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Though it doesn't appear that when DMX was arrested he was in the now infamous yellow Chevy II Nova, it would have made a much cooler story. Given DMX's long rap sheet, it's probably safe to assume that he's been arrested in it before. In fact, looking over all of his crimes we're not surprised his license had been suspended. Give Al Gore III credit, though he was arrested for breaking the 100 mph barrier at least it was in a daddy-approved Prius.
Actually, Prius owners are dangerous. Just ask this kid, who was runover by a Prius... sort of. Ideally, we'd like to be arrested in something completely bizarre or awesome. Imagine how cool it would be to get popped in an ex-Mount Prospect Dodge Monaco police cruiser. On the other end, we'd love to end a police chase in a 2CV. You know the phrase "I wouldn't be caught dead in that car." What car would you like to get caught alive in?
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Bugatti Veryon clocked at 250mph on the New Jersey Turnpike.
Alameda's super-low Thing.
"Son, I'ma have to bring ya in on account of yer excessive lowness"
/Southern accent
Monster Truck or a McLaren F1.
A Ruiner.
I think that photo says it for me...
A Corvettamino ZR-1!
The Wienermobile!
Ideally I'd say some sort of mobile Robosaurus, but I'll settle for a Segway as I wield The Sword of Destiny.
Lamborghini Murciélago - because it would me I was really wealthy and would not give a flying f--k about losing my license.
Murilee and Co.'s Black Metal V8olvo, complete with Swedish flag on the roof. I would only be taken in at the end of an extensive on- and off-road car chase, with the chase ending accident occurring after I jump the V8olvo over a creek while blasting the horn, which hopefully plays an In Flames riff or something.
Killdozer!
How about that new V-10 Dodge Ram with a turbo that runs on biodiesel, with a 7-speed stick,independent rear suspension. It was clocked going 9.82 in the 1/4 mile yesterday.
Half an Enzo.
The back seat of ...
2008 Z06
but the only way I'd get caught in that is if I crashed.
The last of the V8 Interceptors...
To hell with a car, I wan't to be arrested for
speeding on an A.N.U.S. approved Uicycle...
@PatFromGundo: Exactly.
@PatFromGundo: You win.
Fiat 500 Gamine Vignale.
No judge is going to send you down if you're driving one of these. Even if you've just spun it through the wall of a maternity hospital.
Terex Titan
@BLS: I'm with you on that. Arrest me in the back seat of a Maser roadster wrapped intimately around the cougar that owns it.
To be honest- I'd rather not be arrested, so I think I would make my last stand in a White 1970 Dodge Challenger...
Whatever vehicle is going to give me enough e-fame to cash in for actual fame and money.
You know what I am, now we're just arguing over price.
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What is you WERE arrested in a vehicle?
@JUST POLAЯ: Is that the contraction of "want not"?
I want to get arrested in Angelina Jolie's car for doing 69 in a 55 zone.
technically, the blues brothers were arrested at the cook county accessors (sp?) office, not in their 1978 Dodge Monaco - [www.dodgepedia.org]
In whatever Elle MacPherson happens to be driving that evening...
White Ford Bronco, because then I know I would be found innocent.....
A Ford Econoline full of strippers.
A diesel Chevette. I figure if I've been arrested in one of those, I must've really earned it.
The flipside is that I've got an instant defense. "Your honour, this car made 40hp when it was new. 25 years ago. Forward motion is only possible going downhill."
Whatever Mike Jones is tippin on four fours because he gots hos giving blows.
@MazdaEric: Except it was a 1974 ("...It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas.") not a '78...
The one taking me to the same lodge as my brother mason, the arresting officer.
Any Variomatic DAF. I would be arrested after endlessy driving backwards around the Arc de Triomphe at high speed in and effort to test the noble little car's ass forward traction limits.
"Can I help you officer?"
@Red AuerБЯд╒╒: N'o ma'n, it's a' ne'w writin'g styl'e I'm tryin'g ou't! Lik'e i't?
A bright orange Dodge Charger with big "01" decals on the doors.
"What's the charge, officer? Excessive hang time? Posession of a flaming bow without a license? Misdemeanor Daisy Dukery?"
I'd like to get arrested in a car that doesn't exist.
me, i'm not gonna get arrested. the question for me is...what car do i want to be presumed dead in after driving off a cliff in flames at 140mph w/ the cops chasing me. a 1969 z/28 w/ the 302. dual 4 barrels, geared for the road courses, and open headers.
@Uncle_Bo is El Commentamino: "The charge is runnin' shine across county line."
When I was in kindergarten, or maybe 1st grade, about 5 minutes after I got on the bus one morning, the bus got pulled over by a cop. The cop came in through the back emergency exit and pulled a kid out of the back seat and into his cruiser. Turned out the kid had flicked off the cop, who didn't appreciate it.
@Bee1: 9.82 MPH?
I kid, I kid...
Surprised no one has mentioned the Killa Cycle.
@jpech: Sad, just sad. Total abuse of power. And not in the 'turning-tires-to-smoke' good kind of abuse of power.
I think driving Black Metal V8olvo down the street would automatically result in a 5-star wanted level. The maniacal levels of hoonage it seems to be capable of would make every Johnny Law a bit nervous and really confused.
@saabophile2:Wienermobile. Definitely second that.
On that note, I submit that if you were to commit some high profile, or brazen crime, get the cops in a (whatever speed) chase in your Wienermobile and are somehow able to [i]lose[/i] the tail, you would be elevated to Best Person Ever status by future historians.
@TX Law: I was also going to say Black Metal Volvo. That would be Metal to rip that down the road.
Other choice:
Cyclonechero
Or that Bobcat from Craigslist (Going 90mph on fire, of course)
@Steel_ETC: Dammit. Sorry I disregarded your previous post, but glad that the V8olvo's promise of danger and imprisonment are clear to all jalops. I'll be sure to perfect the good old "steel file in birthday cake" recipe for Murilee and Co. just in case they find themselves in the Altamont Co. Hotel.
@Starlton Heston, Gushing post-mother: Sweet.
TIE advanced x1 motherfuckers!
A veryon powered chevy aveo
As an ex-Catholic, I sometimes fantasize about being caught in flagrante delicto with a hot young soprano of the Vatican choir in the back seat of the PopeMobile.
But could you imagine how bizarrely wonderful it would be to be arrested, cuffed and booked by the official Vatican police force (Swiss Guards)?
I realize my Catholic upbringing has loaded me down with some baggage that will stay with me as long as I live.
It's my cross to bear, I guess.
6000 SUX - an American Tradition!
My old 71 VW Dormobile Bus for doing 125 mph on the interstate.
Crown Vic with a supercharged 5.4 and a 5-speed. I got a hunch when the wrecker arrived for the impound, the cop would have him hook up the cruiser with me in the back while he drove my car to the station himself.
@Dr.Danger's got the power: getting arrested would be a non-issue in that though huh???
hows about the turbonique 64 Galaxie 500:
rocket axle fully engaged of course.... OF COURSE!
Speed Buggy!
What, not a real car? Oh, I just won't get arrested then.
In a GPZ 750 powered go-cart in high school '86 (didn't have busas then!) Only I wasn't arrested, cop just wanted to see me do donuts before escorting me home. Yes, small town saturday night.