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1974 Alfa Vs. Prius
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:52 am
by 1974Alfa5spd
Had a little fun today. Came up next to a silver Prius on the perpendicular main street today and decided to mess with him a little bit (maybe try to blow away the cloud of smug surrounding him). I usually bring it up to 3500 so I brought it up to 5k or 5.5k then shifted to second, again 5k then stoplight
. Then there was an SUV in front of me so no more fun.
This is also only my second day driving stick!
Re: 1974 Alfa Vs. Prius
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:54 am
by blauenlanze
Not a good idea to start street racing.
I'm pretty sure the Prius driver counted a mental win for himself based on his MPG reading. "Another old-fashioned gasser down!"
Re: 1974 Alfa Vs. Prius
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:56 am
by watkins
Im waiting to pull up next to a Prius driver with his window down and ask what his mileage reading is, then blow him out of the water with my own. I can get 33mpg on back roads if I feel like it. Take that worlds more absurd car driver!
Re: 1974 Alfa Vs. Prius
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:03 am
by Cm452
I once got 47.3 mpg on a dead flat road @56mph.
Eat that prius snobs + i've turbo
-cm
Re: 1974 Alfa Vs. Prius
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:09 am
by watkins
Sucks for me because my current situation is filled with short highway drives that my car never fully warms up for. 24mpg
Re: 1974 Alfa Vs. Prius
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:15 am
by 1974Alfa5spd
blauenlanze wrote:Not a good idea to start street racing.
I'm pretty sure the Prius driver counted a mental win for himself based on his MPG reading. "Another old-fashioned gasser down!"
Your right, but I hate Prius's and just felt like screwing with him.*
I want to put a sticker in the back window that says:
"13 MPG and damn proud!"
*another one was driving me up the wall on the same trip.
Re: 1974 Alfa Vs. Prius
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:16 am
by 1974Alfa5spd
Let me put it this way.
I wasn't going full on race, just accelerating a little faster than usual and dragging out the shifts. Then letting up at 35.
Still was fun though
.
Re: 1974 Alfa Vs. Prius
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:27 am
by permabanned
ok cool story you raced a prius that didnt even know you were racing.
and who the shit needs gas mileage when gas is this cheap
Re: 1974 Alfa Vs. Prius
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 5:06 pm
by carsncars
permabanned wrote:ok cool story you raced a prius that didnt even know you were racing.
and who the shit needs gas mileage when gas is this cheap
Gas won't be this cheap forever
come next summer, or when the economy swings up, gas'll do the same.
Yeah I actually looked at the Prius when I was shopping this summer
Decided against it because it's mostly me and one passenger at the most, so I can get similar mileage in the Mini with a little more fun. I'm getting about ~6.9L/100km in mixed winter driving. It was 8.9L/100km when I was learning--parking lot crawling, stalling, and over-revving.
"Spirited" driving gets me about 7.6L/100km.
Re: 1974 Alfa Vs. Prius
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:36 pm
by watkins
We use miles per gallon on this forum
Re: 1974 Alfa Vs. Prius
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:06 pm
by permabanned
yea we dont understand that communist liters/ 100km. why cant they be normal and do kilometers per liter so its easy to see the relation
Re: 1974 Alfa Vs. Prius
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:07 pm
by AHTOXA
permabanned wrote:yea we dont understand that communist liters/ 100km. why cant they be normal and do kilometers per liter so its easy to see the relation
Irony.