What are those Acuras that look like a "poor man's Ferrari"?
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Originally Posted by Imprezer
I would rather have an NSX than a Ferrari.
I mean if I had 90k, I would get NSX in a heart beat.
NSX is the ultimate JDM high performance car.
I mean if I had 90k, I would get NSX in a heart beat.
NSX is the ultimate JDM high performance car.
Wait, you run this board, don't you? I knew couldn't have read that correctly
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Originally Posted by BluBuru
Dude: forget driving, if you can PARK in Lompico, you've got my respect!
I went to a couple of parties up there, back in the day.
The cops ALWAYS got called, because if four people show up, the road is blocked.
I went to a couple of parties up there, back in the day.
The cops ALWAYS got called, because if four people show up, the road is blocked.
Its all about finding that spot that looks like its off a cliff, then creep in to it.
Depends also on where exactly you are parking, lake blvd. has a good deal of parking spots.
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You did nothing wrong. You know the road and you have the car to handle that type of road. You got rid of the moron, nobody got hurt and hopefully this tool learned sumtin'.
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Good Job...
...a great piece of driving. Hopefully he learns some respect. If he doesn't learn his lesson, then hopefully, the Darwin Award will be given to him at the bottom of some cliff that he drives off of, trying to show what an @$$ he is.
Originally Posted by blue blurr
such a rip off. its 90k for wht like 250-300 hp? they look alright, but still not worth 90k
The NSX is a work of art, a drop-dead gorgeous (styling is a personal thing, I think it's hot) absolute GEM of a perfect car. Hand built.. Suspension is so beautiful, cast aluminum pieces.. Aluminum body, rediculously sweet engine (my world stops rotating when I am at the track and that full race NSX with the Comptech blower goes by at like 987487637824732rpm), perfect interior, etc. A truly amazing car. Yes it's expensive, but someone's gotta pay for perfection. A supercar that you can daily drive, shoot your mom could daily drive it. Yet it's wicked fast on the track.
Make mine a hardtop in Silverstone please. 3.2 6spd. Kthanksbye.
Someday I will own one..
-Jacob
Originally Posted by BluBuru
'cause I schooled one in mountain driving.
What I have noticed is generally speaking, the flashier the car the worse the driver on that road. Seems like people take their ba dass cars down there to show off and then get schooled by the locals in "lesser" cars.
-Jacob
LOL!
Good job!
It was a lesson that needed learning
Originally Posted by BluBuru
(Cliff-Notes for Max: Suckah' was fastah n me, but yo, no weel-skilz!!!)
Originally Posted by BluBuru
I took the left at 75, without braking or shifting or giving Mr. Racer any clue that it was comming. The WRX stuck to the earth; I whipped around the corner with only a bit of squealing.
Not so for Mr. Racer; I heard him skid, I saw him swerve twice before he brought it back under controll, and then I saw him SLOW THE HELL DOWN and drop out of sight.
Not so for Mr. Racer; I heard him skid, I saw him swerve twice before he brought it back under controll, and then I saw him SLOW THE HELL DOWN and drop out of sight.
Originally Posted by BluBuru
Was I a bastard for endangering the guy? Was it a lesson that needed learning?
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Originally Posted by BluBuru
'cause I schooled one in mountain driving.
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Here's the thing, though: I know these roads really well, and I don't think he did. If he had, he would have known that the second straight ends in a very abrupt left with not-so-great camber. I've taken that left over 3 thousand times, and I know that I can safely pull it in the WRX at just over 70; I don't think he even knew it was comming.
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Here's the thing, though: I know these roads really well, and I don't think he did. If he had, he would have known that the second straight ends in a very abrupt left with not-so-great camber. I've taken that left over 3 thousand times, and I know that I can safely pull it in the WRX at just over 70; I don't think he even knew it was comming.
Originally Posted by BluBuru
'cause I schooled one in mountain driving.
Kids: don't tailgate. If ya do, you can't see the road ahead, just someone's tailpipe.
Kids: don't tailgate. If ya do, you can't see the road ahead, just someone's tailpipe.
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Originally Posted by BAN SUVS
No, you didn't "school" him... you sucker-punched him. Would you have smiled all the way home if he had been a total n00b and spun off into a ditch?
The truth is that if he had spun and crashed, I would have had to go back to help him (because that's just me). If he had been hurt, then I would have felt like the rat-bastard of the year.
On the other hand, don't we all have one early "omygod that was close" experience that teaches us to drive with more care? Maybe I was that experience for some youngn' in his daddy's car.
Maybe whoever was driving took no lesson from the experience at all. Maybe it was a waste and a hazard to public safety... someone could have been coming the other way, after all.
Maybe the joy I took in the event at the time proves that my motives were not pure. (not a teacher, but a bully)
One of the real ethical puzzles of this weird old world is that we often don't get to know the consequenses of our own actions, even if we want to.
Oh well,
Mike
(thanks to the mannagement...)
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Maybe. I had a moment like that caught on video- it was at Buttonwillow in March when I had to try to dodge a speeding WRX that thankfully didn't come back on track, because I couldn't have avoided it. Taught me some lessons that I applied to my real-world driving.
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Interesting that you should mention this strory, as two guys are on trial for manslaughter after doing what you just did...
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show...hreadid=596587
Cliff notes: bunch of kids going home from the races. Car full of guys gets in front of a car with two girls and speeds up instead of letting them pass. Finally, he lets them go by, and the girls speed into a curve, lose control, crash and die. The drivers of the other cars are being held responsible for their deaths.
The appropriate place to be when racing someone of questionable skill is out of the race.
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show...hreadid=596587
Cliff notes: bunch of kids going home from the races. Car full of guys gets in front of a car with two girls and speeds up instead of letting them pass. Finally, he lets them go by, and the girls speed into a curve, lose control, crash and die. The drivers of the other cars are being held responsible for their deaths.
The appropriate place to be when racing someone of questionable skill is out of the race.
Last edited by Necromancer; Jul 17, 2004 at 12:04 AM.