Why does every c0ck on the road want to race an Impreza?
06 March 2013, 06:41 AM
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Get this all the time if im out putting some miles on the rally car between events or trying new parts/settings etc. Very annoying cos it seems almost anyone in any type of car fancies a go, im assuming they think cos its a rally car the driver must drive like hes on a rally all the time.
I just let them get on with it and carry on minding my own business.
I just let them get on with it and carry on minding my own business.
06 March 2013, 08:32 AM
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I'm not totally convinced it's all about racing; I think they just drive that way chopping and changing lanes to try to get ahead of anyone.
I have a Spec D and had a prat the other night. Wanted to cut in but I tend to follow the Highway Code and always zip merge so he sat on my bumper until I showed him my brake lights. Another set of lights and I took the less used inside lane. He started in the outside, saw I was moving forward so jumped to the inside then, when close, he jumped into a tiny gap on the outside to try to get alongside. I blipped my way past the guy he was following leaving him stuck. It continued for several miles like that until he turned off. It was good fun really, just like racing when you have someone close behind you and you are watching your mirrors to see where they are.
Just to be clear, I wasn't racing, just positioning my car
I have a Spec D and had a prat the other night. Wanted to cut in but I tend to follow the Highway Code and always zip merge so he sat on my bumper until I showed him my brake lights. Another set of lights and I took the less used inside lane. He started in the outside, saw I was moving forward so jumped to the inside then, when close, he jumped into a tiny gap on the outside to try to get alongside. I blipped my way past the guy he was following leaving him stuck. It continued for several miles like that until he turned off. It was good fun really, just like racing when you have someone close behind you and you are watching your mirrors to see where they are.
Just to be clear, I wasn't racing, just positioning my car
06 March 2013, 09:16 AM
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I was once making progress and overtook a Merc. He then decided that we should race and proceeded to follow me about a foot from my bumper. I could have pressed on a bit faster, but I wasn't interested. He waited until the duel carriage way 5 miles up the road before showing me who was the boss. He overtook and disappeared like a scolded cat only to brake harshly after a double flash from a fixed speed camera. Numpty.
06 March 2013, 07:35 PM
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06 March 2013, 08:25 PM
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"Yeah he thought he could beat me, silly little Corsa driving minion. Dont you realise I have a snort-thrusting performance rally car with Turbo and everyfing cos I is at least 2 years older than you. Anyway when I roared off, his face was a picture. One of torment, anguish and despair. I bet he went home and cried, then I bet his misses left him for being a loser and then I bet he turned to drink so I bet he got fired from his job, innit 
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06 March 2013, 09:08 PM
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Had some middle aged guy pull beside me on the dual carriageway at the weekend in one of them jaguar xkr r things? Nice looking motor really, I usually drive mine wearing big green ear defenders 
I look a right **** but my car uses a straight cut dog box and is stripped of all sound deadening, he slowed to the same speed as me looked over and gestured to go for it, I pointed to the for sale sign in the rear drivers side window that had in big red letters 558BHP SPRINT CAR FOR SALE and shook my head while giving him a big grin, he stuck up his middle finger and roared of!! *** head, I just carried on poofing along at my 60mph pace. True story.
I look a right **** but my car uses a straight cut dog box and is stripped of all sound deadening, he slowed to the same speed as me looked over and gestured to go for it, I pointed to the for sale sign in the rear drivers side window that had in big red letters 558BHP SPRINT CAR FOR SALE and shook my head while giving him a big grin, he stuck up his middle finger and roared of!! *** head, I just carried on poofing along at my 60mph pace. True story.
07 March 2013, 04:49 PM
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Well all i can say is that the rally decals on my car must be a great disguise as i reckon that it is less than a dozen people that have genuinely tried to "Race" in the 6 years that i have owned the Impreza
i have probably had more people ask me to rev the engine at the lights so that they can hear the car...
yeah you get people that set off in a hurry at the lights...i have this no matter what I'm driving...maybe people just notice it more when they are in their impreza's?
i know when i used to drive the company pool cars around we used to launch them off every set of lights...using the TC as a primitive launch control....Clutch in...foot flat to the floor...just dump the clutch and sit back as the electrics try and work out WTF you are trying to achieve...not trying to race anyone...just trying to lighten up an other wise boring commute
i have probably had more people ask me to rev the engine at the lights so that they can hear the car...
yeah you get people that set off in a hurry at the lights...i have this no matter what I'm driving...maybe people just notice it more when they are in their impreza's?
i know when i used to drive the company pool cars around we used to launch them off every set of lights...using the TC as a primitive launch control....Clutch in...foot flat to the floor...just dump the clutch and sit back as the electrics try and work out WTF you are trying to achieve...not trying to race anyone...just trying to lighten up an other wise boring commute
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07 March 2013, 04:52 PM
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Well all i can say is that the rally decals on my car must be a great disguise as i reckon that it is less than a dozen people that have genuinely tried to "Race" in the 6 years that i have owned the Impreza
i have probably had more people ask me to rev the engine at the lights so that they can hear the car...
yeah you get people that set off in a hurry at the lights...i have this no matter what I'm driving...maybe people just notice it more when they are in their impreza's?
i know when i used to drive the company pool cars around we used to launch them off every set of lights...using the TC as a primitive launch control....Clutch in...foot flat to the floor...just dump the clutch and sit back as the electrics try and work out WTF you are trying to achieve...not trying to race anyone...just trying to lighten up an other wise boring commute
i have probably had more people ask me to rev the engine at the lights so that they can hear the car...
yeah you get people that set off in a hurry at the lights...i have this no matter what I'm driving...maybe people just notice it more when they are in their impreza's?
i know when i used to drive the company pool cars around we used to launch them off every set of lights...using the TC as a primitive launch control....Clutch in...foot flat to the floor...just dump the clutch and sit back as the electrics try and work out WTF you are trying to achieve...not trying to race anyone...just trying to lighten up an other wise boring commute
they are probably too busy laughing at your chav mobile covered in stickers and the tears of laughter are preventing them from racing
07 March 2013, 04:55 PM
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07 March 2013, 05:10 PM
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That was the only reason i brought it
The seller told me "its 600 Brake mate, init" "Waste Fezza and Lambo's all day long" "its well fast init"
That was the only reason I brought it
I'm glad that other road user think its a race car too
Please don't shatter my dream and tell that they don't make it a race car
07 March 2013, 05:13 PM
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The stickers do make it a race car don't they
That was the only reason i brought it
The seller told me "its 600 Brake mate, init" "Waste Fezza and Lambo's all day long" "its well fast init"
That was the only reason I brought it
I'm glad that other road user think its a race car too
Please don't shatter my dream and tell that they don't make it a race car
That was the only reason i brought it
The seller told me "its 600 Brake mate, init" "Waste Fezza and Lambo's all day long" "its well fast init"
That was the only reason I brought it
I'm glad that other road user think its a race car too
Please don't shatter my dream and tell that they don't make it a race car
sorry to burst the bubble mate but you look like a bellend, has it got the other bellend accesories of fake roof vent and name on rear window like "ken ****"?
07 March 2013, 05:21 PM
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