Do You Feel Lucky, Punk? We Tried Outrunning Real Cop Cars
Key takeaways
- But, hey, that’s what your friends at Motor Trend are for.
- [This story originally appeared in the April 2007 issue of Motor Trend with the headline "Do You Feel Lucky, Punk?"] Uh oh.
- The place where four-wheeled dreams—permissible and illicit—come true.
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Only a fool would try to outrun a police car. But, hey, that’s what your friends at Motor Trend are for.
[This story originally appeared in the April 2007 issue of Motor Trend with the headline "Do You Feel Lucky, Punk?"] Uh oh. Those red-and-blue strobes. Lighting up your rearview mirror like the finale in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” They’re for you. Time for your best Ned Flanders impersonation. Pull over, hands in plain sight on the wheel, pathetic smile. “What’s the trouble, Mr. Officer, sir? Did I leave my checkbook back at the orphanage?” Only a fool would do anything else.
Ah, but this is MotorTrend. Your vehicular Fantasyland. The place where four-wheeled dreams—permissible and illicit—come true. Thanks to countless action movies and TV police dramas, the question has become a staple of bar-stool debates: What if, in the presence of those flashing red-and-blue disco balls, you…made a run for it? Quick downshift, stand on the gas, a nip and tuck through traffic, and…Would you leave the police cruiser in the dust? Would the cops hang right on your tail—the way they always seem to do on the silver screen? How well does modern cop iron stack up, anyway?