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I got dragged from some traffic lights by a wanker in a Smart fortwo... :( lol

OK, so it wasnt really a drag race. He jumped the lights to get in front of me and I couldn't allow that so I sped up a bit. The scary thing was, rather than slow down to let me pass, he pushed alongside me for 50m between the traffic lane where I was and the parked cars. :)

Has anyone else had any interesting traffic light experiences? Another one I had was a courier on a motorbike running into my mirror whilst lanesplitting whilst I was stopped. Thankfully no damage but I would have been super pissed if there was.

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hehe good ol cvt's.. they work well on take off by getting u during ur gear change lag.. i used to drive a prius and had lots of fun 'draggin' cars off the mark. You can beat most cars to about 40km/h :( which is just enough to jump in front of them.. i know it's evil but hey you gotta work with what u got :)

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Guys,

Please no further talk of "drag racing" on public roads at traffic lights.

Happy for people to share general stories, but if this turns into a - I ran a guy at the lights, thread, it will be closed.

Cheers

Bobby

Sorry Bobby,

As I said it wasn't actually a "drag race" as such...

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I found most drivers of low powered cars ie Smart, Echo, 121, Excel, etc. they're used to floor their accell to the floor every start of traffic light as they'll always need to squeeze as much as possible out of their tiny engines to get ahead most of the time... regardless gal or guy drivers...

They may have no intention of dragging anyone but just the style of their driving that seems to be, which evolved from trying to make up for the lack of power in their car...

But when you had some moron in some mid to hi end powered cars like integra, wrx, v6/v8 falcon or commodore doing that, then they're draggin you on purpose... not worth wasting time on these sort of morons really... just take down their plate #, call crime stoppers and just leave it the cops decision whether to nail them and impound their car for hooning...

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I found most drivers of low powered cars ie Smart, Echo, 121, Excel, etc. they're used to floor their accell to the floor every start of traffic light as they'll always need to squeeze as much as possible out of their tiny engines to get ahead most of the time... regardless gal or guy drivers...

They may have no intention of dragging anyone but just the style of their driving that seems to be, which evolved from trying to make up for the lack of power in their car...

But when you had some moron in some mid to hi end powered cars like integra, wrx, v6/v8 falcon or commodore doing that, then they're draggin you on purpose... not worth wasting time on these sort of morons really... just take down their plate #, call crime stoppers and just leave it the cops decision whether to nail them and impound their car for hooning...

party pooper, a little fun at the lights is ok :D (up to the speedlimit of course), call'in the cops on everyone smashing you at the lights, you'd be on first name basis with the boys in blue, :P

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I found most drivers of low powered cars ie Smart, Echo, 121, Excel, etc. they're used to floor their accell to the floor every start of traffic light as they'll always need to squeeze as much as possible out of their tiny engines to get ahead most of the time... regardless gal or guy drivers...

yeah i agree with this though. i used to drive this way when i still drove around a toyota seca or my cousins barina or lancer

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had a BMW X5 diesel next me at the lights once, when I had my 1J supra... Admittedly it was downhill, but I have to tell you, those things can really move, up until about 60kph.... Neither of us was 'racing', but we were both in a hurry to the speed limit: I was surprised by how fast those huge barges get off the mark: very impressive!

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That's the beauty of diesel's torque... they put diesel engines in trucks beside its economy also the enormous torque that it can generate at low speed.

I was in a truck once and boy they feel like pulling real hard, but after a few seconds I looked at the speedo it was only 30-40km/h

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had a BMW X5 diesel next me at the lights once, when I had my 1J supra... Admittedly it was downhill, but I have to tell you, those things can really move, up until about 60kph.... Neither of us was 'racing', but we were both in a hurry to the speed limit: I was surprised by how fast those huge barges get off the mark: very impressive!

Yeah, those diesel X5 feel crazy when u're inside them. But then I look at the speedo, and its like only 40km/h lol. Great car just for the thrills of it. Can rev it out and not not break any laws. Miss the days of my sister's Rav4.... hahaha.

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russky, u talkin about Rav4 diesel? I saw from time to time the previous model some had bonnet scoop that looked like a very cool turbocharged 4WD, and as I believe those are the turbo diesels one, am I right? We have the latest model and there's no diesel range offered, only 4cyl and later the 6cyl 200kw engine

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