So a guy come comes up to you with a 10 second Honda street car and woops your butt, there goes your story.. there are lots of ten second street cars out there with a 1500 dollar body and a 30,000 dollar drive train. There is always some one faster. always some one with a nicer looking car. I would think that anyone seriously wanting to race on the street is an idiot, but then aren't some of those idiots building low cost 10 second street machine. It seems to be a trend in many urban communities.
So even if your 300 ZX TT is boosted, it still a 13 sec machine.

1995 Wolf 300 ZX Twin Turbo
Exhaust, intake, ECU, and boost jets(14psi)

0-60 ----
1/4 Mile (time@speed) 13.2@108
Lateral Acceleration ----
Braking from 60 ----
Braking from 80 ----
Top Speed ----
Peak HP(hp/rpm) 396/6400
Peak Torque(torque/rpm) 360/3600
Curb weight 3518
Source R Wiegard

 

Yup, took awhile to get used to the idea that, looking in the mirror, the bottom edge of the coupe's back window is pretty much the back of the car. The odd bit is, I don't remember having that problem with my RX7...then again, that was 20+ years ago.

 

Don't notice too many people riding my tail....but wish I had a buck for every time I've been cut off!! Usually it happens when I'm in the far left or passing lane....someone will suddenly decide to move left. Most of the time it's an SUV. I realize our rides sit low.....but some folks really need to learn to adjust their mirrors.

 

It happens to me all the time. It seems like whenever I'm out someone has to go flying past me or tailgates me. Women in minivans are the worst. I had a woman following me so close a few weeks ago that I couldn't see the front of her car in my rearview mirror. I usually drop down a gear and take off a little. My car is very loud and most folks back back off a little after I do that.

 

Your the type of guy I used to love to race in my **** box then when you got pulled by football fields they wouldn't even glance over at me or give a thumbs up..

 

I thought that too and of course every single person in a Chrysler, dodge.hemi of any kind wants to pace me. But on the following too close and getting close at red lights i really thunk it is just because were sitting on the rear axel and have no *** end so it seems closer?

Just a thought

 

What's the fuss about BMW's ? I don't even notice them on the highway. Just another over rated plain looking car.

 

I dunno man. Seems like you hate every vehicle that isn't a C5 Corvette. Most actual car guys and girls can appreciate other makes and models, but I guess you don't fit into the car guy category.

 

" Looks Like train wreck is coming."
Its gone from people seeming to get too close in my rear view mirror to some guy bragging about having the fasted car in the world or at the very least he could show them how slow their car is...that would indicate that any car who challenged him would be slower. "His words Not mine."
Just a bloated sense of small penile syndrome. <--- train wreck fuel.
With loving sensitivity
William aka ET

 

Man, on the freeways around here, I could be going a hundred and some car will be tailgating.

I once had a guy try to street race me with his high line Porsche SUV, down by the marina, of course. I guess he wanted to get his money's worth , but an odd choice for a speed contest.

It is the kind of car that draws attention.

 

Get used to it.. People are going to tailgate you, pull out in front of you, park as close as they can to you (to slam their doors into your Vette, especially SUVs and old trucks) even when you park as far away from everyone as possible. They also love to cut over in front of you on multi-lane roads, and generally want to race you.

Kids will want to run their hands down the side of the car. You have to watch for this when you are parked.

If the parents and kids are respectful, then I will let the kids sit inside the Vette when they show extreme interest. Had one mom come up and tell me the kids just love my car. She was the respectful type so asked her if the kids would like to sit in the vehicle. They were excited as they sit behind the wheel and the little girl on the passenger side. She thanked me and said it "made the kids day!" Kids get a kick out of that and so do I.

If the parents are douchebags and allow their kids to try and run their hands all over it, etc. I will have some nice invectives to utter to the adults. Might even show them my foot in relation to the sides of their vehicle.

I actually had one toothless bum attempt to spit on my Vette, while I went into a store. I politely invited him to do so (while standing in front of my Vette), while patting my Colt 45 ACP holstered to my side. Said something about his questionable birth in the process.

Parking is the biggest PITA!! I will usually park as far away from others as possible. I will take up two parking spaces when I can, so douchebags cannot park close enought to me to scratch my paint and chip my doors. They will still try and park as close to you as possible, despte your best efforts, so you havr to be dilligent.

If I catch someone trying to park ultra close, they will see me practicing my round house kick moves. One asked me what I was doing one time and I explained to them that I was practicing kicking the excrement out of their SUV if they scratched my car. That usually has the desired effect of their finding another parking space. . Told one dude in a truck, thanks, I was looking for someone to pay for my 10,000.00 paint job and looks like he was volunteering based on his parking skills. For some reason he decided it was in his best interest to change his parking arrangements.


You will find many people who admire the car and just want to get close, others who display extreme jealousy, others who just want to see it perform super car procedures (burn outs and extreme speed manuevers), and others who admire and will actually respect the car. In other words, you are going to meet all kinds and you have to be prepared.

Guess one of the funniest ventures was when we were attempting to enter an Interstate at an on ramp. There were several SUVs trying to get the jump on me and a fellow C6 driver behind me. When the light turned green, I was shifting no less than 5K RPMs to the end of the entrace. So was the Black C6 behind me. We had left the lane jumpers so far behind in our rear view mirrors that it was funny. He came up beside me with a grin on his face, as we gave each other the thumbs up!!

Had another Z06 brother come out of a Waffle House one night with a teen actually sitting on his 01 Pristine Z06. He was so mad, he actually picked the dude up by the shirt and asked him where he wanted to be burried. It was funny and sad at the same time.

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I don't know. I have a hard time putting a BMW in the same class as Corvettes and other muscle cars. BMW just doesn't scream "performance" as well as a '69 Charger RT with a butterfly scoop perched on top of a 6:71 BDS blower poking out of the top of the hood can...

 

I don't consider the Corvette a muscle car, it's a sports car.

It also depends on which BMW you are looking at and trying to compare. Sure, a basic commuter version is just that, a little commuter car. Their M cars are quite a different story though.

This S85 video is one of my favorites


How can you say something like this doesn't scream performance?

The straight six in my M3 has an 8000 rpm red line and makes 333 hp out of 3.2 liters. It even has launch control in a car that is 10 years old. I guess exterior wise it doesn't scream performance, but I love the looks of the wide body and the car is a blast to drive.

If you just care about straight line performance, a tuned 335i will dust a stock C5 with ease in the 1/4

 

All I can say is wow.. what an entertaining thread.. hard to believe that you actually think anyone believes this.. your posted profile is the funniest though, Nice bright move from the senior vice president of an information technologies company..
You analpassage!
I hope I was not too insensitive and you wont shoot me with your hip patted Colt 45 APC.
With love
Bill
Thanks for the laughs.

 

I get this quite often. Happened this morning coming from a cars and coffee. I often see the cars weaving through traffic to catch up to me.

 

Heh. A Cayenne S (or worse, a Turbo) will eat up a stock C5.
The problem is, you can't tell which flavor you're up against unless (or until) you're already behind him.

 

But I'm guessing that those cars weaving through the traffic are not trying to challenge you, but to get a better, ( closer ) look. I can tell by the body language of a "real car guy", even if he is in the family sedan with a car load of kids. He doesn't want to be too obvious, he might creep up on the right side of your car, but may not want to appear to be ogling. He might be slightly envious and doesn't want to give you any satisfaction, or he is over the moon about your car and has no problem letting you know of his approval. When I'm doing 30 in a 35 and a guy pulls up along side of me but doesn't get up to my passengers side door window, and just sticks back there at my blind spot going as slow as me for two or three block, with no one in front of him. he is obviously checking things out. some will pull up to the widow and make a comment and some will just drive off after a long look.
That has been my experience. I don't like people sitting back there in my blind spot, an I don't like putting myself in someone else's blind spot. Most are there because they want to gawk.

 

Yup. Half of the guys in this thread are displaying the same traits they claim to hate in drivers of other brands. Pretty funny.

 

You nailed it. Many of them run up because initially they can't tell what it is. They know it's a sport car but with my modifications some think it's a ferrari and then once they realize its a corvette some don't know what generation. I am rarely challenged. Mostly been challenged by the new camaro's.

 

I heard the little kid in the back seat say, "Mom look how clean that car is, I wish our car was that clean".

Haha.