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Old 02-10-2015, 10:38 AM
 
Location: Homeless
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I laughed as well. He's practically begging not to race these types of vehicles!

Don't forget the jet! DO NOT RACE A JET!
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Old 02-10-2015, 11:03 AM
 
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Don't forget the jet! DO NOT RACE A JET!
Haha... I was unsure if he was being serious or not.
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Old 02-10-2015, 11:12 AM
 
Location: USA
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horsepower/torque + prestige (to some).

Personally I am a classic MOPAR lover/owner.

I'll tell you what is cool. I high performance musclecar car driving slowly down the street/parking lot. That is much cooler (to me) than some loser trying to make up for a "small package" (as my wife would say), by driving like an idiot..
"Personally I am a classic MOPAR lover"
best styling ever. I have had a couple of E-bodies and will most likely own another.

As far as new cars go I would have to go for a Z06 mentioned above. What can't that car do
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Old 02-10-2015, 03:05 PM
 
Location: Eastern Washington
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What a lot of people are not familiar with when they buy a Hellcat, is that a high-power, heavy car requires a lot of skill to be fast at all.

The vast majority of people who have the skill to drive it "right" gravitate to a lighter car.
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Old 02-10-2015, 03:09 PM
 
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Because the average owner isn't capable of driving it fast in a straight line?

I can see theses owners snickering to themselves at a stoplight "Look at that kid in the WRX, he's intimidated by my 700 HP. Little does he know I'm incapable of taking advantage of all this horsepower".
Sincere comment but I just don't get the whole stoplight thing.

Anymore the cars are so much lighter and with so much horsepower.....you are going deadly fast within less than a block.

It's like in the movie Grease when they race in the canal and they are going slower than sh*t by todays power standards lol.
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Old 02-10-2015, 03:11 PM
 
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Many people cross shop performance cars of different price ranges.

Nobody buys a hellcat or a GT-R because they need one. They buy these cars because they want one. That means they have expendable cash to burn.
True. When I bought in 2008 I was trying to stay around 55k but due to the financial crisis I was able to nab a new Z06 for 61k. I wasn't going to pass up that opportunity.
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Old 02-10-2015, 03:20 PM
 
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Why does anyone care what anyone else drives or how they drive it anyway?

So someone loses a race. And?
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Old 02-10-2015, 03:26 PM
 
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Why does anyone care what anyone else drives or how they drive it anyway?

So someone loses a race. And?
Why does anybody care what others caring about who drives what and how they drive
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Old 02-10-2015, 03:57 PM
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Location: The Sand Hills of NC
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Best way to never get beat in your "supercar"

Do what 90% of supercar owners do.

1. Only bring your "super car" to car shows this way you get the oohs and aahs from the car show crowd and you can brag about all your kills without ever having to stress your "supercar".

2. Go to the track but leave your "supercar" home and tell all the "racers" that you also have a "supercar" but it is in (insert shop name of well know tuner here) being tweaked.
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Old 02-10-2015, 04:14 PM
 
Location: north bama
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it`ll beat anything with a turbo 4 or V6 ... HA !! yeah i`m impressed ....
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