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      08-31-2014, 06:50 AM   #1
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Guy was cought doing 241km/t (150mph) in an i8

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Yesterday, a guy borrowed his friends i8, and while he was doing 150mph, he passed a police motorcycle and got caught. He lost his driver license, and he probably won't get it back for at least 3 years. He will probably get some time in jail as well, and a big ass fine.



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      08-31-2014, 08:55 AM   #2
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Moral of the story: don't let your friends borrow your i8

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      08-31-2014, 10:29 AM   #3
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Same guy in the video in the other tread doing 120+?

With so few i8s in the wild the chance of coincidence is slim.
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      08-31-2014, 11:09 AM   #4
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Same guy in the video in the other tread doing 120+?

With so few i8s in the wild the chance of coincidence is slim.
Don't think so @Carac, as the guy that did that video was in a Polish registered i8.

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      08-31-2014, 05:57 PM   #5
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Sounds like a pretty fast motorcycle to catch it at 150 mph. I suspect David's bike can do that, but not sure how many others can (BTW, I'll admit I know very little about motorcycles).
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      08-31-2014, 06:11 PM   #6
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Sounds like a pretty fast motorcycle to catch it at 150 mph. I suspect David's bike can do that, but not sure how many others can (BTW, I'll admit I know very little about motorcycles).
I very much doubt there was a chase. That would have been a very different news story.

The police bike probably flashed its lights, and the i8 driver would have slowed and then been overtaken and pulled over.
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Don't think so @Carac, as the guy that did that video was in a Polish registered i8.

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      09-15-2014, 04:53 AM   #8
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Doing in any speed in an i8 is bound to get noticed! What was he thinking??
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