Would you ever turn down

[Coco H]

a drive in an extremely powerful car

beacuse you know the risks are too high.....

[einion yrth]

Coco H said:

a drive in an extremely powerful car beacuse you know the risks are too high.....

No, I don't have to drive it like a hire car.

[Coco H]

in a competitive environment though - where you are asked to ...

[tonyhetherington]

No! Period!

(So long as it's not a 1000bhp engine strapped to a go-kart or something stupid like that)

[off_again]

Nope never had never will.... cant have too much power, just not enough room, skill or grip....

[GreenV8S]

What do you mean by 'a drive'?

I guess the potential issues are safety and liability.

If you're talking about sensible driving on public roads, and if you're competant to keep it under control and the only thing unusual is the amount of power, I don't see any particular safety problem. If you're talking about getting involved in some sort of race then there are all sorts of extra risks but that would be the case regardless of the power levels I would have thought.

However, very powerful cars also tend to be very expensive. I would be cautious about doing something that might make you liable for something expensive.

For example I turned down a chance to drive a new Scoobie yesterday because I would not have been fully insured on it (and because I thought I might like it too much if I'm honest!).

[lanciachris]

Id turn it down if i was going to drive it like miss daisy because I was too scared of wrecking it.

[jimothy]

I bought a ferarri drive for a mate as a birthday present and he didn't go, cos he was scared.

[hammerwerfer]

Not a chance.

[WildfireS3]

Nope, but I'd take it very easy.
















For a while

[WildfireS3]

Nope, but I'd take it very easy.
















For a while

[mrmaggit]

Too much is never enough.

[Lois]

nope I'd love it! Wouldn't go stupid with it anyway.

[wolves_wanderer]

Coco H said:

a drive in an extremely powerful car beacuse you know the risks are too high.....

You define the risks, not the car, as long as you drive within yourself it's no more dangerous than anything else. Having said that, I did turn down the opportunity to drive a very trick Kawasaki superbike a couple of days ago because I didn't trust myself, and it is the bloke's P&J.

[Plotloss]

Whilst the above is completely correct with regards to you define the limits not the car etc. I have been in this situation, offered the keys to a dream car on numerous occasions but I have always turned it down just in case...

Mind you, if he offers me them again, I may have a small lapse of morality

[JonRB]

Depends.

If someone tossed me the keys to their McLaren F1 and said "Off you go. But if you bend it, you mend it" then....


.... actually, I don't know. I think I'd make sure that I was FULLY insured for all eventualities for a start.

(Edited for speeeling. )

>> Edited by JonRB on Friday 28th January 11:05

[towman]

My BiL has various exotica (Murcialago(sp), Ferrari, D Type etc etc), and much as I would love to take the wheel I am concerned about a non fault accident. So, unless I was fully insured and I was not too well acquainted with the owner, I would probably decline.

Steve

[Plotloss]

Only just seen you now have a Supra Gaz, it looks lovely but I cant believe you let the performance bargain of the decade go...

[v8thunder]

Depends what it was or where it was. If someone was to say 'Do you fancy lighting up a Top Fuel dragster up Deansgate', I'd say "eYeeeees!", and if someone was to say 'Do you want to get stuck in a traffic jam whilst on the way to Sainsbury's to do the weekly shop in a Bugatti Veyron disguised as a minicab, then I'd say...












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"eYeeeees!"


>> Edited by v8thunder on Friday 28th January 11:44

>> Edited by v8thunder on Friday 28th January 11:48

[mcflurry]

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