I now drive a mondingo tdci and still cant shake the feeling I am in the scoob sometimes. A tad embarrassing when I remember and run out of steam

Tell you what though, the torque on it means I can beat quite a few high power cars off the lights, though only for the first 20 feet
After that I have to throttle back, turn on smooth radio and remind myself I am in a mondeo

 

A Hyundai Accent Coupe thing, in Newport! Pulled up at one of those traffic light scenarios where it goes 2 into 1. He 'booted it' and all I saw was his dustbin bore exhaust hanging off, bear in mind I didnt bother because an Englishman in an Impreza doesnt want a dust up with the Heddlu.

 

Can't be bothered, makes me smile when you see some young turk race past you in his Corsa, Saxo etc with his mates on board thinking I've just "done" an Impreza!!!!!

Good for them

 

Keep it on the pod boys i did



YouTube - MY SUBARU AT JAP SHOW SANTA POD 2009

 

Mitsubishi Delica ,at a junction where left hand lane was straight on/left ,right hand lane was right, only the guy stopped about a metre or so from the line and i always get that feeling that anyone who does that is going to be stupid and yep he was

 

Not troubled by boy racers around here anymore, most of them have learnt their lesson as there are a number of Scoobs hereabouts.

Had a couple of surprises myself tho. A sheddy Fiesta that was lowered and loud clung on to my tail for a while in the twisties. He turned off into a local garage and turns out he's a trainee mechanic who mods his properly, no Halfords gadgets on his, so respect there.

Had a VW Passat give me a nasty surprise till I let him by to find a PHAETON badge on the back. Worked on it since at a garage were I sometimes help out. 4 pads per disc! WOW! Nice car.

BMW 330D left me for dead on the M6, seen a few others around that are not as quick so suspect he was mapped.

But there are a number of Audis around here who take exception to being overtaken and accelerate as you go past. Not trouble but noticeable, and dangerous if I had a slower car, muppets

And a Clio 182 that tried to keep up on fen roads in the wet. When I got to Peterborough had to go round the roundabout TWICE for him to catch up, much to the amusement of his passenger

 

i get the family cars and chavvy corsas and 1.25 mk6 fiestas with the go faster stripes lol

i find it's worse when i'm with my gf they seem to think ill be more inclined to race... :/

 

Had a Ferrari F430 spider sitting on my bumper the other day, I thought I'd wait until he tries to overtake loolllll I dropped a couple of cogs and left him a few car lengths haha the look on his face was priceless

 

I had an encounter with an animal pick up, I was just pootling along the dual carriageway and noticed this tank next to me trying to push past the traffic, I didn't think anything of it until we'd got past the next roundabout and the traffic was gone, he cruised next to me for a second then put his foot down. I let him go for the a second and then my ego got the better of me, I dropped a cog, floored it caught him up with ease, and waited for him to pull up next to me at the next roundabout

 

one of my funniest encounters with some local boy racers happened last winter, I pulled up at traffic lights on a dead straight road in wsm that leads to a macdonalds, the local boyracer hotspot, I realised that I was surrounded by a corsa, a pug and something else, they spotted me and were waving there arms out of the window giving me the finger etc, the lights went green and they all shot off, I didn't bite but had to laugh when I got to the other end of the road, blue flashing lights and they were all being pulled over by the plod! It was made even better when a policeman had to stop the traffic in another lane to let me out from behind one of them, I couldn't help but give them a little wave and the thumbs up as I went past

 

It tossers in people carriers usually with the wife,ten kids in too obviously thinks if i die ill take all my family too
Think they resent us because they didnt know how to put a jonny on but yes i used to rise to it but you dont have too.
I just laugh to myself now and think loser,thank god im me and not you

 

I remember last year a Ford S-Max kept driving right up my **** for about a mile...till I got on to the M42 slip road and left him

 

after the 1st year of ownership i got fed up waisting chavs/ numpties and invested in a rear window sticker which reads
DONT BOTHER YOU AINT WORTH THE PETROL
it cos a fiver and has saved me a fortune in petrol and probably kept me my licence .the look on a chavs face when he reads it is priceless

 

1.1 saxo lol

 

J-reg Toyota Corolla 1.3GL and a 03 Landy Freelander in the 205

Same set of traffic lights outside where I work at Corus too

 

Tbh I don't get too many people trying it on. You get the odd tw@t up your ***, but I generally slow down and let them appreciate the burble

 

Every time I get in the scooby I am amazed at the lengths, sometimes stupid, most drivers go to to get one up on a Subaru. I've owned 2 before now and this recent purchase is more noticable.

I'm taking my wifes view in daily traffic, why drive fast when I know I can waste em if I really wanted. And just enjoying it on the open road.

Fact is Scoobies stand out like a highlighter pen. They spark something in other drivers that says I must get past or try keep up with that car at all costs. lol

To answer the topic, :-) When I just cant resist.
I love letting a chavved up car think he has the better of me off the mark (two lanes at the lights) then letting loose and flying by. Most recently a corsa. No doubt he was telling his mates it's because they were all in the car. :-)

 

lol where did you buy that sticker from?

 

In my P1 with the missus, a cavalier came up the inside at the lights, so i stayed alongside it until the parked cars in his lane, look of fear was priceless.
Astra VXR on a dual carrieageway late at night when i was in my Skyline GTR32, lights disappeared into the gloom.
Generally ill get up to the speed limit then stay at that, if they want to be loons and speed, then ill let them past.

 

normally get corsas and saxos round where i live but had a nice play with a z4 the other day, luckily it was wet so he couldn't do much. he caught me up at a petrol station when i had to pull over for some more juice and said that he's thinking about getting rid of the beemer now and getting a scoob. another converted man.

 

Had a Civic Type R try it on with our old Focus RS it was sitting of our rear bumper on single lane roads when my missus was driving, As it got to the side of us as the road turned into a 2 lane carrigeway, my missus floored it and pulled quite ahead of it, As she slowed down for a roundabout the Civic come to the side of us again and then he got a glimpse that he got cained by a women, his face was priceless as his passenger was p1ssing himself laughing!!! As we come off the roundabout he floored it and my missus just left him to it!!!!

 

Just to add to this topic, a few year ago amate off mine on way back from a cruise in his heavily modified corsa (not a chavvy one) looked like a standered sri, but had a reallt tuned C20 let in (2ltr turbo)

A megane came flying up behind him and they had a bit off a race my mate slowed for a bend and took it well the megane didnt hit the roundabout and went airborn landing in a field with the driver and passanger dead on impact. My mate saw this in his rear view mirror and stopped to help.

A witness saw accident and my mate got charged with something or other think it was death by dangourose driving hes still in prison now he was never in trouble before had a good job and was agood lad. And it was 2 in morning.

So even tho i personally think thats a joke, was other lads choice to take part in a race But be carefull lads!

 

Yes get people wanting to race all the time.
Last time at a set of lights side by side so I give the throttle a couple of blips like I am going to tear off when the lights turned green I mearly pulled away as normal while the tit in his 2 litre Corsa tares off. He was hugly unimpressed and slowed down to tell me my car was slow. When we got out of the 30 I proved him wrong

 

Best post on here.

Race on the roads, be prepared for the consequences!!

 

I'm not bothered with the local boy racers anymore, waist of petrol..., but couldn't resist when i've got cought up by audi tt s , looked very R8 style ... flored it..left it by a couple car lenghts and let him go past me...

Still a bit of kid in me

 

+1 Really, really not worth it. If some ******** high on teenage testosterone in his Saxo, or some bloke having a middle age crisis in a Zafira with his family on board wants to risk their neck, and those of others, just to say they "done a scooby" let em get on with it!

You don't want to be anywhere near when they run out of talent or you'll get dragged into it, because you were driving a rally rep and ergo MUST have been racing!

It's worth remembering that just because someone is driving like a ******** doesn't mean it's a reaction to your Scooby; it might just be that they drive like a ******** routinely!

Ns04

 

had a fiesta trying to race me he was a young lad id say about 17 and had a fu**ed up bodykit tht was primered lol i let him win

 

good point, when I first got my scooby I thought it was because of the car, and sure it probably doesn't help, however now I think that people who drive like idiots around me probably drive like idiots all the time anyway

 

I have to add, that i've noticed alot since i got my scoob a few months ago, having come from a 120d beemer, that if I over take something, and pull back in, even into a huge gap in front of them, so they definately don't have to alter course or slow down because of me, they flash their full headlights at me.

This happens regularly, and at normal legal driving speeds, i used to get it the very odd time in the beemer, but easily get it 2 or 3 times more now.

 

Some people are misinterpreting the word race, I wouldn't imagine anyone in their right mind could expect a 2.5 ton diesel pick-up to "race" a 400 bhp STI

And yes if the other driver does run out of talent the "****" will be flung at anyone else involved, I too have been accused of causing some else to crash, but in the end it was clear the Fiesta driver was clearly a talentless fool who, had just passed his test, driving beyond his abilities, as there weren't any brake-marks....

I only avoided being blamed because a witness said I was 800 yards away when the poor sod ran out of talent. R.I.P.

dunx