LAC video--maybe I'm getting old, but this ride made me queasy

[Alex Kowalski]

It's not cool.  It's insane.  It's a sign of people who have lost every pretense of concern for their own lives
or the lives of those around them.  It's called using an expensive toy as a weapon to make life cheap, so you can get some jollies.  

This is the kind of stuff that makes me thank God I made it to 25, without taking anyone else out with me.
My very unscientific observations lead me to believe this kind of stuff is becoming more common everywhere as the horsepower wars
continue to rage on.  People are also doing similary criminally negligent things with pickup trucks and SUVs now.
And I won't even talk about the motorcycles.  First warm day in the Spring, it's like an urban assault as swarms of superbikes, most
with helmetless riders, attack the traffic at triple-digit speeds.  Cadillac -- CADILLAC -- now has a set of cars making around 500 horsepower.  
I recently begged a friend of mine who drives the 90/94 routes in Chicagoland daily to GET RID of her Geo Metro, fearing for her safety.  
When my stock '87 5KCSTQ feels decidedly underpowered on the highway, you know that the horsepower pecking order
on the road has seriously changed.

The comments about the first video seem to say it was shot in Europe, possibly Russia on the Moscow
beltway, but it looks so similar to the I-95 area around Baltimore that it might as well be.  

In the second video, I loved the huge crack across the windshield as this guy was pushing his car
past 140MPH.  I wonder if anything else on the car was similarly loose or broken -- like an engine mount, or maybe the wheel lugs?

Man, I feel like such a hypocrite after my post a week or so ago about the top-speed run I did impromptu at night.  Even clarifying the
circumstances by saying that it was at 3:00 in the morning, when the road was completely empty, doesn't make me feel any better now.  

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> Message: 10
> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:04:25 -0500
> From: "Jonathan Monetti" <jmone3036 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: LAC video--maybe I'm getting old, but this ride made me
> 	queasy
> To: "'Quattro at Audifans. Com'" <quattro at audifans.com>
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> I can't ID what kind of car the video was taken from, but someone needs to
> take the other guy's Audi away (what is it? RS4 Avant?  S3?).  
> 
> On one hand these guys obviously know how to handle their cars.  On the
> other I was waiting for a sickening crash/casualties.  I admit to morbid
> fascination, but living in the congested NE and seeing serious accidents
> weekly, I just can't convince myself that this is cool: 
>  
> http://www.big-boys.com/articles/dangerousdriver.html
>  
> In contrast, these guys are two dozen prozac saner:
> http://www.rs4-video.com/Video/Gumball%20Rally%20RS4.wmv. 
> 
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