You are a true driver if...

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Originally posted by The Vanishing Boy
Okey thats what you think. :)
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...as well as what anybody with a brain and a driver's license that's ever been renewed thinks.
 
Originally posted by FuryX21
- You prefer driving your beat-up 1988 Ford Escort over riding in a lemo

- You drive a total of 50 miles at a time going nowhere in particular just to hear your car's engine sound.

- You don't mind giving your friends rides to places they want to go, regardless of how far it is.

- Whenever you and your wife/girlfriend are going somewhere, you insist on driving, even though its her car.

Feel free to add to the list.
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The Girlfriend's car is a definate Guilt right here along with the others : )

Originally posted by Takumi Fujiwara
Haha, I think a lot of us do that! My friend and I both discovered that we do it too!


Here's one that plagues me: You find it hard to resist taking a line in normal street driving.

And another: You always take the long way home, just because it has more corners.

When you ride in the passenger seat of a car, your legs naturally assume the position they'd be in if they were operating the pedals.

And, of course....

You spend all your free time and money on your car.
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I do the logn way home thing all the time. I actually go north from work and west ot end up heading south of work to get home - a really wicked road that has been closed down for about 6 months now is a little short cut I take : )
Guilty

Originally posted by vat_man
You habitually heel and toe gear downchanges of two gears (e.g. 4th to 2nd) - officially to 'save the gearbox', unofficially to keep stability under braking.

You can pick the change in torque allocation in your Subaru while cornering under power.

You've thought every car you've had access to could 'use another 50 horsepower', including that 350hp ute that you couldn't touch the throttle in the wet in any gear less than 4th.

When your partner/wife knows the technical fault with her driving that means you would prefer the family car to be AWD.

You were happy to sacrifice a split/fold rear seat for chassis rigidity.

More to come as I think of them - and after dinner...
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You forgot to mention When your Girlfriend/Wife wants to get under the hood with you to install that new Oil or Tranny Cooler for her car. . . Then in the process she wants to write down upgrades to come and install with researching it after we left the garage. . .

Taking your Wife/ Girlfriend down to the track with both cars and giving her the keys to the beefed up Mustang while you zip around in her fairly stock RSX Type-S and actually give her a real challenge on the course barely nosing by her in the end to spin the car in the victory lap : (


Originally posted by neon_duke
Sissy. I heel-and-toe all my deaccel downshifts...
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Your granny shifting and doubling clutching is no match for my Feint Drift :lol:
 
Originally posted by miata13B
Your granny shifting and doubling clutching is no match for my Feint Drift :lol:
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Yes, but are you driver enough for the legendary, death-defying (and physics-defying) Inverse Drift, where the front of the car is pointed out?

[edit] PS to ///M-Spec: read the thread at the link above. I think it was before your time... but definitely a true classic.
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
Yes, but are you driver enough for the legendary, death-defying (and physics-defying) Inverse Drift, where the front of the car is pointed out?
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. . . Ah the Great Bunta has risen and showed his true identity. . . The Neon Master is one feared racer on the Akina Mountain :lol: : )

edit - I remember that link and found that thread funny . . .
 
Originally posted by ExigeExcel
You get your dad to rev the 2.4ltr engine in your people carrier.
And tell you mum what gear to be in
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Also to add to that, Shift the gears for your step-mom when you are 13 in 300zx and actually do a great job with the wrong shifting hand for whatever country you are in. . . .
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
[edit] PS to ///M-Spec: read the thread at the link above. I think it was before your time... but definitely a true classic.
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Damn. That thread needs a Surgeon General's warning label. You can lose of IQ points just wading through it.

EDIT: So I can actually contribute something to the thread: True drivers wear helmets when they do their real driving...which happens on a track, not in a residential zone or highway. If you're really real someone actually pays you to do it.


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Originally posted by neon_duke
Yes, but are you driver enough for the legendary, death-defying (and physics-defying) Inverse Drift, where the front of the car is pointed out?

[edit] PS to ///M-Spec: read the thread at the link above. I think it was before your time... but definitely a true classic.
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That was a long time ago, man! :banghead: Cheap shot.. I havent drifted in like 3 or 4 months..
 
Originally posted by skylineGTR_guy
True drivers actually own a car oustide of video games ;)
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Someitmes Two or Three, you need parts cars. . . or sometimes none, because you sold your last two cars because of too many moving violations in one month. . .
 
BTW, I race in both real life and in video games, and I can tell the difference between the two. Even thou I have a FF car, I know how to shift the weight of the car before I pull the handbrake (powersliding) into the corner. :)

And I can definatly prove that I'm not just a kid blabering around, I've been doing this in years. And none of the quarter-milers out there don't have the gut/skills trying to attempt what I am doing. 👎

Sorry for being arrogant back there, I don't like it for someone who tries to bring me and they don't know who I'm. That pisses me off. :irked:
 
It's a MAZDA MPV, not Honda, you just changed my whole view of you with that one!
 
MPV is a common classification for cars well at least it is here. So a Honda MPV would be the oddesy. I think.

MPV stands for multi purpose vehicle.
 
I'm not on about this
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I'm on about a Honda Multi-Purpose-Vehicle or MPV.
It actually a Honda Shuttle:
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Originally posted by The Vanishing Boy
BTW, I race in both real life and in video games, and I can tell the difference between the two. Even thou I have a FF car, I know how to shift the weight of the car before I pull the handbrake (powersliding) into the corner. :)

And I can definatly prove that I'm not just a kid blabering around, I've been doing this in years. And none of the quarter-milers out there don't have the gut/skills trying to attempt what I am doing. 👎

Sorry for being arrogant back there, I don't like it for someone who tries to bring me and they don't know who I'm. That pisses me off. :irked:
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I guess if you consider an infantile sense of judgement and gratuitous ego fulliment at the expense of endangering other people you share the road with, you are quite skilled.

But in reality, vmax on a public road and powersliding around street corners is not only stupid and dangerous, it is pure bottom of the food chain, rinky dink amatuer crap. No skill. No sense. Nothing worthy of respect.


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Originally posted by The Vanishing Boy
I know how to shift the weight of the car before I pull the handbrake (powersliding) into the corner.
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The two items highlighted above rather defeat your attempts to sound like you know what you're talking about.
I don't like it for someone who tries to bring me and they don't know who I'm. That pisses me off. :irked:
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We know how you represent yourself. We call that like we see it. If you can't deal with that, try representing yourself as a person that knows what he's talking about, and demonstrates some maturity.
 
Well you guys think I'm a lunatic powersliding out of control on very populated Las Vegas Blvd. 'Strip'. I'm not that crazy, I do those 'skills' on a well isolated enviroment where there are very few people (and of course no cops). I do those 'crazy' things when I know it is the perfect time, and the right place. I just don't do those things without even thinking. I observe first, then stategize, and execute.
That the way I operate 'things' on the road, on my spare time.
 
Originally posted by The Vanishing Boy
Well you guys think I'm a lunatic powersliding out of control on very populated Las Vegas Blvd. 'Strip'. I'm not that crazy, I do those 'skills' on a well isolated enviroment where there are very few people (and of course no cops). I do those 'crazy' things when I know it is the perfect time, and the right place. I just don't do those things without even thinking. I observe first, then stategize, and execute.
That the way I operate 'things' on the road, on my spare time.
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There is never a perfect time on public roads. . . only on courses. . .
 
Okey, so I "ENDANGER PEOPLE", you guys think I'm the stupidest man on earth. Haven't you read the 2nd sentence, on a isolated enviroment, not on a busy cross-street.
 
Originally posted by The Vanishing Boy
Okey, so I 'ENDANGER PEOPLE'. Haven't you read the 2nd sentence, on a isolated enviroment, not on a busy cross-street.
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isolated or not, it does not mean that there is not going to be someone there. . . I can you going out there with friends and having walkie talkies or something and basically doing a psuedo close down of the road and having contact if someone is coming. I am not sure if you do that or not, it truly doesn't matter for me, but nothing is ever 100% sure or safe in this world and that is the way life goes. . .
 
I don't do those thing on a open street all the time. I do it mostly on a closed parking lot w/ no cars, and I performed it on a slow pace (esp in rain).
 
Suddenly I understand the sig.

I do still take racing lines through corridors. I went through a phase of clipping the edge of doors or walls to make myself 'slide' into the opposite wall (not now something to be proud of, espically here - I got some weird looks at the time, too).

The other thing is taking racing lines and 'powersliding' in supermarkets with shopping trolleys. Sad but true. And fun.
 
Originally posted by The Vanishing Boy
Okey, so I "ENDANGER PEOPLE", you guys think I'm the stupidest man on earth. Haven't you read the 2nd sentence, on a isolated enviroment, not on a busy cross-street.
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Originally posted by The Vanishing Boy
I don't do those thing on a open street all the time. I do it mostly on a closed parking lot w/ no cars, and I performed it on a slow pace (esp in rain).
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I re-read what I wrote earlier. It sounds pretty harsh. I'll tell you why.

In my younger days I thought the same way. When I was 21, I bought my first real car. A 1992 BMW 325is Coupe. Jet black on saddle interior. 5 speed. Sport package. It wasn't brand new; about 3 years old with 35k on the clock, but when you're 21, it was a pretty sweet ride. The girls loved it. I thought I was the shizzit and I drove that car like I stole it. Peel outs, donuts, racing up through the gears every chance I got. I raced anything that moved. About the only thing I didn't do was hit the top speed cut off at 132 mph. Basically, I was a punk kid in nice car.

I had a few close calls. Some involved gettin stopped by The Man, some didn't. But since I got through them all unscathed, I figured I was awesome. The car was forgiving of most mistakes and made you think you were much better than you actually were.

Then a couple of years later, I had a really close one. I was flying through an intersection, making a left and had a trailing throttle oversteer moment. I over corrected and the 325 snapped something wicked in the opposite direction. So here I was in a crowded interesection, ~36-37 mph, making a left turn across traffic at the begining of a snap oversteer spin --the wrong way. The tail of the 325 wanted to head right towards a stopped mini-van in the opposite lane. Luck would have it, the 325 pendulm swung a few times and I made it across without hitting anyone. When I got home, my hands were shaking. I thought the cops would show up any minute and take my sorry butt to jail. They didn't.

And I was going to buy an M3 in a few months. God only knows what insanity I could accomplish in that.

I decided when I got the M3, I was going to learn how to drive it. Really drive it. No more street hooligan crap. No more close calls. I took a high performance driving school. I started autocrossing. I listened to people who knew more than I did about driving. I got my ass kicked in a $36,000 car by Miatas, Neons and Civics. It was a wake-up call.

To make a long story short, I realized that crap I did on the street wasn't real driving at all. Not even close. I didn't know ****. It was just your standard, run of the mill testosterone bull**** we all go through at one time or another. Those guys at the track, at the autocross.... That's real driving. That's real skill, understanding and dedication. And everytime I go, I still learn something new. I'm just glad I was lucky enough to get away with a close call before I figured all this out. Some people have to hurt someone before they figure out its not worth it.

Anyway, that's my sermon for the week. Drive carefully out there.


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See, that's what happens when you don't know your car's limitations.

I just so happen to have a pretty good grasp of what goes on in 323 land. Just today, on my way home, this new Mercedes(I think it was a C-class, couldn't really tell cause he was behind me) ran up my tail, so I hit the gas, like half throttle, enough to downshift to 3rd, doing 60 or so. The guy(who was on the cell phone) wouldn't let me alone so the race was on. I floored it(hey, it's fun) and he backed off and I did approx 95mph heading towards my exit. This guy was still chasing me, so heading towards the exit I braked hard(like brake pad-melting, rotor glowing hard, lol), and went from 85 to 55 and took the exit's outer lane and was still pushing pretty hard around the corner(tires screaming), I then made it into the inside lane(after the turn(and no I didn't cut anyone off, I never do that)) and he cut someone off behind me so then I make it to the next street, turned onto it at about 25mph(no one was coming), sped up to 50, and then the stoplight got me. So I watch the Mercedes goes past, and the driver doesn't even bother to look at me. So what's it all mean? That driving fast is fun and safe if and only if you know what you are doing and what to do if something happens. I'm not an idiot street racer, I simply drive at a faster pace in a slower car than anyone else on the road. I've never wrecked, never have gotten pulled over(had a close one yesterday doing a 0-60 run leaving my school, hehe), and I haven't pissed anyone off on the road(atleast they didn't show it).

I really get tired of people saying why other people shouldn't drive fast based on thier driving when they were our age. I know that you mean it in a good way, but you're basically calling me and the people that drive like me as today's problem causers. Believe me, the people causing problems are the ricer street racers and the people that somehow passed thier driving tests but drive like crap.

Hate me now, I know you will. You'll say that I'm stupid and wreckless, etc. I almost don't care.
 

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