you know.... i find myself so often coming up against ummm... how should i say this without being offensive...?.... um, "Younger-people's-tuner-cars," like the Evo, the WRX STi, turbocharged civics, turbocharged and supercharged jettas etc...... and they always end up disappointing me. i've crushed countless evo's STi's turbo civics, VR6's etc. the local college here has a big auto-department, so there's TONS of these cars rolling around here and a lot of street racing on the back roads. i have maybe ONCE seen one of these 'fast & the furious' -type cars truly impress me in my life at the track and on the street. (a turbocharged and nitroused honda S2000 with a fully built forged motor and tranny) in all of the cars i've owned, i've never lost to 'one of these' kinds of cars, no matter what they added to it.

maybe it's poor driving through the gears, or not enough back-pressure from ENORMOUS exhausts, turbo-lag, poor tuning, etc. but a powerfully built factory-boosted AMG car never seems to get caught in someone's rearview mirror. in fact, i ran a dead-even race against a friend's CLS63 last week!(only up to 80mph though)

also, FWD? from a dig, not so 'sporty.' AWD? very cool, but not when you have like 3-seconds of turbo lag! now, V8's, that's a different story! ran against some very quick, and very cheap camaros and firebirds! raced a really quick mustang cobra but it threw a piston mid race..................and another cobra that caught fire......... and another cobra that broke an axle........(this all really happened!)
i don't race cobras anymore, for fear that they might hit me with a piece of their car or an explosion.....

another friend of mine has a new GT-R on it's way, and i'm feeling the need for some upgrades

so, go race his VW, you'll probably win. if not, just don't tell us about it! kidding!