2009 Nissan GT-R Road Trip: Not Always the Loneliest Road in America

Couldn't you have outrun that Expedition? I'll bet u could

if you put a non-causcasian person behind the wheel, you would get pulled over much more and ticketed much more. (if not thrown in jail) It's a horrible world we live in, and anyone who says otherwise just doesn't understand or is white.
 
honest and respectful gets me harassed and ticketed, they always approach the car with guns drawn with back-up, so it seems they've already made up their minds... staying calm, abiding by the law, knowing my rights, and telling them i'll see them in court is what gets me out of tickets.
 
cops always try the tailgate thing on me with their lights off at night and i just laugh and maintain my speed... after a few miles they just get mad and storm off past me at more than the legal speed limit. its just sad they got my mom with that recently, it freaked her out that she was being followed (didn't know it was cops) so she sped off and BAM! you're a good honest person who works hard and abides by the law, yet still...
 
sigh.

Looks like police in USA is particularly fair....while where I live, in the small Switzerland, they are extremely strict: you did a mistake, you pay for it. No way out! anyway, looks like the system works....
How is going the GTR?
I have a meteeng next saturday to buy it...
See you!

aside from the above theory :) How do you guys keep getting away with going way over the limit? It isn't even like you are just pushing it a bit. Must be one wining smile you have Ed.

So since the content on Inside Line is now 90% GT-R, 10% everything else, shouldn't it just be renamed GT-R line?

Hmmm... Shades of Brokeback Mountain? Nah...

"It's a horrible world we live in, and anyone who says otherwise just doesn't understand or is white"
 
Or maybe they just live in another country.

Agreed, I'm Chinese and never get any slack from cops. Many of my American friends have gotten off with warnings multiple times with cops. I always get harassed and ticketed, as do my other Asian American friends.

Hey, that's nice of him - count yourself lucky - in Minn I got a ticket for 67 on a almost deserted flat smooth sunny daytime 2Lane near Montevideo Mn in a Minivan.

This is a nice lesson in racism, according the comments... I guess as a caucasian male I'm just privileged to have never gotten a ticket or harassed.
 
Of course I don't speed or do anything to incur the wrath of a police officer, so maybe that has something to do with it.

Let's don't forget the car and it's condition has a lot to do with how u'r treated. Weed smoking, petty criminal in one of the first Nissan GTR's in the US - not likely.

huyracing said "cops always try the tailgate thing on me with their lights off at night".
 
I used to think this was bogus, until I saw cops do it on the 60 freeway outside LA. Really a scary and dangerous practice.
p.s. I was not the target of this incident.

bemanix88,
 
disagreed. i'm half asian and sometimes i got tickets, sometimes i didn't. i have always been treated respectfully and have always given respect.
 
it's tough to argue against experience. all i know is that my experience with law enforcement has always been postive.
 
maybe it's just me. maybe it's just you...

Well you guys got lucky.
I've had a fair experience most of the time from law officers. One day I was late for my midterm exam and I was doing around 85-90mph in 55mph zone (i-695 in baltimore)and I passed the undercover cop in the right. Big mistake, he pulled me over few seconds after and I told them the truth. He took my lic. and reg. and came back after a moment and said "It could've been $500+ ticket. Just slow down the next time". I got away only with a warning. No more speeding for me after this. And no, I'm not American, I'm just from Central Asia.

Might have to with my age though. I'm in college which might make it easier to get ticketed than a "respectable older gentleman".

i got 6 tickets by the time i was 20, and probably just as many warnings.
 
i like to think i got tickets not because of how old i was, but because i was speeding. at least, that was the offense that was listed on the tickets...

I received all my tickets when I was a 'punk kid' driving a riceburner. Now that I have a nice car, I've received none.

"I received all my tickets when I was a 'punk kid' driving a riceburner. Now that I have a nice car, I've received none."
 
Good point. I suspect it has more to do with how a driver presents themselves than what race they are. If you drive a style car that is stereotyped in pop-culture as a law breaking-mobile, it might have something to do with it. Rent a mini-van, see if you get the same results...=)
 
Either way, Ed's been pretty lucky and it probably has to do with the association to Edmunds, driving one of the only GT-R's in the US and the background story they have been throwing the cops ("We're doing the first US road trip ever in a new GT-R, and the route has been dictated by our readers, which number in the <<insert very big number>>. We also report our progress multiple times a day on the website, blah, blah, blah...").
 
Forget a ticket, the aforementioned cops are probably reveling in the good PR...=)

estreka,
 
i'm sure not only your age and car have changed, but also how you drive.
 
i drive an '06 mustang gt with 20% tint (so it isn't easy to see how old or what race i am).
 
seems like a pretty good car to attract the attention of the police. especially since the tint itself is illegal. but i've not noticed any more police attention then when i drove an SUV.
 
the truth of the matter is it doesn't matter what kind of car you drive as much as how you drive that car.
 
i got stopped 3-4 times a year when i was younger... but it was because i drove like a bat at of hell!
 
young narcissistic people don't have perspective so they think it is all about the fact that they are young or this or that but never about how they were driving.

I'm caucasian and I get a ticket nearly every time. The key is to go to court and fight it. Half the time the cop doesn't even show up - NOT Guilty! Woo-hoo!
 
I think I got a warning one single time in my whole life, and I've been driving for more than 2 decades.

I've never gotten away with just a warning but I've only been pulled over twice in 29 years of driving so it's not much of a sample size.

I live in USA (Minnesota) but originally from Europe and still have accent. In the last few years I was stopped by cops in Minnesota 5 times. Once it was for wrong turn and 4 times for speeding. I always got my way put. Twice I was driving old corolla and three times new G35. Every time I was respectfull and honest. 4 times it was white cop once it was black cop. Every stop ended up on a friendly note.
  
Cops in USA a very nice. If you were ever stopped by cop in Europe you would know what I am talking about. Regardless of the race, skin color etc.. they stop you to give you a ticket. They are never friendly and there is no way out.