Internal Combustion Land Speed Record Broken
by MaxPower
420 miles per hour.
In England. By a cabbie. In a 1995 Vauxhall Cavalier.
If you don't know what a Vauxhall Cavalier looks like:
If you don't know what the internal combustion land speed record is: 409 mph recorded in 1965 - seehere
This feat was achieved not on a salt flat, but on a photo-radar camera in a 30 mph zone in Newport, in the UK.
Quote the Register:
[the]magnificent achievement came as he was driving a woman home at 2.20am, The Sun reports. He later received confirmation of the new record in the form of a notice awarding him the appropriate prize of a 60 quid fine and three penalty points.
And as a finale - the police admited an "error":
Mid and South Wales Safety Camera Partnership blamed "an employee processing error" for the cock-up, and duly apologised
Yes, this post has nothing to do with anything, and is already resolved.