I'm the sort of young driver who doesn't remember to look at the speedo, and when I do I'm often going 130kmh (in my Mini and the Niva :shock: ). But I was brought up to know how to read the road, and we lived on a gravel road, sop I also learnt car control. But then again, I'm not exactly a 'normal...
Most people make them up or tell them because they are ashamed that that a small cheap 4wd can be way better than their big super-duper expensive 4wd, so want to forget that by joking about Ladas... (Or Nivas in particular)