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- Obsessive BehaviorSeptember 17
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I wasn’t aware of it at the time, but having a lateral g-meter in your car and driving on public roads is like giving a kid a firecracker and telling them not to set it off on days that end in “y”. I’ve spent many of my lunch breaks trying to find twisty roads nearby to really test out the car and have been keeping a leaderboard of sorts of my maximum lateral g pulled.
It’s a little blurry (the iPhone has a decent camera but lacks the ability to take a macro shot), but that’s my new record: 0.88g. It was a hell of a right hander, marked 10mph with a yellow sign that I may or may not have completely ignored. The car is rated to .91g on a flat surface, but on a track or regular roads that pitch with the turn it’s capable of upwards of 1.3g, which is faster than falling, but sideways so it’s much more frightening.
- Cah Tawk: Driven Right Out of the GameSeptember 8
- As I had predicted, my blog will every now and then get overrun by a little shop talk. Last Friday I finally got the call to come down to my local dealership and pick up the car I’ve been waiting months for. For those of you who don’t follow my every breath and thought: I picked [...]
- My Tale Part 3: The Return of the Cha-chingJuly 3
- I was disheartened by my experience at the used car lot. It seemed I would have a difficult time ever finding a used car I could get excited about that also fit my budget. I resigned myself to prepare for a long journey to find a car. I consoled myself by retreating to my parent’s house for some [...]
