[patrickt]

This thread reminds me that, after you've put a couple of hundred miles on your car, you should take it out to a nice wide open stadium parking lot, with nothing possible to hit, and then experience losing control of the car. Try stomping it hard when you're not pointed straight, go in to some pretend curves and then lift off the throttle as you enter too fast, etc. Doing this sort of stuff can be a real eye opener.