The Prius was probably bump drafting and honking the horn to pass!

...or maybe he got caught mid-pack of some people who have the ability
to acquire a fast car, but have not yet acquired the ability to seriously
DRIVE it. Anybody can stab it and steer it in a straight line, but it takes
a little time to transition from driving a Buick into driving a Ferrari.

A general rule: If you can't afford to write it off the first time you
drive it on the street, don't get it to start with.
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Sometime back I showed up as the only Honda in a field of muscle cars
for a Sunday afternoon "tour". They knew me and didn't ask me to leave
and I didn't make excuses to chicken out of the trip. MiGosh! That
was one heck of a day! I was having a good time catching them in the
turns and they were having a good time hitting (undisclosed speeds)
on the straights. If one of them had had a miscalculation as the Ferrari
Driver did, you could have bought a muscle car for scrap metal prices.

That was the last one of THOSE tours and some of those guys probably
still have their finger prints in the steering wheel.-Bob