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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 10:16 AM
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I was driving up to Montreal for last year's F1 race during a torrential downpour. I decided to drive through it and I remained relatively dry for much of the storm. After a while I did need to stop and raise the top. If the storm had lasted a few minutes less, I would've been OK.
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 10:23 AM
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i tried it with my bro's s2k once lol. u wont get wet as long as the rain isn't pouring, and there was no red lights so u wouldn't have to stop

in short, the answer is yes u will get wet in the rain, because u cannot go fast forever
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by xviper,Mar 14 2006, 12:02 AM
Drove through a rain storm on Mars once with the top down, at speed. I got all red.
There are no rain storms on Mars because there is not a significant enough atmosphere to produce precipitation.

Oh God...
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by MattG,Mar 14 2006, 05:58 AM
Driving on the motorway at 90kmh witht he windows and roof down. Raining hard enough to have the wipers on the highest setting. My hair got a little wet, and some water dribbled off the side of the windscreen onto my outside knee.

I got more wet in the time it took to stop when I got off the motorway and put the roof on, then I did when travelling along.

Just watch out for passing trucks that spray a lot of water up.
and boy does it rain alot in the UK
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted by gosixers215,Mar 14 2006, 12:38 PM
There are no rain storms on Mars because there is not a significant enough atmosphere to produce precipitation.

Oh God...
My S2000 and I were beamed into a completely sealed subterranean cavern of immense proportion. It has its own environment with photophorescent light, rain, winds, everything. The lake evaporates and the moisture seeps into the red rock of the cavern ceiling, then "rains" down into the cavern.
(Please don't spread this information around. It's still "classified". I could get into a lot of trouble if NASA found out.)
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by xviper,Mar 14 2006, 03:19 PM
My S2000 and I were beamed into a completely sealed subterranean cavern of immense proportion. It has its own environment with photophorescent light, rain, winds, everything. The lake evaporates and the moisture seeps into the red rock of the cavern ceiling, then "rains" down into the cavern.
(Please don't spread this information around. It's still "classified". I could get into a lot of trouble if NASA found out.)
Whoa!
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by slimjim8201,Mar 14 2006, 04:39 AM
Water has too much mass to be recirculated into the cockpit with the air at normal highways speeds. For the most part, it is going to wick right up and over the car.
Read what others have said. If not, try it yourself. It's not the rainwater that rushes over the windshield that gets circulated back into the cockpit. It's the rainwater that slowly drips off of the windshield and side-windows that gets into the cockpit.
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