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Plus, it's not against the law to 0-60 in 4 seconds as you get onto the freeway.
Believe it or not but there is some sort of law in place to prevent you from accelerating at a high rate of speed even if its to the legal limit. They can cite you for aggressive/reckless driving or participating in a speed contest. Just about any car will also need to break a bit of traction in order to hit their minimum 0-60 time.
What is the point of all these fast 400-500 HP cars? They're fun, to be sure - but how can you safely and legally ever use that power? With budget cuts, the police are more aggressive with ticketing than ever, the fines are steeper and insurance costs are worse.
So either you take the risk and drive like a bandit anyway, or you just have a high powered machine that you cannot actually use.
I've noticed that some of the slowest cars on the road are not the Prius, but Mustangs, Camaros and Porsches. Presumably because these drivers have already been slapped hard with expensive speeding tickets.
For 95% of the owners of these vehicles, the answer is as bolded. The overwhelming majority of these drivers buy into the high horsepower image. Fact is, yes it is overkill. It's their money; Gas is over $4/gallon and it isn't getting cheaper.
Kind of like the "Look at me, I'm Cool" loud muffler Harley riders.
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Originally Posted by Army_Guy
A lot of us go to the race track.
yeah right. Maybe 1 out of 1000 drivers of these cars takes them on a race track. The other 999 are beating everyone to the red light while getting 14 MPG.
Believe it or not but there is some sort of law in place to prevent you from accelerating at a high rate of speed even if its to the legal limit. They can cite you for aggressive/reckless driving or participating in a speed contest. Just about any car will also need to break a bit of traction in order to hit their minimum 0-60 time.
A friend received a ticket for "excessive acceleration".
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Originally Posted by plmokn
For 95% of the owners of these vehicles, the answer is as bolded. The overwhelming majority of these drivers buy into the high horsepower image. Fact is, yes it is overkill. It's their money; Gas is over $4/gallon and it isn't getting cheaper.
Kind of like the "Look at me, I'm Cool" loud muffler Harley riders.
Don't be hatin. I'd say 95% of the people I know who have these cars drive them fairly hard, fairly often. I know, because I'm among them when it happens.
If you're not a part of the car culture, you won't see it.
BTW-I went to the Woodward Dream Cruise this year. There were tens of thousands of performance owners who were making use of all that HP.
For 95% of the owners of these vehicles, the answer is as bolded. The overwhelming majority of these drivers buy into the high horsepower image. Fact is, yes it is overkill. It's their money; Gas is over $4/gallon and it isn't getting cheaper.
Kind of like the "Look at me, I'm Cool" loud muffler Harley riders.
Why would you mention fuel costs when Porsche's and Corvette's get very good mileage figures? The 2014 Corvette produce 455hp and gets 30mpg highway. That is simply astounding. A 2013 Porsche 911 can hit 28mpg highway as well. These are very reasonable figures.
Half the fun is getting up to the speed limit. We won't talk about the other half.
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