Detailed: 2009 Jeep Grand Cherokee

107 in a 1988 buick regal, on a back country 2 lane road, by no means a highway.. that was in my younger days, i keep it with in 15 now. i don't want to give them the please of catching me, fining me, and making my life a living hell!



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Gumball said:
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My top speed in my Audi V8 Quattro is 130+ in a 55 (Light Traffic) Not bad for a trip home from the beach in the rain. :D
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Heh heh, that got my attention more than the modded Porsche :D Love those V8s, if they only had a telescopic steering column I'd have one myself.
 
Speeding is getting too dicey in the UK, bloody cameras (fixed & mobile) everywhere. If you double the posted limit or break 100 you can kiss goodbye to you licence for a year or more. Factor in a 100% increase in insurance premiums & it's beyond a joke.



Not sure how it works in the States but over here you get photographed by a camera & you get a letter in the post about 2 weeks later with your details & the nature of the offence.



A friend went past the same mobile camera 4 times in 2 hours, 30mph zone, he clocked 34, 37, 34 & 35. First he knew about it was when 4 prosecution letters arrived on the same day. Fined $640, 12 points on his licence, banned for 6 months.
 
Vintage said:
You're not kidding. I routinely drive 80+ on I-90 and that's with the flow of traffic. I've heard of guys getting tix on there for going too slow. I-355 is a good one to go fast on too. I haven't tried the new southern extension from I-55 to I-80. Will have to try that this weekend.
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Most of my hijinx have been on I-80 between I-57 and Joliet.
 
PrinzII said:
Most of my hijinx have been on I-80 between I-57 and Joliet.
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i live about 20miles north of I-80, it's a very fast pased highway, great for making good time. i had a girlfriend who used to live in the suburbs of chicago and she told me about an interstate that led you out of chicago north. apparently if you weren't doing 90 you where in the way, she said you'd see vipers, corvettes, all sorts of go fast cars. i don't remember,i think is was 94??
 
I94 goes from Chicago north to Milwaukee. Some people drive fast, but 90 is kind of an exception, unless maybe I'm going that way. Everyone slows WAY down when they get to Wisconsin, it's a police state like Ohio!



And apparently the UK too! Though I was talking to a guy from England who liked his new Volvo diesel because it drive so well at 130 mph. I said in WI you'd get thrown in jail for that, he said at night (like 3AM) when there's no traffic there are no cops about, and he could make great time getting to the airport from wherever he was.
 
oh boy, vipers are some man's cars there! must've been some kind of meet some time ago because i was pulled over on the side of the highway and i hear this thunderous roar (i am not kidding you) from way behind and i see this pair of vipers, looked like they were modded if not fully race-ready walking ppl that are already doing 90 like they're standing still...



needless to say when they literally FLEW past the Focus I was in, it took about 30 seconds for the shockwave to hit, and a very very powerful shockwave at that.



oh yeah, and they were out of sight in roughly that amount of time too...
 
itb76 said:
I94 goes from Chicago north to Milwaukee. Some people drive fast, but 90 is kind of an exception, unless maybe I'm going that way. Everyone slows WAY down when they get to Wisconsin, it's a police state like Ohio!...
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I'm one of the people that goes 90! :D But you are correct in saying that the police are bad up there. Between Kenosha and just before the city, they are real bad. The random on/off ramps don't help either.



My biggest complaint is the asshats that drive below the speed limit in the left lane and won't get over even if there is no one else on the road:rolleyes::down
 
155 on the freeway in a car (Ford GT)

168 on the freeway on my old bike (R6)



Never went over 125 in either on a regular street.



I live in OH btw...
 
Macko said:
Speeding is getting too dicey in the UK, bloody cameras (fixed & mobile) everywhere. If you double the posted limit or break 100 you can kiss goodbye to you licence for a year or more. Factor in a 100% increase in insurance premiums & it's beyond a joke.



Not sure how it works in the States but over here you get photographed by a camera & you get a letter in the post about 2 weeks later with your details & the nature of the offence.



A friend went past the same mobile camera 4 times in 2 hours, 30mph zone, he clocked 34, 37, 34 & 35. First he knew about it was when 4 prosecution letters arrived on the same day. Fined $640, 12 points on his licence, banned for 6 months.
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They don't even let you do five over there?
 
Macko said:
Speeding is getting too dicey in the UK, bloody cameras (fixed & mobile) everywhere. If you double the posted limit or break 100 you can kiss goodbye to you licence for a year or more. Factor in a 100% increase in insurance premiums & it's beyond a joke.



Not sure how it works in the States but over here you get photographed by a camera & you get a letter in the post about 2 weeks later with your details & the nature of the offence.



A friend went past the same mobile camera 4 times in 2 hours, 30mph zone, he clocked 34, 37, 34 & 35. First he knew about it was when 4 prosecution letters arrived on the same day. Fined $640, 12 points on his licence, banned for 6 months.
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It's getting to be that way in Arizona. I live in Tempe and travel through Scottsdale all the time. They are becoming notorious for their usage of photo enforcement. On the Loop 101, the cameras aren't tripped unless you are doing at least 11 mph over, but the surface street cameras are much more sensitive. Tempe also has the red light cameras at nearly every intersection now.
 
I drive buses, some of which are double decker buses, old original English ones, and last summer, with a good tailwind and heading down a hill with pedal to the metal, I hit 44 mph with old #405.



No passengers aboard but it was like an E ticket ride at Disneyland.

Downright scary. (I was in the slow lane)

-John C.
 
azenthusiast said:
It's getting to be that way in Arizona. I live in Tempe and travel through Scottsdale all the time. They are becoming notorious for their usage of photo enforcement. On the Loop 101, the cameras aren't tripped unless you are doing at least 11 mph over, but the surface street cameras are much more sensitive. Tempe also has the red light cameras at nearly every intersection now.
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Add the fact that DPS is exploring the possibility of putting cameras throughout the state and it's going to get dicey as well.



Illinois isn't far behind. They already have red light cameras in quite a few locations in Chicago and the IL State Police have a Photo Van for construction zones but I won't find it surprising to be used for speed enforcement outside of construction zones. Couple that with the unmarked cars they have and it gets even more interesting.



BTW, the highway that one poster spoke of is the Northwest Tollway where the Interstate sign is the actual speed limit. I have even gone so far as to call that expressway the Autobahn. I-94 is not fun in WI, MI, or IN.
 
3wide said:
i live about 20miles north of I-80, it's a very fast pased highway, great for making good time. i had a girlfriend who used to live in the suburbs of chicago and she told me about an interstate that led you out of chicago north. apparently if you weren't doing 90 you where in the way, she said you'd see vipers, corvettes, all sorts of go fast cars. i don't remember,i think is was 94??
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Wouldn't that make you close to I-88 which is another tollway to let the fur fly (except around 355)?
 
PrinzII said:
Illinois isn't far behind. They already have red light cameras in quite a few locations in Chicago and the IL State Police have a Photo Van for construction zones but I won't find it surprising to be used for speed enforcement outside of construction zones. Couple that with the unmarked cars they have and it gets even more interesting.



BTW, the highway that one poster spoke of is the Northwest Tollway where the Interstate sign is the actual speed limit. I have even gone so far as to call that expressway the Autobahn. I-94 is not fun in WI, MI, or IN.
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Sure do. A buddy of mine already got one of those lovely tickets in the mail for the construction zone. I've taken the front license plate off my company car for this reason. Supposedly, it only gets the front of the car so it can get the drive and the license plate.



I-94 is fun to go "94" :D But the asshats that drive below the speed limit in the left lane are the reasons Chicago (and Wisconsin in general) traffic sucks so bad. I've never seen so many stupid drivers. "Oh someone hit the brakes a mile ahead of me, I better hit mine too!":think::rolleyes: I guess that's the Michigan driver in me!
 
mhadden said:
Sure do. A buddy of mine already got one of those lovely tickets in the mail for the construction zone. I've taken the front license plate off my company car for this reason. Supposedly, it only gets the front of the car so it can get the drive and the license plate.



I-94 is fun to go "94" :D But the asshats that drive below the speed limit in the left lane are the reasons Chicago (and Wisconsin in general) traffic sucks so bad. I've never seen so many stupid drivers. "Oh someone hit the brakes a mile ahead of me, I better hit mine too!":think::rolleyes: I guess that's the Michigan driver in me!
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mhadden: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:



God knows I have laid smoke on I-94 (Edens, Kennedy, and Ryan) as well as I-88, I-290, I-355, I-57, I-80, I-294, IL 394, I-65 in IN, and I-43 in WI.



As for stupid drivers, you need to come down here to AZ and see stupid drivers in action. You will never see Chicago drivers the same way again.
 
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