Not slow at all, full speed 65mph on the highway. This is Sacramento, not everywhere in Ca has the dreaded LA traffic. It's just like driving a race car on a track, one the car needs to be in good repair and you need to know it's limits, two you need to be smooth with your input, never quickly and abruply apply steering, gas or brakes. Third be 100% aware of your surroundings and fellow motorists. But this is how i anyways drive any car and i have yet to get into an accident or even get a ticket in the 12 years I've had a license.