Road Respect: 911 Turbo vs. M5
In a way, my M5 is more rewarding than my 911 Turbo (technically my former car as I recently sold to my friend).
On the street people never challenged me in the flared turbo. Kids/motorheads/etc. never cut me off. In fact they would often move out of the way as if it were the Red Sea parting. So I rarely gunned it, and drove very mellow. I guess that you would call it respect.
But tonight, after being "Dangerfielded" by a 3 young kids in a souped up Acura, the M5 decided it was time to earn a little.
I was slowing down for a red light in order to then make a left and go up the long windy desolate road up the hill to my house when WOOOOOSHHHHH a white car (lowered, aftermarket exhaust.....) flys by, cuts me off, and slips in front at the light.
O.K. kids Sport mode: check; DSC off: check, 1400 rpms: check. This was to be a blow off.
Green light: ease clutch out, a little rubber for show; swing wide and 2nd Gear eats up the straightaway; 60 (his headlights getting smaller; 80 smaller yet; into long sweeping righthander at 100 headlights just about gone; pulling hard at 120 and no sign of headlights; 140+ still on the pedal, well that was just for emphasis.
Obviously, don't try this at home.
But if you do, you should slow down afterwards, wait a few seconds, and be prepared to see six of the largest, roundest, whitest eyeballs pinned against glass that you have ever seen pull up. The bonus is when you realize that the 3 mouths of the gasping onlookers are extended so wide that even you (with your poor "weekend golfer" swing, could easily be 3 for 3 if you chose to drive a ball into those cups.
Sometimes they just have to see those 4 tailpipes flying away from them like a UFO.
Well, I gave them the patented Captain Curt "M5"sign off (You extend your right arm and turn your right hand down, forming an "M" with your 2 outward and 1 middle fingers, while simultaneously extending your left arm, turning your left hand up and form the number "five" with your five fingers.
You know, there are times when I miss my turbo, but people were too prepared to ever be astonished by its acceleration... And anyways, I never got to give the M5 "sign off" to stunned people behind their wheel in that car.
Live Long and Prosper, and feel free to use the sign off.
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Good one Curt
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