The one and only Sammy Hagar reference I'll ever make....
I love this story.... there was a guy in England who got ticketed for going 115 mph in a Fiat Punto and he successfully fought the charge by arguing that there was no way he could have gotten one up to that speed. Now, if you haven't seen a Punto, it looks like this:
In all honesty, I don't think you could get one of those to go 115 mph if you strapped booster rockets to it and dropped it from space.
The guy who fought the law and won was a law student who fully admitted that yes, he was driving too fast... but he knew that the little Punto couldn't go that fast, and proved it by driving it downhill in favorable winds.
But honestly, when you think of Fiat, you don't really think of high-performance. I mean, I could see him maybe breaking 115 if he was in a Mini or Kia or something like that, but a Fiat... yeah... that's happening.
I think I like the story so much because it is sort of a David and Goliath story... I mean, he fought for 18 months to win the case. It also reminded me of all the stories about people beating tickets by getting every piece of information they could about the situation, like when the radar guns were calibrated and when the officers using them were last trained... though I am not advocating speeding.