[Jmouse007]

139 mph is not "reckless driving" in that car. I have no doubt the car was rock solid and glued to the road and much safer at speed than anything Detroit is turning out doing 75. If he was riding on a long straight, late at night or during the day with no traffic in a secluded, rural area there wasn't anything "reckless" about it... just an excuse to write the guy a stiff ticket to fill their coffers with coin.

The Audi R8 is a rolling work of art and science. I must confess it is also my "dream car" as well.

[jjotto]

The R8 is essentially the same car as the Lamborghini Gallardo, except the R8 is better looking and costs $50K less.

[cuban leaf]

I think it is reckless when there is a lot of traffic. About ten years ago I was southbound on I-405 between Bellevue and Renton one day in my Chrysler 300M and passing cars like they were pylons. I had my wife, my daughter and one of her friends in the car. I looked down at my speedo and I was doing 90.

I backed off.

This is one of the reasons I left Seattle for rural Kentucky. I mainly bicycle commuted the 20-40 mile round trip to whatever computer contract I was working, but I got so frustrated with the traffic in the area that I needed to leave to keep my sanity. My wife and I discovered a long time ago that I only get “assertive” with my driving as traffic increases and we are surrounded by more and more inattentive drivers.

I drove in seattle for 39 years. I saw it go from a nice place to drive to a destination to a constant battle with traffic seven days a week. And there were radar cops everywhere in areas with ridiculously low speed limits.

Now, I drive 122 miles round trip to work every day on back roads. The entire route has a speed limit of 55. In some parts I drive 70 mph with no worries, even about cops. With other parts, if I were to actually drive the speed limit I’d wrap my car around a tree.

I like it that way. No stress. I’ve been doing it almost two years and never tire of it. It’s fun.

Traffic sucks and actually creates road rage. It can also cause a stroke in a guy my age.

[the OlLine Rebel]

YES IT IS.

First, I know that area. ALL 95 in the northeast is heavily populated, and not so perfectly straight. The Stonington area is definitely populated, CT is almost continuously populated near the coast and it is within a mile of old Rte 1 - heavy pop.

Ever watch NASCAR? See Talladega this week? 1 wrong move and you have complete loss of control. The more speed, the more loss. I don’t give a patootie how suave your overrated Euro junk is, it will lose control immediately any number of ways - animal, log, rainwater, never mind the more obvious.