White Ford Bronco. What can I say, I’m a traditionalist and I prefer my police chases to be conducted at a safe and comfortable speed.
Really strange that Goldust tried to outrun Rowdy Roddy Piper in that thing.
A motorcycle. You can’t outrun the radio.
Yep. Can get a 600cc sport bike for not much. Of course, you also have, like, a 50% chance of death if you try to outrun the cops on it.
Otoh, iirc the cops in my area just have a standing order to not chase bikes that run. Too much chance of someone getting dead, which is more paperwork and bad pr than they want to deal with.
Not always true, but outrunning the helicopter is damn close to not doable.
Still agree with the motorcycle.
In Finland we have a saying that someone has “Vatasen jalat, mutta omat kädet” which translates to “Vatanen’s feet but their own hands.”
Ari Vatanen is a Finnish rally legend.
So in other words: it’s not the car, it’s the driver. Anyone can drive fast but that doesn’t matter if you can’t keep the car on the road.
Is it common in Finnish for proper name spelling to be altered like that? “Vatasen”/Vatanen
Finnish is probably my favourite foreign (to me) language. The Finnish accent in English just captures my attention for some reason. Also love how unique it is on paper. Just super cool. There’s a lot to admire about Finns and Finland in general. I’d really like to take a trip out to Oulu and jist ride a bike everywhere.
Ari Vatanen was a badass too. I wish my country had rally heritage like that.
Yeah perfectly normal. Vatasen = Vatanen’s, Vataselle = to Vatanen, Vataselta = from Vatanen, Vatasessa = in Vatanen, and so on.
It’s a flexible language. I don’t envy the ones trying to learn it.
Wow, I had no idea. That’s so interesting. Thanks for sharing!
dirtbike
Look for the most common model in your area, and get one in the most common color.
Then forget about running, focus on evasion instead.
Bonus points for repeating in paint that will wash off. Then you get double evasion.
Minivan full of children.
Nah, they’ll just shoot them all and charge you with “felony murder”
That’s a funny joke, but also very accurate. Once a felony is on the table, all related deaths are on the suspect(s). It has a very long case history. People actually get additional charges for the fact that cops shot someone else while pursuing them for a felony crime.
During the chase, drop one every two minutes
No littering!
Buy two of something. Bridge and switch
Reminder: only run if what you’re doing is already a felony. Running itself is a felony.
Just eat the misdemeanor unless you’re 100% certain you’ll get away.Get a hellcat, live in an area with a long straight section of interstate (i10 in Texas works well) , only commit one crime with the car.
Most police choppers have a max speed of 140mph. The hellcat can sustain 180.
Hasn’t this actually happened a few times in LA? The hellcats outrunning the helicopters, I mean.
Shit, that experience might be worth the jail time.
At 180mph you only have to encounter one panicked bystander to cause a few deaths, including your own.
Even the best driver in the world shares the road with everyone else.
This reminds me of my parents explaning to me as a kid that even if you are the best driver in the world, everyone else is not and they cannot read your mind. So it would still be dangerous.
There are police videos of it happening all over YouTube. I first saw a guy running from the law eastbound from Houston. The helicopter couldn’t go fast enough.
That seems like the kind of problem that a radio and a spike belt were designed to solve.
Modified Subarus have done this. Really anything that can hold 200+ but range becomes an issue at those speeds. You would need to plan routes and do math or add a tank and be a driving phenomenon
Renault Clio with diesel engine, you wouldn’t outrun anyone but you will create big smoke and poof dissapear like magician.
You can get an old cop Charger fairly cheap at action…
It’s got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it’s got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It’s a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas.
Fix the cigarette lighter
these days, they do stick a governor that tunes down the performance curve back into the thing. a good shop can fix that for you, though.
whatever is common in your area.
you’re not going to outrun the cops. your better off trying to play coy.
Drug running gangs in France steal Audis and Mini Cooper Sports to drive to the netherlands with the strategy of “outrun them if they catch on” and they seem pretty successful so something like that?
Technically correct would be a tank, because the police won’t have the means to stop you. However, this will only work until you run out of gas.
Like that killdozer where some dude (farmer? Can’t remember) bought a bulldozer and fortified it and welded himself inside. He didn’t go on a killing rampage, he had beef with the city and squashed loads of buildings.
As you said it came to an end when he couldn’t move it. I think he got it stuck rather than running out of gas.
Tanks aren’t fast and they don’t hide well.
They can’t stop you. They just have to follow you until you run out of fuel, as you said.
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Dildozer
It wasn’t designed to outrun the police and it didn’t. It got stuck and the driver killed himself. They did manage to destroy half of the town though.
