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Well as driver of a very quick car, there come alot of opportunitys to street race. so far i have not but it has been tempting at times, for example i left a intersection when the lights turned green and i sped up a little on the fast side and a MINIVAN in the other lane blew by me 5 seconds later!

now heres the thing, everyone has been hearing about the street racing laws getting tougher and how everyone who has a suped up car for some reason is automatically a street racer. i havent been pulled over yet and been hassled but ive heard alot about it, where cops pull you over and check to see that you dont have any illegal modifications and hassle you on if you street race or not. How does having a fast car make you a street racer?

that being said, i would also like to bring up that most people who have a modified car are actually less likely to street race. They see a large value in their car especially if they do alot of the work themselves and would hate to see it getting totalled. compare that to a kid with rich parents who buy their kid a 50000$ car and boom theres your problem, and ive seen exactly that happen at my school with my friends, a bunch of us have mustangs or camaro's or something fairly fast, and we dont race, and my one friend gets a brand new volvo and hes talking about he raced a civic and won 20$. theres your street racer material right there

the unfortunate thing is they are targetting the wrong people and the wrong cars and nothing is going to get better, so their just going to keep making the regulations worse and worse till accelerating a tiny bit to fast with someone in the other lane beside you is street racing if you own a fast car, it just isnt fair and their letting the real problem BMW's and Mercedes Benz' get away like they were nothing, when most of them could blow the doors off the average modified car.

what are your thoughts about street racing and the new crackdown on it?
have you ever street raced?
ever gotten a ticket for anything?

underage driving? as in no liscence?

same guy i was talking about raced another guy on friday night in a rsx, i tried to make it out there to watch but they were too far ahead when i got out and i lost them.

but ya there you go, bunch of guys i know have really fast modified cars but they dont street race, yet heres 2 idiots that street race all the time in completely stock cars, its annoying that their the last people to get pulled over for speeding and searched for illegal modifications

heh that sucks, good thing your still a minor though and it wont stay on your record past 18.

yesterday another perfect example of people being stupid in stock cars, im backing outta my spot in the school parking lot and i look to the one side, no one coming and then to the other and no one coming so i kept looking straight out the back and kept going and then all the sudden theres a HOOOOOOOONKKKKKKKK!!!! and im like s**t and slam on the brakes, wasnt going fast backing up or anything but this girl in her concorde had just flown around the corner and was doing like 20 and had only a few meters before she woulda t-boned me in the ******** parking lot. so i make a pissed off gesture and she just gives me this oh well look and just slowly rolls closer making me pull back into my spot even though i was already all the way out of the spot, i just needed a little more room to turn so id be straight enough to pull out.

now heres the problem, if she had hit me all she'd need to say is "its not my fault i was going slow and he just flew out of his spot" who will they believe, guy in the mustang or girl in the concorde.

basically yea, just trying to put it out there that just because a car is modified doesnt mean its a fast driver. and just because a car isnt modified doesnt mean any idiot can jump in and go way too fast in a parking lot.

id say a fair percentage of the modified cars out there have very good drivers behind them. ever since i got the bigger engine in my mustang i speed less and its more responsibility to handle it, you cant take corners too fast and cant speed in the rain, and gradually you learn the full capabilitys of any vehicle and how much damage can be caused if used improperly.

another thing i was reading about argueing about the whole modified car or performance cars being nailed for all the stupid stuff is, what about brakes, any performance car can stop in about half the distance that a cheap family sedan can, the engines are obviously tuned up better, and things like tires and signal lights are also maintained alot better (if you really really like your car you want it to be in perfect condition) so they actually pose a much lower threat than alot of the other cars out there. if you ever look at accidents that are not caused by street racing, you hardly ever see a modified car or high performance car in one, its always some crappy minivan or some cheap sedan, its because their not nearly as well maintained or have nearly as good parts.

I like them if nobody crashes. xB

My dad has gotten a ticket.. stare he hates driving slowly behind other people on the highway, so he speeds.

How about drifting?
theres a new street racing movie just about that alone

Fast and the Furrious: Tokyo Drift razz

(And another thing... why are the people in these movies so furious?)

Yet, the police seem to let the rich people slide easier. According to this friend of mine, the police fear the rich since they can sue them without a second thought and win (bribary) so they stay away. Unless of course they are really pushing it. And people who are poor gets let of easier because of pity. And sometimes their cars aren't really fast ebough to be too dangerouse. Or are they...?

And no, I've never gotten a ticket.


So what, are middle class people screwed?

Wrawr.