I am routinely amused at stoplights by v6 Japanese family mobiles (Sedans, minivans, etc) roaring off ahead of me. Yes, thank you, I know you have some power in there. And that's with me enjoying the sound of my engine, at least.

it's one thing to know its got power and it can pull its weight, but from the looks of it these people know that car only has 200HP. If they know its a BRZ, by now they know what it can do.

If that's the case, I don't know what they punks think they achieve.

1) That's great that you have such talent going in a straight line. Your mother should be so proud.
2) If they know or think their car is faster, then why bother.

Maybe I'm older, but this is just quite dumb.

Hey man, a mustang gt can rev at you at a left turn red light. If you gun it, you can take the turn at full speed so you'll be ahead for the first 2 seconds? :P

Every time my wife and i go out on weekends we always get people who want to race. Thankfully my wife is into cars and understands that with 200hp I can't out run many other cars.... Here is the list so far

BMW 750i
Maxima
Audi a5
Mercedes c class Amg
Frs.... Which pissed me off since I have a brz
Some rusty ol 90's mustang ( who smoked me)

Im finding people are attracted to the car, want to see it "do something" and are anxious to "play" - I keep it non-competitive; smile and ignore drag-light situations (god knows ive been there!!). I like to maneuver with sports coupes; let the car shine and live within its "class" I try not to play with cars outside the class car im driving. Im not drag-racing hotrods, im not into playing with trucks or SUV's that cant maneuver (its dangerous!) and I don't care that your fat-ass sedan has big HP because its still a fat ass sedan!

Miatas are fun to play with. The A4's are threatened. BMW owners are intruded and most car enthusiast actually like the 86 and respect it!

The vast majority of inciters are younger guys in cheaper cars; Civics, Mazdas, domestics that are similarly classed but fwd and mostly automatics. The 86 with the MT is just faster that most of them.

Most I have seen try to rev and race on freeway while I'm driving to work are all civics, mustangs, 350z/370z, G35/G37. Other like M3, 335i 911, Cayman, boxter, and few ferrari like to sneak at mine only :)

I do this too.

I'm very seldom the first one off at the light. i'm a motorcycle rider as well, and i always look to the left and right before taking off when the light turns green, and only speed up after i'm through the intersection. i saw an accident happen right in front of me about 15 years ago where someone ran the red and t-boned the first car off the line. that was it for me.

Very well said boead

This is very true I see this all the time does not matter the car, most people don't want to drive behind someone even if there already doing 10 over speed limit. As a rule I try to keep it at 10 over and I have assholes always speeding around me just to do the same speed in front of me.

Most drivers are assholes I just mind my own business and enjoy the ride.

Because LA:lol: been there, done that.

A honda appeared with an si red badge; "I cried 'MOGENesusu'"! as he flashed me with HID

Alongside I saw rice stickers and shocker sticker, a ricer Honda Fit with a nicer exaust! Dropped to 3rd, BRZ sounds great at 4000 rpm (the honda sounds kinda poopy like BRAAAAHH"), and went uphill in a spirited manner!

Ok so it wasn't a real race, it was fun and I love the car community.

My favorite encounter thus far was following another SATX owner on the highway while he was in his undercover mustang cop car. A chrysler 300 pulls up next to me revving his engine and I nod yes and feign a take-off. Needless to say my buddy pulled him over moments later for zooming by him.

i constantly get told i drive like a grandpa by friends who ride with me for the first time..i take it as a compliment and tell them in 13 years of driving ive not had a single ticket, or been in any accidents.

I only drive spirited when the conditions are perfect, that rarely happens

The pot will be calling the kettle black when they buy a brand new nearly $30.000 car and they drive it carefully like you are. Just say "Now who's the grandpa driver?"

I feel all Hyundai Drivers are ****holes that drive like maniacs.... I had a G37 try to race me on the GSP and I just threw my hands up and shrugged at him. I ended up passing him later on with my cruise control. I guess he realized he wasted too much gas and had to slow down lol. I do have to say when I see other BR-Z and FR-S Drivers, they honk and wave and mind their business.

I also had a camaro ss tail gate me and pass me on the highway and ended up taking the same exit as me. I don't think he appreciated the 6 inch gap between my front bumper and his rear bumper on the off ramp. He couldn't find the right line, constantly braking and then accelerating to try to get away. It was quite amusing. :)

So about a month ago I had a SRT8 magnum tailgaiting me for quite some time. Traffic was heavy and we were in the fast lane and I had cars in front of me so its not like I was the slow one.

Anyways after traffic opened up the far left lane and the middle lane still had cars in it but the right lane was wide open, but it was on a really big bend. I put my blinker on to change lanes all the way to the far right and I keep accelerating as I am turning on this bend. The Magnum quickly follows however as i accelerate in the turn I look in my rear view mirror and he spins out does about 3 360s and comes inches from the wall.

I guess thats the last time he tries taking a turn as fast as an FRS...lol..no idea if the car had anything to do with it. The pavement was dry maybe a little salt left on the road but thats about it.

a few years back, when i was driving around in my crappy integra GS (not even VTEC!) on my way up to boston, some guys in a REALLY old civic hatchback from the 1980s? maybe? came up alongside my car (when i was in the right lane) and started honking at me to race them.

i was cruising in 5th at the time, and was planning on ignoring him, but they just wouldn't shut up so i... without downshifting... just started accelerating in 5th. he was barely keeping up ._.

and then we got pulled over. whoops.

funny thing is, we were accelerating SO slowly the cop didn't even realize we were "racing" (we were doing maybe ~90 on a 70 on a straight stretch) and so ticketed us for speeding... lol.

I HATE MUSCLE CARS!!!! I live in texas and there is nothing but redknecks driving deisles with 10" exhausts and camaros who think all there is are straight roads. I love the little 1 lane backroads by house. There usually is never a car within sight behind me w/ my brz. A big reason why i dont want an exhaust. I hate dealing with those idiots.

Sounds like one of my friends. Never stops comment on how he could smoke most of these cars at stop lights in his '02 Firebird (and his Firehawk). But then again, that also sounds like any driver that has that "need for speed".

It gets annoying after a while of nothing but utter non-admittance that there are better cars than those that AREN'T other huge V8 American cars. Makes me sad honestly.

hmmm wing... fat intercoller out the front and rocket bunny kit... pretty much all day every day i get revved at -_____________________-

My dad was driving the brz on the highway and we pull up to a slammed 350z and were just cruising and he suddenly takes off ( obviously he could beat us in a race ) my dad just downshifts and we hit about 95 and he was pulling ahead so much even when we were going about 95 he was probably going about 130 or more. There's usually a cop hidden around this slight bend so we see him way far ahead put on his brakes in attempt to stop but it was too late and he started pulling over ( hard to tell because it was a bend ) and the cop waited for us to get out of the left lane and pulled out and chased him down he probably clocked him going 140-150 because he was gaining a lot of ground.

Since I put my single exhaust(fart pipe) on my evo, all the slow cars and diesel trucks want a piece of me, weird.

That's what you were going for right? :D

weird: noticed that yesterday. Had the last of my exhaust mods done, driving from the shop to work and a camaro was all over me from the baltimore tunnel, all the way to my exit near bel air md. I didn't race but I was enjoying my new headers....wtf is that about? I have it on dash cam lol.

Not really a "come race me bro" but today some dude in a GTI backed up at the traffic light (since I was a couple of cars back in turn lane) to ask me about the car, at first I was like "oh shit now what" but he was cool and asked about the car. He thought it was all wheel drive and he asked how firm the ride was. I originally though he was going to try to get m to race him or say something rude but he was cool so I can't complain.

Nice thread. Ask yourself this question, punk. Are U faster than a redneck?

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4S0dSEz3vw"]R U Faster Than A Redneck S01E04 Andrew Vs Joshdhd - YouTube[/ame]

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Im finding MANY are truly interested and attracted to the car. Lots more smiles and head shake approvals. I think the enthusiast already know that the car isn't a drag racer and respect it/that about the car.

Like ive said the only jackasses are Truck drivers and cruze-cavalier-neon-civic driving kids with aftermarket catback exhaust and intakes, or at least they got the stickers ;-D Oh and "Guido's"

WTF is with the truck drivers?? I mean this isn't Texas! I live in the NYC area. Fin SUV;s!! Some asshole the other day was set on staying in front of me! At one point while maneuvering like an overweight sloth he nearly hit the center divider then corrected by nearly hitting the car to the right - LOL!!

A 335i burned an extra thimbleful of gas to zoom around me at a stoplight

Hot cars make people do whacky stuff. It's similar to a hot girl with a nice rack, they lose their mind and do not know what do so every move is a potential disaster. :)

I was doing about 80 on the highway the other day and passed an 98 accord going really slow. They sped up and I just figured they were one of those annoying types to be going slow in the left lane and then 5 minutes later they're speeding like hell. Nope, the sped up, passed me a little bit and then all the passengers were staring at the car. Got say, it's starting to freak me out. Almost wish I had more power to blow their doors off a bit. To me it would be kinda laughable to drop into 4th gear and not be accelerating much faster than their 98 accord. lol.

The FRS isn't really slow, I mean the 98 Accord has lots less HP, its heavier and has a shitty tranny. I had one!

I get this allot too (I have an RSX too so im sort of use to it, same shit 7 years ago!) They see you, watch you drive past then from way back they accelerate, catch you and blow by. LOL, lie that's a race or something -Duha!

Yesterday, on a very nice long stretch between lights of a 55MPH road where most will do like 75. Hell the police will give it to you but not much more! I was doing about 75 when this older civic I saw way back came up and blew by me like I was sitting still! He had to be going 100+ and was wobbling around the lane. He got to the light fast, nose diving to a stop.
LOL!!
I could smell his car burning with my windows up!

I wish the police would start ticketing those left lane hoarders. Automatic $500 fine and there are foolproof ways to prove they are intentionally blocking, for example if they block for more than 3 miles.

I know it's not THAT slow, but compared to most other cars out there...

Omg it makes no sense when people are doing at the speed limit or below in the left lane and stay there while everyone passes them. The only time I do not move over is if i am in the middle lane and some **** rides my ass. He's got two choices at that point: the left lane or right.

Today I had my first real "come race me bro" encounter in my BRZ with some idiot who felt like revving his Mustang GT's engine and speeding up then slowing down. For anyone familiar with Richmond, I'm sure you know of 288 the highway that connects to I-64 on one end and I-95 on the other, well I had just come off of broad st with the Mustang behind me and I knew before he did anything that he was more than likely going to goof off. So we get onto 288, I stayed in the right lane because I figured he would floor it right by me in some idiotic attempt to prove something. After he flew past me he kept running his engine rpm's way up so that I would hear it, then after we pass all the slowpokes he slows down beside me I guess trying to elicit some kind of "race me" reaction. Good luck, I didn't even look at the moron. I swear these rednecks are funny, they see a nicer car and are overcome with an uncontrollable urge to rev engines and speed. I think he cared more about horsepower than a clean car, I think that rustbucket was silver with a lot of grime on it so it ended up looking goldish. I was hoping he would speed off and go find a camaro to mess with. He didn't look like the typical mustang driver who have a lot of facial hair a mullet and a ballcap.

Hehe :scared0016:

I guess you have a Camaro? lol

Theres an arsenal of mid-high end exotics at Purdue. Audi A8's, a few 911's, a couple Maseratis, numerous GT-R's, and most recently ... a bright yellow Ferrari 458.


As you might suspect, these are typically "driven" by international students whos parents own manufacturing firms and/or are very well off (obviously). I say "driven" due to the fact that they aren't usually very proficient with driving. Anyway ... the yellow Ferrari had a lot of people talking and I just happened to see him go by on the highway I was turning onto.

I couldn't resist but to get beside him on a roundabout and get a little rev-happy. ^.^

I provoked him from the round-about to the stop light about a quarter mile away and grinned at him enough to get a rise outta him. He paddleshifted once and was in front of me :\

Damn paddle shifters ... I'm pretty sure he wouldn't know a clutch pedal from a handbrake :P It was still a lot of fun and now whenever someone mentions the car I can at least say I raced him .... even if it was more like harassment lol.


(On another note, I get harassed at lights a lot... took a whopping 20 minutes after driving off the lot before some stupid hick in a lifted turbo-diesel truck tried to get me to drag >.<)

Well yeah he has 570hp after all.