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Gaddafi Son’s Ferrari Seized in Germany

Ferrari F430

The car is too noisy

By Atanas Markov
January 2, 2008 6:04 PM
Filed Under: European, Ferrari, General

If you have a Ferrari F430 and drive it in Germany, try to avoid playing much with the acceleration pedal - because you could be charged for making noise above the limit. That is exactly what happened to Seif al-Arab, the son of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

The 25 year old student is registered as a student in Munich, but the influence of his father didn’t help him to prevent his Ferrari F430 from being seized by German police after he had been previously warned. Officers claimed they recorded 110.5 decibels from the sports car's exhaust system instead of the permitted 98 decibels. Consequently, they loaded it on to a lorry and drove it away. The Libyan student must pay a £100 fine for noisy exhaust, and it is also believed that Seif al-Arab may be required to pass the German driving test after his international license might be invalid.

Source: Daily Telegraph
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zorpas
January 2, 2008 6:07 PM
Buhuhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..........

Suckio
January 2, 2008 7:29 PM
Yeah, you sometimes see this guy in Munich, in general to drive a foreign car is quite naughty in Munich, home of BMW and neighbour of Porsche and Mercedes-land Baden-Wuerttenberg.

_M7_
January 2, 2008 10:08 PM
...too loud ..... how gay is that law? jaja

tose_gtx
January 2, 2008 10:13 PM
In my country the police are stopping cars like this only to see them closely. We have rules regulations but everybody just loves to break them :) My country is like a racing polygon but with bumps :) Macedonia GO GO GO!

Bartinho
January 2, 2008 10:31 PM
Everyone has to respect the law, also the young student Gaddafi..... And in Macedonia its maybe cool if sometimes a car like this could be stopped to watch, but in Germany and Austria (my home) you see a lot of these cars, and if everyone with an car like this would drive like this you had a problem......

tose_gtx
January 2, 2008 11:11 PM
??it?s maybe cool if sometimes a car like this could be stopped to watch??HOW IS DRIVEN! :) If you drive Ferrari like a grandma in your country I feel sorry for you. It?s too sad and boring to drive a sports car by the regulations. We are witnesses every day how some F1 driver is couth speeding in some ?regulation? country, but those guys are just driving the sport car in it normal needs. That?s the reason for driving a sport car, adrenalin, hart beet, speed ? Yes every one has to respect the laws, but with a sports car? :)heheh? BTW: In my country you can also see a lot of these cars, not maybe in a number like in Germany or Austria but we have also head turning cars?

Bartinho
January 2, 2008 11:48 PM
I was often in Serbia, and i know how the people there drive..... Katastrophal...

Laws are needed.... but not to break them....

moyusuf
January 2, 2008 11:56 PM
Here in the States, it's the motorbikes that make all the noise. But nobody cares.

atleast500hp
January 2, 2008 11:56 PM
Oh, sorry. I thought I logged on to countryfans.com. Who gives a rat's fat what happens in your country in relation to cars and their noise. In every country in the world there is going to be people with nice, expensive cars, with loud exhausts, who love to drive them enthusiastically! Please stop crying about it and just enjoy the beauty of Ferrari and other exotic makes!

Suckio
January 3, 2008 12:20 AM
The people of Munich pay for security and laws, and therefore Munich is one of the safest places to be in the world, unlike in lybia.

radmeister
January 3, 2008 12:30 AM
That's what you get for being an idiot, served him right. That law is in place because you dont want it to sound like a motorway downtown where ppl stop for a coffee on a terrace, you want a pleasant atmosphere in the city. On the motorway let her loose, but in the city have some respect.

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atleast500hp
January 3, 2008 8:12 AM
Total agreeance Radmeister!

radmeister
January 3, 2008 12:34 AM
Some people murder other people for an adrenaline rush. The law is the law, you break it you pay the price. It's not rocket science, doesn't take an einstein to figure out that with a car like that already all the cops in the area are going to be looking at you, and then u break the law and try to show off by revving ur ferrari for some girl on the sidewalk and u get burnt. That's life, he's another clown that thought he was too cool for the law because daddy baught him a car.

Pentium
January 3, 2008 2:25 AM
hehehehehe funny!

e36mmm
January 3, 2008 10:15 AM
i agree with you radmeister. open her up on the autobahn which will be damn good in germany and calm down in the city. if i had a ferrari i would not show off in the city, i would show off on the freeway :D i know its a pleasant noise but elderly people can get heart attacks from that :D

radmeister
January 3, 2008 4:26 PM
Yeah not just the elderly, but its the same as causing a scene by swearing and yelling on the streets, you will get a public disturbance ticket. In Munich and all of Germany for the fact everybody has heard a Ferrari before, knows what it sounds like and by now is not impressed. He just caused a scene for no reason.

smokeonit1
January 3, 2008 12:25 PM
in LA there's motorcycle noise raids too, but for cars it's only on a case by case basis just like gadaffis son example... 110db is lot... this guy must have put on a race track exhaust... idiot...

ayoub
January 3, 2008 12:26 PM
ha ha ha .. the libyans r alalwys there for hot stuff.. i like them... keep the motor up to 13000 RpM libya

radmeister
January 3, 2008 4:23 PM
And i like the cops that gave him a ticket and sent him home walking...Germans 1 Lybia 0

ceven
January 3, 2008 4:26 PM
There's certainly a point in not overdoing noise. It might be quite a lot of fun to those who care and like it, but to others it might just be annoying.

I've heard about serious trouble a guy from Berlin had with his 360 "unplugged". The neighbourhood got a bit... overexcited. There are still places where you needa calm down a little.

And 110dB is of course one hell of a noise.

Funny stuff this is.

LOLOM5
January 3, 2008 9:22 PM
What noise? Porsche drivers make noise too! Hey, that's not fare! I guess he should have bought a 'German Camel!'

ceven
January 3, 2008 10:08 PM
Made in Germany also means they have to stick to the rules. You won't get it on the road legally if it doesn't fit safety restrictions and the law. We've got the TÃœV guys over here (TÃœV ~ "Technical Control Board", "Technical Inspection Authority" etc.). No noise louder than the permitted max. We've got a bunch of modded 3-series around here and they are repeatedly pulled over to see if they fit the rules.

Same goes for every manufacturer, not only extraterritorial ones.

tose_gtx
January 3, 2008 10:45 PM
I think that the show offs in Germany should drive electric cars with top speed of 40km/h and be SAFE and not noisy and boring?like the are like people?Hey boys we are talking about Ferrari.

smokeonit1
January 4, 2008 5:05 AM
and they gave him a verbal warning before this happened! how stupid do you have to be???

Dd
January 8, 2008 8:20 PM
Wtf. Who the hell decides how high a noise should my. take about greed.

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