8: MINI Cooper
Insurance comparison website Confused.com has been looking in to the rising cost of insurance and come up with a list of the cars most likely to get caught speeding, and those vehicles most likely to be involved in a number of other premium boosting motoring offenses.
According to Confused.com, the eighth most likely car you'll see streaking by you in excess of the speed limit is the MINI Cooper D. 19% of all Cooper D drivers having been caught pushing the boundaries of legal speed on the UK's roads.
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Yep, all the offenders are here, 3 series, mini, Mondeo, Insignia, Landrovers and E Class Mercs. Surprised no Golf however, as the TDI Golf is surely one of the modest aggressively pedalled car out there. Perhaps the drivers of these cars are just luckier at spotting the speed traps.
Oh and to all you bickering pro and anti speedsters. do what I do these days, just drive in the inside lane, its much more relaxing and leave the squabbling saddos to their own private battle. They will only arrive a few minutes ahead of you and really, do you care??!!
YEH AND OLD PEOPLE, JUST A SLOWER REACTION TIME. THE CURRENT GENERATION SHOULD BE AWARE OF THAT, THEY ARE NOT HURTING YOU, THEY STILL HAVE LIVES TO LEAD.
AND IT JUST SHOWS HOW DISRESPECTFUL YOU ARE TO TEH OLDER PEOPLE AND HEY GUESS WHAT YOU ARE GETTING OLDER AND ANOTHER DAY TOMORROW GONE, AND YES YOU WILL GET OLD AND YES YOU WILL SLOW DOWN AND YES THAT IS LIFE, SO STOP MOANING AND UNDERSTAND LIFE MUCH BETTER, ITS YOUR INPAITENTS BEHIND THE WHEEL WHICH ALWAYS SAY IT IS,NT, YOU MODERN DAY PEOPLE HAVE CREATED THE IMPAITENT CULTURE, YOU ARE TO BLAME BECAUSE YOU CAN,T CONTROL YOUR SELFS WHEN CONTROLING A PIECE OF METAL IE A CAR, GGGGEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZ THINK WHY DON, T YOU PRACTICE BEING PATENT EACH DAY WHEN GOING OUT ON THE ROAD, INSTEAD OF GETTING THE CAR AND GOING TOTALLY OFF THE RAIL AND GET INTO A GOOD HABBIT OF DOING THAT, IE REMEMBERING THAT AND PRACITE THAT AND BESIDES WE ALL KNOW THERE IS HEAVY TRAFFIC NOW DAYS, SO JUST EXCEPT IT AND STOP FIGHTING EVERYONE YOU SEE, OR YOU WILL HAVE A HEAT ATTACK AT TEH WHEEL THE WAY YOU ARE GOING ON.
For what it is worth: I have found that a cruise control is the best way of avoiding cameras/tickets on the open road. Urban areas, it is down to common sense and a lighter right foot.
I set the Cruise to SatNav 75mph (the Speedo says 78/9). I then drive 250 + miles of A1(M), covering the miles and avoiding any tickets. Bad weather - don't go. Avoid known busy periods. Being retired helps me do that, of course. And yes, I am overtaken all the time!
Last speeding conviction resulted in an endorsement and £5.10 shillings fine. 34 mph on a Norton Dominator 650 SS motor cycle down Chatham Hill, Kent at 01.30AM.....in 1963. (Still smile when thinking of that bike)
It seems strange to me that there are many luxury top-end cars limited to 155 miles per hour,what is the point of that?
The technology is available to link speed limits to vehicles in the same way as sat-navs work.
I know this would cost money on the one hand but it would save both money and lives in the other.
Do I wonder if big business and politicians are hand in hand in not wanting to do something like this or would we feel that it would be an invasion of our rights.
What rights?.....to kill and maim people for our own egos?
1.4 million, uninsured drivers. Well surely a large percentage of them can be caught, banned from driving, any cars registered to them crushed. I'm no perfect driver, i've broken the law, BUT i've paid my dues, done the time. Learnt my lesson. The hard why, hold my hands up to the past, past were it is staying. I'm not going to say what i did. But i got caught. I'm now paying higher insurance for something i did, i'm not happy about also paying more because others don't care.





























