Opel Astra Driver Sent Fine After Allegedly Doing 432mph
A Belgian motorist received a nice little surprise through the post recently - a speeding fine which alleged he’d been travelling at 696kph (432mph).
The man apparently clocked the speed in the town of Quiévrain near the French border. For the sake of comparison, that speed is a little slower than the cruising speed of a turboprop airliner, and almost as fast as Speed Demon - the current record holder for the fastest car powered by an internal combustion engine.
Of course, he wasn’t actually driving that fast. After writing to local authorities questioning the absurd claimed speed, it transpired that the figure was the result of an “encoding error.”
That’s not to say he got out of paying a fine, however - the Opel driver was actually doing a more modest 60kmh, which is still over the posted limit…
Source: The Telegraph
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Ultimate sleeper?
He’s found the sacred tires.
Koenigsegg: Hold my beer
Hennessy: hold my beer
After this information There is hope For 17 year olds to get Laid in a Astra
You mean a corsa mate!
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Well it does have the Flash’s emblem on its nose. The speed force is strong with this one.
when that eurobeat kicks in
But that’s for drifting………
What you guys haven’t heard of the Vauxhall Astra Chav editon?
You know the one with Black rims, white paint, a free baseball cap and multiple stickers which give it free flowing Aero dynamics and a state of the art fart exhaust that gives 3000hp?
I thought you guys were a respectable car website……..
Well, that is not the Chav Edition…
…it’s the Chav Edition MC Mental Special.
That’s the corsa not the Astra and my embarrassing ass has one😂
The World’s fastest car in 2018 is the…
Opel Astra J!!
Hieronymus
LOL