XPost: alt.autos.toyota, rec.autos.driving, alt.society.liberalism   
   XPost: alt.fan.michael-moore   
   From: tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com   
      
   On 2010-09-28, Steve  wrote:   
   > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:37:09 +0000 (UTC), Brent   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 2010-09-28, Steve  wrote:   
   >>> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:20:46 -0700 (PDT), "His Highness the   
   >>> TibetanMonkey & the Spirits of the Jungle"    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>On Sep 27, 8:46 pm, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS"   
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>> On Sep 27, 4:51 pm, "His Highness the TibetanMonkey & the Spirits of   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> the Jungle"  wrote:   
   >>>>> > , but I'm still nervous of other drivers   
   >>>>> > forcing me to run the light, like when they keep going and I am in the   
   >>>>> > middle of the intersection.   
   >>>   
   >>> Don't be ridiculous.  If you're already in the middle of an   
   >>> intersection you're either already running the light or you're with   
   >>> the green and perfectly legal.   
   >>>   
   >>>>> No one can"force" you to run the light.  You're as bad as the idiots   
   >>>>> who say speeders on the freeways force everyone else to speed.!!!    I   
   >>>>> never speed or run reds and no criminal is gonna force me to.  I got   
   >>>>> balls.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>You can only be stupid to cut off a car coming at you determined to   
   >>>>run the red light and whatever stands on his way.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Actually you'll be charged for the accident too!   
   >>>>   
   >>>>You are obssessed with speed without minding where that speeding   
   >>>>happens. For example, I do NOT mind a Ferrari going 120 mph on the   
   >>>>expressway on the passing lane.   
   >>>   
   >>> God Lord, I certainly mind somebody going 120 MPH regardless of the   
   >>> car and regardless if they're Michael Schumacher.   
   >>   
   >>Why?   
   >   
   >  Because they're going to come straight into the back of   
   > somebody going 75 MPH who is passing somebody going 70 MPH... Probably   
   > a big truck.  That'd be messy.   
      
   Supercars driven as they should be driven on a limited access highway   
   coexist just fine with cars that can't get out of their own way like old   
   2CVs on the autobahn. Speed is simply irrelevant.   
      
      
   >>It doesn't make a difference to me. Then again I'm not a control   
   >>freak, like the LLBs who've blocked the passing lane which brings some   
   >>arseholish drivers into the right and shoulder at high speed where they   
   >>cause problems for me. Like the BMW M3 driver that passed me using an on   
   >>ramp acceleration lane and the right shoulder.   
   >>   
   >>I drove nearly 120mph on the autobahn behind a cop I couldn't quite keep   
   >>up with (damn 1.6L rental car ;)) and it was a complete non-event. It's   
   >>time americans stopped being a bunch of holier than thou control freaks   
   >>and stopped trying to turn all of society into a first grade government   
   >>school classroom.   
      
   >   Unless you're making that all up as I suspect, I think   
   > that it was probably 120 KPH since speedometers over that register in   
   > kilometers.    That'd make it about 70 MPH.  Not many 1.6 litre cars   
   > that will even go 120 MPH.  Maybe a mini-cooper.  I sure wouldn't want   
   > to rear end a semi truck in one of those...   
      
   No, 118mph, 190kph. It was a then new '99 audi A4, 4 door sedan, MT,   
   FWD. It doesn't take much power to sustain 118mph in a car with even   
   halfway aerodynamics. Speed was for all practical purposes maxed out.   
      
   http://www.carfolio.com/specifications/models/car/?car=90376   
   hmm... guess I did have maxed out. It seemed like if there was enough   
   open road it could have made 200kph.. it was gaining speed every so   
   slowly, but I had to slow shortly after reaching 190kph.   
      
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