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Old 11-27-2018, 10:44 AM
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I realized this many times but often forget that no matter which sports car I drove from a Miata, s2k, 370z, M3, 360, boxster, and countless 911 variants and some other sporty cars I enjoyed them all because of the roads I was driving on. I always came away thinking the car was so good, I need to get me one of those. It turns out that there are many extremely competent low priced cars that I enjoyed more than the higher priced ones just because of the twisty piece of asphalt I was driving on. Go find the roads that makes you feel that way and forget for a moment what you are driving.
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LOL.

Eh, no matter how good the road is, the drive will always be better with a better car!
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Originally Posted by Palting
LOL.

Eh, no matter how good the road is, the drive will always be better with a better car!
Yep. You need both.
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its combination of both. Greatest road on earth in a Saturn Ion is not going to be pleasant. Just saying
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You need both; a car with terrible suspension on an amazing road won’t be better than a car with great suspension on the same road.
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I did say "sports car."
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On the track I always say.... "it's not the car, it's the driver"
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The better the road, the more I hate driving anything but a proper sports car on it, because I notice the difference so much.
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I would argue that a bad car in a great road is worse than a bad car in traffic or anywhere else. I once crossed one of the canyons of the Santa Monica mountains in my QX80 Limited and still have nightmares about it. I felt like dancing valse



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