About the only car that was true of was the Celica Alltrac.

 

This post reminds me of the time that I took a rented Buick Regal down Lake Martinez Rd outside Yuma AZ (below). It happened about 8-9 years ago.



It is pretty isolated so traffic is almost non-existent. I kept making pass after pass going faster and faster and launching higher and higher. Finally I went too fast, approaching 90mph, I hit a good hill and launched the Regal at least 10-15 feet in the air. The car slammed down so hard that the rear view mirror snapped off and both inner and outer axles busted sending grease all over the inside of the engine bay. When I dropped it back in San Diego a few days later I told the fellow at the rental counter they should have that car checked out as "it didn't feel too right".

 

Exactly what rental insurance is for...

 

The celica had some great hardware to meet group n homologation, but I still don't think it was rally ready.

 

Exactly why i laugh at people who say that buying a car that was formerly a rental car is a good idea. I did something similar when my parents rented a Subaru Outback, decided i would go "off roading" i.e. driving on grass, and realized i had this tremendous ditch in front of me i figured if i braked i would slam the front end into it, and if i turned something similar would happen, so i hit the gas harder and the car slammed down. Snapped that plastic under-carriage but otherwise alright.

 

Well, there was that little issue about a switch that increased airflow.

 

Ummmm....hard to tell. May have been on the 3rd, and most aggressive jump.

Hydrolikz....agreed

 

 

in chicago on side street i was going about 25-30 and i hit this damn bump - where they have for speeders, it was hard to see, dark street, bump was not even marked and my car air borned i thought i broke my suspension in half, because front jumped so high, lol everything seems fine...