Brakes And Street-crossing Deers....

[Mazda3Rookie]

On my way home from work tonight a deer crossed the street about 30 feet ahead of me. I barely had the time to think "Wow! Lucky me, I could have hit it had I been going a little faster" when ANOTHER deer crossed just few feet ahead of my bumper .

I was going around 40mph, with a guardrail on my right and the opposite direction lane on my left, so I could just slam hard on the brakes and pray that the guy behind me wasn't too close.

Well, I missed the deer for what looked like 1/2 inch. I feel I could hug the Mazda engineer who designed brakes and suspensions of my Mazda3 (thumb)

Granted, I wasn't going too fast, but the car just stuck to the road with very little dive and kept its trajectory. I guess the new tires helped too (one month old car).

The braking and handling performances of the M3 impressed me the very first time I drove one, but this experience tonight has made of me a convert for life...

The only comparable car I have driven so far is a rental Alfa Romeo 166 few years ago in Italy, and that's a bigger car.

The M3 is a truly amazing "little" car (bowdown)

 

[tsunami]

nice... always watch deer where there is one 90% of the time there are more... they are like chicks at teh bar... always in packs...

 

[ZoomVT]

haha... like you would know....
are there bars in maine?... wait, are there chicks too?
next you are going to tell me that all your towns (territories) have names.

 

[ZoomVT]

oh and good to hear you missed that deer. Those bastards will just jump out of nowhere. Its a good thing you didnt swerve, thats one thing you dont want to do. You may miss the deer but you could spin out of control and go down a cliff or hit a tree or worse. And guess what, your insurance wont cover you. Its better to hit it if you arent going too fast.