Derek M

I now have a MY04 CTR.

MY04 STi was behind me the other night as we joined motorway I was only able to give it some from about 60mph once we joined to motorway.

Was a short blast but I got an initial run on him and he was only able to start to close the gap pretty slowly. Kinda surprised me a bit, thought he would have been all over my ***

Only mod I have is cat back exhaust!

sti-04!!

Dracoro

Maybe he didn't want to be all over your ***.

sgcooby

Of course he did. Didnt you know its compulsory for all scoob drivers to try their hardest every time someone in another car has a go.

CupraT

Possibly just keeping a safe distance?

Possibly just keeping to sensible speeds?

Dracoro

Aha! I stand corrected. Y'know the other day I was on the motorway in the g/f's nissan micra and there was a scoob behind me that didn't overtake. Blimey! my g/f's micra is faster than a scoob!!!

Floyd

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My 1.8 diesel, with std air filter and rusty zorst, stayed in front of a STeeeiiii all the way into town the other day. He woz tryin 2, I now cos he really looked angry an stuff. Traffic woz a bit heavy, yeah, but he could have mounted the curb to get past but he cudint do it coz I was way faster in the queue.

F

sti-04!!

MattW

All his posts are the same....lol

Would love to know where you are from Derek because I was behind a CTR joining the motorway a few nights ago.

Also, how did you know it was an 04 Sti from a rear view mirror, unless of course the plate gave it a way. In which case, wasn't me!!

Derek M

It was a 54 plate STi on Sun night where M42 joins toll road (the bit that opens into about 8 lanes).

Was it you?

MattW

Nope, private plate.

scoobydooooo

yes , but as has been said , us STI owners don't race every time somebody in front puts their foot down ! it costs too much in juice

scoobydooooo

yes , but as has been said , us STI owners don't race every time somebody in front puts their foot down ! it costs too much in juice

dynamix

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plus there is no real point most of the time cos it would be an unfair fight. It would be like Prince Nazeem bigging it up to Mike Tyson. Tyson aint gonna hit him.... it would be pointless.

most fun is side by side at the lights revving away and when he (or she) shoots off just poodle away - they really feel stoopid

Derek M

BTW all my posts are not the same!
Last couple have been similar but thats about it.

PG

Well done!
Do you do autographed pictures ?

Blueblaster

Just switched from a CTR to an STI. At 60mph the Civic is right in the sweetspot of the power band changing from 2nd to 3rd. It really does shift in those gears and wouldn't be surprised if it's 60-90mph times are as near as makes no difference the same as the STI. Look at the performance figures Autocar got during their road test of the Civic (0-60 6.7 and 0-100 16ish if I recall) and you can see that once it's rolling it really does start to motor. However, find a twisty road with a few bumps or maybe a hint of moisture and the STI will be a long gone. The Civic is a great car with a the best 4 cylinder engine and manaul gearbox in the world but desperately needs a LSD to make the most of them. Oh dear, starting to get all nostalgic now... Time to shut up.

Derek M

I find it funny reading how you lot are getting all defensive and start implying he wasnt trying etc etc.

Far be it for anyone to express surprise at how well their lower powered FWD car faired on a short sprint when compared to your beloved scoobys (that most of you seem to beleive are the fastest road going machines in the world).

In a straight line past 70mph the (std) Sti is bit faster than the CTR but not by loads and loads!!

Diablo

LOL

Don't worry mate. It's how they cope with the fact that their "rally" cars are not really that much faster than a glorified blue rincer's shopping trolly

It's called denial

scoobywhite74

Driveing back from food shopping with my wife and 3 kid,s in the car, last week a boy racer wanted too get in the back with the kid,s,
yes he was that close.
Went into 2 lane,s he came past with big smile
on his face, it was a black clio sport,
sorry mate not with the kid,s in car and not worth the fuel.
My scooby would have lost big time and you are king of the road.

Derek M

Well I have alot of respects for Scoobs and I used to own one but it is a shame that so many owners on here seem to think they are above a lot of people.

PG

But if you throw some Panini stickers on them.........

BLACK V5

No just fed up with everyone in hot hatches saying i wasted a scoob. There slow and crap. If thats the case why does everyone make a song and dance about it. If there that slow then its nothing to bragg about. Is it?

scunnered

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Reminds me of an incident many years ago. I was travelling along on my Honda 750, sticking roughly to the 40mph speed limit. Then all of a sudden, a little yamaha 125 went past. I just ignored him. It was all round the pub that night that I got beaten in a race I didn't even know I was in.

GrahamG

Do you like it when people come all over your ****??

ethanrob

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Our lass does

scoobywhite74

Sorry mate i,m not putting down other car,s just people
like the clio driver, just because i have a scooby and like a race at santa pod where no one get,s heart, not past a school when kid,s are leaveing as he was that day.

WRXPete

I've put some HKS stickers on my car...goes a lot faster now

scoobydooooo

i don't know where you get that from !!as regards your other comment i own a scooby and i don't want to race every time somebody tries to have a competion !! as you should know if you get convicted of racing on the open road it is a very serious offence , hard to prove i grant you but the cops have been known to tell porkies to get a conviction on this charge . if someone runs past you in the street do you break into a sprint to have a race ?? hmmm !! i think not ! so when a car comes up my chuff there are times when i cannot be bothered !! understand !!

LG John

I really have little time for the people that troll all over thread like this. If you don't like vs threads don't read them.

Unless the STI had well over 400bhp then it was trying and here is why:

Facts we know - the CTR was being driven flat-out AND the sti was closing in slowly.

Against an STI that isn't trying a CTR will pull away comfortably. To only just 'match' a CTR even a PPPd STI would have to utilise 90% of its available power - this is hard to do and pointless. To be pulling a CTR in albeit slowly would be conducive to an STI 'trying' and therefore it was as good as flat out. Even in a PPP'd STI to moderate the throttle on a turbo-charged car to give the 90-95% performance required to slowly crawl in on it would be difficult and seemingly pointless. I accept that it may have been a monster 400bhp STI that was being driven in short sustained 2/3rd throttle 'blasts' to 'keep with traffic' but any other STI was flat out. You always know when someone is trying - maybe the other driver was changing a little earlier through choice or bad driving but his foot was burried based on the facts we know.

RANT OVER <ziiiip>