From: kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
Subject: Re: Who gets to buy a sports car?
Date: 22 Jul 92 17:48:40 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Open Software Foundation

In article <1992Jul18.192331.6294@rdr.com> randy@rdr.com (Randy Tidd) writes:
>However, I have made the same observations as the  
>original poster.  I see people driving really nice cars -- 'Vettes, BMW's,  
>Mercedes', Porches, etc. and they drive like grandmothers.
>Why do these people pay the big bucks for these cars and drive them like a
>Hyundai?

In article <zdem0a.711660018@hgo7> zdem0a@hgo7.hou.amoco.com
(Donna Martz) writes:
>It's sometimes known as DISCRETION.

See, everybody here (at least all the "slow down"/"discretion" people) seem
to think that driving a sports-oriented car means squealing tires from
stoplight to stoplight. WRONG. What pisses me off about these fuckers is that
they drive them like they are at the wheel of a 1940's era fully loaded 12-
ton truck. To wit:

  - the infamous first-car-at-the-red-light-that-just-turned-green pull up,
    BRAKE (Why, dammit?! You're doing what, *10* MPH in a 300ZX!?!) and
    make your 90 degree right turn,

  - his sister, the "hand-over-hand-over-hand-..." folks who seem to take
    *forever* to make turns,
  
  - the "Oh dear, I'll never make it" people who can *never* seem to merge
    onto highways with less than 5-mile-long entry ramps without braking,
    *waiting* on the ramp (this is the real reason for freeway shootings)
    for enough traffic break for an 18 wheeler at rest to make it,

  - his brother, the "I don't want to abuse it" people who have a stick and
    a multivalve engine (i.e., high RPM torque band), who shift at 1500 RPM,
    (these folks are easy to spot- 10 mph, flubbed shift, 20 mph, flubbed
     shift, 30, 50.... real fun at lights, esp. those short lights with
     long lines where it would be *real* nice if more than one or two
     cars could get thru the cycle),

  - the lane changers who mooooooooove ever-so-slowly from one lane to the
    next, obstensibly to prevent the force of the .0006g slalom from
    ripping off the wheels from their 4-wheel independent suspension (what's
    that?? Is that on my car?),

  - his cousin, the "brake first, sit and think about it" guy. Pedestrian
    500 feet away in the road? Slam the brakes. Left turning car in front of
    you, similar distance? Slam the brakes. Traffic re-routed for con-
    struction? Slam the brakes. Someone slows down, 3 lanes over, 4 cars up?
    Slam the brakes. Gotta scratch your nose/ass? Slam the brakes.

  - the people who, on two-lanes-per-direction roads, who want to get in
    the next lane, which is travelling slower, will slow to find some gap
    when they very well could have simply put a little metal down and long
    ago been in front of the line. Of course, there's usually a long line
    of cars behind this person, who then all get to slow down and reap the
    benefits of his bad driving.

No comprehension of handling, performance, or intelligent avoidance.
Hell, I just read in MT that the #1 reason Acura Vigor owners picked the
car was because of "styling", so what do you expect. The review trashed the
car, and I heard that here as well, so it could be moot anyways.

	Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh (sound of speen pressure release),
		-Kenny

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