lol dont buy a bigger monitor to get a better sense of speed hahaha.
You'll get worse performance with a bigger monitor, and worse image, due to refresh rates being lower with larger screens and also avoid plasma.
22" is optimum for todays cards unless your talking HIGH end cards.
A simple solution to creating a sense of speed would be to have post process and a very slight motion blur at the edge of the screens. If it could be turned on or off by choice that is