As if I needed another reason to NOT donate money to politics...

I attempted to drive one of these (it belonged to my gf's dad), and it was a bitch. I made it a couple of blocks before I went back. It drives like a flattened tractor while wearing a box on your head-looking through the little handle slot.

Interesting...I'd never have considered that tire.

I am fairly disappointed with the Ventus tires overall. The sidewalls are too soft but they're decent otherwise.

Why does everyone in Russia drive so fucking fast? All the time. In all weather situations, in all traffic situations...even when cows are in the road? They crash into everything because they're all driving too fucking fast.

A few days ago a friend of mine, who lives in Phoenix, baked cookies in her Honda Accord. It took 2 hours but they were definitely cooked.

I have the Ventus evo V12s on my car now and I don't like them as much as a friend's car which has the RE-11s. I'm planning on swapping to the RE-11s next. The sidewalls on the V12s is too soft for my driving style. It could be my front struts (they're shot) and I'll know in the next few weeks when they're…

I replaced my rears with Bilsteins and it's notably better. I have the front Bilstein struts on order and will be replacing them soon...the stock setup does have quite a few issues...I'm surprised your parts lasted 50k miles.

After going through the summer tires on my car, I replaced them with Hankook Ventus V12s and I can tell you that they're 'decent' tires. Given the choice, I'd have a different tire on the car-the sidewalls are too soft for me-but I'm sure they'll last a lot longer than the OE tires did (two summers).

The ride isn't that bad. I think one of the key issues is that the front struts and rear shocks are not 'correct' for the Speed3 on the first gen cars. My rear shocks had to be replaced at 38k miles and I'm at just over 51k miles and the front struts are shot. Mazda used the same parts from the regular 3 and the…

Tires are, on the Speed3, a game changer...the car is FAR better with higher quality tires-handling, braking, acceleration are all improved with better tires.

As the owner of a Speed3, I concur with several points...

As a current MS3 owner, I won't be trading it in on this version...the rear hatch area reminds me too much of that Chevy Malibu Maxx thing. Time to hope they bring the diesel 6 speed 6 or CX-5 to the US...

...yep, that one too!

I went to Pike Place fish market with my ex and her dad...who lives in Washington and he called it Pike's Place. I asked him who 'Pike' was and received a blank stare in reply.

Isn't the F-150 still considered a truck?

I 'unintentionally' drove 135mph in my Speed3 driving it home from the dealership. I couldn't figure out why everyone was 'driving so slow' until I looked at the speedometer...in my defense, I was in a group of three.

Looks like a bad Chinese knock off.

"When ignorance collides" is what I shall rename this exchange...

In an old car that's likely now nose-heavy, because of the battery location, I'd be far more concerned with braking and understeer.