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Old 06-25-2012, 07:08 PM
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could make... It's a different philosophy for different driving styles and roads, but the thrill of massive torque acceleration will never be as exhilarating as brushing perfect bends around the Nurburgring circuit.

You can have a fast car, but there's always the off chance of someone having a faster car than you. You don't need to be a good driver, you just need a bigger wallet.

A well balanced car will give you endless entertainment for decades and teach you a lot about handling and performance driving.

I bet that if you ask to most of them "drivers" how's their heel-and-toe they'd probably look puzzled at their own foot
I've had both. Used to race in the SCCA and before that mini sprints. Most of my family has roots deep into turn racing. A cousin races in Nascar. 2 others race in the World of Outlaws.

But there's nothing more exhillerating than driving a car that can kill you anytime you press the go button. Many people have had good cornering cars. Heck you can buy some decent ones directly from the manufacturer. There's absolutely no excitement to that unless I'm racing.

But I build cars to blow people's doors off in roads you see on the street. Driving an SCCA car on the street is boring as hell. But take out something that'll light up the tires at 100mph on the street and that's fun. Take you're high cornering lambo's, bmw's, ferraris, etc., in every day street driving and I will embarrass them. Take those cars to a track and sure, I'll probably lose unless I changed the chassis up a bit. But for the street, a cornering car is absolutely worthless, at least in the US, where 90% of our roads you could fall asleep going 70mph on as they are all straight. I love that guy driving his ferrari that hears my exhaust as I'm creeping up next to him. Then you hear that high reving ferrari wind up and mid life crises ferrari dude's smile immediatley turns into disbelief when I happen to do the same with my car and literally watch him disappear in my rear window in a matter of seconds. That's what every day driving is. That's exhileration on a daily basis. Even funner when you blow the doors off someone driving a 9000lb diesel truck that's faster in the straight line than 99% of most production cars made. That's down right hillarious.
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