Porsche vs Tollbooth at 100mph

[RC45]

Originally Posted by bmagni Not really, you may think so because you don't drive a econo car AND a sports car or maybe just because you're a well educated man and know that speeding in any car is dangerous and still you sometimes cruise @ 120 mph or go to play to the back roads, I don't think you'd do that in a civic. But most of the people who don't have the culture of driving safely and get the chance of driving an above the average car, speed. Just do a simple question to regular people. If you had a sports car would you ? a: drive normaly or b: drive fast but cautiosly Most people would answer b. But cautiosly doesn't mean that they'd certainly do it. Yeah there are tons of civics, subarus, miatas and so out there speeding, but what's the percentage of owners who speed their civics, and whats the percentage of owners who speed their sports cars ?

No really - you have it all wrong.

As I said I see THOUSANDs of speeding econocars every week - they all speed.. seeds range from 70 in a 65 to 80 and above.

The %age of sports car drivers that speed in regular traffic is very low. We actually have to entice each other to do it.. the reason is simple - if a cop sees 2 cars, a Porsche going 70 in a 65 and a Civic going 80 he will pull the Porsche over everytime.

The answer "most" people would give is wrong because they are not driving sports cars they are driving econcars and "think" they would speed because its easier.

The "speeding" is a factor of attitude more than car.

In her state and attitude the accident would most likely have happened in an econocar anyway.

I really need to camcorder a weeks worth of driving and make it into a movie special to show just how fucked up the econocar drivers are on the freeways.

Really

[bmagni]

Originally Posted by RC45 As I said I see THOUSANDs of speeding econocars every week - they all speed.. seeds range from 70 in a 65 to 80 and above.

I too see many, and they speed wrecklessly.

Originally Posted by RC45 The %age of sports car drivers that speed in regular traffic is very low. We actually have to entice each other to do it.. the reason is simple - if a cop sees 2 cars, a Porsche going 70 in a 65 and a Civic going 80 he will pull the Porsche over everytime.

wrong ! he wouldn't pull the Porsche cause you have a 10% tolerance and he ain't gone over it

Originally Posted by RC45 The answer "most" people would give is wrong because they are not driving sports cars they are driving econcars and "think" they would speed because its easier. The "speeding" is a factor of attitude more than car.

There you go, its a redundant answer. You've always argued how sports cars mostly come with the "Starbucks, fanboy, rich boy, yuppie, attitude". I am certain that the speeding attitude is among those.

Originally Posted by RC45 In her state and attitude the accident would most likely have happened in an econocar anyway.

I don't deny that, but chances are slimmer. If she did took the car without permission, what temptation would it have brought if it was a Camry ? Lets say she would have "stolen" it, but maybe she would't even had been able to speed the car that much.

[RC45]

Originally Posted by bmagni wrong ! he wouldn't pull the Porsche cause you have a 10% tolerance and he ain't gone over it

There is no such things a "tolerance". There is however a thing called profiling

[philip]

The latest street racing fatality in Houston was a 14 year old girl, a passenger in a new VW beetle driven by a 15 year old with no licence.

If you can die street racing in a new VW Beetle, you can die in a Camray. But, if you die in a Porsche of Ferrari it shows up here.

If your a traffic patrol officer, whats your preference at ticket to a Camray or a ticket to RC in his Vette. You know you want to ticket RC, especially at 11 over.

[Mattk]

I really need to camcorder a weeks worth of driving and make it into a movie special to show just how fucked up the econocar drivers are on the freeways.

Over here, it's mostly suburban housewives in their 4WDs. Last month, I was almost run off the road by some bitch in an X5.

But a lot of people with fast cars do like to accelerate from the lights really quickly, just to show off.

[spanky]

Sad sad sad... Imagine the people who were there straight after to see if anyone survived in the 911. (not that u wouldnt have probably known already) But It'd make ya stomach turn for weeks I reckon.

[Daggernite]

100mph in any car can cause a fatal crash, but maybe in a slower car she would have not reached that speed, at that point. It might have been diffrent... who knows for sure. Saying faster cars are not anymore dangerous than slower cars is incorrect, of course the risk has to be higher for a fatal crash of some degree. Ultimatly though, it is the driver that is the number one factor in fatal crash.

And I got to agree with one point RC made about it been the small eco cars that pose the most threat on the road. In towns and motorways in the UK, its the corsa's saxo's puntos 106's and so on that seem to be in a rush everywhere. There dangerous!! But you rarley see the big engined cars speeding or acting crazy. But then again, i never see a porsche with its spoiler down, so there the bad guys

P.S There is one small car that I always see been sensible, because only good drivers are attracted to these cars. The fiesta of course

[5vz-fe]

I believe 911 spoilers can be manually controlled.

[philip]

I wo n't say it but, if I did it would be "real 911's have spoilers that are fixed" Naw I wo n't say it.

[Garretts_turbo]

pics are removed...although i'm pretty sure i wouldn't have liked them from what everyone says

[TopGearNL]

Originally Posted by spanky Sad sad sad... Imagine the people who were there straight after to see if anyone survived in the 911. (not that u wouldnt have probably known already) But It'd make ya stomach turn for weeks I reckon.

Yeah it would, really sad

[eraser]

I'm glad the links aren't working...because I would have had no warning about how bad they evidently were. Makes you think twice....or three times the next time you get behind the wheel.

[McLarenboy]

me i just love reading about caraccidents involving young people, you have to realize i live in Belgium so high performance vehicles don't fall into the hands of teenagers here.

So reading about a guy who crashed his fiat panda into a house after going to a party and was killed instantly on impact is just fantastic

Reading about a 18year old girl crashing a porsche... just a pinnacle, this just made my day!

I can never feel srry for these kind of drivers, actually i want to piss on those graves when they succeed in killing a few other people in the process. RIP? nono, burn in hell

[Svensson]

McLarenboy, go get yourself a mental check-up.

[komotar]

McLarenboy is an attention whore...nothing more.

I say he get's banned.