Miss Carena Chen, 40, owns a Porsche Carrera 911. She believes that the accident involving the Ferrari driver that killed three is an isolated incident and it is unfair to blame or label all fast car drivers because of it.
She is one of the women who make up the 20 per cent of Porsche owners. Miss Chen also believes that women are probably safer drivers than men because they tend to be more cautious while driving.
Chairman of the Public Transport Council, Mr Gerard Ee, also told The New Paper that accidents involving supercars continue to remain low.
He says most owners take good car of their cars probably because they are very expensive. He also remarked that he sometimes sees them driving very slowly on the road, just to enjoy the purring of the engines.
Mr Lester Wong, 40, also feels that not all supercar owners be blamed because the Ferrari driver made an error.
He also feels that true 'petrolheads' make the effort to know the limitations of their cars, sharing a simple calculation to gauge when to slow down while travelling at a fast speed and what gear to use.
Both Mr Ng Chwee Ping, 37, and Mr Gary Goh, 30, feel that if one buys fast cars because one has the desire to speed, one should go to the tracks because one should always be responsible on public roads.
Mr Ng also advises that one should do so to know the limits of the car and how to respond should something go wrong. He hits the race tracks in Malaysia four times a year with his friends.
Of course, there are also those who buy fast cars merely as an investment, as Mr Leow Ju-Len, 36, motoring journalist and STOMP Star Blogger says.
For the full report, get a copy of The New Paper on Sunday.
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but nowadays, cars have so much driver aids, any idiot who got his driving license yesterday can act like a racing hero and speed around. even buses and trucks have ABS and auto-transmissions, powersteering and brakes, that even people who are not very strong, and not very good drivers, can still drive them
But the limit of physics and limit of human ability is always present, and if someone who is less experienced, less skilled, and less competent tries to act like a racing god, that will result in what we see so often nowadays, severe accidents resulting in death and total write-off damage to the car.