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Title: Coast to Coast in 29 hours
Post by: ZLoth on October 31, 2013, 09:05:27 PM
From Daily Mail: Coast to Coast in under 29 hours: Mercedes CL driver sets new record by averaging 98mph in car he spent months fitting with gadgets to keep eye out for police  (http://markholtz.info/bi)

Don't think I need to quote from the actual article
Title: Re: Coast to Coast in 29 hours
Post by: formulanone on October 31, 2013, 09:41:33 PM
I'm reminded why the Brits hate The Daily Mail; the writing seems to be layered with the type of pointless canned adjectives and phrases that a 10-year-old just learned, and figured he had to put all of them into one article. Every sentence is written towards the angle of near-hyperbole. But I guess that's what you get with a tabloid.

Also, "They got to California as the sun rose" - why are they looking into the sun, if they're driving west?

(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.dailymail.co.uk%2Fi%2Fpix%2F2013%2F10%2F30%2Farticle-0-1916C3F000000578-25_634x431.jpg&hash=100aebc972b91bfda1463366ee7b93557c56b894)

Then again, I haven't driven precisely where they did, but something seems off. Maybe they were somewhere else, since to most of the world, anything between New York and California is flyover country.