How do you guys keep from using all the speed your cars have?? Some of you have some very fast cars on here, how do you restrain yourself to not keep from going crazy with them?? I guess i haven't figured out how to do this... i got a Mazdaspeed protege, and i just got a real bad ticket today, in addition to a previous ticket not too long ago, and so now i have to talk it over with my parents to see if i even get to keep the car. I really only should get it back if i figure out a way to keep myself from using all the speed it has in unsafe ways... i really want to figure this out, because i really love that car. Any suggestions much appreciated.
How to avoid the urge of speed??
- Thread starter jmv
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Get into a really bad accident and you will learn, I did. I jumped a hill doing 100mph and blew a tire coming down from a 4 foot high airride spun backwards and smashed into a tree at around 80mph. It pushed my bumper into my backseat and I walked away without a scratch. It will really scare you thinking about how bad it would have been if this happend, or what if this happened. If my car had not been backwards I would not be alive today.
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- 2000 Protege DX
Take it to the track.
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- Black RX-8
it's like drugs, or sex after 12, or getting a gremlin wet, just dont do it, it sounds like you're young, dont be speeding and hit someone who is dressed in all black - change a bunch of lives for the worse in a matter of seconds. take it to the track. - peace.
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To the track and let it rip
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- Das Pretzelwagon
I imagine my head exiting through the windshield while my body takes a more scenic route out the driver's side window.
Either that or common sense.
Either that or common sense.
mixmaster_matt
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you resist it by not being a moron. the only thing that can come out of speeding and driving like an idiot is hurting someone else. if you want to speed take it to a track, otherwise get off the road....
Cellerator
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what speed?
lol, jp. It comes with you as you grow older, you learn not to be an idiot and you won't think of yourself as being invincible.
at least for me, that's what's happened. Or just think, there are always cops hiding in every corner, so just take it easy.
lol, jp. It comes with you as you grow older, you learn not to be an idiot and you won't think of yourself as being invincible.
at least for me, that's what's happened. Or just think, there are always cops hiding in every corner, so just take it easy.
65racecoupe
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I highly recommend that you just don't drive like an idiot.
I love sex, but I don't try to rip the clothes off of every girl that I see.
Self restraint.
I love sex, but I don't try to rip the clothes off of every girl that I see.
Self restraint.
If you've got the money for gas, and know how to control your car properly and look out for cops, why do you have to resist it?
As long as you use your head and only fly on the highway in the fast lane when no one is ahead of you, you won't have a problem. I haven't, and damn I drive fast nomatter what car I'm in. I don't hill jump(Wow Ben, what a wreck, glad you made it out of that one) or weave in traffic, I merely drive fast when there's an open stretch of road. I've never been pulled over in my 2+ years of spirited driving(and I'm not going to knock on wood because I've come close to being pulled over several times and I get use to it, it just means that I have to be careful where I speed and really look for any signs of a cop around).
As this thread has some nearly identical arguments as the Protege 5 top speed thread, I shouldn't have to explain it again, but I guess I do.
What people don't understand is that I am 1 person. 1 person going 125+ in the fast lane of the highway won't kill anyone or cause a wreck UNLESS some moron decides to cut infront of me from the next lane over. As I am completely alert with my foot hovering over my brake pedal, if this ever happened I'm prepared ahead of time. Worst case senario is that I run onto the shoulder and scrape the hell out of the good side of my car on the median(actually it would just kill my Miata wheels and Proxes). But I'm not going to dwell on that as it is something I don't care to imagine.
It's not me, speeding, that's the issue, it's the other people on the road, in the other lanes, that don't expect me to be driving "fast" and it's the other people on the road, in the other lanes, that don't know how to react(or not act) to me driving "fast". Even when I'm going 80 in the fast lane, I've had someone going 60 decide to get in the fast lane for virtually no reason(maybe to test thier suspension on the bumpy concrete?).
Driving fast does a great deal to enhance your overall driving skills, reactions and reaction times, and alertness in "regular" speed driving. Failing to ever experience your car near it's top speed is tradgic.
As long as you use your head and only fly on the highway in the fast lane when no one is ahead of you, you won't have a problem. I haven't, and damn I drive fast nomatter what car I'm in. I don't hill jump(Wow Ben, what a wreck, glad you made it out of that one) or weave in traffic, I merely drive fast when there's an open stretch of road. I've never been pulled over in my 2+ years of spirited driving(and I'm not going to knock on wood because I've come close to being pulled over several times and I get use to it, it just means that I have to be careful where I speed and really look for any signs of a cop around).
As this thread has some nearly identical arguments as the Protege 5 top speed thread, I shouldn't have to explain it again, but I guess I do.
What people don't understand is that I am 1 person. 1 person going 125+ in the fast lane of the highway won't kill anyone or cause a wreck UNLESS some moron decides to cut infront of me from the next lane over. As I am completely alert with my foot hovering over my brake pedal, if this ever happened I'm prepared ahead of time. Worst case senario is that I run onto the shoulder and scrape the hell out of the good side of my car on the median(actually it would just kill my Miata wheels and Proxes). But I'm not going to dwell on that as it is something I don't care to imagine.
It's not me, speeding, that's the issue, it's the other people on the road, in the other lanes, that don't expect me to be driving "fast" and it's the other people on the road, in the other lanes, that don't know how to react(or not act) to me driving "fast". Even when I'm going 80 in the fast lane, I've had someone going 60 decide to get in the fast lane for virtually no reason(maybe to test thier suspension on the bumpy concrete?).
Driving fast does a great deal to enhance your overall driving skills, reactions and reaction times, and alertness in "regular" speed driving. Failing to ever experience your car near it's top speed is tradgic.
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- 2003 Subaru WRX Wagon, 2000 Miata
gas is expensive.
