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^ Without a rope or parachute. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Spirited Driving = Legal way of saying that you've been driving Illegally.

Spirited Driving = 75% of full throttle, using the whole width of the road for cornering, down shifting, shifting somewhere 4500-5500 rpm, NEVER pushing to the limit thou. Thats my ideal "spirited driving", if its full throttle driving, i call it "公道最速伝説"　 　(you'll only understand if your japanese or read chinese character)

spirited driving:
a) driving car to its limit.
b) feel comfortable at that limit.
c) upgrade your car.
d) rinse. repeat.

Only understand if you are JAPANESE
Or read CHINESE character?

So kinda like i have to be Hispanic to read English? Or Australian to understand sign? I suppose American Indians are the only ones who can read Brail too eh?



This post has been edited by D-Man: Nov 26, 2008 - 9:34 AM

Japanese uses Chinese kanji in their writing system.

It would be more like Hispanics, French, and English being able to understand Latin characters. Or actually maybe that's the opposite, or on another plane but still comparable. (Adopted sound vs Adopted Meaning)

for me its when you get those butterfly deep in your gut. the tires start to talk, white knuckles, hair on the back of your neck standing up. revs up speedo and tach chasing one another.

exactly. we use chinese characters in our language as well but only a portion of it.

hence why chinese ppl can make out some of the text in japan and vis versa

I would say that "spirited driving" is when you are driving harder than you should, BUT DEFINITELY NOT TO THE POINT WHERE YOU WILL KILL YOURSELF OR SOMEONE ELSE. Don't get me wrong, I've done stupid stuff, and I regret it. Topping my car out? What happens when a deer jumps out in front of me? I've hit one going 45 before. I don't want that at 120. And pushing your car's limits around a corner? Unless you've tested and exceeded your car's limits, you never know exactly what they are. That one extra mile an hour around that corner is all it could take for you to hit the ditch. I've just about put myself in a ditch before, and it's not somewhere I want to be.

Don't get the mood of this post wrong. I'm not against spirited driving at all. I love it! I just don't want to get hurt or hurt someone else doing it so I keep it under control. To those of you that feel the need to break your own personal records every time you get behind the wheel, I'm glad you don't live near me lol. I'd rather not get hit when you're going 110 and I'm not doing anything wrong at all.

Basically what I'm saying is save it for the track.

Some good sensible people here

Basically imo if you want to test the limits of you and the car, that should be on the track.

If only everybody got to drive to the limit on the track before passing their driving test, there would be much less fatal accidents. Many people learn the limits of their ability and car about 5 seconds before they die

The more you drive, the more you know the limits of both yourself and your car. It takes years to get this.

Agreed

^ x2.

Unfortunately, Manphibian is right. Too many people learn where "too far" is right before they get hurt or seriously hurt someone else. I used to have a truck, a '99 Dodge Ram single cab/short bed. It was light for a truck, and had the 5.9 liter. I went hill-hopping in it ONLY ONCE on a road that I know all too well since I live on it. What I didn't know about this road is that it curves ever so slightly at the top of the hill and you never notice it in normal driving. When you are in the air at 70 mph and all you see is a barbed wire fence right in front of you, you learn to not do that ever again. That experience turned out alright, but two weeks after that a kid just a year younger than me got killed doing the exact same thing. I've done stupid things and I learned my lessons. There are no tracks close to where I live, so I try to keep it sensible for the conditions, taking each corner as if there was a child in the road on the other end.

EDIT: Sorry for my semi-hateful posts. I'm working on no sleep here. Kinda grouchy.

This post has been edited by richee3: Nov 30, 2008 - 11:48 AM

Well in my case of not haveing a license. Spirited driving for me is just driving anyway.

i think it is just driving smooth through corners, slightly faster than u would normally but keeping it smooth and pure. and always within ur own limits

literal translation is "Public road fastest legend"
actual term is a public road most people target, Eccentricity

This post has been edited by hatchy_gt-s: Dec 1, 2008 - 12:30 AM

that is priceless

i think spirited driving is speeding by a cop going 70mph in a 45 zone..now thats spiritual("o please jesus tell me he didnt see me")

This post has been edited by CelicaST_CALI: Dec 1, 2008 - 8:33 PM

driving when you enjoy it, and pushing the car to a point where you feel like you done something really good. it's just a great feeling, you dont have to be fast, you dont have to be outrageous, just as long as you are thrill you did that cut, or took that corner at the speed you were going. that's my idea, the whole enjoying your drive comes into play =)

x2... driving on open roads, mountain roads with lots of twists and turns with the radio up playing my favorite music and a cigarette on my left hand with all the windows open.

I just had a thought on this. Where do you draw the line between spirited driving and aggressive driving?

I would say that to me, spirited driving is when you are pushing your car harder than what you normally do but well within your limits, and I agree with a lot of other opinions on here that you've got the windows open and the music cranked. But to the opinions that spirited driving is when you are pushing yourself and your car too hard, I'd say that's aggressive driving.