They should try that with faster cars.

They only need to go faster than the coast guard.

I doubt that the CG would open fire...well after 9/11 they proably will...still it's worth a shot.

I figure a supercharged ford truck engine or any Hemi could put out enough power to go much much faster.

I don't think so. Not with the drag that something like those floating trucks are going to have compared to the V hulls of the coastguard ships.

they would have made it easily in one of these:

http://i.timeinc.net/time/2003/inven.../invaquada.jpg
of course, they'd only be able to fit 5 or 6 immigrants, but they could make 2 trips in this little speeder
more on this

The only one they have left, have rust holes. :haha:

Faster than a speeding f-15/16/18 ?

f-15/16/18 isn't very good at stopping a small boat like that unless you want to bomb it

However, as someone once pointer out to me - you can't outrun a radio. The just radio ahead, and the cutter waits for you

I don't believe that they would have time to deply the jets at these short distances.

If the first BIG truck made it 40miles away from the shore at 8mph, think of what it could have done at 40?

You'll say "But 40 is fast for a boat.." Yeah but they can make it fast! They only need to cover ~200 miles on it, if even that. Supercharge it, water cool it, nitro it, rip off the muffler and the cats, floor it. Who cares if the engine only lasts the day? It's like the F1 engines which only last the race..

I would probably guess that they'd do better using a real speed boat though.

Oh and they just need to put up a big US flag and NOT look like Cubans to make it through. Like maybe not take the shortest route and not during the day?

Here is the magic formula:

Dark grey boat. No lights. Night.

The truck made it 40 miles because that's half way and they don't intercept before that. The US is watching ALL the time. Even the drug smugglers in high speed cigarette boats aren't fast enough.:)

This just screams "Condoreman"...

Quzah.

They finally made it! Not by sea, but through Costa Rica and Mexico. I still feel bad about the Chevy Truck. ;)

I've got a truck that needs some work. Welcome to America, Boys!

I've hardly been the environmentalist around here, but WTF is with them SINKING the two car/boats that this family had? They couldn't have just sent 'em to a junkyard for crying out loud? For some reason this really pisses me off. Oh, and welcome I guess to the family, if only most americans had that much willpower to get something done....

This thread just won't die!

They are back. This time with a modified taxi.MSNBC Story

If they'd had 70HP/Liter, they'd have made it that last 20 miles before the Coast Guard found them. :)

Why must it be bright blue