If you've owned a sporty car

Biggus_Dickus

oldagetraveller1 said:

I have added two white stripes from bonnet to boot, a GTi badge to the bootlid and a largeTurbo sticker to each door. I think it makes my 1962 Morris Minor 1000 look really sporty and it really does go much faster - 0 to 60mph, eventually.

Thanks for that oat1;...I think it’s safe to say that MSE’s forum pages are a humourless wasteland these days but that certainly made me LoL.

A Moggie Minor with Turbo side stickers,...oh yes!

Takmon

JustAnotherSaver said:

Takmon said:

JustAnotherSaver said:

Something that is either known to be fast or looks like it'd be fast. You know the ones - the R's of the Golf world like the R now and the R32 before, STs & RS of the Ford scene, VXRs & GSIs etc etc.

Did you ever notice a difference in how other road users were with you? Especially those immediately behind you? Compared to say a 'regular' (poor term but best I can think of) car? 

I have a ST right now but I wouldn't even say its fast as its really not. Not with being the diesel version, but I suppose it has the badge. I'm noticing a marked difference with how other road users are. Right up my back end trying to get me to go quicker. Itching for the overtake wanting me to bite. On you go son, I'm in no rush. 

My personal favourite is being at the lights and you start to just creep forward every now and then like you're going to give it some. The guy next to you tyre screeches off as you just slowly pull away not giving a damn. 

Didn't get this anywhere near as much in the last car. Barely ever. 

So your purposely stopping short of the lights enough to allow you to creep forward several times to give the impression your going to speed off to the car next to you and then you wonder why cars are behaving differently around you 

I would say your driving style has probably changed as well if your doing things like that which has an effect on how other drivers around you behave if you give the impression your going to shoot off to get ahead of them when the lights change or if they think you have slowed down on purpose to annoy them. 

If you want to make it sound like I stop a whole cars length from the line and that every time I move its at least a full rotation of the wheel then fine, go ahead. I can't be bothered to tell you otherwise as you've clearly decided how you want to interpret it. 

I never said a whole cars length did i... If your creeping forward a bit a couple times then you must be intentionally stopping short of the line to be able to do that and your intentionally making it look like your "going to give it some" then you post on the forum wondering why people behave different around you on the road... hmm i wonder why 

Personally i stop just before the line and then wait for the traffic lights to change before i move no matter how fast i plan to accelerate because it just looks silly if your inching forward. 

JustAnotherSaver

So you intentionally stop just before the line instead of perfectly at the line? 

And here was me thinking you'd quickly get out with your rulers. I'm disappointed. I actually thought you were as perfect as you suggest. Turns out you're just a regular guy after all. 

Takmon

JustAnotherSaver said:

So you intentionally stop just before the line instead of perfectly at the line? 

And here was me thinking you'd quickly get out with your rulers. I'm disappointed. I actually thought you were as perfect as you suggest. Turns out you're just a regular guy after all. 

I think you must be misunderstanding my posts... I'm not criticising you for not perfectly stopping at the line; I'm laughing at you because you said you intentionally stop early so you can inch forward bit by bit to make it look like you are "going to give it some" then you wonder why other drivers act differently around you 

This is nothing to do with who's perfect and who's not this is you saying you do this on purpose...

JustAnotherSaver

Takmon said:

I'm laughing at you because you said you intentionally stop early .

I said what exactly?

shayne66

Misses has an Abarth and noticed when am driving that, people are always so close to the rear bumper as if trying to push it out the way. Yet when i drive my car Kia Pro Ceed GT very rare that someone will come close. All i can put it down to is that the Abarth is alot smaller in dimensions so people treat it as a small car that will take 15 seconds to hit 60 so must get past it.

Takmon

JustAnotherSaver said:

Takmon said:

I'm laughing at you because you said you intentionally stop early .

I said what exactly?

Well it's very clearly in your OP that your "personal favourite" is to creep forward to give the impression you are "going to give it some". So as you said it's your "favourite" then you obviously do it intentionally and if your creeping forwards a few times then your obviously stopping short of the line to allow you to do this, unless your saying you creep forward and go over the line as your doing it which would be even sillier!. 

JustAnotherSaver said:

My personal favourite is being at the lights and you start to just creep forward every now and then like you're going to give it some. The guy next to you tyre screeches off as you just slowly pull away not giving a damn. 

When i see people creeping forward several times while waiting for the lights to change then i always think how silly that is because it just add wear to their clutch and provides no benefit as opposed to just stopping and not moving until the lights change like sensible people would do 

Biggus_Dickus

Takmon said:

JustAnotherSaver said:

Takmon said:

I'm laughing at you because you said you intentionally stop early .

I said what exactly?

Well it's very clearly in your OP that your "personal favourite" is to creep forward to give the impression you are "going to give it some". So as you said it's your "favourite" then you obviously do it intentionally and if your creeping forwards a few times then your obviously stopping short of the line to allow you to do this, unless your saying you creep forward and go over the line as your doing it which would be even sillier!. 

JustAnotherSaver said:

My personal favourite is being at the lights and you start to just creep forward every now and then like you're going to give it some. The guy next to you tyre screeches off as you just slowly pull away not giving a damn. 

When i see people creeping forward several times while waiting for the lights to change then i always think how silly that is because it just add wear to their clutch and provides no benefit as opposed to just stopping and not moving until the lights change like sensible people would do 

If you wish to go tear’arsing away  from traffic lights like  Lewis Hamilton then having the car rolling, even if it’s just very slowly, before hitting  the accelerator is an enormous benefit if you’re in a race with another idiot in the car next to you.

It’s all relative of course, but it takes time and a fair amount of power to get a car rolling from a standstill;...once it’s rolling things get a bit easier. Anyone who has pushed a broken-down car knows that!

So my advice to anyone at traffic-lights who wants to prove what a toss-pot great driver they are is to always get your car rolling just a tad,...then go for it big style!

Jack_Cork

forgotmyname said:

Sleeper aproach here also.  When your plain blue Rover saloon (automatic) with steel wheels and plastic
wheel trims leaves the lights with barely a chirp from the tyres and leaves the XR3i in his rear view mirror.
Guy in the Escort Turbo was rather surprised to see what he could not shake off and could not keep up
on the straight bits.

Or wondering why the Ford Sierra in front of him on the motorway started pouring smoke from the exhaust
glance at the speedo (oops 135), he pulls over and I whizz past.

It was no supercar but good for 150mph and looked boring which was a good thing back in the 90's where
anything with a go-faster stripe got stolen twice a day.

18mpg on the commute though.

XR3i's were slow though. People really thought there were fast, good marketing and a few stripes on the bonnet. I had a 205 1.9 GTI and it would leave them easily at the lights. Always made me chuckle to see their sad face as I left them behind. Ah those were the days

Were_Doomed

But a 205 1.9 GTi was basically a go-kart with a huge engine and a small body shell - no weight to get moving. An XR3i was an Escort with stripes and a bit of body kit (and maybe a slightly tuned engine).