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While driving home from the Detailing place today in a friends WRX, we had this clown come up beside's us, reving his engine, droping back a gear, then flooring it to roughly about 120kph.....when we turned off onto the Tulla Fwy, we noticed this.....

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And i thought that space savers had a max speed of 80 and weren't a good idea on the front wheels :whistling:

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Nah they are good to about 140 if you dont turn any bends...

Did any of you guys see that email of the f40 that was driven with a space saver and then hit a truck doing like 200+. You could see half his guts hanging out and a leg was missing and he got thrown from the car.

THe story was he got in a drag with a space saver on the front lost control and had a head on with a truck!!!!!!

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Nah they are good to about 140 if you dont turn any bends...

Did any of you guys see that email of the f40 that was driven with a space saver and then hit a truck doing like 200+. You could see half his guts hanging out and a leg was missing and he got thrown from the car.

THe story was he got in a drag with a space saver on the front lost control and had a head on with a truck!!!!!!

PICS OR BAN :)

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Space saver on the rear - it does 100 (freeway) - 110 (oops - freeway) no problem. It doesn't like corners much. And I had to keep attesa disabled.

I guess on the front, it would be simpler (in a straight line) - no uneven torque distribution. I still wouldn't go hard at all though. too unbalanced.

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