What is your response to people who want to race?
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What is your response to people who want to race?
How often do you pull up to a traffic light on a 4 lane road and the car next to you wants to race? How do you typically respond?
This has happened a few times during my 2+ weeks of ownership and last night I got smoked by a Toyota Venza. I really had no interest in racing and certainly was not interested in burning up my tires to make a point.
I think next time I'll just look over and say "you know what, you will probably smoke me off the line so go for it"
This has happened a few times during my 2+ weeks of ownership and last night I got smoked by a Toyota Venza. I really had no interest in racing and certainly was not interested in burning up my tires to make a point.
I think next time I'll just look over and say "you know what, you will probably smoke me off the line so go for it"
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How often do you pull up to a traffic light on a 4 lane road and the car next to you wants to race? How do you typically respond?
This has happened a few times during my 2+ weeks of ownership and last night I got smoked by a Toyota Venza. I really had no interest in racing and certainly was not interested in burning up my tires to make a point.
I think next time I'll just look over and say "you know what, you will probably smoke me off the line so go for it"
This has happened a few times during my 2+ weeks of ownership and last night I got smoked by a Toyota Venza. I really had no interest in racing and certainly was not interested in burning up my tires to make a point.
I think next time I'll just look over and say "you know what, you will probably smoke me off the line so go for it"
*Unless Lance was next to me...then I might take that challenge! (Just kidding).
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Actually, if you are 'burning up my tires' you are not accelerating in the most efficient way. To get the best acceleration you don't stomp on the pedal, but rather feed it in gradually to keep tires from spinning.
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The only time I was ever tempted was the other day when a 911 pulled up. The driver had dark driving glasses and cute girlfriend by his side and glanced over, tapping his gas pedal. The reason I wanted to smoke him was because I know for a fact he was thinking "I knew I shoulda bought the Jag, for no other reason than my car looks like its 50 years old. If he's faster, I know for certain I made the wrong choice".
God how I wanted to ruin his day.
He popped off when the light turned green and I just went on about my day.
I'm sure his stiff pecker reaffirmed to him that his Porsche was bad *** as he looked at me through his rear view, just to remind him again how beautiful the front end of the F was and why he should have bought one.
Hey Hardwired, this incident happened in Mountain View!
God how I wanted to ruin his day.
He popped off when the light turned green and I just went on about my day.
I'm sure his stiff pecker reaffirmed to him that his Porsche was bad *** as he looked at me through his rear view, just to remind him again how beautiful the front end of the F was and why he should have bought one.
Hey Hardwired, this incident happened in Mountain View!
Last edited by polarisnavyxj; 06-22-2016 at 12:59 PM.
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The only time I was ever tempted was the other day when a 911 pulled up. The driver had dark driving glasses and cute girlfriend by his side and glanced over, tapping his gas pedal. The reason I wanted to smoke him was because I know for a fact he was thinking "I knew I shoulda bought the Jag, for no other reason than my car looks like its 50 years old. If he's faster, I know for certain I made the wrong choice".
God how I wanted to ruin his day.
He popped off when the light turned green and I just went on about my day.
I'm sure his stiff pecker reaffirmed to him that his Porsche was bad *** as he looked at me through his rear view, just to remind him again how beautiful the front end of the F was and why he should have bought one.
Hey Hardwired, this incident happened in Mountain View!
God how I wanted to ruin his day.
He popped off when the light turned green and I just went on about my day.
I'm sure his stiff pecker reaffirmed to him that his Porsche was bad *** as he looked at me through his rear view, just to remind him again how beautiful the front end of the F was and why he should have bought one.
Hey Hardwired, this incident happened in Mountain View!
Lol, I guess I should be thankful I don't get the opportunity to put my crazy on display...
Thanks to a notice but lobster claws, I will add the following:
I would have smoked him to the speed limit, as long as there were no cars nearby, or baby strollers, or cats, but pigeons are on their own
Last edited by hardwired; 06-22-2016 at 04:58 PM.
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So far during my time with my R, no one has come up to me to actually race me. However, I've somewhat of a lead foot, and from a traffic light, I'll often surge quickly ahead to about 40-50 mph (just to hear that glorious exhaust) before slowing down. After all, isn't this why we bought a F-Type? Once that exhaust noise starts, I usually see all the other cars backing off.....it's actually pretty amusing to see.
I do sometimes get buzzed by M3's, M4's, and riced-out STi's and Honda Civic Si's. Kids.....
I do sometimes get buzzed by M3's, M4's, and riced-out STi's and Honda Civic Si's. Kids.....
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I would have smoked him!
Lol, I guess I should be thankful I don't get the opportunity to put my crazy on display...
Thanks to a notice but lobster claws, I will add the following:
I would have smoked him to the speed limit, as long as there were no cars nearby, or baby strollers, or cats, but pigeons are on their own
Lol, I guess I should be thankful I don't get the opportunity to put my crazy on display...
Thanks to a notice but lobster claws, I will add the following:
I would have smoked him to the speed limit, as long as there were no cars nearby, or baby strollers, or cats, but pigeons are on their own
Which brings up a good point, in an F's 0-60 time, is the driver in 2nd or 3rd @ 60mph? Not sure what the top speed is @ redline for each gear.
Last edited by polarisnavyxj; 06-22-2016 at 05:12 PM.
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So far during my time with my R, no one has come up to me to actually race me. However, I've somewhat of a lead foot, and from a traffic light, I'll often surge quickly ahead to about 40-50 mph (just to hear that glorious exhaust) before slowing down. After all, isn't this why we bought a F-Type? Once that exhaust noise starts, I usually see all the other cars backing off.....it's actually pretty amusing to see.
No body wants to play here either so
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I live in a community near Palm Beach Int'l Raceway.... Pretty much everything from a frickin' Prius to SRT Hellcat wants to race me twice a week like a clockwork. Our own streets turn into drag strips after midnight during the summer months when the kids are not in school. On my street, out of 9 houses, there's 1 SRT Hellcat (high school present), two Corvettes, my Jag and a Camaro SS, Then there's couple top fuel cars that tune up at nights.... Yeah, I don't get to race. Oh, during the day we are an Equine community.
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And, Jay...we are clearly a bad influence on each other.