350 KPH overtaking

[stevo]

Watch this mad Ford GT pass a Nissan GTR at 350 kph


[video=youtube;GUJrH3Czaz4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUJrH3Czaz4[/video]

 

[Wack61]

More gadgets in that car than the starship enterprise and he can't hold the ******* phone the right way round.

Crazy driving though, didn't somebody try that in a Eastern European country in a Lamborghini when it didn't go so well

 

[zagatoes30]

Those GT-Rs are amazing cars but with no character or soul but you need to be mad to drive at those speeds. As we have said before the world is full of nutters

 

[StuartW]

Those GT-Rs are amazing cars but with no character or soul but you need to be mad to drive at those speeds. As we have said before the world is full of nutters

Agreed, they look great on a console game but in the real world - not for me

 

[allandwf]

Young work colleague just realised this and sold his GTR after a year or so. That's what he said, it was more akin to a game.

 

[MAF260]

I borrowed a mate's Litchfield-tuned GTR for a few days last year. It was running 650bhp and was incredibly fast, handled well and stopped as it should, although the ride was very hard. After 3 drives of the car I handed the keys back and vowed never to drive it again. I found it provoked a dangerous attitude to driving for me - knowing there is so much power available made me consider every overtaking manoeuvre possible when others were impeding my progress. Perhaps it was the novelty, but it was hard to resist going fast (within speed limits on all roads, of course!) whenever possible. Whilst the GS (and Ghibli to a certain extent) is a very quick car and has more power than is needed for the road, I'm always reminded that the brakes aren't brilliant and the back likes to let go when provoked. The GTR instils a sense of immortality - never good when behind the wheel!

 

[Contigo]

I borrowed a mate's Litchfield-tuned GTR for a few days last year. It was running 650bhp and was incredibly fast, handled well and stopped as it should, although the ride was very hard. After 3 drives of the car I handed the keys back and vowed never to drive it again. I found it provoked a dangerous attitude to driving for me - knowing there is so much power available made me consider every overtaking manoeuvre possible when others were impeding my progress. Perhaps it was the novelty, but it was hard to resist going fast (within speed limits on all roads, of course!) whenever possible. Whilst the GS (and Ghibli to a certain extent) is a very quick car and has more power than is needed for the road, I'm always reminded that the brakes aren't brilliant and the back likes to let go when provoked. The GTR instils a sense of immortality - never good when behind the wheel!

That is what it was like when I got my brand new RS4 back in 2005 and also to a lesser extent my M5. Nothing at the time could touch them (this side of £200k) and it made you feel like everyone else on the road was the **** on the sole of your shoe. As you say every single overtaking manoeuvre you normally wouldn't entertain was attempted and pulled off! It's a very aggressive way of driving and one which weirdly I don't get in the Maser at all, maybe I just enjoy pootling along looking at the trident on the steering wheel and thinking how privileged I am to be driving a beautiful car!

 

[Contigo]

And this is the sort of thing which happens when you don't know the road and get carried away and carry far too much speed!

This guy was lucky, the video contains some offensive language BTW so don't blast it whilst your kids or boss is in the room

[video=youtube;sNOJ0R6C88Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNOJ0R6C88Q[/video]

 

[VMSRTI]

I should have read your warning before playing it Phil.

Oh well the kids have learnt a new way to describe "a silly person"........

 

[MrPea]

Eek! Moronic! Part of me gets a fuzzy feeling seeing a Ford GT doing its thing. The whole thing about the Nissan GTR invoking a strange attitude. I drove one recently and it was a total assault on the senses, but was surreally easy; I could only tell how hard I'd had to concentrate when getting out of the thing as I was no longer surrounded by the invincibility cloak. Mind you, I have to respect someone who can drive it properly and with the respect it requires.

 

[midlifecrisis]

Oh well one less. I saw a BMW do something similar once, the sat nav said straight on at the roundabout, the driver duly obliged, luckily for the BMW there's an exhaust and suspension garage just after the roundabout to replace the one he scraped off. Unluckily for him it was Sunday evening and was shut.