"Sweet Ride Bro" Encounters

[StraightOuttaCanadaEh]

Originally Posted by Wally86

Day 27 of owning the 86...


And older gentleman pulls up next to me at a light in his truck.

Old man: "Hey! That new Supra looks goooood!"
Me: "Uh, this isn't a Supra..."
Old man: "No? What is it?
Me: "An Eight Six."
Old man: "Who makes that?"
Me: "Toyota."
Old man: "Well... it still looks good!"
Me: "Thanks!"


I literally thought all of you were crazy for saying people mistake it for a Supra but now I've joined your ranks and fallen right into the trap...

you just wait until someone asks you if it's a Lambo. Then you will truly join our ranks

[Wally86]

Originally Posted by StraightOuttaCanadaEh

you just wait until someone asks you if it's a Lambo. Then you will truly join our ranks

When I had a Tiburon (back in 03), I remember people asking if it was a new Aston but if someone asks me if the 86 is a Lambo, I'm going to die laughing.

[dhuang]

Yep. My Subaru BRZ Series.Yellow got mistaken for a new Supra before the A90 even came out... not sure how that happens.

Originally Posted by Wally86

I literally thought all of you were crazy for saying people mistake it for a Supra but now I've joined your ranks and fallen right into the trap...

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Overdrive

Maybe about a month ago had a guy in a late gen Mustang GT spend 6 miles of highway (basically from the moment I left the entrance ramp until I took my intended exit) trying to get me to step on it along with him, or at the very least look to my left and acknowledge him. I did neither, especially because with my luck he'd pull a car-meet-exit-fail and T-bone my car at 80mph.

mustangs are fun. they always seem to have the biggest ego. so if i even so much as pass one doing 0.5mph faster, i can plan on them dropping a gear and making for the border. i think it's to prove something. i'm just not sure what.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Wally86

When I had a Tiburon (back in 03), I remember people asking if it was a new Aston but if someone asks me if the 86 is a Lambo, I'm going to die laughing.

Someone asked me what kind of Ferrari it was.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by soundman98

mustangs are fun. they always seem to have the biggest ego. so if i even so much as pass one doing 0.5mph faster, i can plan on them dropping a gear and making for the border. i think it's to prove something. i'm just not sure what.

They need to prove that 300hp or whatever is greater than 200hp. Apparently they still don't quite understand how to count.

[Overdrive]

Originally Posted by soundman98

mustangs are fun. they always seem to have the biggest ego. so if i even so much as pass one doing 0.5mph faster, i can plan on them dropping a gear and making for the border. i think it's to prove something. i'm just not sure what.

Exactly. I don't grandpa onto the highway from entrance ramps, I make sure I'm up to speed and ready to merge...though I will put my cruise control on and relax in the right lane because I already attract enough attention being bright orange. I don't need to provide any actual reasons for anyone to try to pull me over. I guess I entered the highway aggressively enough that he felt compelled to see if he could show me that my car is slower than his since he's got twice the power and 150% of the weight. Most of the time, I'm just trying to go to work and want to be left alone, man, lol.

[soundman98]

i'd be lying if i said that i don't goad them from time to time. it's like a top. sometimes it's fun just to spin them up and watch them go!

[EndlessAzure]

Some guy in a Red Mini Cooper S pulled up beside me and said he really liked the car. Also told me to keep what he said a secret from the Cooper guys

[weederr33]

Originally Posted by soundman98

mustangs are fun. they always seem to have the biggest ego. so if i even so much as pass one doing 0.5mph faster, i can plan on them dropping a gear and making for the border. i think it's to prove something. i'm just not sure what.

Yup that happens to me all the time. I accelerate too quickly from the light or pass one, they book it.

[phm14]

My new 86 is less than a month old, and has a bit over 1K miles on it. I've gotten compliments from several neighbors, with one mention of how much they loved the Hakone green. Dude at a gas stop asked me "Is that one of those new Supras?". "No, it's an 86", says I. He replies "It sure looks good, though". My '13 Firestorm got similar reactions. It's funny that so many have no clue what it is, even though they've been in the wild for 8 years.

[Will BRZ]

Originally Posted by phm14

My new 86 is less than a month old, and has a bit over 1K miles on it. I've gotten compliments from several neighbors, with one mention of how much they loved the Hakone green. Dude at a gas stop asked me "Is that one of those new Supras?". "No, it's an 86", says I. He replies "It sure looks good, though". My '13 Firestorm got similar reactions. It's funny that so many have no clue what it is, even though they've been in the wild for 8 years.

Damn you’re right it is 8 years lol I’m surprised you got the “Supra” thing here given how many twins there are around here.

[DarkSunrise]

The Supra comments are funny, but at least it's the right badge and the right FR layout.

I got Porsche early on, which boggled my mind. Porsche doesn't have any coupes that resemble the Twins, or even the FR silhouette.

[bcj]

Must say, it does look a bit like the Porsche Pacifica or whatever they're calling it.