Chris Ash Drives a Honda Accord!
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The man has a national championship ring after leading tOSU defense. I'd say that's some pretty damn good bling to show off.
Good point. Maybe throw that on the Accord as a hood ornament and call it a day?
Wouldn't a RS7 be able to fit more recruits?
.. And anybody decrying those who seek out high-performance vehicles forgot the category of car enthusiasts. You know, those of us who enjoy the act of driving rather than just seeing it as travel from point A to B, pride ourselves on getting the most out of our skills and attention span on the road, and in many cases prefer dynamically and practically great vehicles that could even cost multiple times less than the "flashy" ones..
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Outside of head coaches assistant coaches drive cars donated by a dealership through sponsorship deals. So he probably didn't have much of a choice.
Like I said, you are talking about something you don't experience. I'm sure flying coach is better than privately, right? Your more than 12 minute trips in the sick Rav 4 must be amazing. Your 3 year old is probably as unimpressed as I am.
Maybe Chris Ash has been on this page the last couple years & is one of those guys who answers every car question with "you should just get a Honda Accord"
Great point. How did we not arrange to have Audi provide the HC a car? Makes too much sense I guess.
Yeah I'm not a car guy either. Drive a basic model Ford Escape. I've haven't had a big time vehicle since my 64 Mustang but it wasn't the big deal back then it later became. I have to admit if I had the $ I'd get something classier but wouldn't go overboard. It just doesn't matter that much to me.
Ash should get the nicest car available to him as HC. It's all about image. I'm pretty sure he knows that.
I once drove a BMW from Munich to Vienna. Does that count? I have no idea what you gear heads consider real driving. I rented a Mercedes for my destination wedding trip. What about that? Neither vehicle left any earthly impression on me whatsoever. Or do I have to drive a Lamborghini before I can have an opinion on my interest in cars ?
I don't fit into any of those categories really. I consider myself somewhat of a car guy. But I could care less about the price or the flashiness and I definitely don't care what anybody thinks about it. Actually, since I like to drive very fast on the highway, I prefer a car that tends to fly under the radar as well as a car that is relatively easy to tear apart and improve myself.
I also greatly appreciate automotive engineering. So I tend to be a Porsche lover which I view as the pinnacle of large scale automotive engineering. I've resisted buying a Porsche for awhile because (a) it's too flashy and attracts attention I prefer to avoid, (b) late model Porsches are notoriously difficult to work on and that takes away a lot of the fun, (c) I can spend 1/4 the money on any of several different cars, put 15,000 into it and produce a car that would destroy all but the top end Porsches on the road or track, and (d) I can beat the piss out of such a car without feeling guilty which I could not do w/a Porsche.
Having said all that, I have this irrational and inexplicable need to have a Cayman GT4. It calls to me in a way no other car has. If they produce another model year of them soon, and if they don't screw it all up somehow, I think I'm going to have to get one. Which I view as vaguely stupid of me. But whatever. It's a craving.
I had a semi-serious debate w/a guy at work about the relative dangers of hitting a deer crossing the road at 80mph vs. 150mph. My position was that the deer would be crossing the road at a given point in time and that, at 150mph, one spends much less time at any given location so therefore there's less of a chance of hitting that, or really any deer.
The co-worker's position is that I'm wrong and he was an actual rocket scientist earlier in his career. However, yet another co-worker, who was a physicist earlier in his career, is less certain and apparently working on the problem.
Sporty yes, but practical? If it's the Veyron Supersport, I think a new set of tires costs something like $42,000 and only last about 10,000 miles.
I think the actual math is probably incidental. If you hit a deer at 100+, you're probably gonna die.
Deer are scary. I drive much slower, around here, than I used to because the Bambi population has really skyrocketed in recent years.
Agreed. I think, though, that hitting a deer at 80mph is likely to be deadly in many cases as well. And there aren't that many degrees of dead.
But think how many recruits CA would land rolling in a bugatti veyron. Can't put a price tag on that. SOLD!
Meh.
First, they don't make them anymore.
Second, the Veyron does NOT hold the record for "fastest speeding ticket".
Street legal speeding ticket?
...which would make a veyron even more coveted and revered.
Nope.
The record for a speeding ticket was set in Texas by a guy in a Koenigsegg CCXR - 242 mph.
If go-karts are your thing, I guess.
I found out about the guy in the CCXR about a year ago. My thought then, and now, was "how do you get CAUGHT going 242 mph?"
I mean, think about it. 242 mph is 355 feet per second. You blow a radar trap at 242 and by the time Mr. Policeman gets his car in gear you're a quarter mile down the road. For him to get his CVPI off the median and up to 100 mph probably takes the better part of 20 seconds. At that point you're a mile and a half away. And since he can't go any faster than about a buck-forty, you're picking up an additional 150' for every second he wastes his time.
Even accounting for the existence of radio, this was someplace in backwater Texas. There aren't many cops. There's not much backup.
I have no idea what the specifics were surrounding the stop (other than the perpetrator was arrested) but I'm puzzled by the mere fact of it.
According to the story he was participating in the Gumball 3000 Rally.
Which may have been, in the end, how they caught him, it being a fairly publicized event and in many locations along the route was pretty thoroughly staked out.
Still, 242 is pretty damn fast. And the CCXR looks pretty cool.
242 mph is damn impressive on a public road (the WRX tops out at 142, and I'm not planning to mess with the governor anytime soon).
I'd imagine that the guy driving the CCXR was caught due to the publicity of the Gumball rally, or whichever other event he may have been participating in. If pulled over for traveling anything over 110 in a civilian vehicle, you're likely going to be arrested, so instinct may dictate going all-out for the next exit or using a center median u-turn if at night.
If I were planning on a good triple-digit pull in a car, the following conditions should ideally be met:
1) a straight section of divided highway left lane with good asphalt at least 1.5 miles long
2) no other vehicular traffic, or at the most an occasional vehicle in the right/middle lane
3) roughly midnight to 6 a.m. (This usually helps satisfy #2)
4) wide-open sight lines for at least one mile, and obvious or memorized hiding spots for those pesky radar guns
5) Bambi sleeping (hopefully)
Now on a motorcycle, the game changes. Most police won't even bother to try and follow a speeding one from a stationary position. And I've recently learned that apparently if a rider (foolishly, of course) removes their helmet, it becomes illegal in at least some states to chase them, at the risk of causing a near-certainly fatal accident.
I'd imagine that the guy driving the CCXR was caught due to the publicity of the Gumball rally, or whichever other event he may have been participating in. If pulled over for traveling anything over 110 in a civilian vehicle, you're likely going to be arrested, so instinct may dictate going all-out for the next exit or using a center median u-turn if at night.
If I were planning on a good triple-digit pull in a car, the following conditions should ideally be met:
1) a straight section of divided highway left lane with good asphalt at least 1.5 miles long
2) no other vehicular traffic, or at the most an occasional vehicle in the right/middle lane
3) roughly midnight to 6 a.m. (This usually helps satisfy #2)
4) wide-open sight lines for at least one mile, and obvious or memorized hiding spots for those pesky radar guns
5) Bambi sleeping (hopefully)
Now on a motorcycle, the game changes. Most police won't even bother to try and follow a speeding one from a stationary position. And I've recently learned that apparently if a rider (foolishly, of course) removes their helmet, it becomes illegal in at least some states to chase them, at the risk of causing a near-certainly fatal accident.
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