Top 3 cars you love to burn off

[garystu1965]

Probably an old hat topic but here's mine.

1. Lexus IS200 (I hate them and I used to own two GS300s - heaven knows why).

2. BMW 323Ci (over-rated - under-equipped).

3. Audi A4 1.8T (yuk).

Oops I've just realised I've become a Mercedes snob after owning mine for just under three weeks It's not perfect but it's a glorious machine.

 

[pammy]

1) one that's in front of me
2) one that's next to me
3) one that's behind me

 

[Big Ed]

Used to really enjoy sitting at the lights in the M3 with a souped up Nova revving away next to me - would normally rev mine a couple of times in response, then when the lights changed........trundle off while he went wheel-spinning up the road - why waste petrol showing that, strangely, 343BHP makes a car go a bit quicker than a 1.3 Vauxhall.......

 

[Maff]

None - not even M3's or Porsche's seem to take an interest that I have come across.

 

[garystu1965]

Hardly surprising. It's an awesome beast.
I once saw Peter Schmeichel in a local supermarket car park in Cheshire and he had a CL55 Parkhurst (or was it Parkers - not sure)

 

[guydewdney]

found it amusing that a boyed up honda ?civic? RS had a go around the oxford ring road - ok he won from 0- 40 mph - but from 40 - 140 mph......

 

[Ian B Walker]

Hmmm now let me see

Trabant
Skoda
Fiat 500

oh and as an afterthought ............ Volvo (fastest tractor on the motorway)

 

[SEM]

My Brother put a 2 litre Cortina engine into a mark 1 escort. used beat anything off the lights.. Just ask my sister!!! and she had an racing imp aswell!

Other than that my 220 CDI i've not put to the test yet, i know its a breeze at the top end (tried it to Italy) but i hate it when i try to floor it, i was so used to my hot hatch wiping the floor with anything.. like my comforts now

 

[peterchurch]

1) Any low spec BMW

2) Golfs

3) Rep-mobiles

But on a point of note I don't burn them I waft past them

 

[Richard W]

C180

E200

SL320

I don't burn past either, just leave them in a cloud of soot....

[/tongue-in-cheek]

 

[peterchurch]

C180

E200

SL320

[/tongue-in-cheek]

 

[glojo]

Used to really enjoy sitting at the lights in the M3 with a souped up Nova revving away next to me - would normally rev mine a couple of times in response, then when the lights changed........trundle off while he went wheel-spinning up the road - why waste petrol showing that, strangely, 343BHP makes a car go a bit quicker than a 1.3 Vauxhall.......

Totally, 100% agree. My son has a very nice Ford Escort and hopefully he still adopts a similar attitude.

Road rage is usually a self inflicted situation that needs at least two participants. Far better to say, "Well done, you win, I loose" As they burn their clutch, wear out their tyres and burn pints of diesel

Anyway here's my three

I would love to burn off a Police Patrol car from a set of traffic lights.
The Chief Constable's chaffuer driven car as they drive along the motorway at excessive speed.
Oh and the Prime Ministers cavalcade as they drive the wrong way down a one way street.

Regards,
John

 

[DITTRICH]

...on my route through central london there are numerous places where there are more lines of cars at the lights than on the road after the junction. Where the arrows point left or right or straight on. Not a day goes by without some git trying to get ahead in the turn left or turn right lane at the lights. I guess it really depends what mood I'm in, but woe betide any car / white van that's been nestling on my rear bumper and then splits off into the lane next to me at the lights. A C230K is stupendously quick off the mark in 1st all the way to 5,500rpm and the auto shift is invariably quicker than their manual shifts. Following manuals off from the lights can have its own joys - ie repeatedly having to 'dab' the accelerator because the person changing gear in front is doing so slowwwwwwwly - and before you say I'm too close to them, leaving any spare space on a London road means that someone will fill it for you from another line, particularly if your line is faster, thereby pissing off all the cars behind you (well it has tht effect on me anyway).
Rgds
Les

 

[Big Ed]

I would love to burn off a Police Patrol car from a set of traffic lights.

- Now THAT is a nice idea - wonder if we could hire a traffic police car + Police driver to come along to Bruntingthorpe, just so we could burn past it at 10% + 6(!!!)Mph along the straight???

 

[Big Ed]

None - not even M3's or Porsche's seem to take an interest that I have come across.

I'll have a go at that!!

Ok, it would have to be in snow/ice/damp grass/or a REALLY wet slippery piece of road, and even then only to ~60mph.

Or preferably a farm track where you don't get the ground clearance to drive down it.....

P.s. whats the 0-100 on yours? Got to be somewhere around the 10 second mark?

 

[Flash]

None - not even M3's or Porsche's seem to take an interest that I have come across.

Just find a Ferrari or Lambo mate - my encounter in the CL600 with the Ferrari Modena 360 was minor 0-50MPH because of built up traffic and it did feel nice to have just squeezed in front and maintain staying in front, but had it been on motorway I'm sure the Ferrari would have got away easier as the CL was restricted to 160MPH etc.- the needle started to shake at 160 mark when I once tested the car on another seprate occassion (not endangering anyone else as m/way was empty in the early hrs of one morn...). I would not dare doing that again now as I relaise that I was a little immature back then then.

Flash

 

[PJH]

- Now THAT is a nice idea - wonder if we could hire a traffic police car + Police driver to come along to Bruntingthorpe, just so we could burn past it at 10% + 6(!!!)Mph along the straight???

Where do TV/Film companies hire their cars from ? There must a vehicle supply company somewhere......

 

[uumode]

1. Metro - I've owned one, it really is a horrible car
2. Rover 200
3. MG

oh dear.. some sort of pattern there...

Main reason I dislike them is because they are so aged, but not in a classic way, just tired.

 

[Big Ed]

Where do TV/Film companies hire their cars from ? There must a vehicle supply company somewhere......

Nah, we want a real one! This government is so keen on using the police for revenue raising that I reckon we could get several traffic cars for the day if we bunged the Home Secretary £100.....

 

[glojo]

Or you could phone them up and say you have made a citizens arrest and detained someone for attempting to steal your car. If you then tell them that the poor car thief received a broken arm during the struggle.......

I should imagine there will be a convey of vehicles all coming to arrest you!

Bye,
John The Stirrer