Am I the only person on DU who likes to drive fast?

[Book Lover]

Fast cars, self-tuning and mods, fuzz busters, *concept* cars fer cry-yi!: all of these things have been attacked here in the Lounge in the past few weeks or so. Am I the only person here who likes to take twisty roads swiftly and speed on the straights?

[Bouncy Ball]

1. Oooooo

me!!! Put me in an old souped up muscle car.....hooooooo. I am a SUCKA for that. Speed, speed, speed!!!!!

[redqueen]

2. No, you're not.

:hi:

[slutticus]

3. nope.

And my penis is just fine thank you.

[slackmaster]

4. I like to but I rarely do it

I have too much to lose by getting in a wreck, or even a bad traffic ticket.

[GOPisEvil]

5. Not in the city, but out on the open road? Vroom!

Love the twisties - I love having a car with independent front and rear axles. :thumbsup:

[Ready4Change]

6. Yer not alone.

I love tight, twisting roads. The selfish side of my concerns regarding Peak Oil is that gas might (will) get so pricey I won't be able to enjoy driving anymore.

[davidinalameda]

7. no

but I have my reasons not to speed

[gfr4656]

8. twisty roads are best

especially on a motorcycle

[democracyindanger]

12. Half the wheels

ten times the pleasure.

[gfr4656]

27. amen

[miss_kitty]

9. No I am bad

:spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank:
I drive fast when I am not in a residential area or surface street, and as the traffic allows. And i love the twisty shit too.

[Book Lover]

10. Oooh - It's like we're having a coming-out party

Not that I'm advocating the reckless endangerment of others - I like speeding on the track more than down 280. And it's important to be reminded that cars can get ridiculously extreme; I just feel like sometimes we're getting scolded for liking speed...

[Pithlet]

11. It is fun, but I don't do it.

I don't know if it was getting older, or having kids, but I'm not the lead foot I used to be. I never really was all that bad. I've only ever had one speeding ticket in my whole life. But, if the law and the danger factor weren't there, I'd be a speed demon. Speed is fun.

[Flaxbee]

25. same here...

used to LOVE to go fast, I'd scream down I-15 from Redlands to Escondido on the way to San Diego going 90+ (and never got a ticket); I was one of the worst aggressive drivers on the LA freeways, too. But then I moved to NYC, didn't have a car for 2 years and by the time I bought another one I'd gotten married and had bought a new car I didn't want totaled and just stopped driving too fast.

Well, I stopped driving fast on all roads except freeways. And I was driving in northern Virginia by then, and no one knew how to speed safely... it seemed like SoCalifornians could cope with traffic and speed, but NoVirginians couldn't.

And I was also living on a mountain - very twisty 20 miles up to my house - and I saw too many dead animals and too many asshats off the side of the mountain from bad, fast driving. Kinda cured me, at least of the twisty roads.

[DancingBear]

13. I have an '04 Audi A6

Twin turbo - 0-60 in 5.4 sec.

Used to have a '65 396/425 Vette.

Any further questions? :) :)

[MissB]

17. Ahem

My Volvo V70R does the same.

Sad thing is, it is a station wagon. Truly hard to look cool driving fast in a wagon. :evilgrin:

[DancingBear]

19. Just think of it as "stealth cool"

:evilgrin:

[MissB]

21. LOL!

Beating people off the line (every single time) in a station wagon. Tres cool.

[Cuban_Liberal]

14. Make your pre-arrangements, and pre-pay your funeral.

It's the least you could do, to spare your family the trauma, after you wind up killing yourself behind the wheel...

[fluffernutter]

15. i like to drive fast too.

why can't they just have a lane w/no speed limit where you can go as fast as you want?

[Book Lover]

22. It's called the track

Living where I do, it's not too hard to schedule time (though paying can be the tough part). I have no problems with trimming my speed where there are other people...

[AlCzervik]

16. I do when i have my husbands car, mine-not so much

i'm not knocking my 160hp Honda but it's not exactly a driving expierence.

[Solly Mack]

18. zoom.zoom.zoom.

We speed

[Skittles]

20. I do

nt

[russian33]

23. No, you're not alone...

...my friends and realtives developed a twitch riding with me ;)
My father always mutters 'Damn new york drivers!' everytime I visit CT and he rides with me somewhere :)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

24. No I have always driven performance cars and used to race BMW's

up on a track in Visalia with a club...I love speed. I love hiways with loads of curves...unfortunately Misunderestimator does not...so lately I slow it down quite a bit :-)

[Misunderestimator]

35. LOL... see my post below which I wrote before I read this one.

;)

[Lorien]

26. No, but I wish you were

my dad was nearly killed when he hit a herd of deer after doing 85 on a small country road last year. If you have that much of a need for speed, ride a rollercoaster. Don't endanger the rest of us, please.

[Medium Baby Jesus]

28. Nope. I drive fast often.

Here's my latest ride



And my penis is actually pretty good sized!

[Book Lover]

31. RX-8! RX-8!

I have hd three RX-7s in my lifetime, and someday, I plan on finding that perfect '84/85 GSL-SE that was bought new and stored in a garage somewhere...

[seemunkee]

29. My MINI loves the twisties.

[slackmaster]

30. My first car was a 1973 Honda Civic that I fixed up

Beefed up the suspension, put on big wheels and tires, good shocks, Weber carb, headers, and a 2-inch exhaust system.

That car loved the twisties too, until it got clobbered by a Ford from behind.

[48pan]

32. I love fast antique motorcycles. I like slow ones too... nt

[last_texas_dem]

33. I like to, but don't

A few years back I got a speeding ticket, then was pulled over less than two months later and given a warning. I found out that had they decided to give me a ticket that second time and had checked out my information I would have been arrested because some paperwork hadn't been received by the county courthouse! To go to jail over something like that would have been ridiculous, plus I consider the safety reasons and whatnot and have since gotten where I rarely ever go more than five over the speed limit.

I did enjoy speeding a lot, taking curves quickly, pealing out, etc., but I did it quite a bit the first couple of years I learned to drive so got a good deal of that out of my system.

[Misunderestimator]

34. Not so into fast cars, but I love to drive fast....

And I'm in love with someone who just LOVES all that other stuff... :)