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Originally Posted by Vision86
Hi Everyone,
I've had my 86 for about 3 weeks now and I came from a 130 HP Corolla. I've noticed that in the 86 there is very little opportunity to fully use the power and I hardly have any chance to go through the rev range. I live in Australia and most of the roads I'm on are either 60 - 80 km/h (37 mph - 49 mph).
Have any of you experienced this? Are there higher speed limits in the States for normal roads? How are the speed limits on US freeways? I find myself just accelerating a bit and I'm already at the speed limit.
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Have any of you experienced this?
Yes, surprisingly for a car with "only" 200 hp it's still much faster than any of the roads allow, there's beauty in the fact you can either choose to stay in the limits and still have fun, or go well past road limits and still have fun safely with this car if you know what you're doing
Are there higher speed limits in the States for normal roads?
Certain roads, but alot of the back roads without police intervention are ripe for creating your own higher speed limits
How are the speed limits on US freeways?
Alot of places they are woefully incorrect as in 60 mph (100 km/h) on really good long newly paved roads, specifically to gain revenue from people speeding or that those speed limits haven't been updated since the 80s or 90s and more than 60-70 percent of people are going way faster than that speed limit. But in my area of PA a lot of the highways increased speeds to 75 mph and PA troopers don't ticket below 5 mph so people usually do 80+ on them. Personally this car isn't a freeway highway pull kind of car, so if I have time when I'm driving somewhere I set google maps to avoid highways and toll roads to try to stick to backroads
My personal driving style I speed a lot, I know its bad, but this car begs for it and loves to be revved out