Swede faces world-record $1m speeding penalty

[gingerjedi]

The report claims it was a Merc SLS AMG, The AMG bit means it doesn't qualify as a production car.

And the GBoR folks won't include stuff that's illegal.

And I was talking about the Koenigsegg, the Merc was only pootling along 1t 180mph.

No Merc (AMG or not) would get near that.

[chef]

Fastest speeding ticket is here - going 272 mph in a 75 mph zone in a Koenigsegg!

It seems that this is not quite true or atleast no concrete evidence can be found about the "incident" further than Top Gear's Clarkson and Koenigsegg admitting one was in the Gumball3000 rally and got ticketd doing over 100mph but weren't happy at it hadn't passed it's DOT test yet..

[doodab]

It seems that this is not quite true or atleast no concrete evidence can be found about the "incident" further than Top Gear's Clarkson and Koenigsegg admitting one was in the Gumball3000 rally and got ticketd doing over 100mph but weren't happy at it hadn't passed it's DOT test yet..

It was 242mph, according to the film.

Gumball 3000: The Movie (2003) - Plot Summary

[chef]

It seems that this is not quite true or atleast no concrete evidence can be found about the "incident" further than Top Gear's Clarkson and Koenigsegg admitting one was in the Gumball3000 rally and got ticketd doing over 100mph but weren't happy at it hadn't passed it's DOT test yet..

It was 242mph, according to the film.

Gumball 3000: The Movie (2003) - Plot Summary

forgot to post evidence link of no concrete evidence which also mentions the gumball imdb link..

[doodab]

forgot to post evidence link of no concrete evidence which also mentions the gumball imdb link..

Well yes, but surely the film would be the concrete evidence so one would need to actually watch it?

[Mich the Tester]

And I was talking about the Koenigsegg, the Merc was only pootling along 1t 180mph.

No Merc (AMG or not) would get near that.

This one did.
Mulsanne's Corner: 1999 Mercedes-Benz CLR

[chef]

Well yes, but surely the film would be the concrete evidence so one would need to actually watch it?

I have watched it, it's on my ipod, can't remember the Koenigsegg incident in it though..

[Bunk]

The report claims it was a Merc SLS AMG, The AMG bit means it doesn't qualify as a production car.

And the GBoR folks won't include stuff that's illegal.

Just out of interest, why are AMG's not production cars? I thought they were just the high performance branch of Mercedes. Does that mean that the SL65 isn't a production car?