Dude got mad drivin’ skillz.
I can totally imagine that’s a professional car thief like those in Gone in 60 Seconds or something. That driver’s too damn good to be some petty thief.
I wonder what tunes he had playing in the car during that chase?
So as not to hijack this thread, I’ve started a new one, relating to my post above:
If you’re in a high-speed chase, what tunes would you have on the stereo?
Pretty slick. The cops did a great job as well.
Me? I guess I’d probably put in my April Wine mix tape. :dubious:
I’m not so sure it wasn’t just luck. In any case, I wonder if the theif took the time to stop and laugh, because hey, that was funny.
I guess the lesson is that next time, he needs to steal something that can outrun a Police Interceptor.
Out of curiosity, what street legal car can do that?
Depends on how well the department is funded. Lots of police are still driving stock 1992 Chevy Caprices. Bigger and better departments I’m sure have '04/'05 Crown Victorias specialized for police.
I’m sure a Viper or one of those new Ford GTs would outrun anything a cop had though. In fact, a plain old Corvette would probably do the job in just about any situation too.
From the times I’ve worked on police cars, I’d say almost anything can outrun one of them. You take your average Crown Victoria, add three hundred pounds of junk in the trunk, and you have a car that handles like a drunk monkey. I believe a mustang with a v6(which is what that car is) could almost beat one. Ford puts a governor on the engine though, and you can’t go much over 100 mph. The regular Crown-Vic has the same thing, while it’s not on the police interceptor version. There are many cars which can go faster is what I’m saying. A mustang with the V8 for example. Whether the average crook is willing to drive that fast in traffic is debateable.
I’d imagine there are quite a few cars out there that can outrun a Crown Vic (which Ford estimates to have 85% of the domestic Police Interceptor market). While I was unsuccessful at finding a neat summary of 2004 CVPI performance specs, I did find 0-60 times, mostly in the 8s, with the best being a 7.0. Top speed seems to be ~140 mph.
Current 'Vettes and high-end Mercedes and BMWs all do 0-60 in the 5s, and, while I don’t know off the top of my head about top speed for the Corvette, the Mercedes and BMWs are chip-limited to 155 mph.
And I’m sure there are others.
The Interceptors here have 120mph governors. Not sure what other departments have limited the speed of their patrol cars, though.
OK, so you’re at the wheel of this hot mustang, with the chippies right on your tail eager to fishtail ™ you.
How do you stop’em from doing so? <purely hypothetically speaking, not that I would ever do such a thing, you understand…>
Surprise breaking and fishtailing the cop instead? Might work for the first one… The next one would slow right down with you.
Don’t let’em get beside you / try to stay in front of em?
Has someone taken one of those aggressive “defensive” driving courses where they teach you about fishtailing another car, in which they might also have taught a counter-move?
Enquiring minds with overactive immaginations wanna know!
There is no easy counter-move (else by now someone would have learned it).
Many cars can exceed 120 mph (my Matrix is drag limited to 136 mph and I’ve easily past the 120 mph mark).
Best bet? Stay in traffic (the police will be less willing to endanger other drivers) or pretty much do what this guy did (staying dead center in the road). The driver knew how to drive a RWD car (FWD cars tend to wipe out which is why the fish tail hook tends to work well most of the time). You could also try braking just as the LEO vehicle hits your bumper. It might disable the cruiser if you can crack his rad (while not doing too much to your car).
If it was me, I’d have passengers start throwing marbles or something at the closing cruiser through my rear hatch window 
Smokescreen??
No no no no… Get the little spinning blades on your hubs. When the copper gets close and tries to PIT your ass, just use your spinning blades to shred up his tires. It works in movies!!