Tell him, you both need to park your cars side by side at the entrance to a restaurant, stand back and see what happens!
I followed a friend in his 308QV on a road trip and kept up pretty well......in my Ford Ranger!! He would lose me in some of the sharper corners, but I never got too far behind. He was as surprised as I was.
Like I said, I usually turn down requests for a race. But I didn't think an SUV could do that! What was I thinking? The 308 is more about style. It's the only car I've owned that makes me smile when I get in it or just look at it in the garage. Go Granny, go Granny, go Granny go!
Don't know.....but if I had a 250 GTO I'd race every SUV, station wagon, Porsche and even cops that I could. At least until I woke up
You don't want to meet the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT, then - 13.1 to 13.7 second quarter mile!!! Not my cup of tea, but definitely fast for a Jeep.
My dd is a 10 y old Jeep Grand (not SRT). I'm reasonably certain it will also beat the GT4-at least up to 40 or 50mph-it's faster than it looks! It's about $8 in gas to pull that off most likely. The SRT is a different story-it's overkill but it's ridiculous fast. I'm familiar with the older ones but the newest model sounds almost absurd. I think it's jeep's way of saying Porsche shouldn't make suv's!
Got to ride with that lady in an F40 around Moroso back in the nineties. I think she's a pro...driver I mean!
Yep, that's a small block. As I understand it, for many years there were two Chevy block castings, but the range of available displacements overlapped quite a bit. The small block in stock trim topped out at 427 or 454.
One of my favorite things about my GT4 is that it feels like I am going faster than I am (a VERY good thing!) When driving most modern cars, I could be going 100 and not be aware of it, look at the speedo and say, crap! I thought I was doing 50... where is the fun in that?
Modern cars are designed, tested and squeezed out of cad/cam programs before they ever touch a street. They are faster, more efficient and way way safer-true engineering marvels. That advancement also creates a thoroughly numb experience. The GT4 is the go cart your parents wouldn't get you when you were 8. But I don't remember go carts sounding like this
I'm just working from my own experience. My father has a '67 Corvette with the 427/390 in it. For the Vettes, the small block is the 327, the big block is the 427.
It's not hard to beat a modern car off the line, just be smart about it, watch when the other light is turning red, you should have a good idea how long it takes from that light turning red to yours going green. Be faster that way, know your car, know its clutch and where it grabs, and many slower cars will beat a faster one, espically if they don't know how to drive. After you cross the intersection and a little bit, back off, becsuse they will kill you in the long run. So you just beat them one way, while they don't get to prove they will smoke you the other way. You both drive a way with a smile on your face, and you get to keep your pride intact, more importantly Ferraris pride.
I once was waiting at a red light to turn green in my Maserati 3200 when a young guy showed up in the lane next to me and asked if I wanted to race him in his tuned Volkswagen. In two seconds I went through the possibilities: a) I beat him in his Volkswagen: Wow, not a great feeling to beat a Volkswagen by my Maserati b) He is faster than me: Even worse to be beaten by a Volkswagen in a Maserati So I declined and just drove off Thats why I never race other cars. Markus
I never turn down a stop-light grand prix, traffic permitting. Sometimes you win; sometimes you lose. Yes, I know it's childish but it's the way I was brought up!
