Cars cause tickets

[longtooth]

Media thinking guns are responsible for crime is not limited to guns.
Cars draw tickets. Not a major media mogul smart enough to believe that aggressive fast drivers like to drive big engine high horse power fast vehicles. Aggressive fast drivers dont draw get tickets. Cars draw them.


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[Keith B]

Media thinking guns are responsible for crime is not limited to guns.
Cars draw tickets. Not a major media mogul smart enough to believe that aggressive fast drivers like to drive big engine high horse power fast vehicles. Aggressive fast drivers dont draw get tickets. Cars draw them.


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I am not sure I disagree with their statement. I have never gotten stopped for speeding while walking, but I have in a car, so the car must have been what caused it!!!

In all seriousness though, those flashy red sports cars draw a lot more focus than a Ford Taurus when it comes to looking for speeders, and are more likely to get 'zapped' by an officer running instant on radar or shooting LIDAR than another vehicle. But I do agree, statistics show those that drive the flashy red sports cars are more likely to speed than a Taurus driver.

[Lodge2004]

Anything that makes you stand out in a crowd will....make you stand out in a crowd. Although big flashy cars do not "cause" tickets, they probably are more likely to get one for a variety of reasons. If nothing else, they move the LEO two steps into the OODA loop (Observe & Orient) just by their design.

That's not to say people should not drive what they want. Just like the clothing we wear, how we behave in public, the places we frequent, all can have an impact on how we are preceived. Situational awareness includes realizing how you impact your environment.

[AEA]

Well I drive a supercharged Mustang Bullitt GT and it is flashy and 420 HP.

I have received 2 tickets in the last 6 years for speeding and in both cases it was in known (but not by me) speed traps in small towns and I was only going 5 over the limit.

I know about them now.........

[Rex B]

Common sense: If you drive fast, don't drive a high-profile car.
I've always been a fan of sleepers - cars that look like eveything else, but outperform most.
Probably the best recent sleeper was the GTO. Looked like a Camry, ran like a Corvette.
But plenty of other cars are fun, quick, dependable, and thrifty, like the Honda Civic Si, or any of the VW turbos, including the TDI
I like red cars, but I've only owned one. I call that color "Arrest-Me-Red".

[Fangs]

I've always been a fan of sleepers - cars that look like eveything else, but outperform most.
Probably the best recent sleeper was the GTO. Looked like a Camry, ran like a Corvette...

Too bad mine's bright orange.

[Rex B]

I read some survey or studdy a few years back that said an orange car was the most likley to be stopped, all else being equal.

Ya'll drive careful out there

[Bunkins]

Yellow is bad.... My dad has a Yellow Supercharged Mustang, and I have a Yellow Turbocharged Mustang.. Like bugs to a light I tell ya.. I learned back when I was a teenager my Mustang was bad news. It wouldnt matter if it had a 4 cyl in it ( and it used to ). I got pulled over once a week in that thing, and it was rare that I was actually doing anything wrong. I raced it at the track, not on the street... Turned 17 and got tired of being late everywhere I went because of it, went and bought a new F-250 and I've been pulled over 3 times since then, 9 yrs. I haven't had that car street legal since I was 18, it's a trailer queen, only time it gets drove is at the track.. It will probably stay that way too.. A turbocharged Mustang is like a go cart, so responsive it's not even funny, takes a ton of self control to drive it legally. Supercharged cars are still fun, but not nearly as responsive, takes a while for boost to build. You give a turbocharged car just a tiny bit of throttle, boost builds instantly, you feel it push you into the seat and it's hard to let out.

[NcongruNt]

Common sense: If you drive fast, don't drive a high-profile car.
I've always been a fan of sleepers - cars that look like eveything else, but outperform most.
Probably the best recent sleeper was the GTO. Looked like a Camry, ran like a Corvette.
But plenty of other cars are fun, quick, dependable, and thrifty, like the Honda Civic Si, or any of the VW turbos, including the TDI
I like red cars, but I've only owned one. I call that color "Arrest-Me-Red".

Another notable sleeper was the Ford Taurus SHO. I had a '91 SHO briefly back around 2000, and boy was that thing fun to drive. The engines were actually capable of revving far beyond what the rest of the car could handle, so they ended up rate-limiting them to 7300rpm (instead of the actual physicial 8500 rpm red-line limitation of the engine). There's an interesting list of things Ford did to hobble the capabilities of the engine in the SHO. Anyhow, just thought I'd mention it, since we were on the subject.

[flb_78]

My manager at work was pulled over for speeding on his bicycle.