Challenged by a Subaru
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From: Rehoboth MA . . . NRA Life Member
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Originally Posted by JMc
As I was driving down 15 from L.A. today, a few miles North of Lake Elsinore, some tool in a Subaru with a fart can exhaust pulled next to me as I was doing about 80 MPH in the number 2 lane and kept gunning his engine, then falling back alongside me. He was trying to bait me and I wasn't taking the bait. I just laughed and looked straight ahead. Must have driven the guy nuts. This went on for a couple of miles before he took the hint and took off.
I have absolutely zero interest in "proving" anything or putting on a show for morons. Frankly, I enjoyed frustrating him by simply ignoring him.
I have absolutely zero interest in "proving" anything or putting on a show for morons. Frankly, I enjoyed frustrating him by simply ignoring him.
, pulled up along side of me doing the same thing. I looked him right in the eye and rolled my window up. 
For some reason I think he got pissed...
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This has been happening alot to me in the last few weeks. I usually just stomp on it for a few seconds and when they see I pull on them like they were standing still, they realize I am not stock and leave me alone. Kinda funny.
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Good deal ignoring the little pest. Some day he will find someone that will accept his challenge and an LEO will be waiting just down the road.
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From: "This is not a psychotic episode, but a cleansing moment of clarity."
Originally Posted by JDs00PewterCoupe
Good deal ignoring the little pest. Some day he will find someone that will accept his challenge and an LEO will be waiting just down the road.
Street racing is like being out in public, minding your own business and having a total stranger walk up and drop his shorts, pestering you to do the same, so he can see if he's got a bigger tool. It's just ludicrous. And especially when you're on a busy freeway (with traffic!!) in the middle of the day, for chrissakes!
I prefer to unleash my testosterone in the bedroom, and if I was inclined to race, I'd take it to the track.
Like I said though, I take pleasure in just laughing or smiling and then totally ignoring the fools that do this kind of stuff. Sure, they might have been able to blow my doors off. But it doesn't matter because I DON'T CARE. And best of all, they'll never have the satisfaction of knowing one way or the other...
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From: Canton Ga.
Originally Posted by yelloyello
I wish that was a true statement. But people seem to want to try and race evertime I have the car out no matter what they are driving. I find it nice to know I am driving a car everyone wants to prove something against and that I have nothing to prove. You did a good thing.
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From: Southern NH
Originally Posted by JMc
Thanks. For one thing, I don't owe these ***** a damned thing and they annoy me. The whole thing seems really juvenile to me to begin with.
Street racing is like being out in public, minding your own business and having a total stranger walk up and drop his shorts, pestering you to do the same, so he can see if he's got a bigger tool. It's just ludicrous. And especially when you're on a busy freeway (with traffic!!) in the middle of the day, for chrissakes!
I prefer to unleash my testosterone in the bedroom, and if I was inclined to race, I'd take it to the track.
Like I said though, I take pleasure in just laughing or smiling and then totally ignoring the fools that do this kind of stuff. Sure, they might have been able to blow my doors off. But it doesn't matter because I DON'T CARE. And best of all, they'll never have the satisfaction of knowing one way or the other...
Street racing is like being out in public, minding your own business and having a total stranger walk up and drop his shorts, pestering you to do the same, so he can see if he's got a bigger tool. It's just ludicrous. And especially when you're on a busy freeway (with traffic!!) in the middle of the day, for chrissakes!
I prefer to unleash my testosterone in the bedroom, and if I was inclined to race, I'd take it to the track.
Like I said though, I take pleasure in just laughing or smiling and then totally ignoring the fools that do this kind of stuff. Sure, they might have been able to blow my doors off. But it doesn't matter because I DON'T CARE. And best of all, they'll never have the satisfaction of knowing one way or the other...
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From: Cape Coral FL
Originally Posted by 4REGT4
If it were a stock STI it can do 0-60 in 4.5 seconds and high 12s. They aren't very difficult to drive either (I sell cars at a Hyundai-Subaru and have driven many).
A freind of mine has a stock STI he autocrosses all the time. He is a very good driver and almost always leads his class, 300hp, 300tq, all wheel drive, and they are light. NOt bad from 4 cylinders and 2.5L out of the box. If those things are tricked in any way performance-wise they can hand a lot of cars their azzes.Just because we drive a vette doesn't mean we have the fastest cars. It means we have good taste, although I have seen some vettes turned into disasters when 'mods go bad'.
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One other thing. Those STI's aren't cheap. They are built very well and cost lot's of money.
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From: hudson nh
But......
Most of us were doing the same things years ago....Some day they will be on this forum sounding like a bunch geeezers too. Man do we sound like our parents.
I had a STI pull up next to me on an open strech of road and do the same thing.......i slowed to 65-70 stuck in 2nd waited till he did it again...and then WAMMMMMM he was getting very small QUICKLY. STI are nice around town against a Vette but forget it on H-way.
I would not do that now. I am getting to a geezer now and do not want the problems that go with it.
Now when i hear the buzzing of Rice i jsut give the SHHHHhhhhh sign.
But when i hear a STI with Exhaust mannnnn they sound great!
I had a STI pull up next to me on an open strech of road and do the same thing.......i slowed to 65-70 stuck in 2nd waited till he did it again...and then WAMMMMMM he was getting very small QUICKLY. STI are nice around town against a Vette but forget it on H-way.
I would not do that now. I am getting to a geezer now and do not want the problems that go with it.
Now when i hear the buzzing of Rice i jsut give the SHHHHhhhhh sign.
But when i hear a STI with Exhaust mannnnn they sound great!
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From: Bay Area CA
Having owned a not stock WRX I am completely in the know of what they are capable of and will give most vettes all they can handle to about 65-70 ... and then they get smaller and smaller. AWD makes average drivers more capable drivers in twisties and from dead stops.
An STI is a very solid performing car. But it is still not a vette and no they really are not that light (2-300lbs heavier than a c5 z06).
Just like ANYTHING with 4 wheels if you spend the $$$ you can make it fast, but not very many rides out there have the great lines of a vette
Fej
An STI is a very solid performing car. But it is still not a vette and no they really are not that light (2-300lbs heavier than a c5 z06).
Just like ANYTHING with 4 wheels if you spend the $$$ you can make it fast, but not very many rides out there have the great lines of a vette
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From: Behind the Orange Curtain, So Cal
speed challenges
I had two of those incidents yesterday. One guy in a Cadillac CTS...he had his son in the car so I let them think they "beat" me...actually, I did not try v. hard - the other was a real loser in an old camaro. He burned rubber when the light turned green...I just laughed at him wasting his tires like that. I guess this is just something you have to tolerate when driving a Z06.
Me and my Z06 have nothing to prove. And no speeding tickets....yet.
Me and my Z06 have nothing to prove. And no speeding tickets....yet.
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From: Everyday you must choose between the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Fredericktown, OH
Originally Posted by vettephysician
Those ricebuckets are fast....aluminum foil and fish glue with a Briggs and Stratton motor moves pretty fast, until the glue dries out and it falls apart after a few months.
If you judge all sport compacts the same way, it is just a matter of time before one hands you your ****.
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From: Meridian Idaho
Funny story, I was out detailing my car in my garage this weekend. My car looked sinister lurking in the garage as I was wiping it down when this Subaru slowly pulled up in front of my house. Windows were tinted so I couldn't see in. All of a sudden he/she rev'd their engine a couple of times and took off. I had half the mind to chase after him/her on foot to tell him to slow down in a residential area but the ol' flip flops would only take me so far.
So I get challenged even when I'm not in my car. Maybe he was giving me some props by rev'ing his engine. I don't know. I just shook my head and went back to work.
So I get challenged even when I'm not in my car. Maybe he was giving me some props by rev'ing his engine. I don't know. I just shook my head and went back to work.
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From: LIttleton Colorado
Like all the rest of you, we get challenged all the time when in the Vette. A lot of the time I have my 16 year old son with me so anyone who challenges gets ignored. We have had street racing discussions alot since he always wants me to run them.
The other night he was out in his Mustang...orange with black stripes, when a Camaro pulled up next to him and reved his engine. He looked the guy over, then noticed an unmarked police car at the light going the other way. Light turned green, Camaro took off, my son rolled away very slowly (thank goodness)...cop swung a U-turn and had the Camaro pulled over immediately. Son drove by and smiled to himself.
Be careful what you do on the road...someone is always watching.
The other night he was out in his Mustang...orange with black stripes, when a Camaro pulled up next to him and reved his engine. He looked the guy over, then noticed an unmarked police car at the light going the other way. Light turned green, Camaro took off, my son rolled away very slowly (thank goodness)...cop swung a U-turn and had the Camaro pulled over immediately. Son drove by and smiled to himself.
Be careful what you do on the road...someone is always watching.
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From: Fredericksburg Va
[QUOTE=lavoieste]Most of us were doing the same things years ago....Some day they will be on this forum sounding like a bunch geeezers too. Man do we sound like our parents.
True...but what I drove at least sounded good to the ear...not like a mad swam of bubble bees.Can't believe they think those things sound good. If I had to drive one, I would try and coast through town so no one would here it.
True...but what I drove at least sounded good to the ear...not like a mad swam of bubble bees.
Can't believe they think those things sound good. If I had to drive one, I would try and coast through town so no one would here it.
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Originally Posted by lavoieste
I had a STI pull up next to me on an open strech of road and do the same thing.......i slowed to 65-70 stuck in 2nd waited till he did it again...and then WAMMMMMM he was getting very small QUICKLY. STI are nice around town against a Vette but forget it on H-way.
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From: Louisville KY
Too be real honest I had more fools challenge me in my 97 Z-28 than I have had in my 03 vette. I think part of it is that the stock exhaust on the Z had a very healthy sound as compared to the sound of the vette. I also felt that they felt they could take a Camaro.
As the above posts have stated when the rice burners with the fart cans sound off I just laugh and ignore them.
The windows on the Z were tinted and I guess people could not see this old bald headed man. In the vette I have not tinted these windows yet so they see the shinny head and say heis an OLD FART. I might be that, but I am in the American icon -- a CORVETTE, and they are not. So I always win.
As the above posts have stated when the rice burners with the fart cans sound off I just laugh and ignore them.
The windows on the Z were tinted and I guess people could not see this old bald headed man. In the vette I have not tinted these windows yet so they see the shinny head and say heis an OLD FART. I might be that, but I am in the American icon -- a CORVETTE, and they are not. So I always win.
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Originally Posted by JMc
As I was driving down 15 from L.A. today, a few miles North of Lake Elsinore, some tool in a Subaru with a fart can exhaust pulled next to me as I was doing about 80 MPH in the number 2 lane and kept gunning his engine, then falling back alongside me. He was trying to bait me and I wasn't taking the bait. I just laughed and looked straight ahead. Must have driven the guy nuts. This went on for a couple of miles before he took the hint and took off.
I have absolutely zero interest in "proving" anything or putting on a show for morons. Frankly, I enjoyed frustrating him by simply ignoring him.
I have absolutely zero interest in "proving" anything or putting on a show for morons. Frankly, I enjoyed frustrating him by simply ignoring him.
A mother would be very proud of you.
I would have definately seen him in the rear view mirror.