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09-01-2007, 12:02 PM | #1 |
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Yaris LB vs. WRX
So yeah, street racing is bad, if you don't like it don't read this blah blah blah blah blah. It happened and I'm posting it.
I'm driving home from the Taste of Cleveland festival last night on the highway. There was a little bit of traffic but nothing crazy. Everyone feels the need to drive slowly, so I am doing my normal dance around the traffic in an effort to get home ASAP. Well, I pass a WRX with a sticker on the back window. He bounces out behind me and starts tailing me a bit. I started speeding up to see if he wanted to play, and he did. He starts following me through the maze. He is doing relatively well until for some reason he got scared and stopped trying to follow so close. We probably hit 90 before that happened. We get to the exchange and he pulls up next to me and we roll down our windows. He says "What do you have underneath that thing?" I told him nothing, just a suspension and some good driving. He says bullshit. At this point there is a long sweeping turn in front of us and I throw it into second and gun it. By the end of the turn I was going 95 MPH and probably pulling a full G, not to mention I probably gained 15 car lengths on him. I slowed down to wait for him again and he told me I was crazy and then exited the freeway. Sure, he couldn't drive... but I still shamed a WRX. |
09-01-2007, 12:05 PM | #2 |
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09-01-2007, 12:08 PM | #3 |
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I think that summarizes it quite well, and I would agree
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09-01-2007, 12:10 PM | #4 |
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I couldn't argue.
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09-01-2007, 02:14 PM | #5 |
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09-01-2007, 02:26 PM | #6 |
haha good stuff. Yarii power!!!
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09-01-2007, 02:27 PM | #7 |
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lol, awesome story, I think we all have had similar experiences every now and again... any way, mass respect for all Yari
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09-01-2007, 02:59 PM | #8 |
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i love our cars on the highway.small enough to fit almost anywhere and a midrange power band to back it up......
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09-01-2007, 03:19 PM | #9 |
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Yup Rockland ! Nimble & Quick ! ya gotta love that .........
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09-02-2007, 06:10 AM | #10 |
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09-02-2007, 08:55 AM | #11 |
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Good job I love these pick ups that jump my butt down here. I pick up speed led them into a hairpen watch them lose the road.
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09-02-2007, 11:06 AM | #12 |
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I don't beleive you.....
wrx 224hp 3192 lbs (4 door m/t) thats 1 hp for every 14.25lbs of car yaris 106hp 2300lbs ( 2door m/t) thats 1 hp for every 21.7lbs of car plus he has AWD.... I'd say he didn't know how to drive...
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09-02-2007, 03:07 PM | #13 |
As for street racing, yeah it's illegal, but... Sometimes you have no control over situations, J/K...:)
There is this guy at work with a GMC Jimmy, and he's always talking shit about his 4.3 Vortec engine, blazzy blah. He always is in front of me when we are leaving work while stopped at the red light in the left hand turning lane. When the light turns, we both light up the tires and he takes off and stays in the left hand lane I usually pull up from behind in the right lane and pass him. I have never looked at him to see his face while I fly past him, but I can imagine it. Does the Yaris have a secret underpowered Engine spirit that allows it to go stupidly fast? This happens more often than not...to most cars... |
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09-02-2007, 05:12 PM | #14 |
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Its just the car looks sluggish, but it really is quick...
Or you just people dont expect and econobox to just have ANY power.
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09-02-2007, 06:14 PM | #15 |
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09-02-2007, 07:19 PM | #16 |
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its how you drive. like i said a year ago that corvette had one pusXX driver... usually the idiots that drive vetts and wrx's etc have zero driving skill they get them for that quick open road blast and then when it comes down to braking and turning the steering wheel a couple times they get confused and freak out and look gay infront of their little girlfriends who they acted like cool bad asses infront of b4 they came across some of us that drive a yaris and make other people wonder WTF they got in that thing?!!!
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