MS3 a Target?

[CincySpeed3]

Originally Posted by Rampage I never get any attention at all. I expected more honestly when I first bought the car... Kinda glad though.

Same here,

I have gotten pretty much zero attention from GTIs, WRXs, and the like. In my 3 months of owning the MS3 the only person wanting a go was an Acura RSX at a stop light. Unfortunately my buddy was driving at the time, first time in the car, and stalled it as the light turned.

[Cyclops]

I get no attention at all. In my almost 3 years with this car, I've had a fucking 2 door cadillac eldorado (hilarious win), an EVO 8 (loss), v6 challenger (very satisfying win because of a smug smirk smiling mother fucker) and a turbo 8th gen civic si last week which was actually dead even 50-110 which I thought was kinda bad for the civic, I was expecting more.

That's it though.. I get attention and comments from older people for some reason.. they like the red.. I've heard that a few times.

[Mclovin80]

I get it now..the dudes that have all this rice attention MUST have a shit-ton of stickers! That's the common factor.

I heard a rumor there is a 1 hp to 1 sticker ratio lol

[voltron]

Normally...the cars that I usually end up getting fucked with are Scions. I dont know what it is about those guys but it always happens. I see a shit ton of gti's around me and those guys will hardly ever try to play. As for STi's and WRX's...I rarely come across those guys, and if I do they are normally much much older guys who probably think I'm not worth wasting gas on lol. But as long as the cops dont bother me...thats all I care about.

[killer-ms3]

Shit why would people buy supercars if ms3's can beat anything?

[JT.Tuckerman]

Not much here where I am, I stay way out of trouble. Most people don't know the difference between the 3 and Speed 3- only a select few. The 2 cars I surprised are a new Range Rover 70-110 pull (The guy was right on my tail). He took a long look at my car afterwards when I got off at the next exit. And blew away a turbo Kia Optima- the guy lives in my neighborhood. Any supposedly "faster" cars- Camaro, WRX, STI, Mustang GT's and 2011 up with V6's , I stay away from, not worth the time, they are most likely faster- if they know how to drive.

[Kyle Undefined]

I get rev'd at and people trying to play all the damn time. Dale Mabry is absolutely the worst. I was on 54 heading to 56 when a Kia Forte tried playing with me...I mean, really? I've had a regular Mazda 3 try me too.

Civics are the ones that try me the most. I guess having the FYHN sticker on the back doesn't help :p

If people rev at me when at a light, I just tap the gas and let the bpv do the talking for me.

[NavySailorMS3]

Originally Posted by Kyle Undefined If people rev at me when at a light, I just tap the gas and let the bov do the talking for me.

hahaha

[SKiZ0TT]

I seem to get attention if someone is behind me and they see the tell-tale puff of black smoke from a turbo.

[Kyle Undefined]

Originally Posted by NavySailorMS3 hahaha

My Honda days showed through, I typed bov instead of bpv Bleh, I'm an idiot.

[speed3sb]

I have an 09 ms3 reworked with a big turbo and all the other tasteful mods..I use my car as my DD mostly because my commute is only 3 miles, but i do heavily track the car..Its funny I dont try to race anybody and dont get messed with that often...Either people dont know what the car is or they know exactly what it is and capable of...But the one time I remember best was on the 101 north where i live in Cali with my wife and some dipshit in a lowered regular 3 with a coffee can exhaust and his girlfriend, keep edging up to me reving his piece of shit...This went on for about 10 minutes and it was driving me nuts...Finally even my wife who does not like any kind of street racing looks over to me and says "just beat this asshole please" well i got the green light from the ol lady,down shifted an ran my car to about 120... Bye bye regular shitbox 3, he stayed about 100 yards back after that till i got off at my exit....I love my mazda

[NavySailorMS3]

Originally Posted by Kyle Undefined My Honda days showed through, I typed bov instead of bpv Bleh, I'm an idiot.

We all make mistakes from time to time. no biggy,

[Mikey]

lol the best is when you get a Mazda 3 that wants to race. Had one that was lowered with an upgraded exhaust want to go last night. Yes I did run the poor kid because I can never get any one to have fun so when the chance is there I will take..

[SparkySparks]

When I first got my MS3 every ricer on my way to work wanted to race and I made it about three days before I said screw it and decided to see what the MS3 could do. For the most part the only cars that want to play are luxury cars and ricers. The first road trip I went on I had to deal with a guy on a custom bike that kept slowing down and speeding up when ever I had an opening to pass. I finally had enough and just floored it. He kept up with me 75 to 95 at which point I got in front of him and started to put a little distance between us. Around 105 or so he either gave up or couldn't keep up and by the time I hit 125 he was a small speck in the rear view. I also had a mid 90s Tahoe trying to bully me around last night on my drive home. guy was right on my ass doing 70 and he decided to try and pass me. I played with him, gave it a little gas to keep along side him so he was stuck in slower traffic. I thought he was done but a few minutes later when I slowed back down as I was getting closer to my exit he came flying up on me again. Guess he won that one.

[spedo3]

Originally Posted by CtrlAlt1337 I used to live in Brandon and now i take the crosstown to work in S Tampa everyday and have never had anyone start anything with me. I kinda wish they did on the crosstown though. Its such an awesome road to play on.

If only it wasn't for the hoodie slot and the spoiler.......I live in brandon 2. It just depends what's out there. The best one's are the neon SRTs with a VTA-BOV that rides ur arse. The upper deck of the crosstown is a nice playground, but be aware....there are plenty of unmarked crown vics and from tiem to time, I've seen bike cops there.

[Gringo East]

When it was stock, I had 90s something Nissan Altima with a miss fire tire to race me between lights.....

Anyway, I had a similar post on a non-important forum when I first got the car. It's all in your head you think some gti, ricer Honda, jealous 2.5 mazda wants to race you. Just because they pass you or cut you off? Nah they're just jack-hole drivers... When someone wants to roll race you'll know. And side note: you don't always have to bite with great power comes great responsibility....

[Rampage]

Originally Posted by sidearmer18 I get no attention at all. In my almost 3 years with this car, I've had a fucking 2 door cadillac eldorado (hilarious win), an EVO 8 (loss), v6 challenger (very satisfying win because of a smug smirk smiling mother fucker) and a turbo 8th gen civic si last week which was actually dead even 50-110 which I thought was kinda bad for the civic, I was expecting more. That's it though.. I get attention and comments from older people for some reason.. they like the red.. I've heard that a few times.

Yeah, I've been in multiple races in the 3 years that I owned the car - however those are just because the other person was already speeding and when I lined up, they went for it.

G35 (win)
335i (loss)
Camaro V6 (win)
Multiple trucks (win)
MRS (win)
2 Civic SI (win)
2nd Gen MS3 (win)
ISF (loss)
Cobra (loss)

[SKiZ0TT]

Originally Posted by Rampage ISF (loss)

There's a guy that works for the same company as I do and shortly after he got his ISF he wanted to race me.. I said, "that wouldn't even be a race, my mostly stock MS3 vs a 70k hellafast sport sedan.. you looking for ego boost?"

I'd still take him 40 - 120...

[Ferdball]

Originally Posted by SKiZ0TT There's a guy that works for the same company as I do and shortly after he got his ISF he wanted to race me.. I said, "that wouldn't even be a race, my mostly stock MS3 vs a 70k hellafast sport sedan.. you looking for ego boost?" I'd still take him 40 - 120...

You mean one of these?

MX-5-vs-IS-F.wmv - YouTube

[Mclovin80]

Originally Posted by SKiZ0TT There's a guy that works for the same company as I do and shortly after he got his ISF he wanted to race me.. I said, "that wouldn't even be a race, my mostly stock MS3 vs a 70k hellafast sport sedan.. you looking for ego boost?" I'd still take him 40 - 120...

It's too bad Toyota has been focusing all its effort on how to make a Prius run on organic cheerios as opposed to re-releasing the Supra....

[simply_pandora]

Originally Posted by S-hendrix Seems like diesel trucks are the only ones who want to race me. I'm guessing because they expect me to be an easy-kill. They are the funniest ones to try to pull ricer flybys because when they start coming up fast you punch it and trap them in slow lane traffic. DroidX2-TapTapTaparooo

agree... diesel trucks love to start shit with us here in town.. i sit as high as their exhaust tip...

you'll always get picked on though... people don't understand..

[blackrs99]

MS3 is as much of a target as SRt-4s, WRXs, SS cobalts, etc. Pretty much all of these cars that started their life in a standard form and were "spiced" up one way or another are bought by performance enthusiast who don't simply want to be another face in the crowd.

Having said that, I race pretty much everything. I've raced a camry and a C6 Z06 and everything in between. I'll challenge other drivers unless they do it first. If they take the bait, then we're off. If not then oh well...

I win some and I lose some, but it's all fun. Most favorite kills are the ones where people have no idea what the car is capable of. But those are getting rare since these cars have been out there for a while now and most people know about them.

[sallyspeed3]

Only legitimate try at a race I've ever gotten was from a new bmw 135i (still had the stickers on it). Boy did I make him feel bad about his purchase. Other than that though its only annoying people trying to get ahead of me in traffic, and then when I happen to get by them because I'm in a better lane it's so hilarious to watch them in my rearview mirror frantically try to get around the traffic so that they can get ahead of me again. I just don't get it.

[GODspeed7]

Originally Posted by zkrick 350z always try and race me... im kinda tired of beating them. Alot of mustangs in my area as well so they always come revving the flowmaster. So many kills of both that im done racing them. In other news i ran a harley sportster 600 with straight pipes and beat him! haha motorcycles kills are great.

Sportsters don't come in a 600. They come in 883 and 1200.

probably sent from a freight train at work

[b3nnno]

In my 1 yr+ of owning the speed, I haven't had any ricer incidents.

I DO get:
- "that look" from GTI/WRX/STI/EVO drivers all the time though.

[zkrick]

Originally Posted by GODspeed7 Sportsters don't come in a 600. They come in 883 and 1200. probably sent from a freight train at work

idk prolly not a sportster than. Its my buddies i just know its a 600 and i think its a 05.

[maxspeed3]

I rarely ever have anybody try to play either. Its kind of disappointing, but I didn't buy the car to race everyone. If someone wants to race, I'll let them have it (depending on the car) but normally everyone just looks (maybe they just know not to mess with the ms3) I have had a couple good pulls with a few skittles, (they all have lost) and (couple of gti to). Occasionally I will mess around with a friend and his 350z (he used to be able to keep up) - now he is going to buy a penpu soon- so at least thats a plus.

[BigJimMs3]

Im surprised I don't get fucked with more often. I have a red genpu rims/drop/tint/hids and still never get people to try and fuck around. I think in the 2 years ive own this car ive had 2 random races. 1 was a 1.8 gti.....(yea i know sad) had a fmic and exhaust that i could tell and he got destroyed. Then after a car show there was a stock GTO(with mufflers) 6.0 rolling with his girl and i was with my buddy and he kept flying pass us on the way home. Finally i rolled up and he was down for the cause. 40-110+ Pulled about 2+cars and he gave me the thumbs up.

[Budwise]

Ive had my car since April and i have yet to have someone try to race me :C

[fortressofcomfort]

You have to teach the locals respect.

I think respect for the platform in general is increasing exponentially.

[Rampage]

Originally Posted by SKiZ0TT There's a guy that works for the same company as I do and shortly after he got his ISF he wanted to race me.. I said, "that wouldn't even be a race, my mostly stock MS3 vs a 70k hellafast sport sedan.. you looking for ego boost?" I'd still take him 40 - 120...

Yeah, the IS-F is actually my really close friend.
I've driven his F once, the power was there.
I wasn't able to go WOT though because of traffic.

Definitely a fast car, sounds amazing too.
The white interior is amazing.

[surebOOst]

It was hard to get people to race when I had my gen2 but it seems now my bro has it everyone in the fucking world wants to race it.

[forcedinduktion]

I don't have anyone try to race me, ever. Even hondas hold back.

[snwslasher27]

yeah pretty much unless they know its a speed3 they will ignore you. cops dont care either wayy

some dick the other day driving a piece of shit civic with the hood tied down with rope didnt like me passing him on the highway tried to get around me for 10 minutes wouldnt let him pass me illegally when he went to turn off onto the turnipike on 476 he threw a handful of change at my car . ended up turning around at the next redlight and got on the turnpike and chased him down after 5 minutes and returned the favorr and then some.

cool story bro.
i know.

[Kade]

Only people that race me in my town are stupid high schoolers in loud lifted or lowered trucks. Needless to say i beat all of them in my stock speed3. Its so annoying. Ive gotten a2 sti's, a challenger r/t, bmw z3 and newer camaro ss to play with me in traffic a little, most of them being older guys not kids. only true kill ive had that was a set up race was against a 2005ish Acura tl-s. Anyways trucks trying to race is usually always fail

[snwslasher27]

still not races yet, i did have an acura with some teenager in it doubt it was a type s though, didnt see much of it after going into 4th and moving on

i had one of those "daytona" dodges pickups with the hemi revving when i was passing him on an interstate so i decided to play along and not much of a fight

[sallyspeed3]

Originally Posted by snwslasher27 yeah pretty much unless they know its a speed3 they will ignore you. cops dont care either wayy some dick the other day driving a piece of shit civic with the hood tied down with rope didnt like me passing him on the highway tried to get around me for 10 minutes wouldnt let him pass me illegally when he went to turn off onto the turnipike on 476 he threw a handful of change at my car . ended up turning around at the next redlight and got on the turnpike and chased him down after 5 minutes and returned the favorr and then some. cool story bro. i know.

Did the change actually make contact with your car? If that was me and he hit my car I honestly don't know what I would have done. I'm a pretty peaceful/non-violent person, but something like that probably would put me over the edge. I keep a pair of bamboo bo-sticks under my driver seat in case anything ever happens, lol.

[snwslasher27]

Originally Posted by sallyspeed3 Did the change actually make contact with your car? If that was me and he hit my car I honestly don't know what I would have done. I'm a pretty peaceful/non-violent person, but something like that probably would put me over the edge. I keep a pair of bamboo bo-sticks under my driver seat in case anything ever happens, lol.

Yup, it made contact with the car i am the same way i am usually peaceful. it did put be over the edge that is why i decided a few hundred yards later to whip the car around and find him. I got on the road he took and i had ten miles until my exit to find him and make my point. He never even saw me coming until i hit his car. Thats four dollars worth of quarters i will never get back, but probably the best change i ever spent returning the favor to him plus a full gatorade bottle and something else heavy i forget what it was that made contact with his car. dickkk

[crtguns]

only regular challenge I get is an evo8 that spouts off his BOV whenever he sees me.

Hes got neon green rotas and spiked hair. Dooshbag.
His other car is probably a lifted diesel quad cab.

Other than that- too many retards that do not know what a speed 3 is. Good.

I did kill a challenger srt8 and a really asshappy mustang. I had to goad them into a drag.

[moomooz12]

People in Staten Island have the gheys. Not a lot of people even know what a speed is around here. I've ran into several cars that wanted to play tho.

1. A mustang v6.. they need to stop thinking they're fast. Pulled on him from a roll.
2. Heavily modded gen5 GTI. Dude had an upgraded turbo/full bolt on. Loss from a roll.
3. Modded maxima... yeah. Just pure win.

Other then that islanders are into that G35, Maxima, luxury crap.