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Re: Cop Car Top Speed?
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Subject: Re: Cop Car Top Speed?
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From: adam@bronze.lcs.mit.edu (Adam Glass)
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Date: 15 Nov 1995 21:20:57 -0500
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Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
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Organization: Guest of MIT AI and LCS labs
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References: <1995NOV11.152020.35415@WINNIE>
<x90ballast@wmich.edu> wrote:
> Was watching real-stories of the highway patrol and they showed this
> big old caprice keeping up with a motorcycle... Sheesh.
Bikes don't typically have unusual top speeds (by car standards.) Any
big block cop engine ought to give a cop a similar top speed to that
of a performance bike. (140? 150? Shit, my 1.8L car can do 140...)
Where a motorcycle blows away practically any car is acceleration. I
imagine your typical cop car can do 0-60 in about 6 seconds or so.
Maybe less. Many sportbikes can do 0-*100* in that same period of
time. That sort of acceleration is untouchable... provided you get
off the highway and don't give the cops a chance to get up to speed.
A
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