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Brommers
Ha! I painted a more reckless picture than it really was. It was 3 lanes, traffic was HGVs in lane 1 and the odd car in lane 2, I was in lane 3 so it was clear for me but I couldn’t be 100% certain someone wouldn’t want to come into lane 3 but there was no immediate concern for that.
The reason it’s floaty is because the rear squats a fair amount when accelerating so the front doesn’t have loads of weight on it. Added to that the boot was fully loaded so that exacerbated the problem.
I think that’s something I’d like to address in the future but I’m not often >100 let alone 150 so it’s not a huge problem. Also the 3rd gear wheelspins in the dry when accelerating out of corners is hilarious.
Wife closed the windows at 130, said the wind noise was too much, and the bab was fast asleep.
When I say floaty and wandery, it wasn’t perceptible to the passengers, it just meant it required more than basic concentration to drive the car at 150mph. Which is the sort of thing you’d expect to have to do at that speed back in the 90s. Last year however I drove my mum’s 2015 Audi A4 on a derestricted autobahn at 160mph 3 up with a full boot and it felt more stable and straighter than my MX5 does at 50mph.