07/02/2012 09:09 | By Sean Carson, contributor, MSN Cars
Cars most likely to be caught speeding in the UK

8: MINI Cooper



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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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16/02/2012 17:08
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People are so wrapped up in their own selfish world that they dont care about the lives they can 
disrupt and harm with their driving.  Every day i see people speeding , overtaking unnecessarily,
and generally  desperate to be in front of the one in front of them.  The law is much to lenient and  should be changed now.  That idiot clarkson has a lot to answer for,  and  WHY ?  if the car in front  wants to turn, park , or  manoeuvre   WHY is it necessary  beep the horn ??  would it not be easy enough to take your foot off the  accelerator peddle for a few seconds?   Every day I see people using  mobile phones,  playing with the radio. sat nav,s  and reading  things.   
If you have a nice car  that's ok ,  enjoy it , but please  think  of others .    


09/02/2012 14:47
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I used to drive a mk6 golf tdi and whenever near another mk6 tdi a race always broke out, supprised golf GT tdi isnt here :P 
09/02/2012 07:27
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i think this is because these cars picked for their looks and performance.i am not these figures are from fixed cameras speedguns or mobile?.
09/02/2012 02:24
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i like this man, i know just where this man is coming from.i,m going to ring him.i can talk to him for hours and not get remotely bored.we have lots and lots to talk about.wot you say people? perhaps we all can go on skype and chat together and have a right laugh; right then john i,m now going to ring ya                   good it,s ringing                                               c u lot later
09/02/2012 01:16
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ban everything with wheels and go donkey power instead.that will stop all the idiots, law breakers and killers being on the road.thay want to increase the speed to 80 ,wot they don,t think about is there already doing 90 and if they increase the limit to 80 then people will only want to do 100
08/02/2012 23:48
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So, this list has taught me to do my speeding in cars with petrol engines, i am less likely to get caught. 

How is every car on this list a diesel. HAHA!
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Find a used MINI Cooper D on Auto Trader from £6,000

YES! THEN PAY £8000 TO INSURE IT

INSURANCE COMPANIES THIEVING CHEATING SCUM

08/02/2012 21:21
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you forgot the number 7 next to Mercedes E-Class
08/02/2012 20:53
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Drive a classic, you save a fortune in insurance and actually have to think about what your doing, I find it makes you much more aware of what's going on.
08/02/2012 19:46
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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??!!

08/02/2012 19:44
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unless the top offending cars have some magic windscreen that blocks out yellow boxes for the driver to see, then it must be presumed ambush tactics played a significant role in the results. For mobile enforcement, Lidar is the weapon of choice. Because of the cosine effect which was exposed a while back, 'most' Lidar guns now only lock on a rock solid reflection. Lidar shooting 101 - the correct procedure is target the reflective no. plate, but at 1,000m with the target travelling at speed is easier said than done. Nice reflective surface number 2, the headlight.. and finally just a big square target. As I previously commented, all the cars in this list are cannon fodder, purely because of their physical profile 
08/02/2012 18:44
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So sticking in the outside OVERTAKING lane at 70 you are a mobile obstruction, go and read the highway code section on driving on a motorway.  It's people like you who cause accidents.  Might also be useful to spell check your posts
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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, GGGGEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZ​ZZ 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.

08/02/2012 16:48
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supprised the panda eco is not on the list

old codgers love the feel of the road

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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)

08/02/2012 16:22
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cars are better than sex i should know i drive lambos and ferraris and i sleep with fit models
08/02/2012 14:59
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If speeding is such a problem why are cars,etc not limited to the official speed limit.
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?

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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.

  

08/02/2012 11:14
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This comes as no surprise..........th​e amount of times I have been stuck behind a dog-slow Discovery with black smoke belching out of it's exhaust as the idiot behind the wheel refuses to accept he (usually he) has bought a car with the performance characteristics of a supertanker powered by a Mercury 1.5hp outboard motor. The consequence of this behaviour is that once the said vehicle has eventually wound up to a speed just in excess of the speed limit the steering wheel is unable to move to the left and is therefore easy meat for speed cameras.
07/02/2012 17:23
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my morris minor can do 0 to 60 in just under three days
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