My family was speeding decades before GT. My dad did autocrossing in his Opel Manta GT in the 70's, and as he's said and my mom agrees with, he would autocross on the road many times.
Then there was the time my dad did 150mph on his '85 Kawasaki Ninja on a country road with a friend and missed a turn(not like an intersection, this was a curve) and went flying in a field and nearly hit a telephone pole, but he managed to stay upright and come to a stop.
Then there was the rides home from Sunday school. The exit usually had a puddle, and the pavement was really warn and smooth. In either the '82 Maxima or the '84 RX-7 GSL-SE, we would pull out doing a total drift and just peel all the way down the road till the light. I'm sure that the more strict Jews just loved that...
There were also many 110+ runs in the GSL-SE before GT came out, and sometimes now my dad does 120+ in the '86 RX-7 or the Probe GT.
Who could forget going 100mph in the MPV with a roof top carrier on I-70 out to Ohio? Not only was it a flat out run, my mom was the driver, and the MPV turned into a Batmobile when the trans started to overheat and was spraying oil all over everyone we passed. No harm done to the MPV, but the other people looked to be having a hard time with thier windshields...
Then there was the time my bro took me in the '87 626 and did 0-90 runs and other assorted "dangerous" actions.
Hell I speed on my bicycle.
We've only been pulled over a handfull of times, my mom got pulled over several times for inproper license plates(this was a long long time ago, when she was going to college, my dad got lazy and kept putting off replacing the stickers, and one day on her way to college she was pulled over once by a highway patrol, and 10 mins later by a STL patrol), my dad for speeding(although most were only a tad above the speed limit, and some he got out of if he had his work uniform on), and my bro, for, well, speeding, but they weren't bad, and if he was telling the truth, one of the 2 were because of the cop's misjudgement...
As long as cars can break a speed limit, people will speed. It's just fact. Just as long as the driver knows how to control the car at higher speeds, there's not really any problem. Out of the accidents we've been in, none were our fault.
I guess we know how to drive...
say it's not true!!! Arrrggggghhhhh - Ed), it lacks a lot of the realism of real life (quit it, you're scaring me now - Ed), so when playing GT3, I become highly sensitised to factors that are in the game. When in real life, all those factors are there, but the other things that GT3 lacks (like inertial feedback) are also present. It just seems to make me more aware of what's happening in and around the car.
