I worked in quality control for Porsche 1984-1988. The 944 was a fun, daily driver. Some of the folks that I worked with used the factory "lease a Porsche" deal which you would get a new one every year. So, we never got to see the ones that people put a lot of miles on (and what the longer term issues might be).
I fully agree with you.
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I prefer fast BUT I am definitely not for extreme risk.
There aren't any "fast lanes" on the roads I usually drive, just short straights between corners allowing me to overtake if there is nothing coming the other way. The instant throttle response and wide power band for overtaking is the biggest advantage of electric motors, and the main reason I drive an EV.
In recent years they have been putting up no passing stripe on what were formerly passing zones.
People (who ever they are?) said that this type of car would be unable to drive the Dragon. Those people were proven wrong. (These cars are set up for in line dragstrip use and use 114 octane gasoline fuel [hence they are carrying their fuel and spare tires on trailers]. I think that it is interesting to see vehicles for whom this type of driving is unimaginable to most who are familiar with them but the owner's say "Watch this'. (These vehicles are street legal road vehicles here).
It isn't special by old world standards, but a few welcome curves for those usually on straightish multi lane highways in the north America. It is wider and better surfaced than the major roads around my town, never mind the country lanes.
I enjoyed all the roads that I have driven on in Austria (I was born in Salzburg), Germany & Italy.
Oncoming idiots that don't stay on their side of the road is what makes it special. Some like the thrill of the unexpected:
I run into that (no fast lanes) when I get closer to cities. And the way traffic stacks (around rush hours) even with what we call "Dual Lanes" (two lanes wide, one of which is supposedly the "fast lane", of secondary roads in each direction with a median in between), I still do not bother to drive my "torque monster" ICE engined car there during that time of the traffic pattern. Even with 700 lb/ft of torque at low RPM, there is precisely no point (because you cannot pass [regardless of the fact that being able to pass was the reason for having Dual Lanes] {with turn lanes, of course} to begin with).
LOL. I've ridden a few of them in a semi-aggressive manner but it isn't the oncoming traffic that makes it crazy, its the damn 8" of gravel on the roads edge and then the 100' dropoff the makes your sphincters pucker.
For that stuff I'd rather do a track day, if I make a mistake I got a good chance to survive.
Only our biggest roads are like that, except "motorways" which have traditionally had 3 lanes in each direction plus a "hard shoulder" so breakdowns don't block a lane.
Sounds like you caught a great day.
Once upon a time on a campsite beside the Isle of Man TT circuit, I heard a bike that was really moving. And bike's were going past at speed all the time but this one made everyone look up, turn and watch. I reckon he was doing about 120mph as he took the racing line into the corner by the campsite. Unfortunately there was a BMW car coming the other way at maybe 40mph so they hit head on at a closing speed of about 160. I will never forget the sound of that. The car driver was taken away in an ambulance. The bits of the biker were cleared up by a street sweeper truck. One way to take yourself out of the gene pool.
