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View Poll Results: What is your driving style?
My car is always reaching for the redline!
22.03%
I tend to be heavier on the gas pedal then most
42.37%
I drive fairly conservative but will race the occasional ricer
30.51%
This is our family car, and I drive it as such
0
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My grandmother drives faster than me!
5.08%
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How do you drive?

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Old Dec 31, 2003 | 11:09 AM
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I get my best hwy mileage at 140kph at 2500 RPM or so...bout 8L/100km

Thats almost 800km to a tank fellers...V8'* own!

I drive in the city conservatively, but I cut loose on the hwy..gotta love that stable passing powah
Old Dec 31, 2003 | 02:12 PM
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I drive fairly heavy on the gas. (by fairly I mean VERY) My tach is constantly reading 35mph (it reads 20% high, so it soars past 7k and goes into the speedometer) My friends are always telling me "don't peel out," when I pick them up or drop them off at their houses because they dont' want their parents to not let them ride with me, and I always just use the gas like it is a button. Either WOT or nothing at all. Just today I was doing some "testing" with the G-tech pro on my car. If it is bad weather or I am driving down the freeway or just going to school or something, I will drive fairly normal, but it doesn't take much to make me drive harder, and when the weather is decent and I don't have anything to do I will drive more heavily.

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Old Dec 31, 2003 | 02:19 PM
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I'm the typical 5 to 10 over kinda guy. I get very angry when people drive slow for no reason.
Old Dec 31, 2003 | 03:02 PM
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around town I play it cool and follow the posted limit. On the hiway I cruise around 70 -80 mph but open it up on straight aways to 110-115mph sometimes
But never in the winter too icy here
Old Dec 31, 2003 | 03:54 PM
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I tend to drive very fast went I am alone. When the kids are in the car I take it down a notch. However when Dad is with me.....what am I saying, I never get to drive when Dad is with me.
Old Dec 31, 2003 | 04:13 PM
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hmm another case of bringing up the dead.... anyway, i tend to drive conservativly until i get pissed at someone, or i see a guy i feel needs to know the power of a Series 2
Old Dec 31, 2003 | 04:54 PM
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When I'm on day shift and leaving work there'* this one Security Guard that always ask me if I'm going to get on it when I leave the parking lot. I tell him it depends on how I feel. His post is a 1/4 mile from the parking lot exit and he likes the sound of the LS1 turned up to the redline in first , second, and third.
Old Dec 31, 2003 | 09:32 PM
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Hmmmm...I'm just keeping up the tradition with mine I drive like my great grandma did when she owned the car....







My great grandma had a lead foot Runs in the family
Don't know how fast the Mare goes, once again, the speedo only goes up to 85. I've had it bobbing above there.
Old Jan 1, 2004 | 01:58 AM
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I tend to drive very fast went I am alone. When the kids are in the car I take it down a notch. However when Dad is with me.....what am I saying, I never get to drive when Dad is with me.
You sound like my wife...........I never let her drive when I'm with her either.

I'm old school for a Canadian.....having got my drivers license in 1970 when speedometers were still in mph.....so all my vehicles have been converted to mph. Sure am glad the Bonne does it automatically.
.....So if it says 50 kph that'* what I do, 50......mph.
And on the highway when it says 110 kph, it'* 110 mph.
I slow down for the radar detector and school zones.

......AND NO ONE PASSES ME
Old Jan 24, 2004 | 10:26 PM
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I drive pretty hard, I've had the speedo in the truck (83C15) wrapped to 25 and the bonne bouncing off the limiter.



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