Mazda 3? Hah!

[masterbiscuit]

Coming home from Sushi tonight. I was playing cat and mouse (as I often do) with a Mazda 3. Actually, I thought it was a Monte Carlo from a distance. Must have been the rear lights?

Anyhow, we managed to get it up to 90 a couple times....but finally hit a red light. Right after that was an on ramp for the highway we both needed. He took off from the red normally, but I had planned to go around him. As he saw me come up on him he gassed it.

We took the ramp at about 40-50 (it's a pretty straight ramp) and once we got on the highway we both punched it. I immediately went to get to the left and he saw me make this move. So he started doing the same. But it was too late for him, I was already aside him.

By the time we hit 100 I was half a car length ahead of him and he just quit and dropped back.

[kinkyllama]

I just found this forum.

Anyways ive beat maybe 3 mazda 3s.. two of them wernt easy (maybe the bigger engine one? which i think is 162ish hp) but the last one i raced was simple.. 45-65mph and he had a head start... who even knows how far i was ahead

[masterbiscuit]

Yeah, they come with 2.3L ~165 hp... But my best guess is that you're close to that if not just over it. Besides, we have better high end gearing. Those 3's are good off the line, and good on gas, but anything over 60 and you'll take em.

I'm with Dog on this one. We don't have drag cars.. But invite people out to the highway where we live and.......................

[TheGodFather]

I raced a heavy moded honda civic coup and kept up with it. I want to race a civic hatch back, I'm tired of seeing coups in the USA. Civic hatch heavy moded will be a great challenge any year. I've beaten a VW Golf GTI and Focus before but thats nonthing to floss about. I glad to see swifts in hear racing.I live in the US and having a hard time with Domestic cars braging about their HP.

[BlackForenza2003]

I raced a really fast Honda the other day - we were on a 4 lane road, doing about 40mph, and both gunned it. His exhaust was LOUD, so you know we were going really fast! At 50mph I had managed to pull 1/4 car length on him. Then some traffic approached, so we had to back off a bit. After the traffic passed up, we got back on it from 25mph, and I was able to beat him to 40mph by about a car length. We had to stop for a red light, and I stalled it when it turned green. Took me by surprise, so by the time I turned it off, and restarted the car, he was a good 2 car lengths in front of me. Took me the next mile to catch up even to him, and as I was catching up, I took out my notebook and made a sign with my chisel point sharpie: "Hey man - we're croozin! Wanna swing by the Jack In the Box for some refueling and chat about our cars?"

He just gave me a weird look, flashed a "west side" sign, and turned onto a side street. Freaked me out - will never race again! Those new Mazda 3's are probably even fastar than the Civic hatch I was running with! I need more mods besides my 5 month old pine scented air freshener.