Dream encounters
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Dream encounters
I wrote this up in full then lost the post. 
So in summary, in one hour, I have straight line fun with:
51 plate 911 turbo. He needed to work it and make a CRAZY move to get rid of me. Oh what value the S provides. Hint to 911 turbo drivers. You've got the power - but you have to use it. Slowly increasing your speed won't lose an ST Mondeo, and certainly not an S2000.
Previous shape Merc SL600 V12. I win - mostly through anticipation and traffic favouring me. But I win. I am smug.
Fiat coupe 20V. I need three figures to assert from a 20mph roll. Respect is due. But are they all that noisy in the wastegate dept?
Saab 9-5 turbo. I won't undertake you if you just MOVE OVER IN FUTURE WHEN THERE IS A QUICKER CAR BEHIND YOU AND THERE IS ROOM FOR YOU TO DO SO. Respectably fast cars in a straight line, but not that fast.
T-plate Merc E55 AMG. Significantly faster than the S. I was quite shocked.
I am proud of my little car. I may even clean her tomorrow.
So in summary, in one hour, I have straight line fun with:
51 plate 911 turbo. He needed to work it and make a CRAZY move to get rid of me. Oh what value the S provides. Hint to 911 turbo drivers. You've got the power - but you have to use it. Slowly increasing your speed won't lose an ST Mondeo, and certainly not an S2000.
Previous shape Merc SL600 V12. I win - mostly through anticipation and traffic favouring me. But I win. I am smug.
Fiat coupe 20V. I need three figures to assert from a 20mph roll. Respect is due. But are they all that noisy in the wastegate dept?
Saab 9-5 turbo. I won't undertake you if you just MOVE OVER IN FUTURE WHEN THERE IS A QUICKER CAR BEHIND YOU AND THERE IS ROOM FOR YOU TO DO SO. Respectably fast cars in a straight line, but not that fast.
T-plate Merc E55 AMG. Significantly faster than the S. I was quite shocked.
I am proud of my little car. I may even clean her tomorrow.
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I had a run with an E46 M3 yesterday afternoon.....he saw me coming....pulled out and gunned it
game on.....I was hanging on just about, then when I went for 3rd I got a load of neutral....how pissed off I was
By the time I'd got 3rd he was pulling away..I reckon he hit 120mph which I was not willing to do
0-100 I think there's not a great difference but above 100 I think the S would get slaughtered.....you can't beat BHP for topend performance
game on.....I was hanging on just about, then when I went for 3rd I got a load of neutral....how pissed off I was
By the time I'd got 3rd he was pulling away..I reckon he hit 120mph which I was not willing to do
0-100 I think there's not a great difference but above 100 I think the S would get slaughtered.....you can't beat BHP for topend performance
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Good day for sure. Doesen't get much better than a 911 turbo as appetiser.
I actually WANTED the 911 to kill me. He was chasing an XK8 when I slipped behind from a slip road. Yum yum. I know all the figures - I just wanted to see how it went.
Unfortunately there was quite a bit of traffic about so I just stuck in convoy at a respectful distance. Then the XK turned off and I knew that we were going to get more d/c in about four miles.
As we near the d/c, with me close behind the porker, I note two bars on the fuel guage. Then I think go for it anyway, because this is the first time in two years I've had the chance to have a go at something at the top of the food chain.
The road clears after a mile and he should move into the inside lane (and floor it IMO!) but no, he sits there at 80.......... Now I respect the pecking order but this is just bad driving so I close up a bit to signify lack of respect and a little desire to get a move on. I also make a little feint to the nearside. Am I going to undertake a 911 turbo?
So he just gently winds it up to about 100 and of course I have no problem keeping pace. The road is clear, visibility is good and I'm thinking "come on, use it or lose it mate, you haven't a divine right to hold me up".
But he doesn't use it, just inches up to about 105.
I decide an undertake is just stupid so slot into 6th (from 4th) and start thinking about fuel. Would you Adam and Eve it! At this exact moment, he floors it, the back end squats down and it's off. Right! Back into 4th, absolutely MASH the throttle, revs lights flash and 5th, MASH the throttle. Here we go - 110,115,120, 125, 130 now gaining fast.
I'm thinking "you WILL move over or you will have to go over 150".
But this guy has a funny attitude. He wants to own the outside lane, but not go to the max.
The situation sorts itself because a roundabout is due in a mile or two. I also have 1 bar on the fuel guage. I like the weight gain though. My car is flying.
The first exit, which is likely to be what we both want, can be taken very fast. You can also see traffic from the right from a good distance back. So I'm thinking "what are your balls like on this corner then, coz I'm going to take it VERY fast and if you drift right I'm gonna slip up the inside. It's all academic.
As he nears the roundabout I see a fast looking Audi approaching from the right. I know I can't get there before the Audi and I'm sure the porker can't either. Oh well, we'll check out the standing start performance then. It's so satisfying seeing the porker driver keep checking his mirrrors.
To my amazement, he pulls out in front of the Audi. To be fair he gives it plenty, but the Audi has to brake and that, as far as I'm concerned, is not on. It was so bad I actually shouted "Whoah!!!!!!!. Of course I stop and have to wait for more cars, by which time the porker is gone. 
The story ends with me cruising to the petrol station. As I'm poodling along in heavy traffic in the r/h lane I see the porker stuck in the inside lane behind a truck. Of course absolutely NO-ONE is going to let him out and I have the satisfaction of sliding past at about 20mph in nose-to-tail traffic. Eye contact? Not a chance - he is staring straight ahead.
I get to the petrol station and part fill with SUL. What's alongside? The SL600.
I actually WANTED the 911 to kill me.
He was chasing an XK8 when I slipped behind from a slip road. Yum yum. I know all the figures - I just wanted to see how it went.Unfortunately there was quite a bit of traffic about so I just stuck in convoy at a respectful distance. Then the XK turned off and I knew that we were going to get more d/c in about four miles.
As we near the d/c, with me close behind the porker, I note two bars on the fuel guage.
Then I think go for it anyway, because this is the first time in two years I've had the chance to have a go at something at the top of the food chain.The road clears after a mile and he should move into the inside lane (and floor it IMO!) but no, he sits there at 80.......... Now I respect the pecking order but this is just bad driving so I close up a bit to signify lack of respect and a little desire to get a move on. I also make a little feint to the nearside. Am I going to undertake a 911 turbo?
So he just gently winds it up to about 100 and of course I have no problem keeping pace. The road is clear, visibility is good and I'm thinking "come on, use it or lose it mate, you haven't a divine right to hold me up".
But he doesn't use it, just inches up to about 105.I decide an undertake is just stupid so slot into 6th (from 4th) and start thinking about fuel. Would you Adam and Eve it! At this exact moment, he floors it, the back end squats down and it's off. Right! Back into 4th, absolutely MASH the throttle, revs lights flash and 5th, MASH the throttle. Here we go - 110,115,120, 125, 130 now gaining fast.
I'm thinking "you WILL move over or you will have to go over 150". But this guy has a funny attitude. He wants to own the outside lane, but not go to the max.
The situation sorts itself because a roundabout is due in a mile or two. I also have 1 bar on the fuel guage. I like the weight gain though. My car is flying. The first exit, which is likely to be what we both want, can be taken very fast. You can also see traffic from the right from a good distance back. So I'm thinking "what are your balls like on this corner then, coz I'm going to take it VERY fast and if you drift right I'm gonna slip up the inside. It's all academic.
As he nears the roundabout I see a fast looking Audi approaching from the right. I know I can't get there before the Audi and I'm sure the porker can't either. Oh well, we'll check out the standing start performance then.
It's so satisfying seeing the porker driver keep checking his mirrrors.To my amazement, he pulls out in front of the Audi.
To be fair he gives it plenty, but the Audi has to brake and that, as far as I'm concerned, is not on. It was so bad I actually shouted "Whoah!!!!!!!. Of course I stop and have to wait for more cars, by which time the porker is gone. The story ends with me cruising to the petrol station. As I'm poodling along in heavy traffic in the r/h lane I see the porker stuck in the inside lane behind a truck. Of course absolutely NO-ONE is going to let him out and I have the satisfaction of sliding past at about 20mph in nose-to-tail traffic. Eye contact? Not a chance - he is staring straight ahead.
I get to the petrol station and part fill with SUL. What's alongside? The SL600.
