what the hell was that?

So I hadn't driven the vr4 in 2 or 3 weeks, and I was dying for a reason to take it out. So I hear my cousin is coming down with his new girlfriend, so I figure stopping by and seeing them is a good enough reason. So Saturday around 1 in the afternoon my brother and I hop in the car and take off. Now the only car I've driven in the past few weeks is my girlfriends 4cylinder GrandAm, so I hadn't even bothered taking that over 65....so needless to say, I felt like going a little fast and finding someone to race.

So we're off, and halfway there we find a camaro. So I pull next to him, trying to entice him with a little cat and mouse, and letting my BOV off a few times, but he isn't biting. So I give up and cut across to the left to make the turn towards my aunts. Well apparently my antics got someone else's attention. I see this maroon hatchback cut over and whip in behind me to make the same turn...

So I'm looking in my rearview, seeing these 3 kids all smiles in their hatchback. I was looking for an emblem or something, but no luck...kinda looked like a Matrix, or one of those, it had a front bodykit bumper, but I just laugh to myself thinking nothing of it.

So I turn to my brother, nod backwards and say something like "I guess they wanna run" Well we get the turning arrow and I just take off, almost breaking the back wheels loose through the turn, I get aligned straight and just nail it, through first and a bit into 2nd and then let off. I look in my rearview, and the hatchback is pursuing, but a bit back there. So I slow down to 30mph and shift into 3rd, smiling to myself thinking they now know whats up...then I hear a PSSSSSHHHHHHUUUU... :sly: WTF???...that wasn't mine. I look in my rearview and they are right on my bumper with huge grins on their faces.

OK, so apparently I'm not the only one with boost in this race...so I double clutch, drop it into 2nd and the 2nd I do, they decide to switch into the oncoming traffic lane and pull up next to me. (Now this road starts to go up a mountain, so this all takes place on a 30 degree incline)
So I see them swing over trying to pass me and I just mash 2nd, and take off like a bat outta hell shooting uphill. As I top out 2nd and shift to third I glance in the mirror and see that they have since switched back into the right lane and are trying to keep up, but I have a lead.
I top third, adrenaline is pumping like crazy, because this isn't exactly the ideal place to race, as they tend to have speedtraps every so often. A quick check of hte mirror shows I have a few carlengths, I glance down and see 105-110. 4th(because if we are gonna get arrested, we are going to do it right :iceslolan So thankfully this hill is pretty straight, I take it up to 125ish, and brake. I've put another length or 2 in there.

So we slow down to take our turn. And they signal they want to follow. So I take the turn, wait for them to make it, they punch it, and so do I. Now we are going downhill, I top 2nd, but let off in 3rd. As our last turn is approaching quite fast. So I quickly debate whether to continue this or let them go, but I opt for taking the turn and letting them go, as the roads start getting more and more twisty, and I don't want anyone doing anything too stupid, so I throw on the signal, give them a wave and turn into the deadend.


Fast forward 24 hours: So today, we are heading back home, and I want another race. We're at a light and this white mustang flies by going the opposite direction...now ordinarily I wouldn't think much of it, but the guy had the most attention-getting paintjob humanly possible. Huge orange and green flames with purple outlines all over his white car...quite a bright contrast of colors. Unfortunantly, our light took FOREVER to change, so when I whipped the U-turn, and took off in pursuit, he was already long gone. But I'll find him another day.

lol, yougot the need for speed pretty bad ha, i've done that before, made a complete u turn just so i can race someone. nice story

So I'm looking in my rearview, seeing these 3 kids all smiles in their hatchback.

*cough cough* HIGH SCHOOLERS *cough* :lol:

Great story. Nicely written. Good grammar. Great description. A++. L8...

I've missed my exit to pursue cars, but Im yet to take a U-Turn. Too bad you didn't catch him.

I've missed my exit to pursue cars, but Im yet to take a U-Turn. Too bad you didn't catch him.


I find I do it quite a bit :evillol:

so you never found out what the hatch back was huh? turbo? maybe a Civic Si?

Nah, it wasn't a honda, it was one of those newer ones, possibly a Mazda Protege or something, it was bigger than a civic hatch. It was debadged and I don't know my hatchbacks all that well.

huh? Matrix, MP3, Protege, Vibe? I dont think these cars were ones to be Turbocharged. Sounds like a decent sleeper. Yea... One time I was in the SS on I95, my exit coming up in about 1000 ft, and I got a red Z06 pacing me on the right. Unfortunatly, I had to take the exit because my mother was with me (lol). Yea yea... atealst I got to hear the LS6 at W0T for an instant.

mazda protege came with a turbo (mazdaspeed version).

I've missed my exit to pursue cars, but Im yet to take a U-Turn. Too bad you didn't catch him.
Guilty here as well.

theres a stock turbo'd protege??

The mazdaspeed protege come sc'd from the factory...pretty low amount of boost from the factory, puts out about 170 hp...runs 15 flats or low 15s I think...BUT, it isn't a hatchback, so it wasn't the car that he was racing.

Yeah, didn't think there was a turbo'd one.

nice race, sounds like a lot of fun.

hate to say it but the guy in the camaro that didn't wanna race probably knew he would lose to a vr-4 so thats why he probably didn't wanna race. V8 drivers really don't like losing to anything less than another v8 :iceslolan nice race though.

he never said wheter or no tha camaro was a v8

Could it have been a station wagon? Do you even know if it was domestic or an import?

Camaro was an 8, and no it wasn't a station wagon, it wasn't a sedan, and it wasn't an Si. It was one of those newer odd shaped hatchs...I'll try and find some resembling pictures.

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/3/web/255000-255999/255645_129_full.jpg
http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/6/web/522000-522999/522631_226.jpg
http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/5/web/569000-569999/569899_193_full.jpg


It looked most like the first one, the Matrix. It wasn't a vibe, because I worked at a dealership over the summer and drove a few of those, and would have been able to recognize it. And that mazda doesn't look too much like it. So I'm guessing it was a Toyota Matrix if memory serves me right.

the 130 horse versions of the matrix have turbo kits for them. The 180 horse celica gt-s motor ones do not due to there high compression. A matrix and vibe are the same car. Same motors, same frame...

The mazdaspeed protege come sc'd from the factory...pretty low amount of boost from the factory, puts out about 170 hp...runs 15 flats or low 15s I think...BUT, it isn't a hatchback, so it wasn't the car that he was racing.

It is turbo. the only mazda to m knowledge that is supercharged is the millenia.
http://www.automotive.com/2003/12/mazda/mazdaspeed-protege/specifications/index.html

no its not a hatchback.