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Originally Posted by McRat
Yes, all this talk of drag strips in a country were running a 17 second ET 1/4 mile pass is illegal on the street.
Oh wait. You must go to a TRACK to run 120mph trap speeds?
Odd. Perhaps they should also have road tracks and AutoX courses instead of just dragstrips so you can go around corners fast!
They do????
To get brutally honest, running a low 9 second ET in an automatic car is pretty tame. Running a moderate lap time at your local track is a bit more effort and far more of a rush.
People who downplay the twisties simply either haven't tried it, or never pushed it.
And next time you see somebody hit the wall in a 12 second car, you can usually blame their lack of seat time in the twisties. You learn real fast how to recover from a slide.
I'm not downplaying dragracing. Lord knows I've got several pounds of timeslips from all over the USA in cars, bikes, and trucks.
It's a bigger rush running a Volt around an AutoX course, than running a low 9 second SuperGas Firebird down the strip.
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You missed my entire point. These are street cars not race cars. And for me I like getting pushed back in the seat very quickly more than anything. The first time I ran in an eight second car I near cried with excitement. I road a roller coaster with my daughter the other day that went 0 to 72 mph in 2 seconds. Out of ten awesome coasters that was the one she wanted to ride more than once.