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SVTPerformance's Chain of Restaurants
A Taste of Home
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Seattle/Drizzle/RWD?
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<blockquote data-quote="jpk" data-source="post: 14715969" data-attributes="member: 30412"><p>The six weeks of summer are good for cruising. If a 'nice drive' is just being able to drive on dry sunny roads and hear the engine and enjoy the scenery, yes. If a 'nice drive' is dropping two gears and chirping the tires and hitting the redline on several gear changes, not really. You can do that, but it's not the safest place to be doing that. The cops are super aggressive about staking out and hiding on all the streets just to catch speeders and aggressive drivers. The traffic is still fairly congested and the visibility with all the twists and turns and hills is still bad. The six weeks of summer is great if you have a classic car and want to putter around town and hear the engine. Sucks if you have oodles of horsepower and want to floor it. You can floor it on an on ramp, but the moment you get on the interstate you will hit traffic going 5mph under the speed limit. On a 600HP Cobra, you will only be in second gear before that happens.</p><p></p><p>The best thing for car guys in the Seattle area about the six weeks of summer are the car shows and meetups. There are good meetups where you can check out other peoples cars like ExoticSat at Redmond Town Center or the various car clubs that meet in Issaquah for cruises. And it's the one time of year it's worth detailing your car because it won't get rained on immediately. </p><p></p><p>I'm painting a pessimistic picture, but this comes from many years of Mustang Cobra ownership in the area. There are those times you can have fun. But when the car is a daily driver, those times are way rarer than the times you are stuck in traffic or are gingerly short shifting to prevent the traction control from kicking in. I get to enjoy my cars every single time I pull out of the garage in Las Vegas, by comparison.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jpk, post: 14715969, member: 30412"] The six weeks of summer are good for cruising. If a 'nice drive' is just being able to drive on dry sunny roads and hear the engine and enjoy the scenery, yes. If a 'nice drive' is dropping two gears and chirping the tires and hitting the redline on several gear changes, not really. You can do that, but it's not the safest place to be doing that. The cops are super aggressive about staking out and hiding on all the streets just to catch speeders and aggressive drivers. The traffic is still fairly congested and the visibility with all the twists and turns and hills is still bad. The six weeks of summer is great if you have a classic car and want to putter around town and hear the engine. Sucks if you have oodles of horsepower and want to floor it. You can floor it on an on ramp, but the moment you get on the interstate you will hit traffic going 5mph under the speed limit. On a 600HP Cobra, you will only be in second gear before that happens. The best thing for car guys in the Seattle area about the six weeks of summer are the car shows and meetups. There are good meetups where you can check out other peoples cars like ExoticSat at Redmond Town Center or the various car clubs that meet in Issaquah for cruises. And it's the one time of year it's worth detailing your car because it won't get rained on immediately. I'm painting a pessimistic picture, but this comes from many years of Mustang Cobra ownership in the area. There are those times you can have fun. But when the car is a daily driver, those times are way rarer than the times you are stuck in traffic or are gingerly short shifting to prevent the traction control from kicking in. I get to enjoy my cars every single time I pull out of the garage in Las Vegas, by comparison. [/QUOTE]
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