Another one of my mindless racing threads!
On our way back into London, we merged into the motorway and to my delight we spotted a beautiful C43 AMG, which prompted me to nudge my mate: "this will give you a run for your money", and by God it did!
There was a (weirdly placed) traffic light beside a motorway entrance merger, and when we stopped at it he was revving his throaty V8 so we knew we were in for some fun.
Off the line, he had the advantage, the 200sx has horrible starting traction and the lack of forgiveness in the uprated clutch's biting point making standing starts quite bad, but once they both got going, it was obvious to all of us that the C43 is a massively underrated beast. We had 3 people in our car, he had 1 in his, and it held its ground even better than an e46 M3 that i've witnessed the 200sx have for dinner in the past and i've even driven this same car on a runway at 160mph+ where its held its ground against Maserati's and low-end Porsches!
The one attempt that managed to prove the 200sx was (very marginally) faster was after the speed camera lines under a bridge, they both slowed down for them, and then immediately after started pulling and the C43 was holding its ground unbelievably well, we pulled on him very very slowly but letting off as soon as we got level with him because both cars had reached filthy speeds. There was almost no difference at all between the performance of both cars, i'm so impressed with the performance of the AMg even til now when i think about it.
I'm still trembling because it was such a rush!! Brilliantly fun on very empty stretches of straight road, a good Halloween night for me :bannana:. (Wish it was my 540i, but oh well)
On our way back into London, we merged into the motorway and to my delight we spotted a beautiful C43 AMG, which prompted me to nudge my mate: "this will give you a run for your money", and by God it did!
There was a (weirdly placed) traffic light beside a motorway entrance merger, and when we stopped at it he was revving his throaty V8 so we knew we were in for some fun.
Off the line, he had the advantage, the 200sx has horrible starting traction and the lack of forgiveness in the uprated clutch's biting point making standing starts quite bad, but once they both got going, it was obvious to all of us that the C43 is a massively underrated beast. We had 3 people in our car, he had 1 in his, and it held its ground even better than an e46 M3 that i've witnessed the 200sx have for dinner in the past and i've even driven this same car on a runway at 160mph+ where its held its ground against Maserati's and low-end Porsches!
The one attempt that managed to prove the 200sx was (very marginally) faster was after the speed camera lines under a bridge, they both slowed down for them, and then immediately after started pulling and the C43 was holding its ground unbelievably well, we pulled on him very very slowly but letting off as soon as we got level with him because both cars had reached filthy speeds. There was almost no difference at all between the performance of both cars, i'm so impressed with the performance of the AMg even til now when i think about it.
I'm still trembling because it was such a rush!! Brilliantly fun on very empty stretches of straight road, a good Halloween night for me :bannana:. (Wish it was my 540i, but oh well)
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