Not surprised at number 2 on this list of most-ticketed (per owner) cars here.

I used to own a Pontiac GTO (actually two different ones).

The GTO was the easiest car to drive fast I’ve ever been in, and I’ve owned some fast cars in my life.

For instance back in the early 2000s, I owned a heavily-modified Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo. Now that car was certainly fun to drive, but it was nothing like the GTO.

In the GTO you could get up to 90mph and it felt you like you were doing 40. Driving down the highway, I’d be like “Why the hell is everyone going so slow?” And then I’d look down at the speedometer and go, “Oh shit I’m doing 92!”

The car’d do 0-60 in about five seconds. And with traction control enabled, it was perfectly controllable no matter what shenanigans you undertook – unlike my 400HP 300ZX which was like trying to control a wild stallion on meth.

The orange GTO above was modified quite a bit, so it had long tube headers, a less-restrictive exhaust, a better intake, ECU tuning, a different cam and other things I’m probably forgetting. I never had it dynoed but it probably made somewhere around 450-460 wheel horsepower.

And DAMN was it fun to drive. I still miss it to this day.

Tellingly, the guy who bought the orange GTO from me a few months after its purchase wrote to me saying he’d already sold it because he’d picked up three speeding tickets in it.

Never got one of those myself, but I can understand. I sure can understand.