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Good bad driving

Postby Doug Coulter » Thu Dec 26, 2013 3:16 pm

I think you'll figure out what I meant in the title. And it's only a Ford (or has a few ford parts in it still, perhaps).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuDN2bCIyus


I wouldn't mind doing that - just once.
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Re: Good bad driving

Postby Starfire » Sun Dec 29, 2013 9:01 pm

A weakness of mind perhaps? :)
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Re: Good bad driving

Postby Doug Coulter » Wed Jan 01, 2014 4:10 pm

Well, there are at least a couple around that do like flinging cars about like toys, myself being one - John Futter's boy (and John himself for all I know) and perhaps Chris among them. Yeah, it's kinda weak minded when you can't reserve an entire city for it - I have to deal with deer, drunks on the wrong side of the road and so on, so I have to be a bit more conservative when I do it, and maintain at least a little safety margin.
The 2010 Camaro SS (over 500hp when I was done with it) was at least as fast as the Ford shown above - over 204 mph at top speed with half a grand or more left on the tach and still pulling strong - but it didn't fly very well - the suspension was too fixated on keeping the tires on the road, and so it always "launched" a little off - and once airbourne, there's not a lot you can do about it. Nevertheless, I did have some fun at way over 100 mph on twisty moutain roads.

And also with the Volt, even though you wouldn't think of it as a performance car, in any situation where handling beats HP/weight ratio, it's a real winner, as we see here, with me piling into a 15 mph-rated hairpin at well over 55, and coming out well over 60 - I hammered the throttle going into the turn as I wasn't going fast enough to get it loose. Look how flat it slid with the "nanny" computer doing the fancy part - All I did was point it where I wanted it to go, and didn't even touch the yellow lines - just drifted perfectly flat about 4-5". You can't do the classic "drift" moves in the Volt as it doesn't have a user-controllable handbrake - just a button on-off, for that. but "drifting" isn't the fastest way around the track, or you'd see all the real pros doing it all the time - it's just fun, that's all.
A little adrenaline is good for ya if your heart can take it. In fact, a lotta people like it - this has been more popular as a video on my youtube channel than any of the science stuff...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk6106_9IrE


In fact, it even got GM's attention. They had no idea they were making a sports car when they did the Volt. They flew a guy down here to see what I've been able to wring out of it. In fact, I still have the occaisional bit of fun taking on "ricky rice-racer" who thinks Tokyo Drift is an example of skilled racing. And I beat them so badly it's embarassing, stopping several times in a 9 mile course to let them close up - then leave them in the dust again, over and over.
C'mon, you have to admit that it's fun if you can do it at reasonably low risk.
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