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Errr.... I abuse rental cars and when brakes fade, thats a sick feeling to floor the brake petal and you feel no slowing and have to revert to engine braking. I even had this on my 240d one busy day.

Try this with the i2. Go 40mph and slam on the brakes, I bet you can trigger abs by feeling like a tatoo gun on the bottom of the brake petal. Try going 80 and slam on the brakes, of course in a safe area. Notice how below 40 it seemed to keep rolling where as before it almost stopped on a dime? Thats fade and this car will dafe out as I have posted months ago when I drove it like I stole it autocrossing to work one day.

As for the story on prius chat, it looks like a news article written by 7 different people. I have driven through NOVA and they do a minium of 90 mph. I had my insight to 98, but was still being passed. Although it was fun, I opted to draft a semi doing 70 on the far right. I can see the confusion the driver had withteh run a way prius on rather to brake itor keep up with the flow of traffic. If the brakes were fading and the car was going 110% acceleration, its likely he could maintain a safe speed to control the car vs bring it to a stop.

Of all the run away stories, his sounds like the most believable next to people running into fixed objects. If you got an econ car loose, it cant go but so fast and with working brakes, it seems easily plausable to keep it under control, but not stop it.

Ive driven an 09 camry and my scion xb 09 model had the camry engine and 4 speed tranny. Yeah, that thing could kill you 0-70 in like 7 seconds. Top speed lime 127mph.

Originally Posted by bish79

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