Cars that try to race you...

[suvidh]

Suzuki swift (1.2L ) on the expressway. I dont know what the guys were thinking.

On the longer trips the serious ones were 50+ yr old man on the new E class. good 200 km on the highway. He got smoked each time he tried to overtake.

Porche panamera 4s - short sprint , traffic came up

E55 AMG - short sprint, Z4 was ahead by a good distance

[BlueZ4AZ]

Nisan Armada. Yes a Nissan Armada.

We were both in poll position at a red light, where within a 1/4 mile the 2 lanes would merge into one lane. He must have wanted to grab the lead position once the merge occured, so he punched it as hard as he could. I purposely delayed just long enough to chuckle while switching to Sport +, and away I went. He got a good look at my rear bumper long before the merge.

Then I got the tailgaiting the SUVs usually do out of frustration. As if to say, "I didn't get what I wanted by passing you, so now I'm frustrated and I'm going to tailgate you to try to piss you off".

I usually have none of that, so quickly, I switched to manual, downshift a gear, slowed down about 2 miles per hour for about 2 seconds, just enough to make him slow down a bit, then punched the gas pedal just enough to create the normal safe distance there ought to be between 2 cars traveling at 50 mph.

It's funny, because I didn't get pissed off at him because he had more luggage space.

[cdeslandes]

Not a race per se, but found myself yesterday on a country road behind a Porsche Cayenne Turbo driven by one of the few Connecticut drivers who's not pissing themselves with fear while driving.

She was hauling ass, and seemed surprised to see I could keep up with her. The combined sounds of the two cars was amazing with the top down!

[SCBMW02]

Mitsubishi Evo this morning, big aftermarket exhaust. Ran up on another car in my lane, I was not pushig it but was ahead with no problem. Typical punk in a car like that. Quick shifting DCT is sweet indeed!

[flpnout]

A mitsubishi "evil-lution" tried today as well. He was darting in and out of traffic on a 5 lane highway on 580 and ended up falling behind attempting to cut others off.