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I'm looking for some help in discovering the true acceleration capability of my wife's 996 C4 cab. I'm looking to understand how long a 2000 model C4 cab would take to accelerate from 70 MPH to 137 MPH startting initially in 3rd gear but accelerating foot hard to the floor and moving quickly through the gears just before the rev limit.
This is to support a defence plea of necessity in a speeding prosecution, my solicitor has asked me to gather this information.
Just for background, I was seriously assaulted by a gang of five thugs outside my home on New Year's Eve 31 December 2003. I went outside to investigate some noise and disturbance at about 20:30 and was set upon by a gang wielding bottles and knuckledusters. Our assumption is that the noise was a pretext to work out whether anyone was at home before attempting a break in. Although the event was captured on video and the police attending later believed that the pictures were so clear that they could easily identify the assailants, nobody was ever apprehended.
I spent six months undergoing treatment and physiotherapy for whiplash, prolapsed cervical disks, bruising of the bones in my left arm and shoulder and oedema of the bone marrow in my left arm. Physically I was in a mess and mentally I have found myself anxious in positions I would have felt confident in previously. By the way, I am posting this from my hotel room at the Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle where I am awaiting an operation to try and resolve some of the problems and pain I am suffering.
On 9 June last year, six months after the assault I was returning home from North Wales along the A55, after enjoying my wife's birthday on our boat with my wife and 14 month old girl, and discovering that my wife was pregnant again.
To cut a long story short we noticed a black Vauxhall pull on to the A55 at Conwy, between us and a Fiesta in front on a coned off, single line, 40MPH limit roadwork section. The black car drove very close to the Fiesta through the speed limit section and upon reaching the end of the roadworks, where the road went back to two lanes and national speed limit at Deganwy, accelerated very briskly away. My wife and I commented on the erratic driving, seeing to guys with close cropped hair and dressed in black and white we assumed they were local hoodlums.
About a mile further on we noticed them again, near the Llandudno junction, they had now slowed right down and I overtook them at about 70mph. They then pulled out behind me and proceeded to drive, latched on to my bumper for a while. Both my wife and I were very worried by this, having seen the erratic driving previously, and having decided that they were thugs and given my anxious nature after the attacks I concluded that we were in imminent danger of being "car-jacked".
I decided to put some distance between us, dropped the 996 down into 3rd gear and accelerated very, very quickly away, in a matter of about 10+ seconds I was travelling at 137MPH and had put a significant distance between myself and the black Vauxhall.
I continued to drive at this speed for something less than two miles until I reached a 50MPH limit at Colwyn Bay, where I slowed down to 50MPH, thinking that I had "lost" the other car and feeling safer because we were closer to "society" if anyone should try anything. Eventually the black car caught me up and then continued to drive on my tail, so close that I could hardly see his bonnet badge, for a further 2 miles.
My wife and I were getting quite panicky as we drove through Colwyn Bay at 50MPH for 2 miles, this takes over 2 minutes of worry, until suddenly I noticed blue flashing lights emanating from behind the grille.
The car was an unmarked Police Car!
6 months later, to the day almost I received a summons for driving at a constant speed of 122MPH on the two mile section of road from Llandudno Junction to Colwyn Bay 50 MPH speed limit. In his evidence the police driver says that he drove at a constant separation from me for a distance of 2 miles and clocked me at a steady 122MPH over this period using his speedometer.
I know that this is untrue, I left the black Vauxhall standing when I accelerated away, I know that I drove at a constant speed of 137MPH for something less than two miles.
My defence is built of two things, firstly that having experienced the assault I was overly sensitive to the danger presented by the car driving at close proximity behind me, afraid of an imminent risk of injury or death to me and my family and hence felt the necessity to escape.
Secondly that the policeman's evidence is false anyway so his testimony cannot be trusted, i.e. he did not follow me at a constant distance for 2 miles at a speed of 122 MPH.
I am not denying that I broke the speed limit. I had no reason to speed having had a lovely day with my family and discovering that my wife was pregnant again.
I am sure many other Porsche drivers may sympathise with this predicament. I have been driving Porsche cars of various types continuously since I was 25 and have a complete fetish about the beautiful beasts, fortunately my wife has been bitten by the bug too so I guess I'm a fortunate man.
So ,what I'm looking for is acceleration information for 996 Carrera 4 Cab from 70 MPH to 137MPH moving through the gears, approaching rev limit, foot hard to the floor. How long does it take?
Also deceleration time from 137 MPH to 50MPH, no wheels locking or skidding, dry surface both cases, about 21:30 in the evening after a warm day on June 9 2004. How long does this take. Can't recall the outside temperature but I was wearing shorts and a short sleeved shirt.
My court case is May 4 so a quick response will be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance, Paul.
This is to support a defence plea of necessity in a speeding prosecution, my solicitor has asked me to gather this information.
Just for background, I was seriously assaulted by a gang of five thugs outside my home on New Year's Eve 31 December 2003. I went outside to investigate some noise and disturbance at about 20:30 and was set upon by a gang wielding bottles and knuckledusters. Our assumption is that the noise was a pretext to work out whether anyone was at home before attempting a break in. Although the event was captured on video and the police attending later believed that the pictures were so clear that they could easily identify the assailants, nobody was ever apprehended.
I spent six months undergoing treatment and physiotherapy for whiplash, prolapsed cervical disks, bruising of the bones in my left arm and shoulder and oedema of the bone marrow in my left arm. Physically I was in a mess and mentally I have found myself anxious in positions I would have felt confident in previously. By the way, I am posting this from my hotel room at the Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle where I am awaiting an operation to try and resolve some of the problems and pain I am suffering.
On 9 June last year, six months after the assault I was returning home from North Wales along the A55, after enjoying my wife's birthday on our boat with my wife and 14 month old girl, and discovering that my wife was pregnant again.
To cut a long story short we noticed a black Vauxhall pull on to the A55 at Conwy, between us and a Fiesta in front on a coned off, single line, 40MPH limit roadwork section. The black car drove very close to the Fiesta through the speed limit section and upon reaching the end of the roadworks, where the road went back to two lanes and national speed limit at Deganwy, accelerated very briskly away. My wife and I commented on the erratic driving, seeing to guys with close cropped hair and dressed in black and white we assumed they were local hoodlums.
About a mile further on we noticed them again, near the Llandudno junction, they had now slowed right down and I overtook them at about 70mph. They then pulled out behind me and proceeded to drive, latched on to my bumper for a while. Both my wife and I were very worried by this, having seen the erratic driving previously, and having decided that they were thugs and given my anxious nature after the attacks I concluded that we were in imminent danger of being "car-jacked".
I decided to put some distance between us, dropped the 996 down into 3rd gear and accelerated very, very quickly away, in a matter of about 10+ seconds I was travelling at 137MPH and had put a significant distance between myself and the black Vauxhall.
I continued to drive at this speed for something less than two miles until I reached a 50MPH limit at Colwyn Bay, where I slowed down to 50MPH, thinking that I had "lost" the other car and feeling safer because we were closer to "society" if anyone should try anything. Eventually the black car caught me up and then continued to drive on my tail, so close that I could hardly see his bonnet badge, for a further 2 miles.
My wife and I were getting quite panicky as we drove through Colwyn Bay at 50MPH for 2 miles, this takes over 2 minutes of worry, until suddenly I noticed blue flashing lights emanating from behind the grille.
The car was an unmarked Police Car!
6 months later, to the day almost I received a summons for driving at a constant speed of 122MPH on the two mile section of road from Llandudno Junction to Colwyn Bay 50 MPH speed limit. In his evidence the police driver says that he drove at a constant separation from me for a distance of 2 miles and clocked me at a steady 122MPH over this period using his speedometer.
I know that this is untrue, I left the black Vauxhall standing when I accelerated away, I know that I drove at a constant speed of 137MPH for something less than two miles.
My defence is built of two things, firstly that having experienced the assault I was overly sensitive to the danger presented by the car driving at close proximity behind me, afraid of an imminent risk of injury or death to me and my family and hence felt the necessity to escape.
Secondly that the policeman's evidence is false anyway so his testimony cannot be trusted, i.e. he did not follow me at a constant distance for 2 miles at a speed of 122 MPH.
I am not denying that I broke the speed limit. I had no reason to speed having had a lovely day with my family and discovering that my wife was pregnant again.
I am sure many other Porsche drivers may sympathise with this predicament. I have been driving Porsche cars of various types continuously since I was 25 and have a complete fetish about the beautiful beasts, fortunately my wife has been bitten by the bug too so I guess I'm a fortunate man.
So ,what I'm looking for is acceleration information for 996 Carrera 4 Cab from 70 MPH to 137MPH moving through the gears, approaching rev limit, foot hard to the floor. How long does it take?
Also deceleration time from 137 MPH to 50MPH, no wheels locking or skidding, dry surface both cases, about 21:30 in the evening after a warm day on June 9 2004. How long does this take. Can't recall the outside temperature but I was wearing shorts and a short sleeved shirt.
My court case is May 4 so a quick response will be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance, Paul.
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