Why?!

untainted · 11-24-2006, 11:57 PM

Damn.

I have to say that the most frustrating drivers out there are the ones who will not race you...
Well, at least, I was rather confounded.

My boyfriend and I were driving on the freeway to Seattle when we ran into an `06 Mercedes SLR McLaren (she was a smexy car, by the way).

We messed (or perhaps it was vice versa) around, trying to get the driver to race us. Honestly, I figured he'd get sick of us dinking around and just smoke us.
But we'd end up getting ahead of him, minutes later he'd finally catch up, only to draw even. Even with my boyfriend revving the engine at him, honking, and staying even, the driver wouldn't truly race us.
There was one point where he started advancing from behind, but we smoked him.

I'm kind of confused because I have my doubts about this escapade. We didn't care if he'd tank us...we were more interested in seeing what my car is capable of. But as far as I could tell, the guy wasn't even trying. My boyfriend has his own doubts, thinking perhaps he was worried about trying because it'd be very sad being whipped by a Suzuki.

What do you guys think?

Of course, I'm not explaining what happened very well. It's different when you're right there. To repeat myself, I would have thought he'd have put us in our place so many times...but he didn't. And that is so frustrating! With all of the traffic going north, which wasn't bad to begin with, we had so many clear openings to really get our cars going past 110mph. I just can't believe a car like that wouldn't show us how stupid we were for even trying to race.

Zipper · 11-25-2006, 01:37 AM

Reminds me of a guy at work. He had a Honda, and thought he was all that. 89 Accord. It was peppy (sold it to dad and was the car I learned stick on) and was fun to drive (Hence why I don't hate Hondas, just the drivers)
He would toy with big sports cars, getting ahead and generaly being a small nimble car.
Then he got a Vette. Would show those punk Hondas whos boss... for a week. It gets tiring, and so he just revveled in the knowlage that he could woop every one of them like they where in revers. Its like playing tag with eight year olds. If you want to, you could out run them in a single stride, but wheres the fun in that

DeRoc23 · 11-27-2006, 01:58 PM

yeah i do that a lot to the EVO's, WRX & 350 Z around here i stay next to them a rev or take off and slow down most of them laugh other get pissed and swerve towards me to try to hit me but don’t actually do just try to make me flitch but I aight moving
They never want to race staying the speed limit and annoying me…. I prolly waste more gas messing with them then in an actual race………….oh well it fun

untainted · 11-27-2006, 05:13 PM

Ha, see.. I don't even care if they spank me.
And I'm in the camp where if I had a car like that, if someone wanted to race, I wouldn't turn them down...
but I can definitely understand that after a while one would get tired of it.

And what a good point with the gas. Heh. Darn them.

Zipper · 11-27-2006, 05:22 PM

THat would last one week. The joy of being so over powered thzat they have no chance wears off. Its like a chiwawa picking a fight with a pitbull. The chiwawa would be broken in half if the pitbull wanted to.
Their shaking their heads at you because your being foolish, and maybe alittle childish. When I have a "spirited encounter" I like to win, and if not, Try to figure out why. Maybe I can inprove what I'm doing.
With those monsters, you woant get anything from it other then you where overpowered.