Quote Originally Posted by GReeN_ORB View Post
Yeah, not really sure I agree with this. At those speeds, a rust-bucket has more chance of avoiding a crash than the high-performance car simply because of the speeds involved.
Have you ever seen a taxi crash happen? I think you greatly overestimate the ability of *some* rust buckets to stop at all.

Last one I saw I had time to switch lanes & slow down ~30kmh before the driver of the taxi even started to brake.

Down hill, completely overloaded, insufficient following distance, tyres that looked a bit dodge & judging by the reaction times fast asleep. Cruised straight into the lorry (thankfully traffic was moving at 80ish, not 120). Slightly different conditions & they would have needed 14 body bags.

Quote Originally Posted by ViperGTI View Post
I would agree with the part about feeling safer at speed in a high performance car, but not at 230. At 180 sure, but anything over 200 becomes a major gamble.
Not convinced you read my post 100%. I said near them not in them. i.e. I feel less endangered by a car approaching at 230 in the rear view mirror than a taxi @ 120. With the 230 car...worst case scenario is you get out of the way or maybe piss him off by not getting out of the way. Baring a complete brake failure/drunk driver/blind as a bat it should be fine. Taxi...see story above.

All of this is of course dependent on road conditions. Car weaving through crawling traffic @230 could get interesting too....