MerlintheMad
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Aha. You'll be wanting LC then.Ok thanks! RWD here.
"I bought a Stinger/Stinger GT because ..."
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Yeah, I’m seriously considering breaking down and dropping $250 at this local driving academy. Half a day of classroom instruction and then they take you out to a track and let you tear loose in your vehicle.Aha. You'll be wanting LC then.
Jacques
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AWD is never squirrely. So far.
Tell that to anyone that buys the AWD GTS later this year.
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Jacques
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Take it from someone that's had his share of both seat time as a student/participant as well as instructor, look at reviews on the local driving academy to make sure they're reputable, and that they seem to be teaching proper driving techniques.
Incidentally, since I just got my Stinger, I have no track time on it. My track experiences are with my heavily modded Honda Prelude Type SH, WRX/STi's, e30 and e46 M3's, turboed Miata (1st gen), modded Mk IV Supra TT, and a few others. I have a feeling at my local course, the Stinger will do well on the oval portion, but will lose some time on the twisties portion on the infield. Once she's properly broken in, will have to test that theory myself.
MerlintheMad
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If AWD is turned OFF, it is no longer AWD. If I pull the fuse and lobotomize my front wheels, I will no longer have AWD either. Then "squirrely" is what I'd get.Tell that to anyone that buys the AWD GTS later this year.
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Shrikecorp
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Ya well. Look at the curve for owner demographics. A lot of us like to tell the same stories. Especially @MerlintheMad (ducking
)AWD is never squirrely. So far.
Launch Control is all about letting the car feed the right amount of power to avoid "squirrely". It eliminates human error, in theory anyway.
Squirrelly is not given to us. Squirrelly must be sought after and attained.
(...and JB4 + intakes helps)
19GT-AWD
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Stories are good!
Well, they have one review on Yelp. It’s probably the instructor’s mom.Take it from someone that's had his share of both seat time as a student/participant as well as instructor, look at reviews on the local driving academy to make sure they're reputable, and that they seem to be teaching proper driving techniques.
Incidentally, since I just got my Stinger, I have no track time on it. My track experiences are with my heavily modded Honda Prelude Type SH, WRX/STi's, e30 and e46 M3's, turboed Miata (1st gen), modded Mk IV Supra TT, and a few others. I have a feeling at my local course, the Stinger will do well on the oval portion, but will lose some time on the twisties portion on the infield. Once she's properly broken in, will have to test that theory myself.
That is a pretty sweet garage you got there!
Jacques
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LOL. In all seriousness though, that's not good. No Google reviews?
Heh, if only my garage was as nice as the cars. And/or I wish I had a 3-car garage.
Ha, one review on Google too. Both just so happen to be 5 stars.
I totally get to be always be wary of such things but my main interest is having the opportunity to drive fast so how much risk am I really running? Won’t it be my fault if I drive faster than I can handle?
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Jacques
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To me, the risks would include what actual kind of instruction (both classroom and on-course, instructor and without) will you get out of it? Another one is what are they doing for safety? Flag personnel, EMTs, car inspections prior to the event, etc. Also, will your insurance cover you if you do a track day/HPDE? Some insurance companies are fine with it, others are not. I also think of the course itself, and adjust my personal comfort level accordingly. Some courses have large runoffs, others are tight with little wiggle room if you spin out, and so on. I'm not dissuading you to do a driving school, but know the risks up front. If there's risks I can't control (ie: lack of instruction, poor monitoring by course personnel on the cars coming, going and on-course, depending on skill level, and so on), then I'd rather not be on the track.
I've seen my share of cars losing control (a number of them right in front of me), and have the proper mindset to get around them. I'm not perfect either, so I have to be aware of my surroundings if I mess up. Here's a video from ages ago when I had a guest ride along with me. She thought it was "fun".
To me, the risks would include what actual kind of instruction (both classroom and on-course, instructor and without) will you get out of it? Another one is what are they doing for safety? Flag personnel, EMTs, car inspections prior to the event, etc. Also, will your insurance cover you if you do a track day/HPDE? Some insurance companies are fine with it, others are not. I also think of the course itself, and adjust my personal comfort level accordingly. Some courses have large runoffs, others are tight with little wiggle room if you spin out, and so on. I'm not dissuading you to do a driving school, but know the risks up front. If there's risks I can't control (ie: lack of instruction, poor monitoring by course personnel on the cars coming, going and on-course, depending on skill level, and so on), then I'd rather not be on the track.
I've seen my share of cars losing control (a number of them right in front of me), and have the proper mindset to get around them. I'm not perfect either, so I have to be aware of my surroundings if I mess up. Here's a video from ages ago when I had a guest ride along with me. She thought it was "fun".
That looks like a blast! So what happened around that turn? Did you cut the wheel too fast, braking issue, or was the car just going too fast in general? The only thing that freaks me out a bit is the shear number of other cars on the track and how close together they are.
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So, I have the Prelude dialed in suspension-wise where it gets snap-oversteer. People have told me that for a FWD with a electronic torque-actuated differential, it feels like a RWD car. Because my car feels like that, I tend to drive it where I trail/late brake into a turn (past the normal braking point prior to a turn), and get on throttle immediately after. If done right, not only does my car rotate easily, it goes into and out of a corner at high speed. But, there's a small margin on error. Get it wrong, and the rear could go too loose from the weight transfer and spin out at around 90mph in my case. I am in an advanced group, so drivers are aggressive enough that it can get quite close, almost like club racing. On these kind of events, if there's someone that appears to be held up behind you, you can point them by, a courtesy for you to give them room to pass on your left.
If you decide to take the plunge, make sure your car is prepped for a track day. You might even consider swapping in brake pads that work best for track days (I would). Start on beginner, and if you're doing pretty well, move up to intermediate. Anyways, obligatory pic of my Prelude (with magnetic livery and R-compounds), and my wife behind the wheel, at the SCCA Solo Nationals (autocross).
Gotta say, I’m pretty dang impressed! And the good news is that I understood about 75% of what you said
. Bad news, I’m an apt dweller so changing my pads is not an option. I will let you know how it goes if I end up taking the plunge.
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I don't own my stinger yet (8 days before I get the Ghost Grey Limited - Canada) but...
The reason I got it is a bit strange.
In around 2010 I bought the 2008 Civic Si Coupe. I liked it. Not much done to it at all. I thought it was fast at the time.
The years went by, and I still liked her.
One day in 2016 I was on a business trip, and I met the new recruit, and my subordinate. As it turns out, she's now my girlfriend! (almost 3 years sofar)
She drives a Kia, and because of the way we are - we always talk crap to eachother, and make fun of whatever we can when we get the chance.
She picked my car to make fun of, and me - vice versa because c'mon.. it's a Kia right? /s
Her car (2012 Forte EX) needed repairs, so we brought it to the dealership, and while waiting - I humoured the idea of buying a new car but not seriously. I drove the Optima SX Turbo, the Cadenza, and an older K900. Little did the salesman know, I couldn't afford diddly!
As time went by, I heard of the Stinger, and how it was going to be the new flagship.. even BETTER than the K900. I didn't know what it looked like but I joked about buying it (even though I couldn't afford any of the Midsize+ cars).
I eventually saw a photo of it, and saw what the specs were. That's when I told myself I'm getting that freaking car, and I meant it.
Because of that I started looking for a new job, and now earned pretty much x4 - x5 my old income.
I'm proud to say that I don't own the stinger yet, but I just bought one last week cash! I'm picking it up in EIGHT f*cking DAYS, AND I CAN'T FREAKING STOP THINKING ABOUT IT!
That's that!.. girlfriend is jealous.
The reason I got it is a bit strange.
In around 2010 I bought the 2008 Civic Si Coupe. I liked it. Not much done to it at all. I thought it was fast at the time.
The years went by, and I still liked her.
One day in 2016 I was on a business trip, and I met the new recruit, and my subordinate. As it turns out, she's now my girlfriend! (almost 3 years sofar)
She drives a Kia, and because of the way we are - we always talk crap to eachother, and make fun of whatever we can when we get the chance.
She picked my car to make fun of, and me - vice versa because c'mon.. it's a Kia right? /s
Her car (2012 Forte EX) needed repairs, so we brought it to the dealership, and while waiting - I humoured the idea of buying a new car but not seriously. I drove the Optima SX Turbo, the Cadenza, and an older K900. Little did the salesman know, I couldn't afford diddly!
As time went by, I heard of the Stinger, and how it was going to be the new flagship.. even BETTER than the K900. I didn't know what it looked like but I joked about buying it (even though I couldn't afford any of the Midsize+ cars).
I eventually saw a photo of it, and saw what the specs were. That's when I told myself I'm getting that freaking car, and I meant it.
Because of that I started looking for a new job, and now earned pretty much x4 - x5 my old income.
I'm proud to say that I don't own the stinger yet, but I just bought one last week cash! I'm picking it up in EIGHT f*cking DAYS, AND I CAN'T FREAKING STOP THINKING ABOUT IT!
That's that!.. girlfriend is jealous.
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Jacques
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Gotta say, I’m pretty dang impressed! And the good news is that I understood about 75% of what you said
Well, if I was anywhere near you, I'd be glad to help you swap out the brake pads.
It's not that hard really, just tools and time. The fastest I've ever swapped out pads was when I was at a Pittsburgh International Race Complex (formerly BeaveRun) where partway through the day (2 20-minute runs out of 5 for the day), my track pads were toast. I always keep an extra set, so me and another Prelude owner (who's an SCCA Solo Nationals champion for a number of years) swapped out all 4 pads between runs in 15 minutes! So I didn't lose a chance to get back on the track, I did a hot lap to bed the brakes veeery quickly (away from most of the traffic), went off, gave it a minute, then got back on. Remind me sometime to post a video (it's around 15-20 mins long) of me and another Prelude owner chasing each other on this same track.That track day we were at didn't go without incident. A Acura NSX Zanardi Edition (pretty rare in the wild) owner damaged his car in one of the runs, went back out again and proceeded to total it. That was around $100k car...poof.
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When the Mustangs came out in 1964 I got one within a couple of days. Loved it, but after 2 years I was at the edge of the warranty and had to decide to either trade it or keep it forever. The dealers wouldn't give me anything for it. It was mint, 2 years old with 24,000 miles. But a friend was selling Chevrolets and insisted for that, he could get me a Corvette, loaded with everything. Convertible, both tops, 427, every option. It was bigger, better, faster - better in every way, except limited to 1 passenger. That car was so much fun, I would get off work and go drive a couple of hundred miles just to enjoy it.
The GT2 combined all the best features of both cars, except for the convertible bit and at least has a sun roof. Plus lots of other things neither of my previous favorites had, like 100,000 mile warranty, decent nav, lots of driving aids, amazing array of personal preferences to choose from. Both of my other great cars are now worth 10 - 50 times what I paid for them? I believe that will be true for my Stinger also.
The GT2 combined all the best features of both cars, except for the convertible bit and at least has a sun roof. Plus lots of other things neither of my previous favorites had, like 100,000 mile warranty, decent nav, lots of driving aids, amazing array of personal preferences to choose from. Both of my other great cars are now worth 10 - 50 times what I paid for them? I believe that will be true for my Stinger also.
MerlintheMad
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Surely your wife did NOT pressure you to buy a Stinger! A Kia, I can believe, but any sensible wife would want an SUV or similar, not a GT. Of course, not all wives are more sensible than their husbands.
Angel
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Surely your wife did NOT pressure you to buy a Stinger! A Kia, I can believe, but any sensible wife would want an SUV or similar, not a GT. Of course, not all wives are more sensible than their husbands.
This would make more sense if you met my wife.....
Just to summarize it she is bat shit crazy.
She is the reason I got the stinger, and the warranty part I just told myself that to feel better.
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