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Originally Posted by wtwo3
I've said before the only "M3" my kids are getting will be a Mazda3.
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My 15 y/o daughter has a 2015 Outback R (250hp) and my 19 y/o has a 2020 Mazda3 (190hp) and those cars have 70-90% more power and are way quicker and faster than anything I owned until I was 22 and got a 1994 Z28.
The reality here is most any 2000+ car/truck/SUV is easily capable of 100mph+ speeds. The X3M gets up to speed a lot quicker, but most every car on the road can easily achieve 80+mph in a decently short amount of time on the street and a neighborhood. The X3M in this report is pretty meaningless to this story, but the media knows it pisses people off to hear of kids driving Audis, BMWs, etc. so this makes for more views.
Sad story for sure, but this type of stuff (deadly high speed teen crashes) has been going on since teens got behind the wheel. At my HS in 1991, a kid had two friends in his little 90hp Civic and they were racing back from lunch to make class and he was going ~80mph through a business park, understeered into a curb, rolled the car several times, and ended up killing his two friends. He's a highly decorated cop now.
Also, I would bet a majority of us in this thread have done some really dangerous, high speed, and aggressive driving in our youth; things none of us are proud of at all. We didn't have trackers so our parents obviously didn't know. I'm not excusing anything here, but a lot of us have done some really dangerous stuff while driving that would have landed us in jail if caught or if things went sideways.