Do fast cars provide long term satisfaction?

[Thecaferacer]

Lunacy on 4 wheels is a pretty good way to describe a 200sx, especially a powerful one.
They dont so much accelerate but sort of teleport you to the other end of the road, then sometimes it would kick you in the softbits just to remind you it was light(ish), very RWD and had a lot of power.

Its something you really dont see in cars these days, properly alarming and you had to be right on your driving game if you didnt want to become another one of the SXOC's winter casualty list.

I was a SXOC regular for years and like clockwork you would get the "first scare of winter thread" and youngsters who proudly posted their first 200SX, then a week later the smashed up picture as they'd wrapped it around a wall.

It's the only car I've ever owned where the front would pitch up in the air on acceleration, and that was only 250bhp.

 

[chroniclard]

Just gone from 320bhp to 197bhp.....not really missing it that much.

 

[robj20]

Ive never owned a really fast car i nearly did but the sale fell through, was a 600+bhp Mazda RX7, was insane and felt like it.
Fast cars ive had are Mazda RX8 standard (232bhp), Escort RS Turbo S2 modified (200bhp at the wheels), Mk2 Fiesta XR2 with 2lt Zetec blacktop engine on kawasaki zx6r carbs, that was about 197bhp at the wheels and by far my fastest car, it would destroy a lot of very fast cars, 197bhp in something around 600kg.

You definitely get used to it, my RS Turbo i wouldn't stop messing trying to get more and more out of it, before i sold it the next step was a full zetec turbo conversion. But id say my most fun cars are little cars with good power. But on today's roads i just don't see the point, even in the years ive been driving the roads have gotten far busier. The M60 ring is no more with all the cameras, i remember racing around that.

Right now im happy with my Mk5 Mondeo diesel with 220bhp, its plenty. Even my mk1 Focus with 99bhp is good enough but thats a light car anything heavier id want at least 130bhp.