Well, not surprisingly, there are a lot of people driving high-power RWD cars that don't understand one bit about physics and how it relates to a motor vehicle. For those people, it's probably best to keep all of the electro nannies on. :D

Frankly, many people THINK they know how to handle a RWD at the limit when they absolutely do not. My track days have humbled me...I've done 7 and realize I'm very much a novice driver in the track world. Driving with VDC off on the track is certainly more risky but it's a controlled environment where you can learn what it's like at the limit. You can be more conservative on dangerous turns (eg walls near the track edge) and more aggressive on safe turns (nothing but flat open field surrounding the track). If you turn off VDC while street driving and something unexpected happens, you'll be very sorry when you wreck your car, wondering if VDC would have saved you. The street is an unpredictable place and you're never going to be 100% alert all the time. On the track, you're much more focused and there aren't as many variables.

Well, the bottom line is that none of us need to be driving balls out on the street. At a maximum I will push myself to maybe 80% of what I know I can do. Like you said, the street is not a controlled environment and there are many variables you need to factor in besides your own incompetence behind the wheel in "performance" driving situations.

You have to have faith in yourself and your skills. Even if something unexpected happened. You learn and teach youself better skills which in return should play out in unexpected events. Sort of like a fighter who trains and must apply his abilities with every second being unexpected. Being you never know what the other persons doing or thinking. Just like everyday driving around others. Never take driving for granted.

Well you also learn to be smart and just limit the likelihood of ever having to really test your skills should you do something to screw up. :)

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At 80% you will still have a blast.

Hell even putting around at 35-45 mph on a 35 mph road with the windows down is fun. As you young whippersnappers age you'll find that going for a leisurely cruise can be quite fun. :icon17:

you mean I don't need to reenact fast and the furious every time I drive?

Man, that's why I bought the Z in the first place, lol.

No, just the Days of Thunder rental car scene.

I never drive with it on and I never turn off rev match. It's just the way it is.

Heck, what did everyone with a fast car do before traction control was invented? ;))

!!Drive that baby!!!

wrecked them a lot.

People wreck them now, what is your point. Have you seen the insurance rate on the 370, it is quite high. My Corvette and 911 were cheaper

I've not really ever turned VDC off, yet the car still steps out if I nail it on a curving freeway on-ramp, or spins up if I floor it in first or second in a straight line... I thought VDC was supposed to completely prevent that altogether??:confused::confused::confused: