The lads that turned up to drive my m3, were clearly serious, however, his mate, who did the test drive, was powering round a very big motorway roundabout, yanking the wheel to see what it did. If the car had still had the previous track suspension and geo setup, he would have been pointing backwards in a second. He then nailed 4th to 8000rpm (140 miles per hour) and proceeded to sink 5th. I wasn't nervous, but I just said, I think 140mph is probably enough on a test drive of a car u don't own. He got the message and said it was faster than his porsche. We went back and they bought it in cash on the spot.
Hard to tell sometimes.
Cheers
RW