e30 + empty road = bad idea.

[Massimo]

Australia is fucking retarded. The country and the people are awesome - but the law is shit and people that enforce it are waffleswaffleswaffleswafflesnuggets.

Take this as an example. Report a vehicle stolen in aug 09 - cops do nothing (excusing it up) - crim finally brought to conviction in june 11 - DOESNT MEAN VEHICLE GETS TO BE RETURNED TO OWNER. Over 2 years to get a fucking stolen car back.

Have you seen Michael post one ECCA with the SA anti hoon laws? Fucking Stupid.

Cut a long story short, off duty police officer reported him doing a burnout which he was not. Later police rocked up at his house and impound his car with out being prosecuted? Anyways took it to court can't remember the out come think most of it went his way.

[deutschman]

[motors4me]

It's not the dingos you have to worry about - it's the fucking drop bears. Motherfuckers will wait 'til a 'vert or a car with an open sunroof drives past and drop in. The lucky ones get away with just some facial scarring and a shredded interior

Drop bear attack victim

[BMC227]

i did 230km/h in my old b35 E28 and got out clean lol.. never again though.

[Iain]

This is really crushing my world view of what Australia is like. I had been thinking a country full of Crocodile Dundees but you make it sound like a bunch of pussies.

Good. Stay in America, please. We're full.

i don't get it



there's like.. two hundred people in all of australia. why the hell can't you go fast on all that open road?

Kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, numbats, possums, snakes (big ones), crocodiles (fresh & salt water), emus, cassowaries, camels, wild horses, feral pigs/goats/dogs/cats, bilbies, koalas, native hopping mice, buffalo, roaming cattle* and fuckin' drop bears. Hit any of them at speed and you'll fuck your day.


* in the proper parts of the outback there are no fences to control stock - they just wander over roads.

the dingo took my license!

It's not the dingos you have to worry about - it's the fucking drop bears. Motherfuckers will wait 'til a 'vert or a car with an open sunroof drives past and drop in. The lucky ones get away with just some facial scarring and a shredded interior

But truthfully, the outback really isn't a place to do mega speeds (as the infamous Cannonball Run of 1994 proved). I mean, this is the major highway connecting the two biggest towns in North-Western New South Wales:



A few km later...



It is beautiful out there, though

[Fusion]

328iSE = immediate swap encouraged

[Broom Broom]

the dingo took my license!

haha

DID A DINGO EAT YOUR BABY!!

[deutschman]

the dingo took my license!

[Firestorm]

Australia is fucking retarded. The country and the people are awesome - but the law is shit and people that enforce it are waffleswaffleswaffleswafflesnuggets.

Take this as an example. Report a vehicle stolen in aug 09 - cops do nothing (excusing it up) - crim finally brought to conviction in june 11 - DOESNT MEAN VEHICLE GETS TO BE RETURNED TO OWNER. Over 2 years to get a fucking stolen car back.

[evandael]

i don't get it



there's like.. two hundred people in all of australia. why the hell can't you go fast on all that open road?

[E30Kaiser]

This is really crushing my world view of what Australia is like. I had been thinking a country full of Crocodile Dundees but you make it sound like a bunch of pussies.

Same here, I thought it was all gyrocopters, and thunderdome there.

I mean I got pulled doing 75mph in a 45mph zone here in North Carolina, they asked me wtf I thought I was doing and I said NASCAR! They let me off with Improper Equipment.


PS. Just playing I had to take a 2 hour class to get it down to improper equipment which they let everyone do only once.

[Eecen]

And the possible forfeiture part if you're in extreme excess of speed.

[MattM]

wow, and i thought our laws up here were striked... Under 40kph over the limit is just a fine...(like $200), over 40kph over the limit you get your car impounded for a week(new law only in the last year), and pay all expenses...

[funcrew]

The detected speed on their laser camera was 117 and because they give you 2kmph off the detected speed i'm being charged with 115 in an 80 zone.

The worst thing is though that if i was going 1 kmph slower i would only lose 3 months as opposed to 6.

Just rang the police and they won't change the alleged speed 1 km so yeah going to have to cop this one on the chin and move on.

gay.

Don't they have traffic-ticket lawyers in Australia?

[funcrew]

Do a burnout or street race and your car is confiscated from you for 3 months, you lose your license for 6 and have a huge fine. They charge you for the tow to the impound yard, for storage fees at the impound yard and to get your car out of the impound yard.

Get caught racing or doing burnouts a second time and they suspend your license for +12mo and confiscate your car. You don't get it back the 2nd time (some states in Australia crush the car now).

You get 12/13points on your license in Oz and a basic 10km/h speeding fine is generally 2-3 points in most states (some are 1point up to 10km/h over). Once you run out of points, you lose your license for 3months and your insurance will quadruple overnight.

This is really crushing my world view of what Australia is like. I had been thinking a country full of Crocodile Dundees but you make it sound like a bunch of pussies.