Guy borrows i8, gets arrested for doing 150mph

"Battery Tender Unnecessary" (carac) 08/31/2014 at 10:15 • Filed to: None

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What's the first thing you do with one of the rarest, most fuel efficient sports cars on the planet? Hypermile? See if you can run it out of gas and make it to a station under electric? Nope. You risk getting three years in prison.

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Possibly related video of someone doing 120+

The are WAY fewer than 100 customer i8s on the planet right now and I guess it says something that both of these speeders (if they ARE different people) don't own the cars. My i8 should be in my hands in about a month and the last thing I'm interested in is how fast it can go. Not only because it's highly illegal, but it's so far out of the car's philosophy of use/engineering that it might as well be illegal. I'm going to chalk this infraction up to cosmic justice.

Jayhawk Jake > Battery Tender Unnecessary 08/31/2014 at 10:25

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I'll never understand the obsession with top speed with any car.

There are so few instances where one could legally reach a cars top speed it just feels like a moot point to argue that one car's top speed is greater than another's

Vicente Esteve > Battery Tender Unnecessary 08/31/2014 at 10:27

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The thing that caught most of my attention was the single air vent, then double air vent! I don't think other car has weirder A/C vents.

Battery Tender Unnecessary > Jayhawk Jake 08/31/2014 at 10:29

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Especially on a public road in broad daylight like in the video. You don't endanger other people with your stupidity. It's what closed roads and tracks are for.

Clown Shoe Pilot > Battery Tender Unnecessary 08/31/2014 at 10:32

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These dudes are fucking stupid.

That said, I'll bet from the outside, the i8 looks cool as hell doing 120+.

 > Battery Tender Unnecessary 08/31/2014 at 10:42

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Not illegal if you are on a track.

webmonkees > Jayhawk Jake 08/31/2014 at 11:16

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The next thing will probably be insanely fast speed control tied into the safety systems. It's probably plausible now with a bit of MIT-level sensor hackery on a Tesla. No need for the TOP speed, just a superb speed selection. Grip, all that stuff taken care of by the box. The steering, brake and accelerator are all drive by wire and go full Jedi pod racing on your ride.

Be a jerk at 45 70 55 62 within a blink of an eye, faster than the slower-reacting drivers can screw up the plan. (in this case, one of the slow-reacting drivers is the driver. Such is the ways of supplemental asshattery.)

Of course there still would still be unsafe, a wave of passed, panicked drivers who freak out by the crazy Tron style 5 lane change within the gap of the car's bumpers +- 2 centimeters.. But jerks will be.

PS9 > Battery Tender Unnecessary 08/31/2014 at 11:25

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Don't know how things work wherever this happened, but in 'murica you can be prosecuted and imprisoned for what someone does with your car. I wonder what would happen if a driver killed someone during a high-speed test drive. Would the dealer owner be prosecuted too?

Milky > PS9 08/31/2014 at 11:34

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Dood, fuck that.

PS9 > Milky 08/31/2014 at 11:40

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Don't let anyone borrow your car, or 'that' might fuck you.

Milky > PS9 08/31/2014 at 11:47

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Well, I live in Michigan …. according to the article it won't fuck me here. But still thats, just, shitty.

Axial > Jayhawk Jake 08/31/2014 at 14:18

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0-60 times are more important to fun factor than top speed. The i8 has a decently fast 0-60, this guy is doing "fun" wrong.

1337HPMustang > Battery Tender Unnecessary 09/01/2014 at 00:46

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polaks in the video. Looks like it was filmed on a closed section of road in Germany according to the description.

Battery Tender Unnecessary > 1337HPMustang 09/01/2014 at 01:21

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It says "closed road" but it isn't. They're passing cars on a public highway (he lifts off the throttle to change lanes when approaching traffic).

1337HPMustang > Battery Tender Unnecessary 09/01/2014 at 01:40

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Yeah although might be the autobahn, but then again cars in the left lanes? Yeah I don't know, but you're right definitely not "closed"