Great thread, really. a coworker, and good friend now describes me as psssssshtiiinngggg while acting out the shifting motion. He is a musclecar guy and rightly so. It has been has been said, if you go to lunch with Eric you might get back before lunch break even started. I know my coworkers are just being nice to me. But that is ok. My son who is 22 asked me to start it up for his buddies, and I left him to describe with enthusiasm the modifications as if this car was one of the fastest cars around. You guy have great stories! I just read this thread .thanks!
MS3 and unsuspecting passengers.
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Heehee, awesome thread. It brings a smile to one's face seeing hwo much it surprises people. >
A couple different stories of my own:
1. Last year my mother and father were down visiting my brother and I. My father is all about domestic cars and didn't think too highly about my purchase of the Speed at the time. I offered to let my father take the Speed out for a drive. He agrees and we get in and head out towards one of the local highways. He merges normally off the on-ramp, the entire time I'm thinking 'Just push the damn thing!'. We get going down the highway and he's just cruising at 65ish when a truck decides to try and pass. He gives the Speed a little gas and the turbo kicked in pushing us both back a little into our seats. Looking over right quick I saw that content grin on his face and all he says is 'Well, guess he's not passing us...' Shortly after that we got off the highway and headed back to my brother's and dropped my father off so my mother could take a spin in it. All my father said to me, with a straight face, when he got out was 'Well...it's a nice little car....' then he headed inside. Later I talked with my wife and she told me that once my father got in the house there was a wide grin on his face and he kept on going on about the Speed.
2. My brother, a friend of his, and I were heading home from a concert and it was about midnight-ish and we had taken my car. Driving down the highway and coming out out of a city we come up to a Jetta 2.L Turbo. I went to pass him and he decided to speed up, so I press on the gas a bit more. Soon enough, we're both floating around 90, neither of us deciding to punch any further due to the corner up ahead (a long, lazy corner, but a corner none the less). The Jetta slows down some and my I keep on the same amount of throttle. My braces himself and grabs the 'Oh S***' handle as we start to enter the corner. He let's out a nervous "Um... Tom?.." and all I reply with is "Don't worry. I've got it." The Speed stuck like a bug on fly paper and I chuckled a little after the corner and looked over to see my brother still gripping the handle. A few seconds later his from says from the back "That was fun..."
A couple different stories of my own:1. Last year my mother and father were down visiting my brother and I. My father is all about domestic cars and didn't think too highly about my purchase of the Speed at the time. I offered to let my father take the Speed out for a drive. He agrees and we get in and head out towards one of the local highways. He merges normally off the on-ramp, the entire time I'm thinking 'Just push the damn thing!'. We get going down the highway and he's just cruising at 65ish when a truck decides to try and pass. He gives the Speed a little gas and the turbo kicked in pushing us both back a little into our seats. Looking over right quick I saw that content grin on his face and all he says is 'Well, guess he's not passing us...' Shortly after that we got off the highway and headed back to my brother's and dropped my father off so my mother could take a spin in it. All my father said to me, with a straight face, when he got out was 'Well...it's a nice little car....' then he headed inside. Later I talked with my wife and she told me that once my father got in the house there was a wide grin on his face and he kept on going on about the Speed.
2. My brother, a friend of his, and I were heading home from a concert and it was about midnight-ish and we had taken my car. Driving down the highway and coming out out of a city we come up to a Jetta 2.L Turbo. I went to pass him and he decided to speed up, so I press on the gas a bit more. Soon enough, we're both floating around 90, neither of us deciding to punch any further due to the corner up ahead (a long, lazy corner, but a corner none the less). The Jetta slows down some and my I keep on the same amount of throttle. My braces himself and grabs the 'Oh S***' handle as we start to enter the corner. He let's out a nervous "Um... Tom?.." and all I reply with is "Don't worry. I've got it." The Speed stuck like a bug on fly paper and I chuckled a little after the corner and looked over to see my brother still gripping the handle. A few seconds later his from says from the back "That was fun..."
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sweet I have a couple of stories of my own but pretty much to the same extent. Unsuspecting friends. My father is most definetly one of the people that wasn't expecting it. He had driven the car once when the car was stock, after all the mods and I had the CPE ems at 18 he wouldn't even let me take him out in it anymore. Thats how scared of it he was... Don't knw why??? Whats funny, is that my mother is always asking me "what else have you done?, take me to the grocery store..."...lmao My mother loves it. Weird...
A buddy of mine always called the Mazda3 a girls car. So he would always joke on me that I drive a girls car. He was never serious, but I don't think he knew just how fun the MS3 was. He's a great photographer, so after snapping some pics of my car I give him a ride. By the end of the ride he was really impressed. I just thought it was funny that about 60 seconds in a parking lot can change his mind .
.on the 4th of july right after the fireworks i was drving a few friends home. my buddy and his girl where in the back seat (she had never been in my car). my buddy informed me that he had "a little rumbling in his belly" and needed to visit a toilet asap, and a gas station wouldnt do.
So being the good friend I am, I weaved my way through traffic with some VERY spirirted take-offs and got him home in time to do 'his business'. The entire time, he was yelling at me to go faster and his girlfriend kept yelling at me to slow down or she was gonna get sick. When we got home she got out and looked at her boyfriend and said "I'm NEVER getting in that thing again"
So being the good friend I am, I weaved my way through traffic with some VERY spirirted take-offs and got him home in time to do 'his business'. The entire time, he was yelling at me to go faster and his girlfriend kept yelling at me to slow down or she was gonna get sick. When we got home she got out and looked at her boyfriend and said "I'm NEVER getting in that thing again"
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so i go to give my friend a ride first thing out of his mouth. dude its a chick car. theres no way this would beat my rex point to his blue wrx. i reply yeah man saw like 10 of those on the way to ur house =D he gets in. i take it nice and slow, go around a corner and he being him cocky self. this doesnt even feel fast man theres no way this could beat an srt-4 like u said. then i romped on it i watch him get pushed into his seat and his face light up. wow is all he could say haha. ms3 ftw
i had a co-worker in my car this weekend and took him to a few spots. we first got in the vehicle and i just cruised around the neighborhood until we got to the freeway and i opened the s*** up.
srsly opened it up. it was nice
anyway, i get going on the freeway about 80-90 mph and he looks over and says to me, "the only thing stopping your car is your shifting."
i said yes, and smiled.
srsly opened it up. it was nice
anyway, i get going on the freeway about 80-90 mph and he looks over and says to me, "the only thing stopping your car is your shifting."
i said yes, and smiled.
i have a lot of passengers that have no idea what it is. I was driving two girls last night and they asked if i had the same car as my other friend (a two door gti) I laughed and said no. Then when i was engine breaking one of the girls said "should it be making that noise?" ahahahhaha
I love questions like that LOL. I always ask my ignorant passengers if they hear the chirping noise every time I shift (the bpv). I act worried about it and tell them something is wrong with the call
Alright, my parents showed up unexpectedly at the last autocross I went to. Couldn't talk my dad in to going for a ride but I was able to get my mom in the car with a helmet on. So we take off and before every turn she's like, "Oh God John, slow down". In the middle of the run she said, "I don't like this John". Funny thing is, when it was all over she couldn't stop laughing hysterically and at the same time saying she would never do that again. She also said she was ready to go home and that I should call it a day and go home too. (I'm 28 mind you) Good times.
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I take offense to that statement sir!
1)Driving the girlfriend and her friend and bf, he knows its the speed3 and he starts saying "I can't hear the exhaust, and I thought these things were fast, wtf, you sure you didnt get a badge and just slapped it on?"
So I drop a gear and start passing light traffic, in 3rd sending all 3 of them to the seatback, and grabbing the O-Shi bar. I replied back "Does that answer your question?" He drives a Nissan 2 door V6... I think its an Altima or Maxima... Don't really care.
2) Same people, different cars involved. We had just left the movie theater and it was raining hard, they had parked by the closest parking lot, and since I knew it was going to rain, I parked in the garage.
They take the alternate route with the light that changes to green the fastest meanwhile I got stuck behind people who can't drive 20mph when it rains.
I get a little bit mad and start pushing my way out of traffic, and speed past my friend. 5 minutes later he calls me to tell me to hurry up, cause there was another CBMS3 up ahead, and he wanted me to race it. I tell him to pull up next to it to see who the driver is. The look on his face was priceless cause he was starting to whine saying that "I was waiting for you, cause i didnt want you kids to get lost in my part of town"
Suffice to say, he's never ridden in my car since that day.
3)Had to pick up girlfriend's friends to drop them off at her house for a surprise birthday party. There was an accident on the main road, and traffic was heavy... I didn't see that many people take the side road that has curves a plenty, so i decided to go for it.
4 friends in the car, they protested as to why I was going AWAY from my gf's place, and I told them to shut up and enjoy the ride.
CONFLICT, one of them likes speed, one of them gets carsick, the other one is screaming for their life.
One of these turns is a corkscrew turn, like at laguna seca speed limit on that turn is 20mph.
I take it fast and all I hear from the back seat is "wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" "OMG I think I'm gonna throw up" "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!" and the one going "Wheee" had the biggest smile on her face.
I slow down and park to let the turbo cool down and we all get out of the car.
carsick girl is trying to recover, and wheee girl is saying "do it again" carsick girl ends up throwing up her lunch, and scarred for life is saying that "i now know why your gf respects you as a driver"
So in closing, Yes scaring unsuspecting passengers FTW.
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Not exactly unsuspecting, but still fun. My wife and I usually take her truck, because we're both big people and let's face it the car is a little small. The other night we had to drop off a quilt she made for a charity auction and weren't sure how to get to the place so she Google mapped it. Her truck was low on gas and we were in a hurry so I got to drive.
Google brought us in by a tight, winding little back road. It was a residential area, but the road was so winding that no one sane was going to get close to the speed limit. I'm in second gear just blasting (relatively speaking) up and down hills, through these tight little turns with a grin you couldn't remove with an axe and thinking that this would be even more fun if it wasn't for the driveways, because then I could actually push it a bit. Just as I think this, my wife looks at me with a little smile and that tolerant look that only a woman who knows you well and loves you anyway can give and says, "you are having way too much fun."
Google brought us in by a tight, winding little back road. It was a residential area, but the road was so winding that no one sane was going to get close to the speed limit. I'm in second gear just blasting (relatively speaking) up and down hills, through these tight little turns with a grin you couldn't remove with an axe and thinking that this would be even more fun if it wasn't for the driveways, because then I could actually push it a bit. Just as I think this, my wife looks at me with a little smile and that tolerant look that only a woman who knows you well and loves you anyway can give and says, "you are having way too much fun."
Gotta love 'em. In a similar situation, mine would inevitably say, "You're such a dork!". It's kinda funny becuase they always seem to be right...at least to some degree
(rlaugh)Officially the funniest tread!
First time passengers never expect this little hatch to be this scary fast. Facial expressions of passengers, especially when accelerating to get on the freeway, or driving through curvy mountain roads, makes me want to put a hidden camera aimed at a front passenger... (shocked)
First time passengers never expect this little hatch to be this scary fast. Facial expressions of passengers, especially when accelerating to get on the freeway, or driving through curvy mountain roads, makes me want to put a hidden camera aimed at a front passenger... (shocked)
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the worst part is, is that your car really shouldn't be making noises if you're rev-match downshifting.
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