey, some shiny **** somewhere will have had this brought to Court.

Shouldn't have got there in the first place. How can it possibly be in the Public interest? Do people really want us to potter after stolen motors at 40 shouting "You there! Stop" out of the window or should we actually develop the skills necessary to catch the thieving scum?

harvey

iTrader: (48)

Very sad because it is a guys career on the line because of shiney **** who is probably one of the causes of the current state of the police service.

Mr Sympathy

I have seen an "indicated" 156mph in my first MY99 Standard scoob, though presume this speed was on VASCAR? There is a very nice stretch on M54 east of Telford, long and straight, no bridges or police lay by in sight and downhill gently going east if i recall, sure someone from area will know it. Will be very intrigued to see how he gets treated, remember copper who run over girl in birmingham recently got fine, points, promotion.

DJ73

what would happen if it was one of us ?, never mind "honing his Skill's" and all that crap , if he's not on a call and just a patrol he or they can stick to the speed limit like the rest of us , F**king *anker's

fatscoobyfella

I had an ex police T5 a few year back,about 280bhp.I did an indicated 161mph on an IRS calibrated speedo..Think that extra 5-10mph is probably in the gearing when just running 260-300bhp in any car..

Tidgy

I don't know if police cars are still modified, they used to be, cos at one point i was working with a mechanic who used to work for a racing team that modified them!! lmao

gsm1

Why all the support for this guy, do you think he or any one of his copper mates would let you off for doing such speeds? They'd make sure you lost your licence for doing far less than that.
If he wanted to test the car he could have done it on a track.

Luminous

iTrader: (3)

Agreed entirely. You cannot have one rule for us, and another for them.

Either that or I am going to join the traffic police. I'll video you all speeding, stop you, and let you see the video so you can see how to go faster