I've had my Z since Feb. Here's the tix I've gotten so far:
95 in a 55
78 in a 65
53 in a 40
I also got pulled over once for not having the front plate on. Needless to say, my attorney loves me since I'm helping put his kids through college....

I shot a man in Reno / Just to watch him die ... :ughdance:

The Z (any color) probably guarantees that if you get pulled over you WILL get a ticket of some sort. So I've driven this car the slowest of our last half-dozen cars, and so far ... knock wood ...

Let me amend that. We always drive with radar detectors. Always. And within 50 miles of our home we know the roads pretty well. So we only speed up in places we know they can't possibly be hiding. Then we just have to look out for unmarked Crown Vics (either white or black).

Err ... let me amend that again. The first blip you get on a radar detector, unless you're getting a false alarm from a mall or a road construction sign, you put the brakes down NOW. I'm pretty sure I've been in the "kill zone" a few times, but because of aggressive braking, they haven't had a radar result they can use.

And i thought my one ticket was bad...:rolleyes:

87 in a 55.
About 2 weeks after I got it.
Ended up getting a PBJ due to a clean record.

Is it just me? Or do u find cops to be not as uptight about sports cars and bright colors here in DFW as it seems in other places? I wasn't bothered at all when I had the G35.
To me it just feels like they indiscriminantly hand out tickets here imo?
But it also feels like writing tickets is the only thing cops are really trying to do. Lol
I always see people pulled over in all kinds of cars.

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I shot a man in Reno / Just to watch him die ... :ughdance:

The Z (any color) probably guarantees that if you get pulled over you WILL get a ticket of some sort. So I've driven this car the slowest of our last half-dozen cars, and so far ... knock wood ...

Let me amend that. We always drive with radar detectors. Always. And within 50 miles of our home we know the roads pretty well. So we only speed up in places we know they can't possibly be hiding. Then we just have to look out for unmarked Crown Vics (either white or black).

Oh yeah... 50% of the battle is using your eyes. I do the same exact thing u do on the road.

I moved here to TX from NY 3 years ago. One thing about the east coast is cops pull over anything, everyday, all day, in every way. And if u have a sports car? You are double screwed. It doesn't matter if its an old sports car or new. Bright dull or crashed. And if u r the wrong skin color? They throw in a BONUS illegal search. Lol and they say racism is a southern problem. Lol. I think its 3x worse up north.

There is a cop at my local highschool here in Nacogdoches that drives a modified Charger... Now I ask, why does a school needed a modified Charger for his cop car?!?

And the worst ticket I have ever gotten was an 80 in a 55.

However, I did get pulled over by a state-trooper going about 110 in a 70 on my home from UT Austin. I figured I was about to get arrested. When he asked if I knew how fast I was traveling, I gave a very determined, "Yes sir, I know exactly how fast I was driving." When he asked why I was traveling so fast, I told him the truth... I was going to be late for church. He let me off with a warning and I still made church on time. :icon17:

Here in ontario, pigs do not discriminate. They ticket everyone equally. If it's a speed trap, anyone less than 15 km/h over the limit gets a free pass, 15-20 over is usually ok but sometimes they pull you over, especially if it's the beginning of their shift and they wanna rack up the tickets to get their quota. However, if you are more than 20 km/h over the limit, you're almost certainly guaranteed to be ticketed, doesn't matter if you're driving a ferrari or a dodge caravan. They tend to set their speed traps at specific well known locations that dont change, so if you know a neighbourhood, you know where they hide. And they tend to be VERY active on weekends and statutory holidays, where traffic is light, roads are empty, and that throttle pedal becomes that much harder to resist.

Wow - sounds like being in the Millitary is a good way to get away with breaking the law....

I know a lot of military people that have gotten out of tickets because they were in the military. I did once get a ticket in Alamogordo New Mexico for, and I **** you not, 39 in a 35. :confused:

I had just put on my pipes on my bike and was blowing off a bit of "steam" from having to deal with it - pulled out from my little street to the arterial street, and hammered it. I was going probably around 65 in a 45. I let off just before I saw the reflection of a cop car's side markings on a vehicle going the other way. He flipped on his lights, I pulled over at the fire station near my house and waited for him. I was going to tell him - ya got me, I was being stupid....

I waited 2 minutes, he didn't show.


The time I actually did get a speeding ticket was in Tulsa, there is an arched bridge that goes over railroad tracks. One side is on the downtown side, which is marked 20mph. The other side of the bridge there is an intersection (stop light), and on the other side it's 35, and the intersecting street is also 35.

I'm going up the hill, my radar detector goes off, and I jam on the brakes (at the top of the hill. Detector stops going off as I go back down, so I'm on my way...cop pulls me over, says they tagged me going 30 in a 20. She said she felt bad writing me a ticket (as if that makes it better) because she saw that I got on my brakes when I neared the top of the hill - I told her 'don't be - I knew you tagged me because of my radar detector - thanks for the ticket, see ya later...'

I can't forget that one because I was working through the weekend...Martin Luther King weekend (I work for a government agency so it was a 3-day weekend) - because I had a complete failure of Active Directory - lesson learned the hard way - don't ghost a domain controller's system drive to another disk, and put it on the boot channel...then leave the old disk in the system on another channel... =/

I can't believe the majority of people in here have 30+.

not around here my good man, military town/stigma attached/white people are the minority, you get the picture, here, this means your chances double.

A 30+ would be real expensive. Plus the insurance premiums would sky rocket!

^ Tell me about it. Mine doubled.

None in the Z....and I can't touch frost's 155....but I did get a 105 in a 55 once! Two state cops sitting at the bottom of a 8% grade.....I wasn't even touching my pedal at that point. Good 'ol Virginia mountains! I passed them and knew I was screwed. I pulled over and they almost passed me back.

One tapped on the window....asked me: Where ya headed this morning?

St. Louis.

You trying to get there in the next 30 minutes?

I might have if you hadn't stopped me.

He actually laughed! I took my ticket and he let me go. Of course this was back in 1990....now there is no way in hell I'd be allowed to continue driving. Handcuffs, arrest, tossed in jail until I see the judge is my guess. :p

Hmm, interesting read. How effective do you find radar detectors? Do they warn you off in time? Also are cops able to detect the detector?

If the cop is sitting there with his radar off just tagging the ones he thinks are speeding, a detector won't be that useful.

If the cop had it running tagging everyone going by, you should have more than enough time to slow down (I am seeing fewer cops do it this way).

However, being attentive on the road is always your best warning.

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I never got a ticket in the 350. I had my 370 2mnths and wham 46 in a 35. Laser! Thank god for defensive driving school. 0 pts. FHP never lets anyone off. If you pull over you get a ticket.

trapster app...nuff said

It does fail.

I carry a big marines sticker in my back window, and most of the time, they ask me: "are you a marine?", I reply "yes". get to talk a little about it, and then they hand me the ticket.


anyways got pulled over 3 weeks ago. for getting lost on suburbia.

62 on a 35 supposedly. Saw no speed limit posted but that's not an excuse I know.. what pisses me off, is after the ticket and all I asked the guy for the second time. "how the hell do i get to commercial blvd from here?" and he just laughed and got back in his car, so there I was with a $280 ticket and lost, took me 20 min. to find my way out of that place.

this was on July 28th and still the ticket is not up for payment? is there like a limit on time, that if the cop does not provide the info I don't have to pay?

Who told you that?

I talked to Traffic Officer at my wifes work.


They can hide- they do not have to be visible.

It was probably me. I haven't seen any 370s in Mck, not even you :icon17: Kinda funny but I still can go 2 weeks in DFW without seeing another 370z.

:icon18::icon18::icon18::icon18::icon18::icon18: I call BS to this one


If a cop has to sit in the wide open its pointless. The point is to CATCH speeders not let them know you're there.

I chalk it up to revenue generation for the county. A ticketed sports car nets the same amount as a ticketed beater. Tax revenue is down due to job losses and foreclosures... they got to make up for it some way.

True, True. I guess the money factor is just so much stronger than profiling and hand picking the stereotypical car to issue a ticket. I've only gotten 1 ticket in my life. And it was in mesquite tx. nov 2007... $243 84mph in a 60mph.
I got a deferred adjudication so I paid it without getting it on my record.
Was able to absolve it by mail.
Hopefully that was my 1st n will be my last ticket.

I just got a speeding ticket a half hour ago :shakes head:
cop had all his lights off and was hiding.
he clocked me at 62 in a 45 and wrote the ticket for 55.
Luckily he only clocked me at 62 while i was slowing down. I was probably doing over 100. The ticket doesnt even say how much it costs but google says 150. Im actually pretty relieved.

Get a lawyer, well worth it

I got a ticket in my mom's Sante Fe while in uniform going to the armory. To some cops, being in the military doesn't mean shit. I was going 60 in a 55 and got a ticket. :shakes head:

Never got one in the 2 years I had my 370.

In Ontario if you are more than 30mph(50Km/h) over the speed limit they confiscate your car and licence for a week and give you a court summons. Its complete BS they charge you under a street racing law. You go to court and say I was speeding not racing and you get off the charge they need to prove you were racing. Problem is you are out of pocket $1000+ for the tow and impound and are without your license for a week. Its a case of guilty until proven innocent complete BS.

That depends on the area. A number of places have anti-speedtrap laws in place. Here in Florida, I think the requirement is that they have to be visible in at least one direction, of course that doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be the direction you are coming from. :shakes head:

I used to live in Vermont. in the 4 years that I actually drove there, I had 4 speeding tickets, none very high miles (was only driving a Toyota Corrola, god I think that car was cursed), but expensive. Of course, Vermont is always in desperate need of revenue, and they have some of the most merciless and bored ***-hole cops I've ever seen because of it. I had one pull me over for 4 mph over the posted limit (39 in a 35, which seems to be most of the damn state). Just one of the many reasons I left that state.

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Anyway, been living in FL now for about 10 years, and never even been pulled over, much less ticketed (give me a moment, gotta go find a tree to knock on). I mainly chalk it up to luck, but cops down here in Orlando don't seem to be concerned unless you're flying. Hell, I've had cops pass me while I was speeding.

I guess in the end it comes down to being like the Gambler, knowing when to hold them, and when to fold them.

Never ticketed. Eyes wide open and know where they can potentially perch.