One thing we don't seem to know for sure (the article doesn't say) is that, though the city council agreed to the legal removal of the speed bump, it doesn't say who actually pay to have that done...the city or Vik's own pocket. We'll probably have to assume, in the meantime, that the city agreed to pay for it.

how high was the speed bump? if the LFA has trouble clearing it, many other vehicles (mass produced) would be subjected to it as well

Ground Clearance:
LFA - 4.5in
M3 - 4.9in
C63 - 4.2in
RS4 - 3.7in
ISF - 4.7in

my take...he got a really fancy car in the neighborhood, wanted to gloat even more, had the speed bump removed in favor of his "low" LFA

I just wonder. What if removing this speed bumb later on result in the death of some body on an accident. Would this LFA owner be able to take responsibility ?

I don't think that speed bumps really prevent that many accidents/casualties. Every day, I see people speed over them almost like they aren't even there, with only a minimal slowdown, notwithstanding the possible damage it does to their vehicles. In other words, they often seem to impact drivers that care about their vehicles....and are a PITA for those who do.

The actual ground clearance isn't the real issue as far as road obstructions, whether speedbumps or driveways with inclines or drainage gutters between the driveway and the main road or whatever. The problem isn't that speedbumps or gutters are over 4", but the the approach angles that these road obstructions create relative to the underbody. That's what is causing the scrape potential on production cars, and is why, for example, the underbody fins on the LFA are made out of plastic instead of CF.


I actually think the other effect of speedbumps is the problem - that speedbumps just cause drivers to accelerate after going over them, which causes more danger to pedestrians.

Also, there has been a lot of research done on the negative impact that 'traffic slowing' strategies (not just speedbumps, but unnecessary traffic lights, stop signs, rotaries, etc.) have on response time of emergency vehicles. Really makes me wonder if speed bumps are even a net positive for society.

the community i live in had people driving too fast so they proposed having speed bumps. i told them that's stupid. end result is, people still go as fast, all i see is some people will need to replace their suspension / shocks sooner.

lfa is not really that low like i said, but the overhang can be a problem. still it's very easy to drive imho. by comparison my nsx i scrape so bad because it's low AND very very long overhang

to slow people in some neighborhoods here, instead of stupid bumps they put in mini roundabouts. actually works pretty well.

Then the number of drifters goes up..... just playing. What they should do is use the traffic department of the police force to slow folks down. Funny how even placing an empty police car will slow folks down.

But if you drive by that same police car on the same street everyday, you do realize it is empty, which means you wont slow down......

these mini roundabouts here are far too small/narrow to drift on.
and police typically don't have resources to watch every neighborhood for speeders.

i got a speed bump removed for me at my last apartment. they were nice people .

Let the fines paid go back to the department.... if they still aren't breaking even, well I guess you don't have a speeding problem. Plus you can move the cops from problem area to problem area, try building mini roundabouts every block.