Speed Kills

摘要

That little puppy turned into a scalded cat in under five seconds. The "puppy" in question was a fullblown John Cooper Works-converted Mini Cooper S-and methinks the factory had understated the actual horsepower output. Punching the gas pedal on a metropolitan on-ramp to clear upcoming freeway traffic, I noticed that the rear-view mirrors appeared to be faulty-the vehicles behind me seemed to be shrinking at a faster-than-normal rate. So I flicked a quick glance at the twin speedometers and was shocked to see that both were registering 105 miles per hour.