Reason for not having personalised number plates

[924nutter]

P 911 TEE, If you are a member, when someone doing 71 mph pulls alonside you, when you are doing 68mph in the middle lane, it is not polite to whack it into third and nail it even if it is only a citroen AX GT. It was me you did it to and you made yourslef look like an idiot. I am sufficiently educated to know not to try and out-drag a 911 due to the inadequacies of my wife's Citroen compared to a 911 turbo; because I have a 944 Turbo myself, (the cabriolet in my avatar) I always tend to hustle the old french buzz box on the daily slog to work. If you aren't going as fast as me I will pull out to pass. If you own this car but were not driving it on a motorway in Surrey you should have a word with whoever was driving it today.

 

[Alex L]

So let's get this straight if I may...

The 911 Turbo was in the middle lane doing 68mph on a motorway. You then tried to over take the Turbo in the fast lane at 71mph (illegal speed) in your Citroen and this woke the Turbo driver up and he (or she) remembered they were late for a very important meeting so floored it (also then illegal speed) leaving you overtaking nothing but turbulence left in the Turbo's wake.

About the gist?

Sorry, but I actually find that really funny! [][][] I know I know, I should be ashamed of myself []

Seriously though, on a motorway in my Turbo I am happy to put my foot down occasionally when my speed has dropped and I can then get up to a decent pace again. I don't care who overtakes me as I would rather not be the fastest car on the road in case incognito cop cars are lurking. In fact I often get overtaken by lowly Citroens.

 

[Rodney Naghar]

'911 turbo in unexpectedly accelerating shocker'[]
If he did the same in a Nissan Micra you wouldn't have batted an eyelid.
I would have smiled - seeing a turbo being used in the way it was intended.

 

[RSGulp]

I don't get what having a personalised numberplate has to do with your story?

 

[John Sims]

ORIGINAL: RSGulp

I don't get what having a personalised numberplate has to do with your story?

It is a well know fact that personalised number plates are worth at least 10 bhp and two hand fulls of torques.

I have no issues with seeing performance cars doing what performance cars are made to do. It makes me all warm inside. However, I hate people dawdling along in the middle lane overtaking nothing but air. I also get sick of ecco terrorists and self appointed social policemen sitting in the outside lane doing (what they think is) 70mph because none of the rest of us should be going any faster any way. []

 

[tscaptain]

If it never happened the other way round I think I could agree with you. So there am I, cruise control on, maintaining a respectable constant speed in the outside lane. If I had a fiver for every middle lane blocker who increased speed when they saw (if they were paying enough attention) what was about to pass them, and thus either pulled ahead or stayed in formation, I could put a nice deposit down on a new GT3![] Speeding up if you don't like what is about to come past is not clever but I would lay odds that it is done far more to us than by us.

 

[JBL930]

I've totally given up with lane hoggers, if there is room (and I deem it safe) to under take, then that's exactly what i do. If nobody else has any manners or lane discipline then why on earth should I?!

 

[Alex L]

ORIGINAL: John Sims
However, I hate people dawdling along in the middle lane overtaking nothing but air.

Sorry; I do that when I am not getting in anyone's way.

Reason is my wide tyres tram-line all over the place in the slow lane due to the ditches ploughed by lorry after lorry - especially if I am wearing aggressive neg cambers. So I think it's safer if I just do 70mph in the middle lane. Again, assuming I am not getting in anyone's way.

 

[sawood12]

Similar thing happened to me recently. I was in my 944 turbo, not exactly dawdling in the inside lane on an empty dual carriageway, but going at a constant speed happily plodding on my way with some good tunes on the stereo in a bit of a day dream - the sort of daydream you come out of just as you pull into your space in your work car park then suddenly realise you can't remember anything about the journey into work. Unbeknown to me a GT3 was approaching from behind in the outside lane and once alongside decided to drop it a cog and floored it. He had a particularly fruity exhaust which completely made me jump out of my skin and nearly stack my car into the grass verge! Though at first I was a tad angry that I was woken out of my little dream world and the guy driving clearly has a small appendage, I must admit the noise of the thing and the rate it pulled away from me did leave me pining for one!

I guess we need to learn to appreciate things like this while we can whether you are the driver or other road user. I wonder how long it will be before the government either chip our cars or chip us such that they can slap a fine on us every time we behave irresponsibly or even have an irresponsible thought.

 

[Rodney Naghar]

ORIGINAL: sawood12

I guess we need to learn to appreciate things like this while we can whether you are the driver or other road user. I wonder how long it will be before the government either chip our cars or chip us such that they can slap a fine on us every time we behave irresponsibly or even have an irresponsible thought.

100% agree.

 

[turboww]

I'm sorry, 911 driver doing 68 in a 70 limit?

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[THX911]

ORIGINAL: turboww

I'm sorry, 911 driver doing 68 in a 70 limit?

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Probably driving by the digital speed reader where 70mph reading is sort of approx = to actual Citroen 68mph.[8|]

 

[garyw]

ORIGINAL: turboww

I'm sorry, 911 driver doing 68 in a 70 limit?

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I've done it...
Your coffee gets bounced around too much if any quicker... []

 

[tscaptain]

It's certainly harder to hold it straight with your knees if you have a sandwich in the other hand.........[8D]

 

[sjd]

Had not realised that forum is for self-appointed fun police.

I wish my Porsche speedo was accurate within 1 mph, must work out how to fit a Citroen speedo to my cars.

Guess I must be just a another 911 idiot...

 

[924nutter]

ORIGINAL: Alex L

So let's get this straight if I may...

The 911 Turbo was in the middle lane doing 68mph on a motorway. You then tried to over take the Turbo in the fast lane at 71mph (illegal speed) in your Citroen and this woke the Turbo driver up and he (or she) remembered they were late for a very important meeting so floored it (also then illegal speed) leaving you overtaking nothing but turbulence left in the Turbo's wake.

About the gist?

Sorry, but I actually find that really funny! [][][] I know I know, I should be ashamed of myself []

Seriously though, on a motorway in my Turbo I am happy to put my foot down occasionally when my speed has dropped and I can then get up to a decent pace again. I don't care who overtakes me as I would rather not be the fastest car on the road in case incognito cop cars are lurking. In fact I often get overtaken by lowly Citroens.

71 on the Speedo in the AX certainly isnt going to be illegal because its like to be about 67 mph. I don't care what car overtakes me in the 44t either. You wouldn't have caught me if you weren't going faster than I was. If he hadn't had personal plates we wouldnt all know who the person was.

 

[tscaptain]

P911 TEE is up for sale. A snip at £6050..........
http://www.nationalnumbers.co.uk/number-plates/sport/golf/tee.htm

I wonder if it's just a coincidence?[]

I still don't know who it is though...............

 

[sawood12]

ORIGINAL: sawood12


I guess we need to learn to appreciate things like this while we can whether you are the driver or other road user. I wonder how long it will be before the government either chip our cars or chip us such that they can slap a fine on us every time we behave irresponsibly or even have an irresponsible thought.

Looks like we might already be there. I was reading an article by JC on some piece of rubbish Fiat thing on the TimesOnline motoring section today and he said that the ECU of the car keeps a log of various pieces of data relating to your driving - I guess things like speed, RPM etc. This data can be accessed and reviewed by whoever wants to. Iguess if you were involved in a crash the Police and insurance companies might be interested, and once the data is held electronically it is a relatively simple step to introduce a piece of technology to allow that data to be accessed remotely. I wonder how many other car manufactureres have this little feature in the guts of their ECU's? Big Brother is here, knows who we are, what we're upto, when we're upto it and who we're upto it with.