Wow Mach 1, it's 4:15AM EST. U r still online!

yeah, i work the night shift. i dont get off until 3:00 AM. Whats your excuse? :)

Oh I'm in Malaysia so our time is 5:30pm Dec 4th. We are 13hrs ahead of your East coast. Look at my location below my avatar pic.

Like I said, I'm tired of talking about this on the internet. It's point less. Lets just forget about it and move on.

BTW, like B8turbo said, I'm not tryin to make enemies.

I apologize if I offended you.

you know i have this same discussion with my roomate ALL the time, he ownes a mustage, i own a protege. everytime i do a mod to my car he boast's about his mustang, and how my car wasn't supposed to be fast, and if i wanted a fast car i shoulda bought a mustang. lol now i know my car will never be as fast as his mustang, but its still fun to piss him off and say it is. lol

Well, if thats your idea of fun, but to me you would sound pretty stupid saying something like that.

I always believed in the idea of if you want a fast car build a fast car. A mustang gt or higher is a nice fast car. I dunno about the v6s but im sure they can be made fast just like a protege. Mustangs and other "muscle cars" are great. I just hate the fact that most of them are v6s...

tell him if he wanted a fast car, he should have bought an rx-7, not a stang :)

I browsedon the rx-7 forums a lot, and everyone with a 3rd gen with the 3 most basic mods (I think it was inpipe, downpipe, and something else) would own every mustang out there :)

Zoom-Zoom :inthebum:

well, first off, thats not true. there are some VERY fast mustangs out there, and second off, the 3rd gen. RX7 is an expensive car to buy. a mustang can be had cheap and made fast relatively cheap, thus thier popularity.

I guess I have something in common with Mach I:eek: because I too traded in a Mustang (a 5.0l V-8) for my Protege. Sometimes I miss it...I could do 14s stock (it was a convertible) instead of the lowly 16.8 I ran in my P5 stock! Can you believe it? A ricer chick drag racing her 4-banger import ;)

But times change, people change and sometimes you need a back seat and some doors. I had my eye on the P5 for quite a while before finally bringing one home.

I've taken my car on the High Speed Touring track and hope to have it out at the Auto-X this season too. It is a great handling little car, it just needs a little more 'go'!

OH, and BTW, my turbo Focus would kick the crap out of my 5.0l Mustang. Sad, but true! The last dyno for our Focus said 219fwhp and 255tq:D It truly is a little monster.

I'm done rambling for now...but I'm gonna have to repeat what has already been said:

Pull your head out of your ass and get to the track so that you can see what kind of numbers these cars are really putting down these days! You'd be surprised!!!!

Karen

Well to bring a little bit of a different angle....

I am 17. When I was buying a car I had narrowed it down to a used Camaro or a brand new Protege.

Camaro:
I would get lots of straight-line speed, lower-than-average reliability, high insurance premiums, low gas mileage, so-so handling and of course the thrill of bolting a few things onto my motor and being able to beat mostly all other mildly modified cars in my area.

Protege:
Slow (remember, it wasn't intended to be fast). excellent reliability, OK insurance, good gas mileage, out-of-its-class handling, and good looking. Also, it'd be NEW, so I would know EXACTLY what kind of beating it has undergone.

So I decided that the thrill of the Camaro would wear off pretty quickly. Straight line racing is fun for a while, but after many a night in my dad's faster-than-hell Maxima, it got boring. I went with the Protege because the overall package was much better.

I know I'm comparing apples to oranges, but my point is, everybody is in a different situation and everybody has their preferences. I'd never buy a muscle car, it's just not my thing. But then there's those people that would never buy an import.

Ad nauseam

very well said

I just wanted to say, I wish I knew somebody who had a 1/4 mile strip on their land. That's awesome.


And I think about the must vs pro thing:
there is the possiblity to make proteges fast, fast as many mustangs can go, with a lot of work. With that same amount of work though, I bet the Mustang can go ZOOOOOMINGLY fast.

Like, a graph for potential / cylinders

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Well not exactly to scale butyou get the point. We can make 4cyls that hang with 8,, but it requires a lot of work.

Who is that addressed to? If its me, then we all know where your head is.

My head is right here, thank you.

Here's where it all went to hell for you, Mach 1:

It's not my fucking problem that you sold your Mustang and bought a Protege. I did the exact same thing and I don't whine about it.

I'm not a 17-19 second ricer, I am a 16 second girlie racer;) Get it straight.

My Focus is quite the sleeper...V8s don't know what hit em...and no, we don't use NITROUS.

You said we shouldn't have a racing section...why? Are you scared? We race everything, all the time. Hell, I'll even race you in my Grandma's Buick. How would you like a swift kick in the ass by a V6 Century with plush velour seats?

We don't all drag race, some of us are into autocross and high speed touring. Turning is as fun as balls out speed!

Oh yeah, maybe you SHOULD leave.

Thanks for playing!

Karen