World record US cross-country drive

If you keep putting off that cross-country road trip because you can’t take three weeks off work, you could always follow in the footsteps of these guys and do it over the course of a weekend instead. Arne Toman, Douglas Tabbutt, and Berkeley Chadwick said they drove from New York City to Los Angeles in just 27 hours and 25 minutes, setting a new world record.

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Supposedly driving at an average speed of 103 miles per hour, and reportedly hitting a high of 193, they somehow avoided getting a single speeding ticket.

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They began the journey on November 11 at 12:57 AM at the Red Ball Garage in Manhattan in a tuned-up Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG and arrived at the Portofino hotel in Los Angeles just over a day later, breaking the previous record by a little more than an hour. They used aids like Waze, radar detectors, and even live scouts to identify any police presence and avoid them.

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Needless to say, this method of cross-country road-tripping isn’t exactly recommended. For one, you’ll be lucky if you don’t end up in jail, buried under a mountain of speeding tickets or even badly hurt in a serious crash. And even if you do make the trip in record time, you’ll have missed pretty much everything worth seeing along the way.


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