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Are any of you honestly surprised that we have some tossers driving Skylines (and giving the rest of us Skyline owners a bad name) when so muchy of the talk about them in this forum & elsewhere is about how much power we get out of them.

Logically if a person spends a lot of time & money modifying a car to produce more & more power then they're going to want to use it.

Now, when you consider the speed limits and the penalties for breaking the law, you have to wonder why anyone needs 500hp at the wheels, but people keep doing it.

No-one's perfect - I've had more speeding fines than I care to remember - but I like to think that the most important consideration when driving (and in life) is how your actions affect other people.

Happy (& safe) driving

Guest Boxhead

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yes im in the boat of trying to show of once haha, ended up good for me, a new paint job on the car.. but anyway

i think most crashes come down to a couple of things a) common sense and B) maturity...

like fair enough ppl out there will say im only going to get worse now having a turbo car, but since its manual, and its the first manual, i find myself im taking it real easy, my changes are too slow to race anyone coz ill loose, so i dont even bother haha,

my takes offs are even worse..

but i do think as per always its a case of bad apples makin the rets look bad, you will always have those types of people in every type of car, wether it be v8 or turbo 6, or turbo 4 for that matter.

Bleach1 Proficient

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I dont really agree about skyline drivers been more reckless than the general population. Whenever i am out at local cruise spots like down in wollongong or some of the areas in sydney it is generally the skyline drovers who seem the bestbehaved. Its always seems to be the idiots in old VLs or the little turbo charade darting in and out of traffic. I think most people with a decent skyline generally value their car or cant afford to crash it, possibly because someone driving a done up charade or swift will be paying about 1/3rd what a young skyline driver does for insurance.

Then again i think there are stupid drivers everywhere you look. The type of car doesnt seem to matter. Id say we here would just notice skylines alot more.

Airzone Rising Star

Airzone

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Well, hands up anyone here who owns a skyline (or any other fast car) and doesn't give it any stick at all... Sure, some of us may confine our need for speed to the track, but it's my guess that one of the main reasons people buy skylines is the performance.. I suppose each of us has different ways of enjoying the performance of our cars - some better than others.

Darting in and out of traffic isn't the only way to be a tool on the road - how about driving fast through heavy fog, or on a cold winters night when the road's likely to have ice on it. 100k's an hour on a country road at dawn and dusk seems pretty stupid to me, especially after I hit a roo a few years back. None of this requires you to own a skyline.

All it comes down to is the drivers maturity. I've seen falcons, commies, astras, pulsars, lasers, lancers, s15's, exa's, etc with idiots behind the wheel.

But guys, good / bad driving is all on a scale. And no matter how bad you are, there's always someone in a Volvo who's worse :)

red17 Experienced

red17

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I dont get any runs in my 32GTST, mainly because it looks just like a GTR and most perth commie drivers seem shit scared of it. But if i hop in my brothers 180SX, you can guarantee ill get some tool wanting a run within 3 sets of lights.

Only runs ive had on the street off the lights has been late at night and usually against another skyline owner, simply because he knows it aint a GTR :)

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