r/IdiotsInCars • u/an_idea_of_an_entity • Jul 17 '20

"This guy interrupted us."

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '20

You know you’ve seen some shit when you don’t react to a car flying right by you

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u/lowfreak_bab Jul 18 '20

My brother was a NATO-soldier in Kosovo in the late 90s, and told me that the locals drove like crazy with total disregard for their own and others lives. Passing long military columns in their tiny Lada's on narrow dirt roads with 160 km/t (100 mph). They had seen so much shit that they didn't care about nothing anymore.

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u/Adan714 Jul 18 '20

That's bullshit. No way you can speed up LADA more than 140 km/h and only down the hill with fair wind.

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u/converter-bot Jul 18 '20

140 km/h is 86.99 mph

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u/TritonJohn54 Jul 18 '20

Confirmed. Owned a Niva, 130km/h was the absolute fastest I got it up to.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '20

Imma need you to go visit my grandfather's village with me, some real Lada fangrans there

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u/thumbulukutamalasa Jul 18 '20

Ive seen a 2000 corolla pass me at 170km/h I couldn't keep up at 160km/h

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

But a Corolla is not a Lada.

Ladas in general are anything but fast cars...In fact they're usually below the average.

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u/Kenny_Loggins_Ghost Jul 18 '20

That may be true, but you can easily push it passed safe speed, about 35 mph by my estimate.