This is what I was thinking about. Glad someone said it already

Was looking for the ‘No Dodge Nitro is innocent’ comment. Thanks!

I have finally seen the inspiration behind the new Civic type R. Thank you.

I don’t know those look like cones to me, but I can see how you might see them as cons instead.

Only because they nerfed all the cool ships from the books into fable/alternate universe hell.

In your pants?

Ok, this is a curiosity question: How much was the operating cost of your motorcycle?

It’s like he’s thinking of the SUV as the everyday car, and his fun two seater as the extra vehicle.

Only if you’ve drawn up a “coordinate system” designating sideways otherwise it seems to be moving nowhere fast.

It’s worse in person.

We’re not discussing if driving in the passing lane is the same as doing triple the legal limit. We’re discussing whether the public (in practice) at the time of the event in question were prepared for such driving to happen, and the effect that has on the inappropriateness of his actions at the time. In other words…

Firstly, I hope your enjoying these thinking excercises about events form a few decades ago, because we can only offer our conjecture without a time machine.

So Midnight Club is just a reference point that at certain hours it was expected. My guess would be that whatever hour it is that ‘Mr. Ferrari’ drove that speed is another of those times that it was expected, and thus deemed perfectly acceptable in the culture of the day. Not that that makes it right, just that it was…

Culturally there is every reason to leave it out. It’s not the USA. It’s Japan.

Well, there’s the problem. Try moving past high school journalism headspace and get into international journalism headspace.

Same old saw. Trying looking at the view Outback. It might be more correct.

So I mentioned this to someone else, but it seems like in the 70s/80s the drivers were likely conditioned for supercars to come roaring past them at 160+ mph since that was a condition of the Midnight Club and they were a common sight on the expressway at certain times.

Were you driving the expressways of Japan in the 80s?