M5 vs......SUV's????
 

I just can't deal with people anymore, and every time I got behind the wheel this weekend this was again proved to me. I took a trip down to Central Jersey this Saturday to have my rifle worked on, and on my way to the highway I was being rather viciously tailgated by Homey #1 in his freshly CPO'd Infiniti FX45.

Apparently someone at the dealer told him it was "turbosupercharged" and that 500 horsepower Bavarian cruise missiles were of no consequence to his japanese grocery-getter. As soon as we hit the highway on-ramp I hit the fun button and fishtailed into the fastlane, taking it up to light speed faster than he could say "Biggie Smalls is the illest". Not to be outdone, he followed me through a mile of rather dense traffic and eventually passed me (I was no longer trying to make a point) while cutting off everyone he possibly could. When he hit his exit, he put on his HAZARDS!!! I was absolutley dumbfounded.

I'm sorry, did you think I was racing your SUV???

[QUOTE=Cylinder Head;3298906]I just can't deal with people anymore, and every time I got behind the wheel this weekend this was again proved to me. I took a trip down to Central Jersey this Saturday to have my rifle worked on, and on my way to the highway I was being rather viciously tailgated by Homey #1 in his freshly CPO'd Infiniti FX45.

Apparently someone at the dealer told him it was "turbosupercharged" and that 500 horsepower Bavarian cruise missiles were of no consequence to his japanese grocery-getter. As soon as we hit the highway on-ramp I hit the fun button and fishtailed into the fastlane, taking it up to light speed faster than he could say "Biggie Smalls is the illest". Not to be outdone, he followed me through a mile of rather dense traffic and eventually passed me (I was no longer trying to make a point) while cutting off everyone he possibly could. When he hit his exit, he put on his HAZARDS!!! I was absolutley dumbfounded.

I'm sorry, did you think I was racing your SUV???[/QUOTE]


He probably think so :rolleyes:

The aren't superturbocharged? DAMN! Dude, your saloon is slooooooooow... :rolf:Same deal with the M3. Everytime I am on the highway some fool has to hop on it behind me "picking my pocket" and then wants to race.. :nonono: After you destroy them 10-15 times, its still not enough. The blow by you, weaving in and out of traffic dangerously and then flash you like "thanks for the run" :smash:

Come on CH, you don't need such sour grapes after getting pummeled by an SUV. He whipped you fair and square.

wait....im confused.....you're saying that FX45s ARENT superturbocharged? those SUVs are slow? what?? i am sooo lost right now :nix:

lol....jk.....couldnt agree with you more Cylinder Head

When I was young and stupid (now I am just stupid), I pulled up to a red light on the Pima Indian reservation with my wife's 1987 Toyota Supra turbo. This was in AZ, plenty of primer grey Camaros driven by homeys there, and mr gang banger next to me decided he was going to race me. Never one to pass up an opportunity, I absolutely smoked him, and when I reached 90 (in a 45 zone) I started slowing down. He decided the race was not over, and was riding on my bumper, swerving back and forth. The one thing the Supra could do better than accelerate was brake, and I hit the brakes with a vengeance (remember it was my wife's car..:D). Mr Camaro realized that he was going to hit me, stepped on the brakes, lost control and spun out into a cotton field, with dust flying everywhere..:y

I laughed so hard, 10 minutes later when I got home I was still almost hysterical, and when the wife asked me what I was laughing about, I told her that she would not understand, she had to be there!:v:

LOL! nice man!:y:y

WELL I did see a vid of a blue FX running mid 12's! So if you ran into the wrong FX it could smoke you if you arent modded. A m5 with every mod under the sun besides F/I with drag radials was runnng low 12's the same day, so be careful out there.

It's OK, I just had some guy tailgating me in my SLK55 while coming home from work with the wife. As we exited onto an Expressway, he comes darting our from behind me in his SLK 4 cylinder Kompressor. Since I have more displacement & a bigger Kompressor - he lost pretty bad (I was still losing traction at ~ 80 mph but let let off & he was a light year behind us ;) ). It's rare I floor it, but sometimes...you must dispose of tailgaters!

-Matt

K55 S7 FTW! :bow: how much boost are you running?

I get this all the time, and the odd thing is the stereotype truly holds: it's the guys in the Japanese cars that do it. Here's a short list of the latest victims:

• 350Z. Destroyed, buslengths, twice, fly-by.
• Same night: older Accura tailgating, destroyed, same deal.
• Last week, an older guy in a Infiniti G35 coupe. Killed him, multiple times, but he just kept coming, so I finally said the hell with it and let him have his fly-by. Idiot damn near spun out cutting through traffic while doing it.

It's as if they're either stupid enough to think that you were just "lucky" enough to beat them by 100 carlengths, and that if they can just get it right, they'll close that gap and stomp that big ol' bad Benz! Either that, or their powers of denial are so strong that in comitting their fly-by, they somehow manage to delude themselves into thinking that the car which made them look like they'd deployed a parachute moments ago has suddenly transformed itself into the Clampett's truck from the Beverly Hillbillies, allowing them to fly by in an easy kill, hazards flashing, sporting a triumphant smirk as they oogle Ellie Mae and swerve to avoid the furniture falling off.

It is a strange phenomenon, I'll tell ya...if I get whooped (OK, hasn't happened yet in this car, but I'm sure it will at some point :y), I admit it, give the other guy a thumbs up, and move on.

THAT was funny! The Jed Clampett reference had me rollin'!:rolf:

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