impounded – All about car

In what is surely one of the shortest terms of vehicle ownership in Canadian history, a driver in British Columbia had their brand-new McLaren 600LT impounded just minutes after driving it off the lot June 17.According to police reports, the 39-year-old gearhead picked up his supercar in West Vancouver and quickly caned it up to 161 km/h in a 90-km/h zone.The ever-vigilant constabulary nabbed him on Highway 1 and impounded the car.While the officer was conducting the investigation, the driver allegedly stated that they had just left the dealership after purchasing the vehicle, 10 minutes prior, West Vancouver police said in a news release.Price tags on the 600LT can easily crest a quarter-million in this country. It was towed away from the scene and impounded for seven days. In a statement, cops said the driver was ticketed $368 or about 0.1 per cent of the cars value for excessive speeding.Heres a thought: should the cost of tickets be proportional to the value of ones car? After all, a $368 receipt from the gendarmes is about 5.25 per cent the worth of your authors own Dodge Charger. If the miscreant in that McLaren had to pay the same percentage, it would work out to somewhere north of $13,000. Would that be any more of a deterrent to deep-pocketed scofflaws?Thats a deep well of debate best left for another day. For now, know that theres one less McLaren 600LT on Vancouver roads at least for the next week. Stay safe out there,
Origin: Vancouver driver has McLaren impounded 10 minutes after buying it

A McLaren 720S pulled over early May for speeding in Squamish, B.C.RCMP handout Police impounded a costly set of wheels on British Columbia’s Sea to Sky Highway, near Squamish, over the weekend. RCMP say a novice driver in his early 20s in a 2018 McLaren 720S was clocked doing 151 km/h in an 80-km/h zone near Porteau Cove on Saturday. Police say they also found evidence the car had been seized before for the same offence. RCMP Cpl. Mike Halskov says the fine is almost $1,000, which includes an excessive speed ticket for $483 and a driving-while-distracted ticket for $368, as well as six demerit points. Police say the vehicle is valued at approximately $462,000 and costs about $15,000 a year to insure. The driver, whose green N’ sticker was displayed in the car’s window, could be stuck with more fines and a steeper insurance rate by the ICBC, the provincial insurance regulator. It was one of five vehicles impounded by RCMP Traffic Services out of Squamish on the weekend, which included a motorcycle that was going 135 km/h in an 80 km/h
Origin: Novice driver has $460,000 McLaren impounded for doing nearly twice speed limit