I bought a brand new 1977 honda civic back in summer of 77. 1200 cc eng. A whopping 57 hp. Put out essentially zero hp/tq < 2.5 krpm. Handled good though. I had to hit the bottom of a hill at 70 mph, to make it up a hill, with gas mashed. Just back off the gas for a split second, and rpm + mph dropped asap, and never came back up. At that point, rpm + mph would slowly sink, till I almost got to the top of the hill on the hwy.... then would have to drop down into 3rd.
I let my ( 29 yr old ) son drive my blown 2010....once...with me in the pass seat.... back in 2012. Wife has driven it....once, just after I bought it ( b4 blower installed). Said it was...'too much power'..and has never driven it since.
Was never into motorbikes. I know of 7 x cohorts who have been killed on fast bikes, and several more that wiped out..or hit by cars. Lost interest after the 1st one got killed, just out of high school. His GF was killed too, both instantly... trying to outrun the cops. He lost it at 95 mph, hit a brickwall, and handlebars skewered his stomach. GF went flying over top..head 1st into the same brick wall.
One of the young guys at work..and a fellow worker, decided to leave the bar at midnight..and make the 140 mile trip back home ( they were working out of town). They barely got 4 miles...when a panel van pulled out from a hotel driveway, and hung a left on the hwy. One bike went around the panel van, the 2nd bike went right through the panel van, right behind the van drivers seat. Bike came out the other side of the van..along with the fellow on the bike. He lost both arms and both legs. He had puncked a hole right through both sides of the van. His father was a supervisor for the same co his son worked for...and had bought him the damned bike that morning..as a birthday gift. He was only 24.
Some off duty nurse, who had just finished her shift at the hospital came upon the accident, 2 mins after it happened, and could not do very much. He died 2 mins later in her arms. Of course they were both pissed at the time..and doing 90-100 mph. I talked to the 2nd bike rider, a few years later. He quit riding bikes, right then and there.