There's a reason fabulously powerful and capable cars are priced so damn high. You know what that is? It's to keep them out of financial reach of peckerhead kids who, with their $7.00/hr burger flippin fry dippin jobs, can't afford anything more dangerous than a clapped-out Corolla. When you're young, you lack experience. And when you lack experience, you lack wisdom.
And when you lack wisdom, you don't realize you're too fucking stupid to know when to back the hell off the gas.
@Eric N Squires: I feel pretty much the same way. Beaters are good for kids, assuming they're not dangerously dilapidated. The hypothetical '87 Cutlass sounds good, but my best friend had an '86 Buick Century Estate Wagon when we were in high school. Lord, we had fun in that thing, and we did it without incurring reckless endangerment charges.
This is why my parents kept me in piece-of-shit cars when I was a teenager. Because they knew whatever the top speed was, it would be reached, repeatedly. Sadly, that top speed was in the double digits.
Appearantly this kid learned absolutely nothing from the teen who killed himself and 3 buddies by wrapping a M5 around a tree after going off a berm on a runway at over 100 mph.
I read an article somewhere recently about that, the kid was posting on one of the M5 boards, and was being warned by everyone there to be careful, etc. He claimed he was a great driver, and promised to post pics the next day. That night he was national news.
@MplsCarPunk: A friend of mine just bought a B5 S4, and drove it back from CA to SC. He lost a cylinder in Vegas, and had to fix the AC as soon as he got back. I'm somewhat glad I could never find an S4 Avant when I was shopping, but when I see one I get very jealous.
I always wondered how these videos didn't present "plausible deniability" in a legal setting. I can't hear it with the sound on, but I assume they're not doing a voiceover saying "Hi, my name is Clint Douchebag the third, and my friend and I are about to take my Audi S4, with the following VIN, on a high speed run..."
@Ash78: Right, the video uploaded to YouTube from my account was given to me by someone else who crashed an S4 on the same stretch of road I did. I was just driving along at five under the limit when mine rolled, but that other guy was hauling. And these aren't my pants either.
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There's a reason fabulously powerful and capable cars are priced so damn high. You know what that is? It's to keep them out of financial reach of peckerhead kids who, with their $7.00/hr burger flippin fry dippin jobs, can't afford anything more dangerous than a clapped-out Corolla. When you're young, you lack experience. And when you lack experience, you lack wisdom.
And when you lack wisdom, you don't realize you're too fucking stupid to know when to back the hell off the gas.
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What? But I thought you said you wanted a primered 1987 Cutlass Supreme?
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I read an article somewhere recently about that, the kid was posting on one of the M5 boards, and was being warned by everyone there to be careful, etc. He claimed he was a great driver, and promised to post pics the next day. That night he was national news.
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I'm a bit less impressed with the morons who wrecked it.
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Ask the man who owns one - me.
I think I've put two kids through school getting this thing fixed.
It's a lot of things and I can call it a few more, but "slow" isn't one of 'em.
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