If you can't catch my horrible attempt at wordplay, I nailed a deer Monday night. Coming home via State Route 37 between Bremen and Junction City at a "high" velocity, my CEL came on alla t once and I freaked and hit the brakes. The moment I had slowed down to 50, a fawn ran out in front of me. I pulled a move Ken Block would cream over and powerslid the front end away from the deer, but it still smacked head first into my back left quarterpanel. I pulled over and my CEL went out. The deer is beheaded and mutilated all over the road, and yet there is not a single scratch on my car. Not one. No blood, no dents. The deer slammed my car hard enough to shake it. It sounded like a gun went off. But neither I nor the state trooper could find anything wrong with my car. My only explanation is that God is a better driver than I am. Knowing I freak at engine lights, it slowed me down enough that I didn't hit the deer head-on or roll it trying to avoid the suicidal critter. Amazing.

I'll get pics tomorrow when I head that way in the daytime.

 

Are you trying to get a ticket? You know 37 is loaded with troopers. Anyway, glad you didn't damage the car. I've been driving as fast as grandma at night due to my collisions with animals the last few months.

 

Pics or GTFO

 

I'd feel more sympathetic if you didnt drive a mazda

Jk, must be nice to wreck and not hurt your car..

 

I never see a cop at all after dark. They spend their time on 22 and 13 at night. But yea, I drive too fast. I ran a silver Skittle and newer Si home tonight. Lost to the NSRT obviously, but the Si put up a hell of a fight. He'd get me at every gear change with that 9k rpm rev range.

Anyway, I'm alive for now. The deer is gone. I wanted pics, but the cleaning crew do a diligent job I guess. O well.

 

I will look for some blood or something. As for the car, I have yet to see a single dent or anything. A clip on the back bumper is broken, but that could have been from anything. Had there been antlers, I'm sure there would have been damage, but seeing as it was a fawn, I just decimated it somehow. If I didn't already believe in God, that would have done it. lol.

 

Hey, gotta work with what I got. I'd love to have an SSTC, but its not in the cards unless those cards are lottery tickets. I'd still rather have a Skittle. The sound they make is sick.

 

Haha, I'd love to have a skittle.
Or enough money to TC my LSJ..

You drive the only mazda I like.
I work with a guy who has a bone stock mazda 6 and thinks it is the fastest thing in the world.

 

They are decently quick if coupled with a 3.0L. The 2.3L is just the turbo car without the turbo. Its boring. Not the most bang for your buck displacement-wise, but not bad for 04. The new ones are trash though. 3.8L I think, and barely 270hp. Nissan can get 60hp more from 100 less milliliters and get better mpg at the same time. Mazda engines are due for a huge redesign. RENESIS Wankel needs to be turbo'd and redesigned for better than 14mpg. Its 1.8L for crying out loud. The 6 has a weak engine. The Speed3 is nice, but needs a sedan version. The Miata is gone after this year to be replaced with a hybrid roadster that will be slower and less fun I'm sure.

Starting to sound like GM and Chrysler.

 

My tired ass skipped half of that .. lol.
I looked at a few of the new speed3's, I like them.

I'm pretty sure his is the most base that a mazda six can get.

 

lol. Happens. Mine is fully loaded other than navigation, which I don't need. The manual sucks to the point I'd rather have the auto, since it was a paddle-shifted wet-clutch. O well.

 

the mazda in ur gallery isnt a speed6...is that the car u were in?

 

Its not a speed6 engine-wise, but makes more power, has a better suspension, and is nearly identical except for wheels and wing. I call it that cuz its easier to explain.

 

atleast you didnt hit a deer at 70 mph like me. ON A ****** BIKE. Note the deer hair in my headlights.

 

I used to work at a dealership once upon a time, and we had a big ass F350 come into the body shop. It hit a deer doing 100, and damn near vaporized the deer.

Funny part was that there was a hoof wrapped around the front tow hooks lol

 

I sort-of hit a deer in my field once in my old Ranger. I came over a hill doing about 80 and had about 25-30 feet of air going up hill and landed on a buck. Needless to say, I rolled a couple times. I twisted my bed, broke the windows, and had a few dents, but overall it survived another year afterward. This is a picture shortly before the wreck when I was in high school. The truck had already hit a tree, which is why the bottom half the bumper is gone and the upper half is bent down. lol. Good times.