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      The more you post the more I think you are younger then most on this board.  I am a firefighter/paramedic and spend most of my time in an ambulance so please, by all means continue to post stuff that makes me think you are about 19 years old.  Good lord I think we can see that you don't like fast cars being driven slow but let it rest already.  You drive the way you want and I will drive the way I want.  After 16 years of fire/EMS I have seen enough high speed accidents to not want to be any part of one.  Nor do I want any tickets as that has a direct impact on my employment.  I am glad you are, I am guessing, young and can enjoy cars to the utmost but some of us older guys have other interests now.

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Low T

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Sometimes, when you know that you can beat everybody else, you don't feel the need to show it.

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Only a faggot would say something like that.  A real man would rip through the gears and show all of the lesser men he is capable of taming the beast with ease.

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Mid life crisis

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Perhaps OP one reason I have a different view of things is I had a friend many years ago injure me when he flipped his car.  That was before I got into the fire service and having to spend about 6 months working through a back injury it kind of soured me on fast cars.  I still like them but I prefer to not be in them when they are being driven hard.  Enjoy your fast cars and fast driving I will be driving the speed limit or a few over and will do my best to not slow you down.

   Also, as I mentioned any ticket we get has to be reported to our department right way.  By that I mean speeding or something of that nature and not a parking ticket.

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I've wondered about this one for years!!  But why do wealthy (usually somewhat older) men, insist on buying fast cars and then drive them in the right lane at no higher than 5 miles under the speed limit??  And I'm not talking classic/antique fast cars.  Those I can understand not tearing up the roads with for several reasons.  No, instead they buy brand new sports/muscle cars and then either block the left lane, not passing anyone, or they sit in the right lane and just stare in a zombie-like trance straight ahead.

I used to think I was just making a big deal about it and that it really wasn't all or even the majority...nope...it's pretty much every fast car I see!  For example, just the other day I saw a GTR in the right lane going well under the limit.  I thought to myself..."guarantee that's a guy in his 50's who has more money than driving ability"...yup I was right!! Later that day a girl came into my office that actually knew that guy.  And I was spot on.  He was a local business owner that knew nothing about cars and never drove that one more than a mile or two over the speed limit.  

Last year I was at a car show.  A guy in his late 40's had a pretty nice Boss that he was showing off.  Two questions into the conversation told me he didn't know shit about his car.  It was obvious he was fond of it, but knew absolutely nothing about it and looked at me like I was speaking Dutch when I asked about experience at the track or opening it up on the highway.  

I've seen plenty of younger men driving the mustangs (not GT or any of the pricier models), mazdas, etc. with some nice zip to them.  They don't cut people off and tailgate...just feed their machine's some speed once in a while.  The tailgating and cutting off is reserved for the teens and 20-somethings in the VW's and Civics.  But I digress...

I actually feel bad for the cars.  I can imagine the car saying "please can we go a little faster??...PLEASE?!?...it's ok, I can handle it!..this blows!"  

So what are the theories here?  Compensating for something, a need to fit some sort of stereotype for their socio-economic bracket, no clue what else to do with their money, etc??...or is it something totally different?

I'm anxious to see if anyone else notices this in their area.  And certainly if you're someone that's in the wealthy man/snail driving club...let us all in as to what's going on upstairs.  

-Emt1581

 

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OP, the wreck was due to excessive speed around a corner that caused him to flip the car with it landing on my side.  I was nearly killed but ducked in time as the roof line was smashed down to the top of my seat, past the head rest.  He was a pickup guy who decided to try what at the time was a fairly fast car.  That was enough for me to lose interest in being in a fast car being driven fast.  Maybe my outlook would be different if I didn't have a cracked vertebrae from an accident that I was lucky and healed okay.

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2/10  Needs more anger and road rage.

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2/10  Needs more anger and road rage.

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You don't think it might have a little to do with the fact that people who can afford these cars got that way by being responsible and not doing stupid shit just because?


If people in the trailer park could afford these kinds of autos you'd get to see them driven like d-bags more often

And whose to say that when the time is right they don't lean on these cars a little. You're not seriously equating seeing them driven briefly on public roads with the ASSUMPTION you have even the slightest clue as to how their driven elsewhere.


This thread is just like the small minded individuals who bitch about pickup ownership just because they see them with without the bed fully loaded sometimes.