Comments or compliments from other drivers?
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ill_eagle94
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- 1990 Mazda Miata
'99 BMW M3 Driver: What's under the hood of that thing?
Me: 2.3 Turbo.
'99 BMW M3 Driver: Damn man, what kind of power is it making?
Me: I dunno, it's rated 263 HP at the crank.
'99 BMW M3 Driver: I gotta get a new car, I can't handle this. I just put $6000 into the motor at Dinan.
Me: It still goes pretty good man!
'99 BMW M3 Driver: Yeah, it's ok, 278 HP at the wheels.
Me: That's not bad.
Then the light turned green and we carried on our seperate ways. All this after I beat him by about half a car from a 5mph roll to somewhere in mid 4th, where he launched the car and I went easy in first because of a bumpy area in the road.
Me: 2.3 Turbo.
'99 BMW M3 Driver: Damn man, what kind of power is it making?
Me: I dunno, it's rated 263 HP at the crank.
'99 BMW M3 Driver: I gotta get a new car, I can't handle this. I just put $6000 into the motor at Dinan.
Me: It still goes pretty good man!
'99 BMW M3 Driver: Yeah, it's ok, 278 HP at the wheels.
Me: That's not bad.
Then the light turned green and we carried on our seperate ways. All this after I beat him by about half a car from a 5mph roll to somewhere in mid 4th, where he launched the car and I went easy in first because of a bumpy area in the road.
i've only received compliments from people at the dealership. one of them was from some guy who works at mazda and said, "yeah, we did a great job with this car."
hahaha. he complimented himself. aside from that, i just get looks every now and then from people i pass.
it is a nice sleeper
hahaha. he complimented himself. aside from that, i just get looks every now and then from people i pass.
it is a nice sleeper
So far I've only gotten one compliment from a stranger, I'm sure mostly due to the sleeper nature of the car.
I pulled up to a little strip mall where this Sprint rep was smoking outside his store and he said "I like your MazdaSpeed3". He only saw the car from the front, so he must know enough about them to tell it apart from a regular Mazda3.
I pulled up to a little strip mall where this Sprint rep was smoking outside his store and he said "I like your MazdaSpeed3". He only saw the car from the front, so he must know enough about them to tell it apart from a regular Mazda3.
haha. no one knows about this car. it's fantastic. i told one of my friends that i got a new car. now, he's a car enthusiast and a tuner as well. and he asked me what i got. i told him an ms3, and he was like, that's cool. he had no idea. i called him up about a week later asking him questions about blow off valves, and he was like, "you're car has a turbo?!?!?!"
i laughed my ass off
i laughed my ass off
You think that's funny, I took my car in for service and the DOdge tech asked me how long it took me to build my car. THEN he argued with me trying to tell me Dodge never made a Turbo Neon!! I left and went to the Toyota Dealer.
Yeah, I haven't been back there. It's a little dealership out here in the boonies of Florida. I work at the Toyota dealer and these guys are TRAINED!
back on topic
last night, i was driving home at 3:15 and this cat comes up beside me on the right in a tiburon, and rolls down his window.
he asked, "that's the speed?"
i said, "yeah."
he asked, "it's got like 260 hp?"
i said, "about that."
he continues with, "damn...it's got a turbo, right?"
i said, "yeah."
further deepening the questioning, this guy asks me about the srt-4. "i bet you spank on them srt's."
i followed up with, "i haven't seen a lot of them, but i beat an s2000 earlier."
then the light turned green
last night, i was driving home at 3:15 and this cat comes up beside me on the right in a tiburon, and rolls down his window.
he asked, "that's the speed?"
i said, "yeah."
he asked, "it's got like 260 hp?"
i said, "about that."
he continues with, "damn...it's got a turbo, right?"
i said, "yeah."
further deepening the questioning, this guy asks me about the srt-4. "i bet you spank on them srt's."
i followed up with, "i haven't seen a lot of them, but i beat an s2000 earlier."
then the light turned green
I had a Ford Probe GT. While stopped at a light, and old lady in the car next to me asked, "Is that a GTO?"
I still don't know if she meant the Pontiac or the Ferrari. (This was years ago, long before they reintroduced the GTO.)
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A guy I work with, I see him every morning. He drives a nice lexus IS 300, exhaust, huge volk rims. So he asks me about my new car one day and looks totally dumbfounded when I explain to him it has a turbo. I thought for sure this guy would know his stuff but it seems like the ms3 really is the sleeper of the automotive world right now. I dont think he knows just how fast I can go(headbang)
I know what you mean. I used to drive my parent's strawberry red '95 neon. Everyone said it looked pink
Looked more like a strawberry margarita to me (freak)Reminds me of that commercial with the little kid on the bike "is that a hemi?" but the guy pictures some harley riding biker dude.
