Who here drives their stang slow?
01-03-2008, 08:06 PM
#14
2nd Gear Member
Join Date: May 2007
Location: NY
Posts: 318
RE: Who here drives their stang slow?
i like my low insurance rates but i love to cruise about 75-80 and most of our highways are still posted 55mph so its paid to learn the patterns of the cops in my area and where they like to set up speed traps. our local lawmen have a new trick where they sit up on the freeway onramps and you cant see them until youve past the overpass and by then its to late.
01-03-2008, 08:17 PM
#19
6th Gear Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Southeast Virginia
Posts: 6,409
RE: Who here drives their stang slow?
ORIGINAL: sliek0722
Ok it's happened enough times for me to make a post about it. Why does everyone drive their s197 SOOOO SLOW? I must be the only one that utilizes its power out there. I was on I-95 earlier today and there was a s197 in the left hand lane doing 55 in a 60. What the hell? And it was a GT too!
I realize there are a lot of old people on this board and old people drive slow. It's a fact of life. They always want to go exactly the speed limit ormost of the time, 10 milesbelow it. But me, I do 80 on the interstates. And I usually do 60-65 in 55 MPHs on regular roads. Not because im trying to speed (ok maybe on the highway a little) but it's because that's how fast the flow of traffic goes! When you do exactly 55 in a 55 in a stang, you look ridiculous. And plus you holdup traffic and give me road rage
Btw before you flame me about speeding tickets, I have none. Yes 0. In my ten years of driving, I have yet to get a single one because I drive at the same rate as traffic and don't do anything stupid.
PS Why the hell do people age 40 and up drive so slow? They're the reason we have rush hour traffic and congestion!
Ok it's happened enough times for me to make a post about it. Why does everyone drive their s197 SOOOO SLOW? I must be the only one that utilizes its power out there. I was on I-95 earlier today and there was a s197 in the left hand lane doing 55 in a 60. What the hell? And it was a GT too!
I realize there are a lot of old people on this board and old people drive slow. It's a fact of life. They always want to go exactly the speed limit ormost of the time, 10 milesbelow it. But me, I do 80 on the interstates. And I usually do 60-65 in 55 MPHs on regular roads. Not because im trying to speed (ok maybe on the highway a little) but it's because that's how fast the flow of traffic goes! When you do exactly 55 in a 55 in a stang, you look ridiculous. And plus you holdup traffic and give me road rage
Btw before you flame me about speeding tickets, I have none. Yes 0. In my ten years of driving, I have yet to get a single one because I drive at the same rate as traffic and don't do anything stupid.
PS Why the hell do people age 40 and up drive so slow? They're the reason we have rush hour traffic and congestion!
If the speed limit is 55 (which is what it is on most of the localInterstate driving), I may do 60 or 65, but won't try to push it any more. Do you realize how much tickets are here in the state of VA?
I invite you to "try" to do 80 on the stretch of I-64 between I-264 and the Greenbrier Parkway exits.
01-03-2008, 08:19 PM
#20
4th Gear Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 1,491
RE: Who here drives their stang slow?
As a motorcyclist I will ride my bike around 10 mph faster than the flow of traffic. The only reason for this is because we are much less visible (loud pipes don't save lives) and this allows me to stay out of blind spots and danger zones. I've been blessed to have survived 9 years and around 70k miles on street safe while on my bike. On the racetrack (damn you Texas World Speedway) it's another story.
While driving the car I generally keep it about 7-10 over the speed limit. But I definitely don't waste any time getting up to that speed. :-)
While driving the car I generally keep it about 7-10 over the speed limit. But I definitely don't waste any time getting up to that speed. :-)