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M5 - Unmarked Police Car Warning!!!
kendo - 15/6/07 at 07:41 AM

Warning to any M5 users!

Black Range Rover operating in the Gloucester area.

Keep your eyes peeled and your foot off the gas!

worX - 15/6/07 at 07:49 AM

I was pretty close to cacking myself just then! - I raced a (BMW) M5 the other night in the KC, after going for a run out to and from the Cat & Fiddle pass with the local WSCC!

Steve

locoboy - 15/6/07 at 08:32 AM

well did you win ?

chris_harris_ - 15/6/07 at 08:36 AM

I thought you where gonna say a BMW M5 too. You definitely wouldn't race one of them round birmingham, its likely to be the armed response team!!!!

andyharding - 15/6/07 at 08:36 AM

quote:
Originally posted by locoboy
well did you win ?


Of course he did. M5 are slow compared to KC :

[Edited on 15/6/07 by andyharding]

nick205 - 15/6/07 at 08:53 AM

I'm not sure I'd call an M5 a slow car. A tad cumbersome maybe compared to a 7 though

worX - 15/6/07 at 08:59 AM

err win - no not really but fared pretty well!
it was pretty well matched on the straights until about 90-100 ish but then it started pulling away, albeit very slowly I did notice!

But it was one of the later models (not the very newest ones, but definitely not more than a year or two old!) so I think the little blade engine did very well!!!

It was very satisfying as it was obvious that he was giving it everything aswell!

I was changing up at the limiter in every gear when we were racing on the straights - obviously the corners were a different matter

Steve

nick205 - 15/6/07 at 09:26 AM

I had similar with a 530d BMW last weekend. He wouldn't move over on a short stretch of dual carriageway, so I moved over instead. When we got to the very tight bend at the end which takes you onto a roundabout I just kept going at the same pace - the Beemer driver had to slow himself down very quickly to make the bend. By the time he got to the roundabout I was alrady round it and off the last exit

pewe - 15/6/07 at 10:00 AM

A tad picky but "racing" on public roads is illegal. Given all the cr*p about people reporting others from blogs, websites, utube etc. I'd be a bit cautious using that word.
Comes from bitter experince when some years ago an unmarked plod car was following a Lotus down the M4 and quote " a white sportscar joined in and it became a race down the motorway". Copper stopped the Lotus and the white sportscar continued. I'd already told the missus she should be more careful!
Cheers, Pewe

worX - 15/6/07 at 11:13 AM

I didn't actually say that any of that was on a public road...

Steve

locoboy - 15/6/07 at 11:18 AM

there's a RACE and a race isnt there, im sure it was a bit of freindly wrestling more than a propper out and out ' i'll catch you you ba$tard' kind of thing!

twybrow - 15/6/07 at 02:00 PM

Just saw a police EVO heading south on the M5 around Gloucester. I think the police have too much money!