Re: Time To Hear About Road Kills!
Well, I wish I could be apart of the SRT brotherhood, but I just can't afford it. SO I just push my little Limited as far as it will let me!
So far I have street raced a Porsche Boxer, Lincoln MK8, S2000 and a turbo Lotus.
the Porsche and I met up at a stop light, he gave me some stink eye so I figure I'd show him what the XF can do. non the less I out pulled him of the line all the way up to 75 until we came into some corners where I blew him away in there too, all stock suspension on both cars. So IMO don't waste your money on a base model boxster!
As for the Lincoln, I also out pulled him off the line with about half a car length everytime I grabbed a gear. Then the driver of the MK8 started driving too crazy by cutting people off and weaving in and out of traffic so I let him go ahead and pass me. He was about ten car lengths in front when traffic cleared up, so I down shifted and he saw me coming for him, he was on the gas hard , and must have downshifted his auto and over revved it, loosing most of his torque, this is where I just reeled in that big 'ol fish and slowly passed him by. I managed to get a good look at the guy while passing him, It was an old man about 70 years old, hahaha amazing ay! crazy old koot!!
as for the S2000, I ran into this guy going home around midnight. we had a nice straight stretch about 1.5 miles. I was just cruising along at about 40 mph when I see this guy come up on me real fast then slows into my blind spot, where he just creped up slowly. I was like eh, ok let's do this. I got the jump on him cause no one beeped their horn. I down shifted wot, and he stuck with the same gear, all I hear was that chainsaw v-tec growl it's guts out in my rear blind spot for a good 1/4 mile. never saw the guy until I slowed down to pull in for a hamburger at Burger king. He just kept going ***** out down the road, haha
And the Turbo Lotus, I don't recommend racing them, I beat that guy off the line for about 120 feet, but I was dropping the clutch too hard and the T/C doesn't like it when I abuse the clutch so it kept kicking in with the rev limiter and so I got smoked there. I still would of got beat by him even with the TC disconnected,
Lotus specs are about 2,500 lbs. and with the toyota turbo motor he was probably pushing 240-260 hp. To tell you the truth, I think he was sand bagging me at the start too.