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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. :wink:

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 :P
-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. :wink:

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 :mrgreen: .

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 :lol: 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 :mrgreen:

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. :lol: