hahaha, this is great. 4th gear is almost magical though...so it's ok if he didn't take it out of 4th. hahaha
What did your dad do first ride/drive???
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hahaha, this is great. 4th gear is almost magical though...so it's ok if he didn't take it out of 4th. hahaha
when i bought mine a few months ago the dealership told me before i came they didn't do test drives well i brought my dad down there cuz he was buying the car and the salesman was asking me what i think and i told him i had already driven one and my dad would be the judge..lol he let me dad take it out for a test drive lol...my dad didn't drive it long but he was like it's ridiculously fast and its probably the fastest car i've ever drove and he told me he was worried about how fast it was haha
Well until I have a mom/dad driving story, I'll briefly share about the first time I took my parents for a spin in the car.
Dad was in the passenger seat and mom was in the back, seated behind him. They live a rural area and we took the little beast out to some winding roads in the middle of nowhere and I opened it up for them. As I accelerated and dad gradually got pushed back into the seat, all he could mutter was "Wow". He then proceed to grab whatever oh-s*** handles he could locate.
My mom on the other hand was pretty funny. While in the back seat thumbing through my recent wedding's album, she said hardly anything. Calm as a cucumber. She would glance up every now and then to ask a question about the album, but that's about it.
On a side note, both of my folks autocrossed their Datsun 240Z during the mid seventies.
Dad was in the passenger seat and mom was in the back, seated behind him. They live a rural area and we took the little beast out to some winding roads in the middle of nowhere and I opened it up for them. As I accelerated and dad gradually got pushed back into the seat, all he could mutter was "Wow". He then proceed to grab whatever oh-s*** handles he could locate.
My mom on the other hand was pretty funny. While in the back seat thumbing through my recent wedding's album, she said hardly anything. Calm as a cucumber. She would glance up every now and then to ask a question about the album, but that's about it.
On a side note, both of my folks autocrossed their Datsun 240Z during the mid seventies.
My dad races motorcycles to this day. He owns 2 1980 TZ750's in immaculate condition. Thats a two stroke 750cc motorcycle. They are factory yamaha race bikes from the 1980's. Beastly things! In Scotland he also has a R33 GT-s Skyline. Not a GTR, but i have driven it. Its still 260hp, and quick because its got no AWD weight. I myself race a 125cc shifter kart so I know a litlte bit about going fast. I was raised at the racetrack.
So I took my dad for the first ride in the MS3...took it easy let her get nice and warmed up. Short shifted to second gave it a half throttle burst...then into third and full whack from 3500 RPM...hahah before i could even get to 5500 dad goes. "Well thats just a good way to get arrested in this town..."
I said "If I can't show my speedfreak dad what my new car can do who can I show?"
He just chuckled....
I wrote a similar post in the taking people for rides section...
So I took my dad for the first ride in the MS3...took it easy let her get nice and warmed up. Short shifted to second gave it a half throttle burst...then into third and full whack from 3500 RPM...hahah before i could even get to 5500 dad goes. "Well thats just a good way to get arrested in this town..."
I said "If I can't show my speedfreak dad what my new car can do who can I show?"
He just chuckled....
I wrote a similar post in the taking people for rides section...
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- 2008 Mazda5 5MT Sport w/ Popular Package
Fun thread, so here we go:
In my home country it has been more common to have 4cyl "ricers" with MT since the early so my sis and me were always lucky my dad would "test-drive" them before buying us a car. It was his money after all.
There was only one thing he never gave a crap on 4cyl cars: RPMs, I swear there were some times where the test car would yell "shift gear please", if it had an RPM gauge it would be already in purple, not red. You had to see the seller's face (shocked), especially when going on a steep hill, which was my dad's favorite test.
His latest ride is a Turbocharged 2.4L Chrysler Sebring (AT), yeah, it is a not a ricer per-se but he got tired of MT. He has owned tons of cars, from 1975-1977 Mavericks to 1995 Suburbans and even a couple of VWs, a Nissan Sentra Hatchback turbo and 2 Ford Tempos
Whatever it is, I bet no 4cyl MT car misses him, and he's impressed how far the 4cyl cars have come
In my home country it has been more common to have 4cyl "ricers" with MT since the early so my sis and me were always lucky my dad would "test-drive" them before buying us a car. It was his money after all.
There was only one thing he never gave a crap on 4cyl cars: RPMs, I swear there were some times where the test car would yell "shift gear please", if it had an RPM gauge it would be already in purple, not red. You had to see the seller's face (shocked), especially when going on a steep hill, which was my dad's favorite test.
His latest ride is a Turbocharged 2.4L Chrysler Sebring (AT), yeah, it is a not a ricer per-se but he got tired of MT. He has owned tons of cars, from 1975-1977 Mavericks to 1995 Suburbans and even a couple of VWs, a Nissan Sentra Hatchback turbo and 2 Ford Tempos
Whatever it is, I bet no 4cyl MT car misses him, and he's impressed how far the 4cyl cars have come
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My dad's 1st car was a hemi challenger...he wanted a vette and took my grandmother for a test drive...which was a mistake because she didn't let him buy it. he didn't take her for a drive in the challenger...just bought it without asking. ( he paid cash ).... I don't know what mods he and his buddies had done to it but he told me that it had so much tq that it would tweak the body and broke the a pillar on the drivers side. needles to say he wrecked the car after about a year of ownership
