Speed limit is 65 in that area, and I think people have slowed down a bit now, but 80MPH in the slow lane was the standard for 4+ lane freeways when I lived there. I've definitely had to merge when the slow lane was doing > 100MPH and relatively crowed (more than 50 cars were exceeding 100 in a pack once, just regular…

I made a claim about how I felt about driving my car in a specific situation. I never said anything about your car in any other situation, and I have no idea why you feel the need to tell me that my experiences and my opinions are wrong.

My car did have acceleration issues - 110HP and a shitty 4 speed auto dragging 3500lbs up to freeway speed. This one particular situation was a compromised freeway onramp with 200 yards to accelerate, 200 yards to merge, and then a concrete wall. Sometimes I got lucky and there was a gap in traffic, but other times I…

Again, I had no problem exceeding 45MPH, but getting to above 45MPH in the span of a very short (200 yard) on ramp was impossible. It would easily do 100MPH if I gave it a mile or so of full throttle.

Well, I don't know if I'm ruining the car market (I do know how to handle a vehicle,) but I know that I don't feel safe in some situations with a car that won't get to 60 in around 9 seconds - below that and I would have to take an alternate route.

Most Southern California on ramps are fairly long, but at least one that I had to take frequently was a tight-radius turn followed by maybe 200 yards of straight before the merge. My car would understeer wildly at much more than 25MPH through the turn, so I could rarely make it above 45 or 50 by the time I had to get…

Yeah, I used to drive a car that would manage 0-60 in around 10 seconds in Southern California, and it was dangerously slow on some freeway on ramps. Trying to merge with 80MPH traffic when you can only manage 45MPH is not fun.

I think wheel nut aerodynamics is a bit different than the safety issue of the nose heights from your original post.

If it wasn't for those meddling teenagers! Damned theater was empty before they showed up.

Oh, he couldn't play it, it was purely for looks. It wasn't even remotely in tune. Huge douche.

Yeah, but in this country (most of the time,) you're considered innocent until proven guilty. And the presence of a car is hardly proof of the car owner's guilt.

"Hella" - Only OK to use in reference to lights, horns, and other accessories manufactured by the German company by that name.

Yup, my first car was a Mk4 Golf with the 2.0 and a 4 speed auto. Felt pretty fast compared to the TDI Jetta that I was sharing with my mom between getting my license and getting my own car. And it was - 0-60 in just 10ish seconds, compared to a bit over 12 in the Jetta.

Yeah, I was road tripping down I80, saw a sign for gas, had 1/3 of a tank left, decided to skip it (didn't see a sign that said 'last gas in forever!') and, after hours of waiting for the next station, going 50MPH, I rolled into the station and put 14.5 gallons in my 14.7 gallon tank. Oh, and it was past midnight, in…

Yeah, I don't know how it slipped so badly, but driving standards in this state went from bad to worse between ~2003 and 2008 or so (while I was living in a small city, so I wasn't involved in it day-to-day,) which coincided with high gas prices reducing freeway speeds. We used to go 90 MPH in a 65 zone, even in the…

Well, that sucks. I guess it's sort of more important out on the 2 lane freeways in the middle of nowhere, because it only takes one idiot to slow everything down.

And this is why I want not 1, but 2 PA systems in a theoretical future car - one to bitch at the people in front of me, another to insult the people that I've just passed (or who are tailgating me on my commute through a damned school zone - with children present - at 5 over the limit.)

Heh, I've had people do that to me for 'tail gating' (4 car lengths is not only plenty of space where I learned to drive, it's enough space for another car to pull in between and drive comfortably at 80MPH,) usually when I'm flashing my lights to convince them that doing 5 under the limit in the left lane on a…

Huh, I've personally seen plenty of people get pulled over for improper use of the passing lane in (rural) Colorado. In my area they enforced that law far more stringently than the speed limit.

Worse than the lights is the little computer which predicts how many miles you have left to go. In my various VWs, it has built in 'help,' where it rapidly drops the miles-left estimate when you get to 1/8 of a tank or so. I've seen it drop from 50 to 25 miles remaining in the span of one mile at an economic 30MPH,…