ok, this kid just wont stop giving me crap about his wonderful s10, its a 94 v6 and i got a 98 neon r/t dohc, is he just talkin crap or does anyone think i should take up his offer?

TAKE THE CHALLENGE!!! even if u lose its all for fun but it should be a close match

alright, ill give it a shot, i guess even if i loose, maybe ill stop hearing about it all the time, right?

yea that guys packn some weight.u can stay wit him o yea and let me hear the results. im tryn to c where neons are against other cars.the team im on has nice stuff a 180sx a toyota corolla mx-6 all imports and they say neons are slow...

well i was talkin to a friend of mine and he brought up a good point, its a PICKUP TRUCK, there is absolutly no weight in teh back, so if he gets goin like 70 down a hilly twisty road (which is all i have by me) his rear wheels will break loose and he'll go flying, so if anything, it should be entertaining, lol

Yeah, he couldn't even touch you in the corners. But straight-line would be interesting since he's got a V6. Take him to 120+ mph (somewhere desolate) and see if he can keep up. ;)

i kno thats wut i meant well said scatch cause the truck cant hit more than 125. neons can bang like 130

Neons take forever in last gear in an auto. It makes me sad. I would get demolished on a roll on. Im gonna race this kid in school with a Probe, its a 2.0 4 cly too...and automatic. I almost guarantee I will win. He does have a custom muffler of some kind and its about the size of a bazooka...so when I get catback Im gonna tell him to race me. It should be funny. He weighs more than me and so does his car.

He does have a custom muffler of some kind and its about the size of a bazookacar.

lol, a fart can huh?? i hate thoes things, they sound so stupid. if ur gonna get a muffler, get a flowmaster or somthing, not some cheap thing from the shop down the street

well im part of the neon forum but i have owned both a neon and an s-10, the only way the s-10 will spin-out on dry pavment is if he has a posi-trac rear end, is it a 2.8 or a 4.3, if he has a 4.3 id say hes got you for sure, and if its lowered he'll be taking you around the twisties too, i love neons and i know how fast they can be, but low end they dont seem to have much,but get into the highway speeds and neons own .......good luck

haha, i took him too the wall today, the s10 he's got has nothin. we got goin and he pulled ahead, low end tourqe (its a truck so..) but once i got into 3rd grear, i blew past him. should have bet him, lol

Way to go.good kill

yeah that sounds right, good job, now make some money off him

I cant belive you even thought you would lose to an s10

I beat a 86 Olds Cutlass in 3rd gear. That was an accomplishment.

I pulled my friends 93 infiniti j30 from a roll at 45mph, 3 times, he was pissed

95-99's are pretty slow in auto...now standard you can do some serious damage, I got an 95 auto stock, I crush most any other 4c's, I love these guys in civics who think they can beat me...haha so funny...my dad's got a 2001 dodge SX 2.0 R/T stick....sooooooo fast, I love that car!

thats basicly what i have too, except its a 98 rt

I own a 2000 Neon with 2.0 and 3 sp. auto along with a 2001 Chevy S-10 with the 4.3 and auto. The 4.3 will "easily" get up to 80 mph before the Neon will. Fact is your talking more horsepower with the S-10. The 4.3 Vortex engine is very,very,smooth. It's the first Chevy that I have owned and I was very impressed with the engine and the shifting of the auto trans. That said the Neon is still the better car to drive. The seats are top notch,braking is far superior,and there is no question when it comes to handleing. But as far as a small pickup goes,the S-10 is pretty darn good. But don't sweat it,i'm still a Mopar guy. I put my money where my mouth is. I'm a rural mailcarrier with a 100 mile-400 stop route and have been driving Dodge Spirits for 12 years now. I own 3 of them(92-93-95) all with the Chrysler 3-speed auto trans. This transmission is hands down the "best" transmission ever made. This was one big reason we bought our Neon. Put on a tranny cooler and it will last forever. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the S-10 will hold up as well.

Not to say that you're wrong, but put a MTX, DOHC or Magnum-powered Neon against your S-10, and I think things would be much different.

As far as reliability goes for your S-10, about the only major thing I MIGHT worry about is the tranny, but only because I don't know how good it is. That 4.3L should last 200K at least.

Our local dealer has the one SRT-4 for sale. I don't dare test drive it because all I would do is want to buy it. For $20,000 it can't be beat. I have yet to drive a Neon with the manual transmission and everyone says they are much quicker. Before we bought our Neon we test drove other cars but there was no comparison. We plan on keeping the Neon for many,many years. Like I said I like it because it has the good ole 3-speed auto. All my Spirits have at least 160,000 miles on them with there original transmissions. Like I said i'm keeping my fingers crossed with the S-10. With my job I have to be very "practical" with my vehicle choice. I need vehicles that are very reliable. This is why the Spirit to me is the best car made. Everything about it is very reliable. But when the day comes that I'm not hauling mail for a living,I will have the SRT-4 in my driveway. It may be a used one but it will be there.

I wish you luck with all your cars, as I know the mail carrier gig is not the best paying or safest job out there.

I own a 2000 Neon with 2.0 and 3 sp. auto along with a 2001 Chevy S-10 with the 4.3 and auto. The 4.3 will "easily" get up to 80 mph before the Neon will. Fact is your talking more horsepower with the S-10. The 4.3 Vortex engine is very,very,smooth. It's the first Chevy that I have owned and I was very impressed with the engine and the shifting of the auto trans. That said the Neon is still the better car to drive. The seats are top notch,braking is far superior,and there is no question when it comes to handleing. But as far as a small pickup goes,the S-10 is pretty darn good. But don't sweat it,i'm still a Mopar guy. I put my money where my mouth is. I'm a rural mailcarrier with a 100 mile-400 stop route and have been driving Dodge Spirits for 12 years now. I own 3 of them(92-93-95) all with the Chrysler 3-speed auto trans. This transmission is hands down the "best" transmission ever made. This was one big reason we bought our Neon. Put on a tranny cooler and it will last forever. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the S-10 will hold up as well.

yeah, ill bet if the kid i raced was rolling in somthing a little newer, he'd prolly have me just cuz of raw power, but hes rollin a 94, so its an old piece, lol

that wouldn't be that hard since it is an old car

all you u people with this 4 clyinders or aka riceburner think are bad why don't u race a truck with a 350, 383 or 454... i got one if you want race...

Im back. Race a first gen with a intercooled turbo and a 2.4. Then tell me the outcome ok. Ricebunerssuck when I get my 2.4 turobod then I will have no problem walking all over your truck.

My Spirit is in the same ballpark as alot of neons as far as being able to surprise people. It's not a 2.2 or 2.5 Turbo Spirit (if it was i'd have it decked out with some turbo parts) but it is the 3.0 V6 model. While it's not a rocket ship and stuff, it's got some pretty spiffy giddy-up. A decent-sized V6 in any 2900-pound car will roll on some people. I love racing Civics. I raced this one new model Civic Coupe about a week ago. He had a manual and some type of custom muffler but i couldn't tell, it was sleeper-like, looked stock, even down to the dinky little exhaust tip. He had some aluminum rims on it and the altezza lights and a manual tranny (which he didn't know how to drive for shit) and thought he was bad. Raced him twice from a roll and a stop and blazed right by him with ease both times. Hahaha it was funny too, after i took him he stuck his head out the window and was still so high on himself and his car that he said "that thing got a V8?" I was SOOO tempted to say "yeah, it's got a HEMI" but instead i just said no, it's a 3.0L V6 stock with an auto tranny and a 2 liter bottle of soda in the back that's bigger than your engine. haha. 3 liters of displacement and two extra cylinders will do that for ya ;) Of course it would be much quicker had i swapped in a 5-speed instead of the 4-speed auto which kinda bogs the car down a little. A 5-speed V6 Spirit would be some serious rice-killer. Something i soon plan to make a reality.

I'm going out on a limb here by saying i could take a regular Neon, any transmission, even though i haven't actually raced one yet. But i raced a late model (96 or older) 4.3L Sonoma once, when my engine was running really bad due to some crossed wires and a fuel system that was flooding the car something aweful and giving it some bad running characteristics (my hydrocarbon readings on a diagnostic computer read well over 1300) and from the start we were dead even and i pulled away form him once we hit about 45. Yeah, i'm proud of my granny car. 4 doors and all, when it comes down to it, it still romps all the way up to 120 (where it shuts off, stupid mofo) and i bet if it didn't shut off i could pull it up to 130-135 before the overdrive just poops out.

p.s.--Oh yeah, riceburnersuck, i raced a Chevy Silverado reg. cab 2wd 350 one night (with my car running in tip-top shape also) and took him by a car length at 80 ;)

come to me and my Tiburon... lemme hurt your feelings..

all you u people with this 4 clyinders or aka riceburner think are bad why don't u race a truck with a 350, 383 or 454... i got one if you want race...

Race a Dodge SRT4 in that Truck you got.. Have fun losing.. Think your V-8 is bad. These rice burners will hurt your feelings.. Try a Subaru Wrx STI/Lancer Evolution/Dodge SRT4.. You wont last to 3rd gear. All 4 cylinders and all Will smoke you.

s10 vs a neon! lmao.. i coulda told u the neon was gonna win for sure.. some of those s10's are pretty nice.. but a neon can beat it even if its only got 132-135 horse..and the top end aint that bad..I got a 97 automatic no mods all stock and i get up to 140km pretty damn quick!

jeez. s10? what a joke. make sure he's already got his tow truck in route. for the v8's get 10 gal of gas and so will I bet ya I beat your but on a circle track.