Enlighten me...Whats with these squirrely kids driving around?

[Mike32ct]

ha ha saw one of these pvssies the other day, he was speeding ,trying to say "hey look im a mofo",
pisses me off
i mean since when did a small hutchback become cool?
what happened to the good old mustang?

Remember, rims, a spoiler on the back, and exhaust tip will make your mom's minivan run 12 seconds lol.

 

[Sir Psycho Sexy]

It's AWing.

Yep.

As someone who drives the speed limit I often get the finger as they swerve around me.

 

[AAAgent]

You guys are stereotyping the car and the driver together when they're totally separate things. My car has a aero body kit on it with tinted windows but i obey all local speed limits. When im driving on the highway and i feel like it, i'll go 80-110mph. I'm not a jackass that cuts people off or honks at people (when i was younger i did). I'll just go around them.

It just feels good to be able to drive fast sometimes. Mustang's, camaro's, corvette's are the staple American muscle cars while mazda's, toyota's, and honda's are the staple Asian/Japanese race cars.

Both cars are tuned to race differently. Obviously things like rims don't really factor into it, but American cars are more tuned to straight a ways. As we have so many open roads and highways (also being less populated be square foot). Japanese cars are made to be more compact and handle better as they have way more people per square foot and less road space that their roads include more twists and turns. The spoilers and kits were meant to make the cars more aerodynamic/weight efficient. Most are for aesthetic purposes.

Anyways, again being Asian and growing up watching friends, family, etc. driving these rice burners, i'm attracted to them as well. I'm pretty tall being about 6'0 and 175lbs but if i had a choice to spend 50k on a car, i'd put it into fixing a RX7. I do like mustangs though, more room for me and they're badass. Maybe i'll change my mind later but not atm.

feel free to continue your bashing.

 

[Epimanes]

LOL ... I drive the most obnoxious vehicle. Its HORRIBLe on gas .. looks like shyt and i can beat the snot out of it in the bush (and have actually lol burried it in mud many times, infact the mud keeps it from falling apart haha). I drive a 94 **** brown jacked up 4x4 chevy silverado with a full size box and an extended cab with a crap canopy to cover the box. The tires are worth more than the truck. 33" bad ass meats. Its my hunting truck. IT fricken goes anywhere. I bash it up a bit .. i cover it in mud and i have gotten plenty of blood in the box from my deer kills and a fair bit on the floor in the cab from killing grouse and rabbits. It has a shyt stereo in it (i use a cassette adapter to listen to MP3s in the stock cassette player) so it doesnt get stolen .. and I never lock the doors because the deductable to fix anything if it gets broken into is more than doing it myself. Neither me nor my wife drive to work so its not driven to commute.. it fits my wife and kids for general errands and my wife gets this astonishing look when she climbs out of it to grocery shop cuz she almost needs a ladder lol ..


I remember on time driving down this side road off a foresty service road and this guy comes barreling down with this BRAN new dodge dually 4x4... he stops .. gives me this look like he doesnt know what to do and is all worried about his truck and passing me (the trail was only wide enough for one truck) so i give this WTF look back and then think .. well whatever.. this will be fun. I drive right off into the boonies around his truck... crashing the trees over and bushes and shyt. My hunting partner says .. WTF are you doing? your crazy! Well after going around the guys bran new truck (i guess he didnt want to scratch it) he gives me a HUGE grin, a nod and a thumbs up as I showed him wtf a real truck can do. If you dont want to get your pretty trucks all scratched up ... keep them out of the BUSH! .. geesh ... lol.

 

[goundra]

they are on meth, dudes.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Both cars are tuned to race differently. Obviously things like rims don't really factor into it, but American cars are more tuned to straight a ways. As we have so many open roads and highways (also being less populated be square foot). Japanese cars are made to be more compact and handle better as they have way more people per square foot and less road space that their roads include more twists and turns. The spoilers and kits were meant to make the cars more aerodynamic/weight efficient. Most are for aesthetic purposes.

Anyways, again being Asian and growing up watching friends, family, etc. driving these rice burners, i'm attracted to them as well. I'm pretty tall being about 6'0 and 175lbs but if i had a choice to spend 50k on a car, i'd put it into fixing a RX7.

I have a 92 Stealth Twin Turbo:
http://s186.beta.photobucket.com/user/dotheopposite/media/SDC10276.jpg.html?sort=6&o=60
It's labeled a Dodge, but as you probably know it's the same car as the 3000gt. The inside of the door says 'made in Japan by Mitsubishi Motor Corp.' For its time, 300 AWD HP was pretty impressive. It was meant to compete with the corvette. The all-wheel-drive makes it accelerate around corners like its on rails. Unfortunately, the engine spun a rod. I bought a new engine which is sitting on a stand next to it right now, but I can't get my mechanic to do the work. He seems to prefer looking at my car to fixing it.

I also have a 90 Nissan 300zx Twin Turbo:
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x252/dotheopposite/HPIM0044.jpg
I have a chevy v8 engine waiting to put into it, but the same mechanic won't do that job either. He just likes looking at my stuff.

But I know what you mean about being into import tuner cars. It's not the same thing as slapping a fart-tip and giant spoiler on a civic and thinking you're fast.

 

[Vantagepoint34]

When I drive around I often see these kids (young men) driving around in these little souped-up cars that sound like my Savage SS and they all exhibit the same tendencies:

1) They drive around in these unecessarily fast, jerky movements.

2) Their body language is fast & jerky. You can see them looking around all over the place, left & right, with their head twitching around fast like a bird. It's like they have no self-control and are all excited and self-conscious, thinking they look cool by being all "intense".

3) They weave in and out of traffic, just about trading paint with me as they try to squeeze by.

4) They usually seem to be skinny, frail kids.

5) The cars sound like little toys, though I suppose they have some acceleration. These are the kind of cars we would have laughed at when I was a kid, when muscle cars ruled.

Obviously I'm out of touch with the 20 year old scene, but are these kids considered cool or douche?

Blame this on the Anniversary of fifty years of Bond. James Bond.

 

[ArcBound]

Part attention seeking part bad drivers.

Did you say 20 miles north of NYC?

A lot of New Yorkers, especially Brooklyn people, go to Staten Island to take their driving test because it is considered to be much easier over there than in Brooklyn. New York tends to have a lot of really bad drivers, especially among youth. And rich kids in certain areas have the spastic activity you are describing and a some of them go racing in the middle of the night.

 

[Quiksilver]

I like fast and sexy cars

 

[goundra]

I"ve never seen the point, and now that everyone with a cell phone just HAS to play cop, you can't do squat with a fast car. the only place you can do what you want is the bush and then only with a motorcycle. Too many areas just dont let you pass thru with 4 wheels, and the damned things cost way too much and get busted up way too easy. Bikes can take it and you can get a decent one for about $1000. Mine rides in my van as a backup and escape vehicle. I'm not kidding abou the latter, either.

 

[Sir Psycho Sexy]

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