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My day:
Driving to work in Tijuana, cruising around 80-85 and we hit fuck knuckles in SUVs slow-rolling. Red diesel truck is keeping up with me, lets me merge back into the left lane when traffic slows, but sticks with me and acts like he wants to go faster. So once traffic clears, I pull right and let him pass to return the courtesy. He moseys on, and then eventually the road opens up. To my surprise, Red Truck is in the Middle lane going like 70mph, in what appears to be a clear attempt to have me catch up. I'm like... "does he want to race or is there a cop I can't see?"
I get closer, and he's holding his phone out the window at 70mph to video my driving past.
Coincidentally, I had to make sure the 3-4 shift at WOT was working at the same time, so I hope he got a nice video clip of me hauling the mail!
..... Driving home, I like to enjoy the on-ramps to my interstate drive home, and low and behold a black mustang that was sitting next to me at the light previously apparently mistook my merging with a call to arms? He flies past, but I was cruising in the middle lane and didn't realize we were racing. Anyway, an opening appears, as if it were a Saharan mirage! He pulls right and slows, waiting for me to pull up. His Girl was in the car, so I figure it's on!
I coast down to his speed and drop into 3rd, around 65mph. He has tinted windows so I can't see in, but he waits long enough I decide to do the 1-2-3 finger-count nice and slow. I'm pretty sure it was an even start - but that was the only part. I had car-lengths on this guy before I even hit the top of third. Shifting into fourth, typically around 120ish, wasn't even necessary. The dude was Slooooooow.
Now this looks like a brand new Mustang, I'm guessing 2020ish: blacked out, what looks to be black mesh factory wheels and a black interior with red accents. I didn't notice any badges but I'm not familiar with the new line; however it sounded like it had bolt-ons (at least a cat-back from the sound). Anyway, we do a second hit, and it's just embarrassing. I figure he's done because he pulls into the right lane... but I guess his woman threatened to leave him because he pulls up, merges back into the middle lane, rolls the window down and makes the "one more" gesture.
We slow again, and I motion for him to take the hit. He does... and then I was gone. Again. Line 10+ car-lengths kind of gone. And that was when this poor 20-something realized that smoking the tires in the parking lot was not going to hold up at 80+ mph.
Anyway, fun day - any idea what the newer mustangs are making power wise? This one didn't sound like a v6, but I guess it could be one of the Eco-models.
Driving to work in Tijuana, cruising around 80-85 and we hit fuck knuckles in SUVs slow-rolling. Red diesel truck is keeping up with me, lets me merge back into the left lane when traffic slows, but sticks with me and acts like he wants to go faster. So once traffic clears, I pull right and let him pass to return the courtesy. He moseys on, and then eventually the road opens up. To my surprise, Red Truck is in the Middle lane going like 70mph, in what appears to be a clear attempt to have me catch up. I'm like... "does he want to race or is there a cop I can't see?"
I get closer, and he's holding his phone out the window at 70mph to video my driving past.
Coincidentally, I had to make sure the 3-4 shift at WOT was working at the same time, so I hope he got a nice video clip of me hauling the mail! ..... Driving home, I like to enjoy the on-ramps to my interstate drive home, and low and behold a black mustang that was sitting next to me at the light previously apparently mistook my merging with a call to arms? He flies past, but I was cruising in the middle lane and didn't realize we were racing. Anyway, an opening appears, as if it were a Saharan mirage! He pulls right and slows, waiting for me to pull up. His Girl was in the car, so I figure it's on!
I coast down to his speed and drop into 3rd, around 65mph. He has tinted windows so I can't see in, but he waits long enough I decide to do the 1-2-3 finger-count nice and slow. I'm pretty sure it was an even start - but that was the only part. I had car-lengths on this guy before I even hit the top of third. Shifting into fourth, typically around 120ish, wasn't even necessary. The dude was Slooooooow.
Now this looks like a brand new Mustang, I'm guessing 2020ish: blacked out, what looks to be black mesh factory wheels and a black interior with red accents. I didn't notice any badges but I'm not familiar with the new line; however it sounded like it had bolt-ons (at least a cat-back from the sound). Anyway, we do a second hit, and it's just embarrassing. I figure he's done because he pulls into the right lane... but I guess his woman threatened to leave him because he pulls up, merges back into the middle lane, rolls the window down and makes the "one more" gesture.
We slow again, and I motion for him to take the hit. He does... and then I was gone. Again. Line 10+ car-lengths kind of gone. And that was when this poor 20-something realized that smoking the tires in the parking lot was not going to hold up at 80+ mph.
Anyway, fun day - any idea what the newer mustangs are making power wise? This one didn't sound like a v6, but I guess it could be one of the Eco-models.
