"JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7" (jayzayeighty)
08/25/2014 at 00:21 • Filed to: Makes like 400 torque at the wheels bro
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"JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7" (jayzayeighty)
08/25/2014 at 00:21 • Filed to: Makes like 400 torque at the wheels bro | 6
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A kid in a very new straight piped mustang GT not being able to keep up with a stock 30 year old car through twisties onto the highway but very loudly downshifting and going WOT next to you at first opportunity while cutting across lanes to an exit at excessive speed and hitting the brakes. Makes me feel like such an idiot.
themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7
08/25/2014 at 00:28 |
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I know that feel. Nothing quite like dusting everyone on a twisty on ramp only for the ricer flyby a mile down the highway complete with middle finger. Yes bro, I'm totally emasculated that your MKIV APR STAGE 4.7 NEUSPEED TEUTONIC LOWLIFE GTI-R (read: way too much money spent on a 1.8t golf) passed me doing 85 when my cruise control was set to 75. Still doesn't change the fact that the FiST pantsed you on the 2-lane on ramp after you revved the crap out of your engine at me at the light.
blacktruck18
> JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7
08/25/2014 at 02:14 |
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WHOA, straight piped Mustangs are the fastest cars ever. Your just lucky he wasn't really trying to race you.
NaturallyAspirated
> JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7
08/25/2014 at 14:03 |
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As hard as it may be to believe, this happens to me occasionally when I'm driving my '98 Subaru Legacy Outback.
A light turns green, I go because I'm paying attention, but the person in the loud car next to me is playing with their phone so it takes them a bit. I smoothly accelerate to whatever speed is appropriate, only to have the loud car do a loud flyby at some excessive speed.
On my route home from work, there's an onramp that goes from 2 lanes to 1 lane at the end of a decreasing-radius 3/4 circle. The loud car will pass me on the left on the straight road leading up to the onramp, then brake very hard for the turn as I sail past, downshifting and lightly engine braking to plant my front wheels, then accelerating smoothly through the curve to come up to the speed limit by the merge point. A short time later, the loud car will come flying past me, usually doing unsignalled and questionably safe lane changes to do so.
My theory is that people really hate it when an old or "non-sporty looking" car outruns them, and perhaps unconsciously have to "prove" that their car is faster.
I've learned to use this to my advantage somewhat, too. Need to get over, but the guy in the other lane won't let me in? Downshift, make a ton of engine noise in the "sound and fury signifying nothing" tradition, and the blocking driver just can't help themselves, they hit the gas, pass me, and leave me a nice open space to merge in to.