Hey Gang,

Keep your fingers crossed for us folks here in Arizona. We have a bill pending that would raise the speed limit on our rural freeways from 75 to 80 MPH.... 8) 8) 8)

 

Got um crossed.

 

<making plans to drive to Arizona then!>

 

Let us know if it passes... Just might warrant a vacation in AZ...

(I'm in Fl... 70mph .. )

 

I had a great experience the first week I had the Crossfire. I stopped to pay the toll on the Sawgrass Expressway ( local toll road) At the toll plaza, a State Trooper waved me over to the side. I could not imagine what I had done wrong. To my amazement, he told me he was considering buying one and wanted to know how I liked it. After a big smile and ten minutes of bragging, I asked him for a favor. I wanted to open it up on the straight away after the toll. He said ok but be carefull. He followed me, let me take it to 100, before I calmed down and we parted with him giving me a siren blast. I will never forget this.

 

LOL very lucky! I notice the car at 80 is just waiting to go higher... damn these Michigan 75 laws! I wish i lived in montana ! They have a unrestricted speed limit road! "drive with care" thats what im up for!!!

 

I would love this unrestricted speed limit or at least an 80mph one...got a ticket this weekend in the middle of nowhere going 80mph on what i thought was a 70 or 75, but turns out was a BS construction zone, where there was no construction, no cones, no nothing, and of course, fines are doubled in construction zones. If i'd been going 55 mph between LA and vegas in the middle of nowhere like they wanted me to, i'd have been run off the road, even by the truckers!

 

In that case, I'd fight the ticket or go to traffic school... :cry: :cry: :cry:

 

Stan, are there any problems on those toll roads when they check the time
and distance on your toll pass and do the math and see that you have been speeding.........seems like a good way for Florida to stick you after the fact.

 

I know "someone" with an XFIRE that had it up to 135 mph and thought the car felt like it still had plenty more to give. Too bad the driver didn't...

 

AZ, does that mean you'd have to slow down?

 

135...and yet I get ticketed in the middle of nowhere for going 80. At least I'm not bitter, right?

 

Hey, it was done for your "safety". Bureaucrats always know what is best for you.

 

Thanks Krusty...I needed a good laugh! hehe. These are the same people that think you need to put a warning on a hammer saying don't hit yourself in the face with it because it might hurt.

 

I don't know if they can check your speed after the fact. Some of the exits on this highway do not have toll to exit, so there would be no way they could know.

 

Big rig drivers can be fined using toll booth reciepts...

 

It got shot down!!! Passed the state senate... the house refused to even look at the bill... oh well.

 

Hey, on a personnal level, sorry Az!

However, for my money, I'm glad they did not. Then I couldn't make the claim that the crossfire can double any speed limit in the nation. 8)

As to the Montana "safe limits", sorry to bear bad news but, didn't that get repealed (almost immediately)? Like the first person they actually ticketed for driving at an 'unsafe' speed took it to the state supreme court and the limitless limit was deemed too ambiguous, thus unconstitutional. They then had no speed limits for like 5 or 6 months, when regular limits were put in place.

http://www.mdt.state.mt.us/speed_limit/

or here...

http://www.hwysafety.com/hwy_montana_2001.htm

(as soon as I got the Xfire I was planning on a trip to Montana for just that reason, then I started hearing it was repealed). :cry: