why do hot hatchs try racing scoobys?
16 June 2006, 10:07 PM
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why do hot hatchs try racing scoobys?
I seems every hot hatch i come across (notably saxo's) try to race me? I mean ive only got a standard 95 wrx but its still got a proven 242 bhp! Surely they dont actually think thy're going to win? I had a red vts have a go and after taking a run up got along side until i saw him changed down and said goodbye, then he followed me around for a while..? I fail to see the point! does anyone else experience this?
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16 June 2006, 10:09 PM
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Originally Posted by ste300
I seems every hot hatch i come across (notably saxo's) try to race me? I mean ive only got a standard 95 wrx but its still got a proven 242 bhp! Surely they dont actually think thy're going to win? I had a red vts have a go and after taking a run up got along side until i saw him changed down and said goodbye, then he followed me around for a while..? I fail to see the point! does anyone else experience this?
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16 June 2006, 10:24 PM
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think when you were young m8
when you first get you little 1.2 it feels like the best car ever come on give them a break race them but play with them just for fun
and for the other comments what is the point of buying a fast car and going slow all the time all you end up doing is have bad mpg. you have to go fast
when you first get you little 1.2 it feels like the best car ever come on give them a break race them but play with them just for fun
and for the other comments what is the point of buying a fast car and going slow all the time all you end up doing is have bad mpg. you have to go fast
16 June 2006, 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by ste300
Yeah i see your point, now i come to think of it. And i bought i fast car to go fast, nothing to do with self esteem my friend.
Why did you feel that he was "having a go", and why did you feel the need to put him in his place?
RR meant that that was not a lot of bhp.
16 June 2006, 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by ste300
I seems every hot hatch i come across (notably saxo's) try to race me? I mean ive only got a standard 95 wrx but its still got a proven 242 bhp! Surely they dont actually think thy're going to win? I had a red vts have a go and after taking a run up got along side until i saw him changed down and said goodbye, then he followed me around for a while..? I fail to see the point! does anyone else experience this?
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BTW I've got a beat up piece of **** Nova that will come past you in a straight line
16 June 2006, 10:41 PM
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ive currently got a old triumph tr7 but its a bit of a sleeper, ( 300bhp rover ex hill climb v8) and i get so many hot hatches having a go at it coz it looks like a shed on wheels. but its defineltly one fast shed.
16 June 2006, 10:41 PM
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Well he was having a go (at overtaking) and i felt no need to put him in his place. I know its not alot of bhp that was my point. I am wondering why my post seems to have a drawn this kind of response though, is it wrong to enjoy my car?
16 June 2006, 10:43 PM
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oh no.. i dont even bother with nova's, been embarrased way too many times i find the worse they look the faster they are! My friend has a crazy stripped out hillman imp with a rover V8 in the back, that thing is so much fun!
16 June 2006, 10:44 PM
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i agree with ste300 on this one. im not a chav and dont race around with the "maccy d's crew" either. but when there blatently revving the **** off whatever their "chariot" is looking for racing, you can only take so much. maybe 1 in 10 i will react, less if the conditions are dangerous obviously.
the funny thing that gets me is that the drivers sat there with clubland blasting of his 6x9s, seat so for back hes looking upwards and his von chav cap on reckoning he can have everything. just a personal note but round scunny there are far too many of these like around all 3 maccy d's and sometimes its natural too see them scower off when youve left them standing.
i awit the "mature" persons moan regarding my actions
the funny thing that gets me is that the drivers sat there with clubland blasting of his 6x9s, seat so for back hes looking upwards and his von chav cap on reckoning he can have everything. just a personal note but round scunny there are far too many of these like around all 3 maccy d's and sometimes its natural too see them scower off when youve left them standing.
i awit the "mature" persons moan regarding my actions
16 June 2006, 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by ste300
Well he was having a go (at overtaking) and i felt no need to put him in his place. I know its not alot of bhp that was my point. I am wondering why my post seems to have a drawn this kind of response though, is it wrong to enjoy my car?
16 June 2006, 10:46 PM
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200 BHP in a hatch is merely warm these days, and many of those tune up to 250 BHP for a small amount. Some of them make peak torque at half the RPM a shonky old WRX does...
16 June 2006, 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by chocolate_o_brian
i awit the "mature" persons moan regarding my actions
16 June 2006, 10:47 PM
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how old is your audi though? my scoob 11 years old and totally standard... eventually newer cars will be lots faster and i bet mine was a lot cheaper than yours to buy.
16 June 2006, 10:49 PM
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Originally Posted by kingofturds
Its the way sn is heading atm
16 June 2006, 10:50 PM
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crasher3. i agree too with you, but from being a newbie on here i get alot of negative responces as im 21, not 31. i know im inexperiences thats why im not like a rally driver rund the town centre unlike these "chav corsa dudes"... no disrespect to non chav corsa drivers!!!
16 June 2006, 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by ste300
Well when i say hot hatch i mean saxo's and the like, i know all to well how quick clio 172/182's are and the new astra vxr etc's are just nuts
16 June 2006, 10:54 PM
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The average old WRX now looks as dodgy as the average Corsa. Subs playing publically, tints, Lexus lights, stupid bodykits, baseball caps, excessive wheel bling with rubbish tyres, inadequate brakes, slammed to ruin the handling, baseball capped "driver" of short stature and poor road manners.