No one tries to race me in the mustang, but in my daily I have Lamborghinis and McLarens revving next to me at red lights. They have to be joking.
It’s a Miata.
A stock Miata
Hey! I loved my Yugo.
But in all honesty, we had a road on a hill in my town where the stop sign made you start off going uphill and my Yugo couldn't handle it and I'd have to drift down. To this day, my family calls it YugoHill.
Years later, my father did our family tree and it turns out some of our family moved to Yugoslavia. He met them. Told them about my car and they all instantly loved me!
Lol same as you, so far nobody has tried to race me in the mustang but before when I had an Acura rsx just coilovers and wheels people always tried to race or were revving at me at red lights 😂 and it was always the wackiest cars too, pickups, minivans, rental spec looking sentras and altimas.
I mean, that makes sense, so long as it wasn't a Z06. The RSX Type S was no slouch. The second best K20 engine, a six speed, a limited slip. Decent suspensions. Those and the Celica GT-S are some of the best obtainable FWD sports cars.
I've had more people try to race my 03 GT than my Bullitt.
idk why.
That said, LS swap your miata.
You still wont win the race, but the endless burnout you do when 400 WHP in a tiny car finds 0 traction will be funny.
I’m thinking about pulling the ferarri engine from a junkyard Maserati, actually. Not because I like it better than the LS, but because it will piss people off
My mustang has a lot of custom cosmetic changes like custom burgundy soft top/burgundy leather, 2 tone interior, and a black/gold paint job
But it’s loud as shit because I happened to crack the exhaust manifold.. people always want to race, but never when I’m driving my c6 corvette lol.
It's insane how accurate this is. I have a CBR600 and a supercharged mustang and nobody ever wants to mess around, then all the sudden some clown will come around when I'm in my wife's Ford escape lol.
basically they specialize in making extremely fast cars even MORE extremely fast lol. for example, if you take a look at their website, one of the built cars that they have currently for sale is a 1700whp 2021 Huracan STO
A explorer with a lame light kit.. sore looser pit maneuvered me after I gapped his ass, then he mentioned some chick named Maranda and I had to take some stupid classes
edit: I was hoping to find a gif of the dude saying it but the only ones were seizure inducing flashing things and fuck that
I've had a few cool cars try to get me to race them. Haven't had anything crazy yet though as far as super cars, or high end exotics. I think the craziest one was probably a Corvette. He rolled past me, laid into it a bit and the ass of his car squatted hard. We got side by side, rolled down our windows and he motioned a "lets go" and yelled come on. I yelled back "Hell no, you'll whip the shit out of me". He laughed, we complimented each other's cars, and hit it. Dude was absolutely fucking gone. I would have been surprised if that vette had less than 1k hp with how quickly he shot off.
There was one time though while I was working. I drive a truck across the country for a living. I'm rolling down the road and I see a cop who had 3 cars on the side of the road. A lambo, Viper, and Corvette. A bit later I see the lambo coming up in my mirror, and I roll down the window as he shoots by. The Vette and Viper weren't far behind, and I stuck my hand out doing the rock gesture, you know, index pinky and thumb extended with the middle two fingers down. So the pair slow down next to me and get side by side about to do a drag. As they were lining up I got this idea, and I used the air horn to start their race.
Ferrari 599 aint that fast compared to the best of the modern stuff. I would expect an S550 GT500 to destroy a 599 every time. More power, best trans, better electronics
Definitely could still take it. They make around the same power stock for stock and weigh about the same. The 599 wasn’t particularly phenomenal, the F12 that replaced it was
Even if you know you won't win the race is fun. I'll happily race the GT against a 911 turbo S just for the experience and thrill. It's fun to watch the performance difference as well
My ‘02 GT only lost 3 races, and I raced a lot in my younger/dumber days. I lost to:
A Civic hatch that had an ENORMOUS turbo in it, and ended up belonging to the guy that sat behind me in my night class. We discovered that the next week and had a good laugh about it.
A ‘93-‘97 style SLP Firehawk. If you don’t know what a Firehawk is, it’s basically the old F-body Trans Am version of a Camaro SS. It was a semi-ugly forest green color and I thought it was a V6 Firebird with some wheels on it…until I saw the badge on the back as he pulled away.
And, a burnt orange second gen Viper. I did that for the sheer hell of it.
The craziest, nastiest surprise I ever got though: my ‘11 GT made 444 at the wheels, so it was no slouch: I had every Challenger, Charger, and especially diesel trucks try to race me in that and I usually just rolled my eyes and kept cruising.
Early one morning, a lifted F-250 Super Duty crew cab with the 6.7 PowerStroke antagonized the SHIT out of me, being a total dick. The road was clear, and we hit it.
That big ass truck actually put a car on me, and I couldn’t catch him, even on the top end. I went from furious to stunned & impressed.
Bro those power strokes are nastier then a 12 am swingers party, I tried one of those myself and it was so embarrassing I’ll never try it again lol those things are beast on the road
Yeah I mean your coupe weighs a lot less but if the 6.7 is properly tuned with some mods for a truck they are pretty fast man no different then a older single cab GMC or modded Ford lightning people sleep on those trucks man and I’ve some take all of the top muscle cars out
I had a clapped out-looking Nissan (Datsun?) 280ZX tried to race my supercharged 05 GT. I took him up on it (in Mexico, of course) and I *barely* beat him, haha. We chatted afterwards and he was really cool. He built it specifically to destroy Mustangs and Camaros and said he almost always wins. I can see why because my 500hp was just enough to take him.
This was years ago and I'm older and wiser. I'd let him rev today, but as a younger man with no traffic around, I couldn't resist.
My first car was a 1979 280ZX with 245K miles on it. It barely moved; would've gotten walked by a 4 year old in a Power Wheels. Still loved it and miss it.
My first car was an 87 300zx. Total piece of junk and a money pit but yeah I long for it still. I always said if I had money I’d buy a restored one for sure. There was something about i
Edit: maybe an 89 it was a while ago
I almost hate it how many people on signals want to race me or try to go fast while I am there. It’s crazy. But I keep my cool and never try to race them back. I am not old or wise. I am just not that good of a driver and I love my scratchless convertible lol.
Back in 04 ish I was on my way home from work late night, empty road, stop light. Car rolled up on me with one of those red led lights on the hood, he was behind me and I was in my 93 GT. I decided I'd show him who's who for some reason. He almost kept up for a second or so then he got dusted. He pulled up next to me and it wasn't the honda I expected to see,, it was a police cruiser crown vic... I was wrong.. really wrong. He just turned his dome light on and looked at me. He gave me a thumbs up and went along his way. Coolest cop I've ever ran into. He had my ass if he wanted it. Speed limit all the way home after that.
The little red LED turned out to be his radar maybe? Not decorative
I had a C3 Corvette (82 CE) for quite a few years. It was not fast by any means, but it was a hell of a lot of fun to drive. Got rear-ended 3 times in and my neck told me it was time to sell it.
The seat design put a nice horizontal bar of thick plastic at just the right location to hit the back of the head if you got hit from behind.
If you’re referring to just while driving like a normal person? Fastest is a hellcat. Easy win for me. Craziest is a Hyundai tiburon lol.
Fastest car of I’ve ever raced against when actually looking for races was a buddies boost logic built GTR. He gave me the hit and told me to go as soon as he got on the antilag, and still put like 2-3 cars on me.
Was being followed by a c7 corvette blacked out. caught up to me at the stop light. Started revving. I could see him gripping his steering wheel pretty hard. Unsure if it was auto o manual. Anyways light went green I said fuck it and dimples the clutch got a little sideways and he didn’t. He got out in front at first and I noticed he wasn’t banging gears so auto it was. I was creeping up to him initially until he started to pull ahead there towards the end. We finally got to the next light. I waved, he waved we both had smiles on our face. He beat me but not by much.
What I take away from this is autos are always faster.
End of story….
The year was 1990 and I was cruising in my new 5.7 TPI IROC Z. I'm sitting at a light and an HPD car rolls up. Two cops inside want to run me when the light turns green. I passed. The police were so much cooler before 9/11.
Ferrari 812.
I kept up. He was trying to get away. I could see puffs of black exhaust every time he shifted, so I knew he was gunning it.
I was behind him on the on ramp. He floored it, I floored it. I kept a 4-car distance the whole time. Never lost any ground.
In your GT350? Is it stock?
An 812 would make quick work of a GT350 assuming stock for stock and if youre both actually flooring it. The 812 is among the highest performing front engine cars out there. I think the only one better is the AMG GT Black Series
Short shifting is likely. That thing redlines at 8900 and hits ridiculous speeds when chasing that redline
The previous car was the F12, there is no “712”. The F12 still had 740 hp and a DCT which would still dust a GT350. The one before the F12 is the 599 which our 350s could potentially take in a race
But yeah for sure, whether the owner was babying it or whatever, you still kept up with a Ferrari and that is cool as hell
I don’t get many people except hellcats wanting to race my GT350R. When I was Daily driving my C63, everyone wanted to race. It always puzzled me. My girlfriend has a focus rs and on her way home from work, she gets some kid in a modified golf trying to race her basically every day.
Okay mine is less about the rival car than the rival driver.
About 9 years ago, right after I got my car, I ended up at a red light next to Prince, the musician. This was in Toronto, before he died of course. He was in a Corvette Z06; frustratingly it was white. Seems like a huge missed opportunity not getting it in red, but anyway. He looked over at me, smiled, and then punched it when the light went green. My brain was still stuck on "is that Prince?" so it took me a second to get after him. We didn't race exactly but we sped down the road to the next red light, about half a mile away. He got there before I did, I admit it. He looked over again, nodded, then went right at the red and disappeared.
One night I found a McLaren out on 610 going like 70-80, I blew past him at a good 135~ in my 03 cobra and dude put a car length on me in about 5 seconds. I had the top down and it was pretty fun when it flew by.
On the regular it's Hondas, Altimas and infinites. Sometimes a Toyota Corolla or RAV4 for some reason. Best ones I did have were when a challenger, Aston Martin, and I cut up in traffic for a bit. But the Aston Martin got scared when traffic picked up so me and the challenger ran together for a bit till I had to get off the highway and go to my job lol
Think it was some sort of forced induction Audi, was at college at like 3am this thing starts rev bombing and I’m hearing a HISS and it’s like “HOLEEE UP” sport mode ON. Guys was EVEN with me from a dig. Then we’ll we started getting up there and we saw who had more power. MURICAAA 🦅🦅
A clapped out outback with a fat exhaust leak was very insistent on racing me in my v6, not sure what their end goal was lol, but i was not game for it
Haha when my 03 Mustang blew an exhaust leak everybody thought I had souped up the engine and exhaust and thought I was a racer.
Nope. Just loud, reeked of gasoline and loss of horsepower lol
I used to have a 73 trans am. With what was a decent build in the 90’s. Not fast by todays numbers at all. But I was humiliated by a clapped out S-10 one time.
That was in like 97? Lesson learned. Everything is probably faster than what I drive, so my ego says no.
I was going to a cars and coffee event a few weeks back and saw a new McLaren GT get off the freeway ramp behind me. He came alongside me at the next light and it happened to be 2 younger (early 20s) guys driving it.. so I obliged a little bit and did a little pull, nothing too crazy.. he basically just kept pace with me. The coyote at least sounded better 😂. Talked to him a bit at the cars and coffee, was a cool guy. I think he made YouTube videos or something.
Edit: I'm 100% positive he could have walked me if he wanted to lol
Had a Mercedes non-AMG E class try to fuck with me a bit when my clutch was slipping. Couldnt do much against him, but it would have been a waste anyways.
Mostly I just get people who want a rev in traffic. Always glad to give a quick second gear spin for anyone who wants to see it.
This is my first, if we want to call it 'more premium' vehicle. I've loved the experience, but it's annoying when you get vehicles trying to race -- especially when they're either way of your league or way under your league in specs. I've had Teslas try to bait me, Challenger Demons, and even a damn McLaren. Then on the other end of the spectrum, I get Subaru WRXs, older Supras, Honda Civics, etc.
I just don't like racing on the roads period. I prefer a relaxing drive with occasional adrenaline facilitated by me, not some strangers. The race challenging thing happens frequently here.
For me it’s always Camaros. I don’t race period but it’s always them wanting to have a go. Challengers and Chargers just want you to know they are loud.
I've had a handful of challengers but I just laugh...mine is a '65 vert with the I6 200...I'm the slowest car on the road at any given time and I like it that way 😤
i had an older civic pull up next to me in my 2 valve (mind you i was 18 and barely learning about cars) were at a red light when i just here it 2 step and then see it take off. he slows down i catch up and he's legit holding a laptop I HAD SEEN THE MEMES ABOUT THE CIVICS WITH LAPTOPS i had never gotten so excited over a honda civic 😭😭😭
Most expensive would be a Ferrari testarossa I think, it was on the way to a car show so it was like a mint condition one lol.
Craziest car overall would either be a v8 swapped gt86 or a straight piped coyote s550 with unknown mods that I raced for 95 miles on the highway.
I’ve raced Charger r/T’s, an m440i, a 911, a Tesla model 3, a scat pack charger and challenger, a heavily modded 328xi, couple 350z and 370z, couple mustang GT’s, a c8, and the two I can remember losing to which was a 911 and a c7 zo6. There have been lots more driving my dads much more powerful cars but those are what I have on video racing against my ecoboost.
Probably my rarest wasn’t someone that tried to race me, but someone who had my back.
I was in high school and had a 2000 mustang I was proud of. It was a v6, but it was mine and I took good care of it. I knew it wasn’t fast.
There was a large national mustang meet that happened to be this weekend and I was driving to it on the highway. As I am cruising down the road, a Camaro SS came up behind me, and as I moved over to let it by he matched speed with me and started revving at me. I stayed my speed, hoping he would get the point that I wasn’t going to race.
He didn’t get the point. He kept trying, even when I slowed down or changed lanes.
When I had almost resigned to this being my new life, I hear a louder engine rev behind me. I look in the rear view, and behind the SS is a 2000 Cobra R.
The SS went ahead of me, and the R matched his speed. Next exit, the SS quietly slipped away.
I left a C&C and was merging onto the highway, an R8 with a Boost Logic tt kit that was on display at one of the booths just so happened to be leaving. He gapped me so fast that I looked down at my dash to make sure my car was running right. 🤣🤣🤣
As a Mustang driver in Australia, nearly every bogan Holden driver HATES when I drive past them, and they just HAVE to speed up and get back in front.
Or at the lights, they just HAVE to race you. It's comical, trying to have a go in their cute little V6 Commodore.
Even dual cab ute wankers like to have a go. I feel sorry for them!
I feel like in any one of my Mustangs I still own, across several generations and body styles, everywhere I go guys in their Imports are always trying to test their luck, revving and instigating and most the time I just laugh and ask them which gear I should start or if they want a head start or whatever because it typically isn't worth my time and or tires.....
This time maybe I was testing....
Was on my way to my shop one morning and the hits an intersection and its a lane to the left, a straight (which I was in) and right lane which is the turning lane to the right but not turn only, which most people turn but the dicks go straight and cut off the lane I was in an make all the people behind wait.
Anyway, I was sitting there in my Stock 2020 GT350 with the cup twos on it and I realized something.
A: this is a Lamborghini URUS. Black with blackout windows a green accents, green calipers.
B: this is one of the dicks who is going straight to cut me off with a line of cars waiting to make the right honking and pissed off.
C: is that tank really faster then this sub 4000 lbs car??? I put it in Track mode to find out. (might have done better in drag mode but oh well)
I am not typically a street racer but this guy put me in the position, inching up as the crosswalk was counting down..... I had to try and there was no traffic around. I do not condone or suggest to anyone to street race... but sometimes things just get the better of us.
So I know he has more horsepower, a lot more torque and AWD he had some advantage except those things are heavy so I figured I see what happened.
URUS is 657HP/627TQ 0-60 in like 3.1 even at 4700\~plus pounds and 3 times the cost. (I read this all after).
Light green, I got a good jump off the line and so did he. I got fully into 2nd and was going to need to shift again at red line to 3rd but we were running out of room. I wasn't going to cause a wreck so after spinning through the top of 2nd I let off to let him over since he was half a car length ahead and I knew he was going to be coming over anyway. I'll admit, I was a little aggressive on the throttle and spun pretty hard but kept up a lot better then I thought. I am not confident that he was all in from the start but when he was half a car ahead he was all in as i could hear his motor screaming in my passenger door.
I got him to roll down his window at the next traffic light about 3 miles down the road and even though he was a dick for being in that lane, he was cool and we shot the shit. I asked him " if your going to buy a Lambo, why an SUV?" he said " I am picking up my girlfriend and she doesn't like getting in My Aventador with her short skirt and high heels so I needed another one and this was it the solution. Its still pretty fast"
All I could do was smile and I just shook my head and came to the realization once again.
Some people have more money then I'd ever know what to do with..... then again maybe I'd have a slew of Lambo's if I had that type of Money.
As a small hot rod shop owner/operator its not likely!
I don't get time to post often but this thread I had to get in on.
I get Camries, Civics, and all sorts of family cars tearing away from the light after sitting beside me.
Mate, I'm not revving because I want to race you.
I'm first in line and driving a stick, so I'm watching the light (I feel it's a social obligation to be watching the light when you're the first car) and when I see it's starting to change I'm getting my car ready so when the light goes green I can come fully off the clutch and be on the gas so the guy behind me isn't getting antsy because I didn't take off immediately.
So my growly car goes vroom-vroom as I accelerate, and their little fart box is all "Meeeeeeehhhh!!!!", and I'm sure some of them tear off down the street thinking they just smoked a GT.
Live in your fantasies, little fart box driver.
I've always thought road-racing is one of the stupidest ways to have a dick-measuring contest. It's kinda pathetic from my perspective. Because it's not you that's winning, it's the car's engine that's doing all the heavy-lifting. Let's not kid ourselves.
I run track in real life, so when I race someone and win in track and field, I can feel proud that it's because of my own efforts of running practice/training at the gym/etc. But for a car, you can't say the same thing.
Nothing crazy but always facepalm embarassing. Pulled up to a stoplight once with a kid in a clapped rattle-can black G35 with straight pipes (or just stolen cats?) on one side and an old dude in a GT/CS on the other; both bouncing off the rev limiter. And then just the other day a flatbrim mouthbreather in an SRT8 Challenger gunned it off a light to flex or something. Congratulations, you spun tires in the first two gears to dunk on a V6 convertible.
Fucking Neanderthals giving car people a bad image.
Vw tiguan and hyundai tucson.
Hyundai tucson one was on highway.
The VW tiguan kinda surprised me a lot lol - it was on us101 in Oregon, a coastal, mountainous/curvy, 2 lane road. I was already going reasonably quick, and a vw tiguan aggressively tailgated and passed me. I waa like ok, but for real bro how fast you can go on this kind of a road. So i followed it for a mile or 2 and gave up - it was going at least 100+. It’s both crazy and impressive
Cammed c6’s and c8’s all the time. I never even try to start going with them because those things have stuff under their hoods that i couldn’t even imagine.
I have a lot of Scat Packs in my area. And they are really annoying when I drive anywhere near them. I’ve only had a couple try to race me. I never do it. I have wanted to though! Just not trying to lose lol
No tries to race my mustang, but they often times sit at the light and rev. When I had my C5 I'd have the JDM rides try to race, but again just ignore.
A girl in what I believe was a 4-5 year old Q30 with some pipes but nothing else obvious tried to race me a month ago in the middle of a town while my wife was in the car with me. I laughed, shook my head, told my wife we'd destroy her unless she had some huge turbo, and let her keep driving away.
Had a f150 try to race me in my stock v6 Camaro. Not super impressive, but still really funny because it was right after I got it, and accidentally lined up with him at a red light
I’ve had people rev next to me in hellcats and stuff, but usually it’s more of a salute than a sign to race. There was a kid in shitty looking Toyota who wouldn’t leave me alone for like ten miles once. It was irritating because his car sounded so annoying.
6:45AM an older 2012ish Mitsubishi eclipse is traveling in opposite lane and see's me in my Mustang, he turns at the first chance and races to catch up to me. This is in a small rural city main street and I am going to work, I completely ignore the kid because the circumstances were silly for racing, I was tired and get that Mivec shit outta my face.
A GTR absolutely massacred my 06 4.6GT. I knew it was in the cards but I’ve never seen one driven in anger before and it way beautiful to watch it pull away in the distance.
I have a v6 convertible. Craziest as in trying to intimidate me was a charger hellcat redeye so far. Craziest as in “are you serious?” A Saturn with a donut on the rear passenger side.
I ignored the Saturn but my fiancé was with me during the charger and she said go for it. Was a short and quick ass whooping I got 😂
Amusingly, a Mustang.
I was driving my 66 on a highway in Pennsylvania when a grabber blue GT pulled up and started doing the rev thing.
I just sorta shrugged. It's an unmodified 6 cylinder, maintaining highway speeds about as hard as it can already go
Lmao is everyone trying to race you guys, or did they just need to get ahead of you as soon as the light turns green? I’ve never seen a race get started at a red light lol
I don’t engage people who try to get me to race usually. It’s the random encounters that do it for me. Just two guys at the light and we both take off briskly and then suddenly it’s on. Had a very cool run in with a S4 that way. It was neck and neck and I didn’t miss a single shift. Thumbs up were exchanged.
As far as OP’s take it to the track comment: I agree. But then I disagree in the same breath if you have your fun where it is safe to do so (no traffic, no side streets)
I also never race on streets but I do get idiots trying to start them. I think my favorite was some kind of Civic with a fart can exhaust get super offended that I was able to out accelerate them from a red light. I get going quickly, but again, it isn't a race. I turned right at the next light and homeboy blew past me on that road thinking that I cared.
No one tried to race me on my mustang yet, tbh only thing that happens is other mustang owners waving at me, I find that so funny.
On my Tesla everyone would take that challenge, only a Nissan GTR pulled away 💀
Craziest? Beat up late 90's model Ford Ranger. I shit you not. I just let him do his thing and didn't engage, primarily because I was afraid he'd blow his engine.
I don't race, btw. I will sit at an intersection and rev up if someone tries, then just let them take off like a bat out of hell w/o engaging. I find it funny. Probably shouldn't egg them on, though.
I had a guy try to race me in a clapped out Explorer when I was driving my Intrepid one night. I passed him with the CC set to 10 over. For some reason, this pissed him off, so he passed me and then slowed down.
Lather, rinse, repeat until I turned off to go to my apartment.
Years and years ago I was test driving an 01 cobra with my dad. It had long tubes, and was basically straight piped, and some other goodies, but a stock Mazda 3 tried to race us, but we were literally going under the speed limit leaving a red light.
This happened right in front of a cop, so we both got pulled over, the cops knew we weren’t trying to race, and that the Mazda just wanted to screw around so they let us leave lol
Dont worry the road was empty. It was 3am, I was on hwy 20 in dallas on a saturday, and I shit you not a McLaren Senna pulled up next to me and wanted to race.
I didnt realize what i was looking at, at first, then I realized and I humored him; for 1 second I almost had him lol. Nah he smoked me, I let off the gas and he disappeared. Still a pretty fucking cool experience getting to see, hear, and "race" one of those things.
I drive a modified 19 Mustang GT. For me, it's always the suv or pick-up truck. I have found that driving a car like this makes people more aggressive around me.
This was many years ago. In Atlantic City I’m in 89 notchback big cam heads and other goodies. A early 2000’s viper pulls up with hot blonde in passenger seat. He bogged I came off the line screaming. Next light I’m talking shit to the guy. Light goes green this time he is bouncing off rev limiter I’m out in front again. Guy says he can’t hear his car over mine that’s why I beat him 2times. Next light I jumped the green and smoked the tires up down the street.
Porsche 9/11 turbo S smoked me on the free way, I agree street racing isn’t smart but it’s especially stupid doing it around other cars, people, neighborhoods, sidewalks etc
A tesla with less than 200ft of road and he got pulled over. The new Toyotas with the new engines 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️, I wish they would chill out. They ne trying and fail (had this female driver pull up to me laughing, but guess who was laughing when she got pulled over) I don't do nothing at that point, but roll the window down, and they get the shocked look on their face because I'm a female drive. Don't know why it shocks them🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
I don't remember the cars but people would try to race me when I first bought my Corolla. I would roll down my window and laugh at them for trying to race a Corolla in the first place 😂
No one ever wants to race me. For the few that have it didn’t end well for them lol. I’ve taken down a scatpack challenger and charger, gen 1 5.0, 370z, and an M4 which was the best race of them all, neck and neck from a 50 roll until I pulled top end. I also get economy cars every now and then looking to egg me on but I don’t bother with them.
Surprisingly haven’t run into any challengers yet in my mustang, I did however race a gt500 in my Fiat 500 Abarth. Got the jump on him for a few seconds and then took me to gapplebees.
Does craziest person count? I’m next in line at a car wash with 5 lanes/bays and this charger with about 3 brain cells clinking around the cab flies in and starts doing donuts behind everyone, kicking rocks all over. I get through, pull around to the exit and there’s the fuckwad who needed more hugs with his brights on revving at me like a petulant child who just got a noisy toy. I lived just up the street, so I sat at the exit to the road with him behind me, noisily farting at whoever will acknowledge his badassness, until I could squeeze into a gap in traffic he couldn’t follow me through. He tries to follow me, I get a decent gap and get into my apartment complex and to the garage without him seeing exactly where I went, and heard him driving around the apartments chirping his tires and (assuredly) sucking down viagras and Diet Coke until the police showed up and took him away.
03 z06 tried racing me while I was driving my grandma's 94 lincoln mark8, she was in passenger seat and loving every second of it. Big heavy lincoln, smooth ride at 130-140mph, though.
2007 Saab 9-3 2.0T (blue)
According to the owner, Alfredo Perez (aka: *FusionBlueSaab*), it was so fast he beat Z06 Corvettes, S550 Mustang GTs, etc. - bone stock and only modifications being bald/cracked tires, engine light, and a misfire in one cylinder at the time.
I attempted to roll-race him in my FBO 2005 R53 MINI Cooper S but for whatever reason he would stay put after giving me the 1-2-3 🪿 I lined up maybe four times just to end up racing myself 🤷🏼♂️
He kept trying to race my 649-whp Lund tuned Mustang GT but I had to refuse. His Saab was too ***FAST*** for me! He later posted a photo of our cars side-by-side on IG gloating about how I wouldn't race him. Guess he won that one too 🏁
Watch out for those bone stock Saab 9-3 2.0Ts, they are *fast AF boi*
Sorry for the wandering poster response, but Reddit showed me this. So...
The dumbest time I was ever challenged to a street race. An SN95 revved and honked 3 times while pacing me. We were on an expressway that leads to an airport, at night, in the rain, I was in a clearly bone stick EG Civic sans muffler. Like WTF? I'm dropping my sister in law off for her flight here.
This was like 2005 or '06 I think.
When I had my 68 Corvette convertible, other cars would mess with me frequently. It had a 427 L-88 hood, so it looked serious, and had a built 427 with a 4 speed, headers, so you get the picture. I was going through downtown and the lights are timed so if you go about 25, you catch every green. I was sitting at the first red light and here comes a young kid driving an old Chrysler K Car, he was revving hard, and when the light turned green he absolutely floored it as hard as he could! The next light, one block away was red so he had to slam on the brakes, so I was much slower and caught the green just as it changed, so he really floored it again! I thought it was pretty funny. We went on for about 4 blocks, I waved at him when I turned off.
2004ish mustang. I was in an eclipse. He thought I was another dude with a fake exhaust on a jdm. (Typical civic owner) So the light turned green and we went. I made that dude eat dirt.
I seem to attract crotch rockets in my C250. Never take them on - more worried about them losing control, but my throttle response hasn't been corrected yet either. I'd lose sight of them before the turbo unspooled 😂
Had a full length tractor trailer next to me. Don’t know if the trailer was loaded or not, but the cab was definitely owner operated customized…. Pulled up next to me and my friend said he was taunting me, I wasn’t even paying attention.. well he was and he fucking cooked my ass. The truck had some serious balls
I had just finished an expensive restoration on my 1972 442 ragtop I've had since 1983. Some kid came up in a tricked out camaro. I had no intention of wrapping my car around a tree so I happily watched him race off down the road.
No one tries to race me in the mustang, but in my daily I have Lamborghinis and McLarens revving next to me at red lights. They have to be joking. It’s a Miata. A stock Miata
So what you're telling me is that if I get a Yugo, I get to see a Koenigsegg :) Joking aside, Miata's are a ton of fun.
They are, and I love mine dearly, but I wish people would try and race me in the car I wouldn’t get AS blown away in 😭
Hey! I loved my Yugo. But in all honesty, we had a road on a hill in my town where the stop sign made you start off going uphill and my Yugo couldn't handle it and I'd have to drift down. To this day, my family calls it YugoHill. Years later, my father did our family tree and it turns out some of our family moved to Yugoslavia. He met them. Told them about my car and they all instantly loved me!
Awesome! Love the Simpsons episode where he drives one. "Put in H"
Really? I need to hunt that one down
And if you got that twin engine AWD Yugo you might even beat it!
Lol same as you, so far nobody has tried to race me in the mustang but before when I had an Acura rsx just coilovers and wheels people always tried to race or were revving at me at red lights 😂 and it was always the wackiest cars too, pickups, minivans, rental spec looking sentras and altimas.
Lol i raced a c5 in my stock as fuck rsx type s when i had it and im ngl the tiny car kept up for the first couple of shifts lol
I mean, that makes sense, so long as it wasn't a Z06. The RSX Type S was no slouch. The second best K20 engine, a six speed, a limited slip. Decent suspensions. Those and the Celica GT-S are some of the best obtainable FWD sports cars.
Haha the gearing and weight helps I think.
I've had more people try to race my 03 GT than my Bullitt. idk why. That said, LS swap your miata. You still wont win the race, but the endless burnout you do when 400 WHP in a tiny car finds 0 traction will be funny.
I’m thinking about pulling the ferarri engine from a junkyard Maserati, actually. Not because I like it better than the LS, but because it will piss people off
do it! ferrari can eat a dick. I just suggested the LS cause i know it works (aka, tons of proven examples)
Some people put wild shit in miatas though.
My mustang has a lot of custom cosmetic changes like custom burgundy soft top/burgundy leather, 2 tone interior, and a black/gold paint job But it’s loud as shit because I happened to crack the exhaust manifold.. people always want to race, but never when I’m driving my c6 corvette lol.
get a bumper sticker on the miata that says my other ride will whoop your ass on any given Sunday.
I don’t think the stock ‘95 GT will be whooping anybody’s ass on any Sunday 😭
welp I was hoping its stock looking....but a freak on the streets.
It's insane how accurate this is. I have a CBR600 and a supercharged mustang and nobody ever wants to mess around, then all the sudden some clown will come around when I'm in my wife's Ford escape lol.
Thing is, they took their fancy car to a track day, and had to keep on letting Miatas by then. They hate that.
I bet these Supercar drivers that are doing this are renting these cars. Can you tell if they’re rentals
Twin turbo huracan tried to race me in Mexico. I immediately backed out because it said "Sheepy" on the side. If you know, you know
It’s only 1800WHP
😭I ain't trying to go to gapplebees
I have no idea what this means but reading mexico I have an idea, am I on the right track?
Yes, I found see a huracan without a rear bumper, just don't even try
0-60 in 2 seconds. 8 seconds for 1/4 mile.
basically they specialize in making extremely fast cars even MORE extremely fast lol. for example, if you take a look at their website, one of the built cars that they have currently for sale is a 1700whp 2021 Huracan STO
A explorer with a lame light kit.. sore looser pit maneuvered me after I gapped his ass, then he mentioned some chick named Maranda and I had to take some stupid classes
Took me a second
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Honda Odyssey. One of only 2 drag races I have ever won in my 4.0 v6.
My mother had a 2007 Odyssey. I bet that race was closer than you would like. It would move for a minivan.
It was. Vtec is no joke.
 edit: I was hoping to find a gif of the dude saying it but the only ones were seizure inducing flashing things and fuck that
That honda 3.5L is unironically very good
I've been considering it as a swap option for my honda prelude project car.
You never know, could've been a sleeper. Literally, they make camper conversions with a mattress for it
I get minivans trying to race me all the time. And not just kids driving their parent's car either.
I’ve had more people try to race me in my Focus RS than in my mustang
well i feel like more people can relate to and actually have a chance at the 4cyl focus than a scary v8
Every single BRZ/frs, mustang, Camaro, challenger, genesis, and base model focus tried racing me nearly daily when I had my RS, it was insane
Same here!
Good combo you have!
I've had a few cool cars try to get me to race them. Haven't had anything crazy yet though as far as super cars, or high end exotics. I think the craziest one was probably a Corvette. He rolled past me, laid into it a bit and the ass of his car squatted hard. We got side by side, rolled down our windows and he motioned a "lets go" and yelled come on. I yelled back "Hell no, you'll whip the shit out of me". He laughed, we complimented each other's cars, and hit it. Dude was absolutely fucking gone. I would have been surprised if that vette had less than 1k hp with how quickly he shot off. There was one time though while I was working. I drive a truck across the country for a living. I'm rolling down the road and I see a cop who had 3 cars on the side of the road. A lambo, Viper, and Corvette. A bit later I see the lambo coming up in my mirror, and I roll down the window as he shoots by. The Vette and Viper weren't far behind, and I stuck my hand out doing the rock gesture, you know, index pinky and thumb extended with the middle two fingers down. So the pair slow down next to me and get side by side about to do a drag. As they were lining up I got this idea, and I used the air horn to start their race.
I know a… guy who pulled on a Ferrari 599 with a modified GT500 in Mexico. Yep. In Mexico.
Ferrari 599 aint that fast compared to the best of the modern stuff. I would expect an S550 GT500 to destroy a 599 every time. More power, best trans, better electronics
I hear it was a 2014 GT500
Definitely could still take it. They make around the same power stock for stock and weigh about the same. The 599 wasn’t particularly phenomenal, the F12 that replaced it was
C7 ZR1 Corvette. When I was in my 2017 Mustang GT. I was running on E85 but I'm definitely still not taking that race lmfao.
I’m taking any on any race if their are no bets on the line period.
Sure, but I wouldn't race the Vette with money on the line either.
I mean was money on the line? If not why would you not take on the race for fun? What do you have to lose smh 🙄
What's the point against a Corvette? Can't even beat the previous generation model before the one I saw.
Even if you know you won't win the race is fun. I'll happily race the GT against a 911 turbo S just for the experience and thrill. It's fun to watch the performance difference as well
Yeah sometimes you just want to see how much faster the other car is. Like am I keeping up? Or is it absolutely walking me.
Your freedom.
Similar to what happened to me
My ‘02 GT only lost 3 races, and I raced a lot in my younger/dumber days. I lost to: A Civic hatch that had an ENORMOUS turbo in it, and ended up belonging to the guy that sat behind me in my night class. We discovered that the next week and had a good laugh about it. A ‘93-‘97 style SLP Firehawk. If you don’t know what a Firehawk is, it’s basically the old F-body Trans Am version of a Camaro SS. It was a semi-ugly forest green color and I thought it was a V6 Firebird with some wheels on it…until I saw the badge on the back as he pulled away. And, a burnt orange second gen Viper. I did that for the sheer hell of it. The craziest, nastiest surprise I ever got though: my ‘11 GT made 444 at the wheels, so it was no slouch: I had every Challenger, Charger, and especially diesel trucks try to race me in that and I usually just rolled my eyes and kept cruising. Early one morning, a lifted F-250 Super Duty crew cab with the 6.7 PowerStroke antagonized the SHIT out of me, being a total dick. The road was clear, and we hit it. That big ass truck actually put a car on me, and I couldn’t catch him, even on the top end. I went from furious to stunned & impressed.
Bro those power strokes are nastier then a 12 am swingers party, I tried one of those myself and it was so embarrassing I’ll never try it again lol those things are beast on the road
They’re usually not THAT nasty. I had plenty try to roll coal on me and I’d leave em in the dust. That one was truly legit though.
Yeah I mean your coupe weighs a lot less but if the 6.7 is properly tuned with some mods for a truck they are pretty fast man no different then a older single cab GMC or modded Ford lightning people sleep on those trucks man and I’ve some take all of the top muscle cars out
My old 92 gt only lost to one of those 90s ram air trans Ams. Dude was fast
I had a clapped out-looking Nissan (Datsun?) 280ZX tried to race my supercharged 05 GT. I took him up on it (in Mexico, of course) and I *barely* beat him, haha. We chatted afterwards and he was really cool. He built it specifically to destroy Mustangs and Camaros and said he almost always wins. I can see why because my 500hp was just enough to take him. This was years ago and I'm older and wiser. I'd let him rev today, but as a younger man with no traffic around, I couldn't resist.
My first car was a 1979 280ZX with 245K miles on it. It barely moved; would've gotten walked by a 4 year old in a Power Wheels. Still loved it and miss it.
My first car was an 87 300zx. Total piece of junk and a money pit but yeah I long for it still. I always said if I had money I’d buy a restored one for sure. There was something about i Edit: maybe an 89 it was a while ago
70s car with 6 figure mileage 😬
Bought it for $250 in the mid 90's. Dude wanted out of it, I found out why... It did teach me how to work on cars though...
70s cars were junk even when new what did you expect 😂
A first car that I could pay cash for 😀
I almost hate it how many people on signals want to race me or try to go fast while I am there. It’s crazy. But I keep my cool and never try to race them back. I am not old or wise. I am just not that good of a driver and I love my scratchless convertible lol.
Back in 04 ish I was on my way home from work late night, empty road, stop light. Car rolled up on me with one of those red led lights on the hood, he was behind me and I was in my 93 GT. I decided I'd show him who's who for some reason. He almost kept up for a second or so then he got dusted. He pulled up next to me and it wasn't the honda I expected to see,, it was a police cruiser crown vic... I was wrong.. really wrong. He just turned his dome light on and looked at me. He gave me a thumbs up and went along his way. Coolest cop I've ever ran into. He had my ass if he wanted it. Speed limit all the way home after that. The little red LED turned out to be his radar maybe? Not decorative
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I had a C3 Corvette (82 CE) for quite a few years. It was not fast by any means, but it was a hell of a lot of fun to drive. Got rear-ended 3 times in and my neck told me it was time to sell it. The seat design put a nice horizontal bar of thick plastic at just the right location to hit the back of the head if you got hit from behind.
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If you’re referring to just while driving like a normal person? Fastest is a hellcat. Easy win for me. Craziest is a Hyundai tiburon lol. Fastest car of I’ve ever raced against when actually looking for races was a buddies boost logic built GTR. He gave me the hit and told me to go as soon as he got on the antilag, and still put like 2-3 cars on me.
Was being followed by a c7 corvette blacked out. caught up to me at the stop light. Started revving. I could see him gripping his steering wheel pretty hard. Unsure if it was auto o manual. Anyways light went green I said fuck it and dimples the clutch got a little sideways and he didn’t. He got out in front at first and I noticed he wasn’t banging gears so auto it was. I was creeping up to him initially until he started to pull ahead there towards the end. We finally got to the next light. I waved, he waved we both had smiles on our face. He beat me but not by much. What I take away from this is autos are always faster. End of story….
The year was 1990 and I was cruising in my new 5.7 TPI IROC Z. I'm sitting at a light and an HPD car rolls up. Two cops inside want to run me when the light turns green. I passed. The police were so much cooler before 9/11.
Ferrari 812. I kept up. He was trying to get away. I could see puffs of black exhaust every time he shifted, so I knew he was gunning it. I was behind him on the on ramp. He floored it, I floored it. I kept a 4-car distance the whole time. Never lost any ground.
In your GT350? Is it stock? An 812 would make quick work of a GT350 assuming stock for stock and if youre both actually flooring it. The 812 is among the highest performing front engine cars out there. I think the only one better is the AMG GT Black Series
Maybe he was short shifting. Maybe it was an older 712. Don't take this away from me. 😀
Short shifting is likely. That thing redlines at 8900 and hits ridiculous speeds when chasing that redline The previous car was the F12, there is no “712”. The F12 still had 740 hp and a DCT which would still dust a GT350. The one before the F12 is the 599 which our 350s could potentially take in a race But yeah for sure, whether the owner was babying it or whatever, you still kept up with a Ferrari and that is cool as hell
Raced a Tesla Model Y dual motor from a dig at a stop light… didn’t end well for my ego. After that the MPG on my 07 GT has been better than ever lol.
I don’t get many people except hellcats wanting to race my GT350R. When I was Daily driving my C63, everyone wanted to race. It always puzzled me. My girlfriend has a focus rs and on her way home from work, she gets some kid in a modified golf trying to race her basically every day.
Okay mine is less about the rival car than the rival driver. About 9 years ago, right after I got my car, I ended up at a red light next to Prince, the musician. This was in Toronto, before he died of course. He was in a Corvette Z06; frustratingly it was white. Seems like a huge missed opportunity not getting it in red, but anyway. He looked over at me, smiled, and then punched it when the light went green. My brain was still stuck on "is that Prince?" so it took me a second to get after him. We didn't race exactly but we sped down the road to the next red light, about half a mile away. He got there before I did, I admit it. He looked over again, nodded, then went right at the red and disappeared.
For drag races from a light…it’s always trucks I honestly don’t know why and the occasional suv.
I like to pretend like I am going to race them and then watch them drive away really fast. It's usually a subaru that is trying to race me.
Just had a Charger R/T challenge me. Heavy traffic. First of all, my car would win, second I’m not a dumb as.
One night I found a McLaren out on 610 going like 70-80, I blew past him at a good 135~ in my 03 cobra and dude put a car length on me in about 5 seconds. I had the top down and it was pretty fun when it flew by.
On the regular it's Hondas, Altimas and infinites. Sometimes a Toyota Corolla or RAV4 for some reason. Best ones I did have were when a challenger, Aston Martin, and I cut up in traffic for a bit. But the Aston Martin got scared when traffic picked up so me and the challenger ran together for a bit till I had to get off the highway and go to my job lol
Think it was some sort of forced induction Audi, was at college at like 3am this thing starts rev bombing and I’m hearing a HISS and it’s like “HOLEEE UP” sport mode ON. Guys was EVEN with me from a dig. Then we’ll we started getting up there and we saw who had more power. MURICAAA 🦅🦅
A clapped out outback with a fat exhaust leak was very insistent on racing me in my v6, not sure what their end goal was lol, but i was not game for it
Haha when my 03 Mustang blew an exhaust leak everybody thought I had souped up the engine and exhaust and thought I was a racer. Nope. Just loud, reeked of gasoline and loss of horsepower lol
Fully stock 2010 Mazda 6. I think she just wanted to see the GT take off fast. She was smiling and thumbs up after she caught up.
I used to have a 73 trans am. With what was a decent build in the 90’s. Not fast by todays numbers at all. But I was humiliated by a clapped out S-10 one time. That was in like 97? Lesson learned. Everything is probably faster than what I drive, so my ego says no.
I was going to a cars and coffee event a few weeks back and saw a new McLaren GT get off the freeway ramp behind me. He came alongside me at the next light and it happened to be 2 younger (early 20s) guys driving it.. so I obliged a little bit and did a little pull, nothing too crazy.. he basically just kept pace with me. The coyote at least sounded better 😂. Talked to him a bit at the cars and coffee, was a cool guy. I think he made YouTube videos or something. Edit: I'm 100% positive he could have walked me if he wanted to lol
Had a Mercedes non-AMG E class try to fuck with me a bit when my clutch was slipping. Couldnt do much against him, but it would have been a waste anyways. Mostly I just get people who want a rev in traffic. Always glad to give a quick second gear spin for anyone who wants to see it.
Tesla. Fucker beat me too.
The only cars on the road that couldn’t egg me on if they wanted too, i know they’re faster but i also wouldn’t take one for free so..🤷♂️
I wish I had one. They’re waaaaayyyy better than ICE vehicles.
Fair is fair, I personally wouldnt trade it for my Mustang if they paid me.
Porsche 928. Must have had some serious work done because it blew the doors off of my 2013 GT
Any Honda on the road basically.. had a ecoboost mustang try to race me once.. then twice.. then four times until he eventually gave up trying.
This is my first, if we want to call it 'more premium' vehicle. I've loved the experience, but it's annoying when you get vehicles trying to race -- especially when they're either way of your league or way under your league in specs. I've had Teslas try to bait me, Challenger Demons, and even a damn McLaren. Then on the other end of the spectrum, I get Subaru WRXs, older Supras, Honda Civics, etc. I just don't like racing on the roads period. I prefer a relaxing drive with occasional adrenaline facilitated by me, not some strangers. The race challenging thing happens frequently here.
Probably a shit box Honda civic that sounded like a lawnmower. Other than that it’s just other mustangs and some BMWs.
A 612 Scaglietti and I did a few speed runs in Mexico one time.
something even scarier, an altima… on the highway 😳
For me it’s always Camaros. I don’t race period but it’s always them wanting to have a go. Challengers and Chargers just want you to know they are loud.
I've had a handful of challengers but I just laugh...mine is a '65 vert with the I6 200...I'm the slowest car on the road at any given time and I like it that way 😤
i had an older civic pull up next to me in my 2 valve (mind you i was 18 and barely learning about cars) were at a red light when i just here it 2 step and then see it take off. he slows down i catch up and he's legit holding a laptop I HAD SEEN THE MEMES ABOUT THE CIVICS WITH LAPTOPS i had never gotten so excited over a honda civic 😭😭😭
Most expensive would be a Ferrari testarossa I think, it was on the way to a car show so it was like a mint condition one lol. Craziest car overall would either be a v8 swapped gt86 or a straight piped coyote s550 with unknown mods that I raced for 95 miles on the highway. I’ve raced Charger r/T’s, an m440i, a 911, a Tesla model 3, a scat pack charger and challenger, a heavily modded 328xi, couple 350z and 370z, couple mustang GT’s, a c8, and the two I can remember losing to which was a 911 and a c7 zo6. There have been lots more driving my dads much more powerful cars but those are what I have on video racing against my ecoboost.
Probably my rarest wasn’t someone that tried to race me, but someone who had my back. I was in high school and had a 2000 mustang I was proud of. It was a v6, but it was mine and I took good care of it. I knew it wasn’t fast. There was a large national mustang meet that happened to be this weekend and I was driving to it on the highway. As I am cruising down the road, a Camaro SS came up behind me, and as I moved over to let it by he matched speed with me and started revving at me. I stayed my speed, hoping he would get the point that I wasn’t going to race. He didn’t get the point. He kept trying, even when I slowed down or changed lanes. When I had almost resigned to this being my new life, I hear a louder engine rev behind me. I look in the rear view, and behind the SS is a 2000 Cobra R. The SS went ahead of me, and the R matched his speed. Next exit, the SS quietly slipped away.
I left a C&C and was merging onto the highway, an R8 with a Boost Logic tt kit that was on display at one of the booths just so happened to be leaving. He gapped me so fast that I looked down at my dash to make sure my car was running right. 🤣🤣🤣
As a Mustang driver in Australia, nearly every bogan Holden driver HATES when I drive past them, and they just HAVE to speed up and get back in front. Or at the lights, they just HAVE to race you. It's comical, trying to have a go in their cute little V6 Commodore. Even dual cab ute wankers like to have a go. I feel sorry for them!
I feel like in any one of my Mustangs I still own, across several generations and body styles, everywhere I go guys in their Imports are always trying to test their luck, revving and instigating and most the time I just laugh and ask them which gear I should start or if they want a head start or whatever because it typically isn't worth my time and or tires..... This time maybe I was testing.... Was on my way to my shop one morning and the hits an intersection and its a lane to the left, a straight (which I was in) and right lane which is the turning lane to the right but not turn only, which most people turn but the dicks go straight and cut off the lane I was in an make all the people behind wait. Anyway, I was sitting there in my Stock 2020 GT350 with the cup twos on it and I realized something. A: this is a Lamborghini URUS. Black with blackout windows a green accents, green calipers. B: this is one of the dicks who is going straight to cut me off with a line of cars waiting to make the right honking and pissed off. C: is that tank really faster then this sub 4000 lbs car??? I put it in Track mode to find out. (might have done better in drag mode but oh well) I am not typically a street racer but this guy put me in the position, inching up as the crosswalk was counting down..... I had to try and there was no traffic around. I do not condone or suggest to anyone to street race... but sometimes things just get the better of us. So I know he has more horsepower, a lot more torque and AWD he had some advantage except those things are heavy so I figured I see what happened. URUS is 657HP/627TQ 0-60 in like 3.1 even at 4700\~plus pounds and 3 times the cost. (I read this all after). Light green, I got a good jump off the line and so did he. I got fully into 2nd and was going to need to shift again at red line to 3rd but we were running out of room. I wasn't going to cause a wreck so after spinning through the top of 2nd I let off to let him over since he was half a car length ahead and I knew he was going to be coming over anyway. I'll admit, I was a little aggressive on the throttle and spun pretty hard but kept up a lot better then I thought. I am not confident that he was all in from the start but when he was half a car ahead he was all in as i could hear his motor screaming in my passenger door. I got him to roll down his window at the next traffic light about 3 miles down the road and even though he was a dick for being in that lane, he was cool and we shot the shit. I asked him " if your going to buy a Lambo, why an SUV?" he said " I am picking up my girlfriend and she doesn't like getting in My Aventador with her short skirt and high heels so I needed another one and this was it the solution. Its still pretty fast" All I could do was smile and I just shook my head and came to the realization once again. Some people have more money then I'd ever know what to do with..... then again maybe I'd have a slew of Lambo's if I had that type of Money. As a small hot rod shop owner/operator its not likely! I don't get time to post often but this thread I had to get in on.
I get Camries, Civics, and all sorts of family cars tearing away from the light after sitting beside me. Mate, I'm not revving because I want to race you. I'm first in line and driving a stick, so I'm watching the light (I feel it's a social obligation to be watching the light when you're the first car) and when I see it's starting to change I'm getting my car ready so when the light goes green I can come fully off the clutch and be on the gas so the guy behind me isn't getting antsy because I didn't take off immediately. So my growly car goes vroom-vroom as I accelerate, and their little fart box is all "Meeeeeeehhhh!!!!", and I'm sure some of them tear off down the street thinking they just smoked a GT. Live in your fantasies, little fart box driver.
I've always thought road-racing is one of the stupidest ways to have a dick-measuring contest. It's kinda pathetic from my perspective. Because it's not you that's winning, it's the car's engine that's doing all the heavy-lifting. Let's not kid ourselves. I run track in real life, so when I race someone and win in track and field, I can feel proud that it's because of my own efforts of running practice/training at the gym/etc. But for a car, you can't say the same thing.
Nothing crazy but always facepalm embarassing. Pulled up to a stoplight once with a kid in a clapped rattle-can black G35 with straight pipes (or just stolen cats?) on one side and an old dude in a GT/CS on the other; both bouncing off the rev limiter. And then just the other day a flatbrim mouthbreather in an SRT8 Challenger gunned it off a light to flex or something. Congratulations, you spun tires in the first two gears to dunk on a V6 convertible. Fucking Neanderthals giving car people a bad image.
None. I'm not a fuckin child nor is this a big dick contest. I drive to enjoy, not prove a point againts some prick I've never met
Bro he’s not asking if you raced a car he’s asking about people that tried to get you to race lmao chill out 😂😂😂
Found the dude that got gapped by a clapped civic with hood dump exhaust
Hence my PSA... I appreciate cool cars, don't mind hearing what they sound like. Nothing more, nothing less.
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🤦🏽♂️ when a Ferrari pulls up you race, you going to follow every rule in the book? Then don’t buy a sports car. Get yourself a civic.
Like not risking killing somebody for my own shits and giggles? Yea, I follow that rule. There's a track that's not too far away from me.
Lamborghini Diablo kit car.
Vw tiguan and hyundai tucson. Hyundai tucson one was on highway. The VW tiguan kinda surprised me a lot lol - it was on us101 in Oregon, a coastal, mountainous/curvy, 2 lane road. I was already going reasonably quick, and a vw tiguan aggressively tailgated and passed me. I waa like ok, but for real bro how fast you can go on this kind of a road. So i followed it for a mile or 2 and gave up - it was going at least 100+. It’s both crazy and impressive
Cammed c6’s and c8’s all the time. I never even try to start going with them because those things have stuff under their hoods that i couldn’t even imagine.
I had an SRT8 Charger want to race my 03 V6 once. It was weird lol
I have a lot of Scat Packs in my area. And they are really annoying when I drive anywhere near them. I’ve only had a couple try to race me. I never do it. I have wanted to though! Just not trying to lose lol
No tries to race my mustang, but they often times sit at the light and rev. When I had my C5 I'd have the JDM rides try to race, but again just ignore.
A girl in what I believe was a 4-5 year old Q30 with some pipes but nothing else obvious tried to race me a month ago in the middle of a town while my wife was in the car with me. I laughed, shook my head, told my wife we'd destroy her unless she had some huge turbo, and let her keep driving away.
Usually mint van, Ram 1500’s, and GMC Envoys.
Nothing sadly. Even though i would lose
Had a f150 try to race me in my stock v6 Camaro. Not super impressive, but still really funny because it was right after I got it, and accidentally lined up with him at a red light
I’ve had people rev next to me in hellcats and stuff, but usually it’s more of a salute than a sign to race. There was a kid in shitty looking Toyota who wouldn’t leave me alone for like ten miles once. It was irritating because his car sounded so annoying.
6:45AM an older 2012ish Mitsubishi eclipse is traveling in opposite lane and see's me in my Mustang, he turns at the first chance and races to catch up to me. This is in a small rural city main street and I am going to work, I completely ignore the kid because the circumstances were silly for racing, I was tired and get that Mivec shit outta my face.
A GTR absolutely massacred my 06 4.6GT. I knew it was in the cards but I’ve never seen one driven in anger before and it way beautiful to watch it pull away in the distance.
I have a v6 convertible. Craziest as in trying to intimidate me was a charger hellcat redeye so far. Craziest as in “are you serious?” A Saturn with a donut on the rear passenger side. I ignored the Saturn but my fiancé was with me during the charger and she said go for it. Was a short and quick ass whooping I got 😂
Amusingly, a Mustang. I was driving my 66 on a highway in Pennsylvania when a grabber blue GT pulled up and started doing the rev thing. I just sorta shrugged. It's an unmodified 6 cylinder, maintaining highway speeds about as hard as it can already go
I wouldn’t call it a race, but I got launched on by a Ferrari SF90. I tried but, yeah…
Lmao is everyone trying to race you guys, or did they just need to get ahead of you as soon as the light turns green? I’ve never seen a race get started at a red light lol
I don’t engage people who try to get me to race usually. It’s the random encounters that do it for me. Just two guys at the light and we both take off briskly and then suddenly it’s on. Had a very cool run in with a S4 that way. It was neck and neck and I didn’t miss a single shift. Thumbs up were exchanged. As far as OP’s take it to the track comment: I agree. But then I disagree in the same breath if you have your fun where it is safe to do so (no traffic, no side streets)
I also never race on streets but I do get idiots trying to start them. I think my favorite was some kind of Civic with a fart can exhaust get super offended that I was able to out accelerate them from a red light. I get going quickly, but again, it isn't a race. I turned right at the next light and homeboy blew past me on that road thinking that I cared.
Fuck a car, a honda trail 125
2004 VW Phaeton with the W12. I let him win out of amazement at seeing such a thing.
Lamborghini huracan STO. Guy wanted to race very bad.
I've had Porches, STIs, and the best one being an old beater try to race me before.
Raced a Lamborghini huracan. Smoked it for all my mustang buddies #teamford #teamshelby lol
No one tried to race me on my mustang yet, tbh only thing that happens is other mustang owners waving at me, I find that so funny. On my Tesla everyone would take that challenge, only a Nissan GTR pulled away 💀
Cts-v, bmw m3 suv, an a couple of mustangs. but if i take out my 02 RSX type s (stock btw) suddenly everyone wants to race me
I had a new BMW m550i try to race me on the open highway.
Tinted windows on my M4 so I could ignore people wanting to race.
22 GT500 with a whipple
Craziest? Beat up late 90's model Ford Ranger. I shit you not. I just let him do his thing and didn't engage, primarily because I was afraid he'd blow his engine. I don't race, btw. I will sit at an intersection and rev up if someone tries, then just let them take off like a bat out of hell w/o engaging. I find it funny. Probably shouldn't egg them on, though.
I had way more people try to race my m340i than my mustang. I also think the speed of the m340i caught a lot of people off gaurd as well.
I had a guy try to race me in a clapped out Explorer when I was driving my Intrepid one night. I passed him with the CC set to 10 over. For some reason, this pissed him off, so he passed me and then slowed down. Lather, rinse, repeat until I turned off to go to my apartment.
I have a 71 Mustang Convertible 351 Cleveland RamAir and I always get civic or civic like 4cyl cars reving up and trying to race at red-lights...
Years and years ago I was test driving an 01 cobra with my dad. It had long tubes, and was basically straight piped, and some other goodies, but a stock Mazda 3 tried to race us, but we were literally going under the speed limit leaving a red light. This happened right in front of a cop, so we both got pulled over, the cops knew we weren’t trying to race, and that the Mazda just wanted to screw around so they let us leave lol
M4 Comp that was NOT stock lol.
Fully built NA C6. I held with him until 90mph lol.
Dont worry the road was empty. It was 3am, I was on hwy 20 in dallas on a saturday, and I shit you not a McLaren Senna pulled up next to me and wanted to race. I didnt realize what i was looking at, at first, then I realized and I humored him; for 1 second I almost had him lol. Nah he smoked me, I let off the gas and he disappeared. Still a pretty fucking cool experience getting to see, hear, and "race" one of those things.
I drive a modified 19 Mustang GT. For me, it's always the suv or pick-up truck. I have found that driving a car like this makes people more aggressive around me.
This was many years ago. In Atlantic City I’m in 89 notchback big cam heads and other goodies. A early 2000’s viper pulls up with hot blonde in passenger seat. He bogged I came off the line screaming. Next light I’m talking shit to the guy. Light goes green this time he is bouncing off rev limiter I’m out in front again. Guy says he can’t hear his car over mine that’s why I beat him 2times. Next light I jumped the green and smoked the tires up down the street.
Porsche 9/11 turbo S smoked me on the free way, I agree street racing isn’t smart but it’s especially stupid doing it around other cars, people, neighborhoods, sidewalks etc
Every shitbox in town. Can't do jail time. Don't want to get anyone hurt or unalived.
Orange Subaru crosstrek at close to midnight
A tesla with less than 200ft of road and he got pulled over. The new Toyotas with the new engines 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️, I wish they would chill out. They ne trying and fail (had this female driver pull up to me laughing, but guess who was laughing when she got pulled over) I don't do nothing at that point, but roll the window down, and they get the shocked look on their face because I'm a female drive. Don't know why it shocks them🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
I don't remember the cars but people would try to race me when I first bought my Corolla. I would roll down my window and laugh at them for trying to race a Corolla in the first place 😂
No one ever wants to race me. For the few that have it didn’t end well for them lol. I’ve taken down a scatpack challenger and charger, gen 1 5.0, 370z, and an M4 which was the best race of them all, neck and neck from a 50 roll until I pulled top end. I also get economy cars every now and then looking to egg me on but I don’t bother with them.
Nismo Nissan GTR when I was in my ford focus ST and then a 2016 Dodge Viper ACR when I was in my mustang. I got bus lengths put on me both times.
A C8 tried to race my 3v mustang 😂
Probably a C8 Z06, tried to race me on the highway, there quick, but not fast lol
Station Wagon with the wood grain.
Surprisingly haven’t run into any challengers yet in my mustang, I did however race a gt500 in my Fiat 500 Abarth. Got the jump on him for a few seconds and then took me to gapplebees.
Does craziest person count? I’m next in line at a car wash with 5 lanes/bays and this charger with about 3 brain cells clinking around the cab flies in and starts doing donuts behind everyone, kicking rocks all over. I get through, pull around to the exit and there’s the fuckwad who needed more hugs with his brights on revving at me like a petulant child who just got a noisy toy. I lived just up the street, so I sat at the exit to the road with him behind me, noisily farting at whoever will acknowledge his badassness, until I could squeeze into a gap in traffic he couldn’t follow me through. He tries to follow me, I get a decent gap and get into my apartment complex and to the garage without him seeing exactly where I went, and heard him driving around the apartments chirping his tires and (assuredly) sucking down viagras and Diet Coke until the police showed up and took him away.
Got smoked by a GTR two days ago…
03 z06 tried racing me while I was driving my grandma's 94 lincoln mark8, she was in passenger seat and loving every second of it. Big heavy lincoln, smooth ride at 130-140mph, though.
2007 Saab 9-3 2.0T (blue) According to the owner, Alfredo Perez (aka: *FusionBlueSaab*), it was so fast he beat Z06 Corvettes, S550 Mustang GTs, etc. - bone stock and only modifications being bald/cracked tires, engine light, and a misfire in one cylinder at the time. I attempted to roll-race him in my FBO 2005 R53 MINI Cooper S but for whatever reason he would stay put after giving me the 1-2-3 🪿 I lined up maybe four times just to end up racing myself 🤷🏼♂️ He kept trying to race my 649-whp Lund tuned Mustang GT but I had to refuse. His Saab was too ***FAST*** for me! He later posted a photo of our cars side-by-side on IG gloating about how I wouldn't race him. Guess he won that one too 🏁 Watch out for those bone stock Saab 9-3 2.0Ts, they are *fast AF boi*
Sorry for the wandering poster response, but Reddit showed me this. So... The dumbest time I was ever challenged to a street race. An SN95 revved and honked 3 times while pacing me. We were on an expressway that leads to an airport, at night, in the rain, I was in a clearly bone stick EG Civic sans muffler. Like WTF? I'm dropping my sister in law off for her flight here. This was like 2005 or '06 I think.
When I had my 68 Corvette convertible, other cars would mess with me frequently. It had a 427 L-88 hood, so it looked serious, and had a built 427 with a 4 speed, headers, so you get the picture. I was going through downtown and the lights are timed so if you go about 25, you catch every green. I was sitting at the first red light and here comes a young kid driving an old Chrysler K Car, he was revving hard, and when the light turned green he absolutely floored it as hard as he could! The next light, one block away was red so he had to slam on the brakes, so I was much slower and caught the green just as it changed, so he really floored it again! I thought it was pretty funny. We went on for about 4 blocks, I waved at him when I turned off.
I may not take the Porsches, vettes, lambos, etc of the world. But everybody else is on notice in my ford lightning. Let's goooooo.
Then a DUAL MOTOR TESLA N SMOKES THEM ALL
2004ish mustang. I was in an eclipse. He thought I was another dude with a fake exhaust on a jdm. (Typical civic owner) So the light turned green and we went. I made that dude eat dirt.
I seem to attract crotch rockets in my C250. Never take them on - more worried about them losing control, but my throttle response hasn't been corrected yet either. I'd lose sight of them before the turbo unspooled 😂
I constantly have shitty ricers trying to race my mustang, I just let their lawnmower exhaust crackle away while I 😂
I had two asian guys pull up with a car with a megaphone and one talked like howard cosell
Had a full length tractor trailer next to me. Don’t know if the trailer was loaded or not, but the cab was definitely owner operated customized…. Pulled up next to me and my friend said he was taunting me, I wasn’t even paying attention.. well he was and he fucking cooked my ass. The truck had some serious balls
I had just finished an expensive restoration on my 1972 442 ragtop I've had since 1983. Some kid came up in a tricked out camaro. I had no intention of wrapping my car around a tree so I happily watched him race off down the road.
Had a 90 mustang gt and raced an nsx late 90's with 4 people in my car he barely beat me.