Eight years since I've been pulled over for a traffic violation in this town, and now it happens twice in a month. One for 41 in a 35 and the other for 72 in a 65. Both times I was travelling with traffic and the cop necessarily made a concious decision to pull over the Crossfire as opposed to any of the other ten or so cars proximate to me. I guess I've got to make sure that I stay in the neighborhood of a Porsche, 'Vette, or maybe even a Mustang so they get the nod rather than me. I chalk it up to the meat in the back. Those rear tires can look pretty ominous. To the cops' credit, both times I was only given a warning--and not written.

 

I have written many posts on this in the past... I feel our cars are ticket magnets. They attract attention among the police. I have been pulled over more times in the crossfire than my camaro.... and I drove that camaro much harder and faster! I have been singled out of crowds of cars by the police.... even in bumper to bumper traffic. I was also given tickets for doing 11 MPH over the limit in the highway (never got a ticket before in my life until I started drving the crossfire).

I got pulled over once on a country road "for speeding" but I know I was doing just a few over the limit and the cop never told me how fast I was going. He gave me a warning and seemed more interested in where I live (which was just down the road). I think he was just checking my ID out and let me go because I lived down the road.

 

Fun, isn't it?

I once got pulled over for 10 over while travelling between a Excursion, 2 full size pick-ups, and a Suburban. Obviously those vehicles are far better suited to travelling at 65 in a 55 zone than my Crossfire.

 

This is why people invest in radar detectors.
I use to have a Dakota Sport (not exactly a speed demon by any means) that was bright blue and had extremely loud exhaust. I was pulled over on two occasions where I wasn't even going the speed limit... I'm more spirited in my run-of-the-mill Cherokee (still no speed demon) and have only been pulled over for 84 in a 55 on the winding roads of upstate New York.

 

I get yelled at to "SLOW DOWN" when passing soldiers doing physical training when in the Crossfire while doing the required 10mph speed.

Drive anything else am I get no yelling.
Sup??

 

I was pulled over while doing 25mph in a 30mph zone, and picked up a ticket for 51 in a thirty and it was all HCarter and BigKids fault. I wish all I had gotten was a warning. You were breaking the law and got a warning. YOur lucky day to have found a LEO willing to look the other way.

 

I think I've posted this here before, but I don't seem to get any special attention from the police here in NJ when I'm in the crossfire. When I had my '06 GTO I routinely got followed by the police, and pulled over at least once a month - really! It sucked. I only had the car two years, and got pulled over more times than I have in the rest of my 29 years of driving!

 

Welcome to the club. I got my first speeding ticket in 2008 for around 10mph over the limit, just months after I bought my Crossfire.

The last "ticket" I got was about 15 years prior.

I bought a Valentine One and that saved me a lot of grief for a year and a half. Of course, I can't use it now that I'm in Virginia, but that's a whole different story

 

Mmmmmm - maybe stating the obvious - but if you cant do the time - dont do the crime - the limits are their for a reason and having been totalled by a speeding uninsured driver before - I am pleased to see people over the limit getting the ticket they should.

By speeding your only ending up paying the man in the long run.

 

I was pulled over last night for reckless driving and then chastised for not wearing my contacts. Even after trying to explain that I wear CRT lenses (Corneal Refractive Therapy) Orthokeratology (Ortho-k) - Non-Surgical Corneal Reshaping. Apparently going from the right side of the interstate to the leftside of the interstate is reckless... Illegal lane changes? What's illegal about going from one lane to the next while pausing long enough for the car to get set in each lane?

 

Nothing if you are driving a Kia or somethin. But when driving a sports car, there are RULES just for you.

(Just being sarcastic - I've had my Roadster for a year and so far, not been pulled over in it. I guess I am quite careful, but I DO have a tendency to take off from traffic lights and leave the masses behind.)

 

I get yelled at all the time for doing 25mph in a 25mph zone on the street that my apartment is on... Absolutely ridiculous, since they don't yell at anyone else doing that speed...and I know the SRT could stop faster than any other car that drives that road.

 

Wow, a nanny-stater with a sports car. Perhaps you are unaware that in most states it is the driver, not the state, that determines the speed limit. I.e., speed limits are required by law to be set within a certain amount of mph of a certain percentile of the plotted speed absent a compelling reason to the contrary. For example, in California the speed limit on a general access road is to be within five mph of the 85th percentile of the plotted speeds of the traffic.

This is for a reason. Slower or faster, the most dangerous persons on the road are those that are not travelling with the flow of traffic. I'll bet that there are plenty of people who have been rear ended or rear ended others when the accumulated snowball effect of someone driving slower than traffic causes the traffic a mile behind to approach "zero" and hundreds of cars are thrown into a panic stop. This, however, is your world when you don't drive 72 with other traffic but 65 as posted on a busy freeway.

I also don't understand your purported corrollary between you getting hit by a speeding uninsured motorist and speeding in general. It is more of a non-sequiter. If I am "speeding" with traffic, there is simply no method through which I can be the effective cause of an accident due to that speeding.

 

speed, speed, speed...it's all you guys talk about...glad I don't do such bad things like speed.....











OK, maybe just a little bit.....


SOMETIMES YOU GET THE BEAR, SOMETIMES THE BEAR GETS YOU!!!!

 

There is no question our cars do get attention....BUT, I think the pulling over part has more to do with the age of the driver. I have had a number of officers quickly speed up beside me, check out the "old fart" behind the wheel and get a head nod or a wave and they're gone. I KNOW if I was about 30+ years younger, I would have been on the side of the road looking at a set of flashing lights in the mirror.

6 years ago I got pulled over in my Z4 roadster. My cap covered my graying hair. As the officer walked up to my window announcing "drivers license and registration" he took one look at me and said, "...never mind, just wanted to let you know that according to my "FLR" I had you doing 37 in a 35 zone. You want to be more careful in the future. BTW, nice car." Then he walked around the car, nodded and got back in the patrol car and drove off. LOL

 

Good lord, 37 in A 35?! You crazy SOB.

 

Although those reasons are arbitrary. There is nothing dangerous, in and of itself, in driving a speed over what someone plastered on a sign. Likewise, there is nothing, in and of itself, safe about driving AT the speed posted on a sign.

Doing 90 on an empty interstate isn't a problem.
Doing 30 in a 45 zone can be a problem in some conditions.

The real problem is so few drivers with any driving skills, and those who are the least skilled are the most likely to be doing anything other than driving.

 

Well stated John.

 

I just got another ticket...46 in a 35. I was well past the officer when I pulled over, because I knew it would be me getting the ticket and not anyone else. He did say "that's one nice *** ride you got there." haha I took it in stride. Also off the topic here, but I saw a Mercedes SLK 350 the other day....Im not impressed at all, and drove away happy as hell in my Crossfire.

tighed1 what military post are you at?

 

Was out for a run in the boonies on Saturday. Got pulled over for speeding. Cop comes up to the window and asks if there was any reason why I needed to be doing 71 in a 55. The copilot pipes up with "because he's stupid". The cop starts laughing and says if my license is clean he'll let me go with a warning. So I now consider myself warned. This is the first time that I ever got pulled over and skated away for free. Probably helped that I am an old geezer. The copilot wants half of the money she saved me on the ticket.

Odd thing was the cop thanked me for pulling over right away. Evidently he must have expected me to make a run for it.