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dared3vil0 10-06-2014 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by westopher (Post 8539371)
Jason has the car in Edmonton, and this statement is genuinely ridiculous. There are so many amazing roads to drive around Vancouver, and I'd say its one of the best places if not the best place in Canada to own a nice car. Weather is nice enough to drive it 10 months a year. The ridge, pacific raceways, and ORP are all doable in 2 day road trips. Sea to sky is fun even at reasonable speeds, Duffy lake loop, Cypress, seymour, and I could go on. Not to mention the roads aren't beat to shit.

This x10000

Duffy lake loop is arguably one of the best roads. Period.

(Take lougheed highway out to Hope, then head up the canyon to Cache Creek, then down through lilloet, pemberton, whistler and back to van. Should be 7 hours of driving time.)


Although i don't think ORP is 2 day-able... Long drive down, would not want to drive 7+ hours after i got up at 5:00am and had a track day haha.

Z3guy 10-06-2014 12:19 PM

Dhari, it is like this, BMW M3s make you feel like you can drive like Hans Stuck, the car is very well balanced and covers up any mistakes you make (over cooking a corner or getting on the gas too quickly out of a turn). The 996 GT3 only has ABS as a safety net. What I am saying is that my skills as a driver are not refined or developed enough to extract maximum performance from the car. Nothing to do with it being physically demanded, but with how I could extract performance from the car. The 996 GT3 is like playing golf with bladed irons, if you know what you are doing, they work great, if you don't, they work like crap.

JDął 10-06-2014 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by westopher (Post 8539371)
Jason has the car in Edmonton, and this statement is genuinely ridiculous. There are so many amazing roads to drive around Vancouver, and I'd say its one of the best places if not the best place in Canada to own a nice car. Weather is nice enough to drive it 10 months a year. The ridge, pacific raceways, and ORP are all doable in 2 day road trips. Sea to sky is fun even at reasonable speeds, Duffy lake loop, Cypress, seymour, and I could go on. Not to mention the roads aren't beat to shit.

Yes, the problem is they're over-enforced with draconian laws and cluttered with people who can barely sleep and breathe at the same time let alone drive. If he's in Edmonton he should definitely be heading south with it, I just saw his location as North Van. Vancouver's a great place to have a restored classic or antique collector, not to unleash the capabilities of a modern supercar purely because of the over-enforcement.

underscore 10-06-2014 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by dhari (Post 8539365)
Serious questions. What do you mean by that exactly? Do you mean that you were not able to push the car to its limits because a)too physically demanding? b) You did not want to push the car to the edge?
I've never driven on a track before so I don't really know how it is to drive. Just wondering what it means when people say that their cars are better than their driving. I know some of it is physical(literally tough to steer and follow the racing line) and some of it is mental(scared to push it).

It comes down to talent, few people have the experience and skill to push something like a GT3 anywhere near it's limits without crashing it, because that cars limits are a lot higher than say a Civic.

trollguy 10-06-2014 12:23 PM

dont forget- it's also not as forgiving as a civic which makes it even scarier.

underscore 10-06-2014 12:26 PM

^ that too, when you push a Civic past it's limits, you're likely just facing a bit of understeer that's easy to come back from. If you push a GT3 past the limits, the back can easily become the front, all at a much higher speed than the Civic.

westopher 10-06-2014 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by JDął (Post 8539376)
Yes, the problem is they're over-enforced with draconian laws and cluttered with people who can barely sleep and breathe at the same time let alone drive. If he's in Edmonton he should definitely be heading south with it, I just saw his location as North Van. Vancouver's a great place to have a restored classic or antique collector, not to unleash the capabilities of a modern supercar purely because of the over-enforcement.

Its the same everywhere in North america, if you are pushing the limits of a GT3 or any other street legal race car on public roads, you are going to be arrested or kill yourself/others.

ZN6 10-06-2014 12:41 PM




There are some people who don't even drive 3/10ths of the limits of a super car and still crash.

N8 10-06-2014 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by dared3vil0 (Post 8539372)
Couple things; He lives in Alberta with the GT3, not the lower mainland.

Other thing, if i'm picking up what you're putting down (driving "spiritedly" through the US is better than Canada) Avoid Washington state. From personal experience, they will arrest you at the slightest sniff of enjoying some of their beautiful roads.

dude... you got arrested for speeding? WTF happened?

hud 91gt 10-06-2014 12:46 PM

^ Post of the week right there (Edit: The videos lol). Hahahaha

hi-revs 10-06-2014 12:51 PM

Ive never driven a super car before, but i can relate that its more fun pushing a less powerful car than babying the drive of a supercar.

When i had my 93 mr2, it was an awesome driving experience. Still love the car to this day. Loved being able to open it up and ripping it around.
Then got a 01 AP1. Great driving experience, but no "go cart" feel to it.
Currently in my 07 Sti. Love the car. But way too much power to open up the throttle. 5 seconds WOT in 3rd gear will likely get myself a ticket.
I can only imagine the power in anything with 400+hp

Z3guy 10-06-2014 01:05 PM

^ I am not track junkie, but that's why I sold my GT3 for an AMV8. Way to easy to get tickets in the GT3. The AMV8 is great car if you want to cruise around at 50-60kms/hr and just enjoy the driving experience. It doesn't hurt hawt chicks in BMWs/Mercs/Audis/RR eye fuk you! lol!

knight604 10-06-2014 01:39 PM

lets trade cars for a month , jasonturbo

Z3guy 10-06-2014 01:40 PM

^ we should for sure!

knight604 10-06-2014 01:42 PM

Yeah , you too z3.

Give me that dinan m3 plox .

westopher 10-06-2014 02:01 PM

Too late he already wants to swap it for the e36.

freakshow 10-06-2014 02:10 PM

RS Car Trading Club??

Expresso 10-06-2014 02:15 PM

Does anyone else feel this thread has runs its course?

I'm waiting for someone to start comparing their mom's camry to something next.

hchang 10-06-2014 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by MarkyMark (Post 8539242)

I drive a truck now and honestly haven't missed the car one bit. I cruise close to the speed limit everywhere I go now since going the limit or a little above feels fast enough.

Trucks are the best.

You hazard percept much further, safer by a mile (crash into me with your BMW, Mercedes, Audi etc see who walks out alive).

And best of all it's like you look down on people

MarkyMark 10-06-2014 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by hchang (Post 8539450)
Trucks are the best.

You hazard percept much further, safer by a mile (crash into me with your BMW, Mercedes, Audi etc see who walks out alive).

And best of all it's like you look down on people

Yup, and you don't care if someone tailgates you because they disappear once their car gets that close lol

Shark Tank 10-06-2014 02:51 PM

Lets be real Vancouver is just a poor area to own a supercar unless you plan on showing off like on Robson Street. Too many nuthuggers that buy these ballin cars with no intention to drive like car should be drived.

Own these cars in places with less traffic congestion and highways galore and its like as close to autobahn you will get. It would be different if you live in Texas or Saskatchewan just flat land and miles of open stretch roads and bends.

westopher 10-06-2014 03:04 PM

Yeah that would be fuckin sweet to live in saskatchewan.....

boostfever 10-06-2014 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Shark Tank (Post 8539468)
Lets be real Vancouver is just a poor area to own a supercar unless you plan on showing off like on Robson Street. Too many nuthuggers that buy these ballin cars with no intention to drive like car should be drived.

Lets be real, you don't own a sports car or supercar, and you have not really driven one I am assuming. You are also unaware of the decent roads BC offers it seems like. There are loads of decent roads and drives within an hour and less out of Vancouver. Get out of Richmond often...

Akinari 10-06-2014 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Lomac (Post 8538831)
That's more something I'd expect to see up here in Kamloops or Kelowna, not down on the coast. Well, not Vancouver or Richmond anyway... :p

I dunno man, I've seen a couple modern muscle cars douchebagging around Richmond with Ns on the back driven by mainlanders wearing their caps backwards. A few GT500s and Charger SRT8s here and there.

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Originally Posted by boostfever (Post 8539484)
Lets be real, you don't own a sports car or supercar, and you have not really driven one I am assuming. You are also unaware of the decent roads BC offers it seems like. There are loads of decent roads and drives within an hour and less out of Vancouver. Get out of Richmond often...

Considering the way he talks, more like Surrey :troll:

multicartual 10-06-2014 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by westopher (Post 8539371)
Jason has the car in Edmonton, and this statement is genuinely ridiculous.


Calling him an idiot was wrong, but he speaks the truth about being nervous when on the gas!


40 over and your car is on the hook! Even my 184 rwhp E36 barely allows me to floor it for 3-4 seconds beyond 1st gear before the car is in "street racing" territory. In a GT3 you probably have 1-2 seconds of WOT in 2nd gear before you're in license-losing territory.


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