I guess I just don't see the point. Can someone explain it to me? I'm not saying it's cool or not cool, I just don't understand the point of revving the engine in public.

 

We just had a long holiday weekend here in Ontario. For some reason it brings out all the idiots to our highways. A seventeen year old with three other teenagers in the car was caught doing 150 mph in a 50 mph zone at 1:00 a.m. in the morning. A disaster waiting to happen. Thank goodness the Police got him He now has no licence and no car for seven days and faces up to a $10,000 dollar fine.

 

I have only 'lit them up' once and it was a deserted intersection. Even then, I didn't really get smoke because I let up a little to get traction.

I may light them up and get some smoke once, but it would have to be in a pretty isolated area.

When people come up next to me at a light and rev their engine, I let them go most times as I'm not one for drag racing... especially on the street.

Now, for playing on the open road, that's different. Open road, no other traffic and some guy want's to 'see what I got'... I usually show them the back end of the car getting smaller...

 

It especially cracks me up when ever somebody in an "automatic" does it.
Talk about extra effort.

 

I find my crossfire not a first gear friendly car or may be its just me .I had a Jeep with a bunch of kids come up beside me reving there engine what an A**clown i just ignore then and they back off

 

If I'm going to let my car define me,....then....

This definition works just fine!


Thanks Bigbengt67


Roadster with a stick

 

I think most people enjoy "driving briskly" under the proper circumstances.....it's just fun. Aliviates the kinaesthesia.....or is that kinetathesia....?

 

The What?...
Chris, does your mother know you talk like that?
LOL

roadster with a stick

 

OK folks, as you may already know, I'm a sixty-two year old kid that loves to leave little kids in my dust. They try to catch me on the interstate but they just can't. I slow down and they come up beside me with the thumbs up sign. Not a sports car? The Crossfire IS a TRUE sports car.....PERIOD, end of story.
Been living with the beasts for a long time, probably longer than some of the whippersnappers that on here and I know sports cars. If it has two seats, is low to the ground, has a very powerful engine, can beat 3/4 of the (sports cars) out there and is great looking, handles like it has a pedigree and does what it's supposed to do, it's a sports car and don't let anyone tell you othrwise. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Rick

 

Since I can't run 150mph I often acheive a lower speed with authority.
(Especially if I see a hybrid since I know that he is offsetting my extra fuel consumption.)

The one problem that I've noticed with this is the guy up ahead of you getting ready to pull out. Several times I've seen them look left at me, then right, and then go without looking left again. Not having anticipated my acceleration, I'm right on top of him as he pulls out.

 

Are we talking about revving the engine at a stand-still, or leaving a stop like John Force?

If we are talking about the latter, I'm all for it. If we are talking about the former, it's just about the dumbest thing you can do in a car.

 

I never, ever smoke the tires, I DO get on the throttle rather quickly when needed and have a good deal of fun doing it. I never do it at an intersection, just at lights on a straight and always on two lane roads. Anything else is foolhardy and could cause a crash. If there is a remote chance that a cop is anywhere around, I don't do it. If it IS a cop and he wants to race, that's another story.
Rick

 

Revving the engine and smoking the tires are both way immature.

Taking off like you were shot out of a cannon is another story. That is just plain fun.

 

For the first time this weekend.
Well, for the first time full throttle from a standstill. I did have to blow off a pack-o-kids in a Grand Am a couple of weeks ago but tires aren't cheap so it wasn't worth the rubber.
This weekend the wife & I are visiting my folks, Mom was celebrating her 80th, in a retirement community north of Milwaukee. My sister asks me for a ride. Now my sister has to be one of the most insecure drivers I have EVER seen: won't drive in the snow even if we just get a dusting, doesn't drive the freeways, gets nervous when it rains, the type of driver you just dread getting behind so I know this will be fun. After she hits the bathroom & tells her 'significant other' to make sure he leaves me out of the will if she dies, she falls into the passenger seat: "gee, this car is so low".
Pull out of Mom & Dad's driveway, turn off traction control & just mash the pedal. 2 blocks & a haze of blue smoke later she's screaming in the car & I swear I've still got fingernail marks on my dash. Two solid black lines down the asphalt forever. I proceeded to drive a ways down the road, turned around & head back to "Serenity Acres". As I approach the driveway again I see one of my folks' neighbors, who has an Avenger in his driveway (& who is 90, count 'em, 90 years old) start walking towards the car. He waves me over & asks "just what the hell kinda car is this?"
After about 10 minutes of car talk he leaves, my future brother-in-law asks me "is she dead?" & my folks say that nothing like this ever happens here; they're sure the neighbors will be asking who that was.
Ahhhh, a wonderful weekend.............

 

Hahaha! You got it!

 

i bet they are thinking "man i am so owning this guy in my sedan but dam does his car sound and look sweet ! after i stop owning him so bad i am going to wish i was driving his car instead as i settle back into the grim reality that i need this four door to pickup the family in."

 

the kewl looking late 90s avenger or the abomination it became now in sedan form ? we had a 98 with a 2.5 v6 ... slowest car we ever owned, but it looked sweet as could be and sounded even better with the muffler and intake we got for it ... hmm wait that sound familiar. oh crap i bought the same car almost with the xF just with 2 less seats ! hah !

sweet story on leaving the double black lines ...

 

I've learned from past mistakes never to light them up when any other cars are around. You never know who may be lurking inside the other cars. My son roasted the tires at the light one time in his car and he got pulled over for wreckless driving. Besides, there are off duty police officers and also unmarked cars driving around. I love my perfect driving record the last 15 years and I don't want to jepordize it. Gas is already way too high and don't want higher insurance rates to boot.

 

imature isn't so much as bad if its in a ferrari 599, gallardo or bugatti.

 

Sure it is. It takes zero skill to mash the throttle at a stand still. It's a high school trick.