VIDEO: UAE driver faces arrest for 'endangering life' in car stunts on London street

The size of the bloke's ego and wallet are probably in inverse proportion to that of his gentleman's appendage.

I was on a bus travelling through the centre of London a few weeks ago when a trio of noisy, high performance cars with foreign plates stopped alongside, waiting for the lights. The drivers revved their engines and thought this was tremendous fun while people on the bus laughed at them.

I take issue with the word "pimped".

There was a documentary a while back on this phenomenon. As another poster said these prats come over to the UK for the summer to behave like a*** holes because they can't get away with it in their home, usually strict, Muslim country. They have more money than they not what to do with, (amazing what you have if you're born over billions of barrels of oil) and don't give a shit about anyone outside their personal network.

Best bit of this documentary was seeing a Met MTB officer getting a Lambo towed because the driver couldn't prove he had insurance. F**king priceless.

As someone who still occasionally teaches high performance driving, I can say with some authority that the guy must have unlimited cash, as those Mercs cook their transmission fluid.

And I doubt he is the kind of twat who has transmission oil temp on the dash.

As I understand it, these guys come over with the cars in the summer and bugger off again the autumn.

Aberdeen is as bad, with locals and their idiot off spring.

That we allow any 21 year old to drive a sportscar on residential roads with no more training than anyone else is just nuts. The standard car driving licence should have categories for cars based on total power and power to weight, a variation of that already used for motorcycles.

For anyone using a foreign driving licence, it should entitle them to drive a normal sensible car, nothing more.

And this will also on motoring sites with juvenile petrol heads applauding the "great driving" that teaches a cyclist a lesson with the driver no doubt portrayed as the victim

Many of the cars being driven round Kensington / west London are being driven on foreign plates.

The rules for owning vehicles in the UK is quite clear - they must be tested and registered with UK plates within 3 months of being brought into the country. Without these conditions being satisfied, most / all are being driven illegally with no VED paid and quite likely no insurance.

The police should be far more proactive and be taking these vehicles off the road well before the "playboys" who drive them can start to bother other road users.

Then again "proactive" and "police" aren't generally two phrases you find in the same sentence.

47 metres, good effort. But, watching the video, the guy has no talent for driving and needs his licence (or ability to drive like a tool) taken away.

the met wont give a flying f**k.

Rapid-set, expanding foam, exhaust pipe. Because you're worth it.

Meanwhile, I wonder what the response from the Met Police will be.

I'm sure they're busy trying to decide whether to dismiss it on the basis of it only being video evidence or the new favourite, second guessing the CPS on the probability that they'd prosecute.

The driver should consider himself lucky that wasn't Mario Cipollini or there would be a bike through the rear windscreen.

As someone who lives in that part of the world, this is completely normal behaviour.
Infact this wouldn't even raise an eyebrow compared to some of the stuff that they do

Clearly he's doing his bit to dispel all those misconceptions about rich Arabs behaving like nobs when they're out of the country, then all pious when they get home.

except he is unlikely to face any prosecution in the UAE

Mmm... massive bellend from the UAE to be prosecuted for being a prat when he gets home? Good stuff.