Why does every rice burner wants to compete with my Porsche?

[JackG]

Mine is Ocean Blue Metallic, and from the pictures I can't tell the difference. From my view, yours could be Ocean Blue as well.

Maybe one day I'll see mine and a Lapis Blue one side-by-side, and will be able to tell the difference.

[xclusivecar]

I view others reactions to my car as a compliment. They may look foolish revving the engine and chirping the tires and pulling away as if they were mad at the world...but they only do this because they are envious.

[pecivil]

I have never had that happen to me...a ricer rev me at a light. Maybe I just look too old for someone to "have a go"

street racing is not a smart thing to do anyway, the consequences loom too large

but having said that......

about a month ago, I was enjoying some twisties on some backroads near Poway, I was happily zipping along at 60 or so, and a guy in a very nice looking black 993 coupe zoomed up even with me in the right lane (2 lane road each way and very light traffic BTW) and proceeded to point his finger forward indicating he wanted to have a go (obviously planning to beat my lowly 217hp box hehe) and he gunned it.....

I KNOW it wasn't the right thing to do but adolescent exuberance overtook me and I floored it and blew past him quite readily with the 3.4 transplant thing and after I past him, I slowed and waited for him to catch back up and then floored it again and passed him again! great fun.

So we finally come to a light and He rolls down his window and says "What do you have in that Boxster??!"

God I love my car......

[silverboxter]

PE Civil - cool story.

As for the thread, I had hybrids rev their engines next to me! Just brings a smile to my face that they think so much of my box.

[ROMES]

My friend rev'd @ a vette in his accord with me as his passenger...I was embarrassed....

then the vetter peeled off and left us ...ya felt stupid being with him !

[alikhan78]

Pecivil thats a hilarious story, I wish I had the same engine setup, I would have loved to see the look on other driver's face.

[aussieboxy]

I tend to get people who really like my car. Last night on the way home from a night out my wife & I were sitting at the lights and a guy in a Carolla pulls up beside us. He says hey nice car.....go on give it to it, you know you want to and damn I want to hear it. So the lights go green and I slowly let out the clutch and then floored it to about 6.5K in 1st then slipped it into 2nd up to about 4K at about which time we were at the speed limit so then into 4th and cruised.

Have only had a couple of runs in it. Once with a friend of mine who has a 03 Boxster Tiptronic. We were both suprised at the difference. Both 2.7 mine manual mine was considerably quicker. Over about 300 meters I beat him by about 2 car lenghts. Another was with a tricked Celica 4wd Turbo. Ate him too, the last was with my best mates Aston Martin DB7. This is a 7 litre V12. An absolutely awsome car. Of course he beat me but I was surprised at how well the Boxy went against it.

The DB7 is really a high end machine, accelerates from 200km per hr to 270 in no time.

I agree street racing is stupid. The best part of these cars is how the handle. My mate that has the DB7 used to have a Boxster & wished he never sold it although he loves the Aston, just different cars.

[djomlas]

pecivil,
thats awesome man, i love it.

my buddy was trying to chase a porsche 3 yrs ago, guy took a turn very fast (well that car can), and my friend 'tried' the same in his rice box acura w a big wing, and ended up in the median with broken tranny and 3 bent wheels (that were painted white btw, lol), hahah

[brp987]

ok, it happened again. not a ricer, but worse, another p.o.s. not(S) UV. I'm in the fast lane. Traffic is light. I'm over the limit, ~85, but not unsafe. I come up on a view-blocking ford excavation/navigation/whatever doing 65. He could easily do that speed in a slower lane, but no, he won't. I come up a little closer so he'll get the point, but he won't budge. ok fine a-hole, I'll go around. Now he speeds up. I speed up. He speeds up. I dispatch him. I look at my speedometer - 110mph. I'm thinking - what was that?! Do suv drivers consider themselves top o' the foodchain? Did he have the impression that box's were slow and could fend one off? Or, was he thinking, ok, all I got is this p.o.s. and I'll just make the best of it? I did not understand.