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DC is such a unique hell for driving. There's a good amount of people with a complete disregard for red lights. Speed cameras are everywhere, so having traffic flow along at a reasonable pace with periodic slowdowns and stoppages as people slam on the brakes is a normal thing. The roads are generally pretty poorly maintained so having something with low-profile tires is pretty discouraged. And then there's the beltway (so not actually DC, but MD and VA) where there's a decent amount of street racing in and out of traffic.
This whole discussion about 80's cars takes me back. My first car was an '87 RX-7 turbo. Supposedly a 6.7s car from 0-60, and mid-14's in the quarter. In reality it was a lot slower than that, because the low-compression rotary made very little power until the turbo came on, and with 80's turbo tech you'd get boost by around 4,000 RPM and the fun was over before the 7,000 RPM redline. The bad old days for sure.
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