haha yea you hit it right on the money with the synchronized swimming deal... i guess the appeal to me is that its nice to look at on the big screen but when i go driving i'll stick with grip in the corners cause as you said, sliding 30k through a blind turn is not really exciting, just nerve wrecking.

i wish what you said about it promoting that kind of driving was not true, as it is only a movie meant to entertain, but we all know there are those small brained rodents (i believe the ricer variety of the rodent family in the science books) that have small brains and do imitate big screen entertainment...