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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 56,773
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Most probably have no idea. On a related note.
I had a colleague that decided he wanted a nice/awesome car (because his wife was pregnant, and if he didn't buy it now, he'd probably never get to). The sportiest car he'd ever driven was an older (10 year) Toyota Camry. He went out and bought the Alfa Guilia Quadrifoglio, 500hp or whatever. Another colleague and I tried to talk him out of it for several reasons. During the break-in period, he drove it like he was driving Miss Daisy. Once he hit 500 miles or whatever it was, he was at a stop sign turning right and thought "I'm going to give it the juice!" He put it into race mode and mashed the throttle while turning right. You've seen all of the mustang videos, so you can imagine what happened. It fishtailed and ended up pointing at the side of the road when it caught traction. It hopped the curb and side swiped a tree. It spent the next 6 months at a Ferrari dealership getting fixed (relatively minor damage, but apparently all of the parts were sent by slow boat from Italy). When he got it back, he was terrified of it. I assume he's still driving Miss Daisy.
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Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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