2009 "Your Car VS" Thread

[BrianG]

Originally Posted by TexasSP

I always thought Mazda dropped the ball not making the speed3 AWD like the speed6. The speed6 was a nice car as well and I would take a look at it too. I almost bought one in 06 but my wife can't drive standard and doesn't really want to so I opted not too.

I did look into the Speed6 because of the AWD. But I really didn't like the clutch. It worked really well for racing, but much too touchy for general driving IMO, not to mention ice/snow. I'm sure I could have gotten used to it, but I just didn't want to.

BTW: I find the 3 is plenty powerful for most daily driving. I've blown away any focus, corolla, civic, pretty much any car in its class that I've driven against.

[plettenbergs]

RAVIN....that is a kick ass "Z-28"...i likee!...i want a 67-68 convert

[Semi Pro]

Originally Posted by BrianG

I did look into the Speed6 because of the AWD. But I really didn't like the clutch. It worked really well for racing, but much too touchy for general driving IMO, not to mention ice/snow. I'm sure I could have gotten used to it, but I just didn't want to.

BTW: I find the 3 is plenty powerful for most daily driving. I've blown away any focus, corolla, civic, pretty much any car in its class that I've driven against.

you just have to get used to the clutch, its really not that bad

the big problem with the mazdaspeed 6 and 3 is direct injection, the car is so complex its hard to get hp out of the motor

[TexasSP]

Originally Posted by BrianG

I did look into the Speed6 because of the AWD. But I really didn't like the clutch. It worked really well for racing, but much too touchy for general driving IMO, not to mention ice/snow. I'm sure I could have gotten used to it, but I just didn't want to.

BTW: I find the 3 is plenty powerful for most daily driving. I've blown away any focus, corolla, civic, pretty much any car in its class that I've driven against.

You're right, the clutch was rather touchy. I made the right choice in the end I got an 07 Camry XLE V6 and have loved it. It outruns my 97 Regal GS that was supercharged and honestly surprises most people.

The 3 is a nice car no doubt, and the only wagon type I think looks good.

[_paralyzed_]

'98 ford van. It'll outrun, like, older slower vans. Bee-yatch.

The back of my ride:

Originally Posted by _paralyzed_

'98 ford van. It'll outrun, like, older slower vans. Bee-yatch.

The back of my ride:

Hahaha I love the sticker. Very cool.

[mikey09120]

my bros car:
1995 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4
4WD 4WS
-aluminum radiator
-single ball bearing garret turbo
-HKS blow off valve
-Tial Wastegate
-experimental clutch
-boost controller
~550HP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsRU-...e=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk6hd...eature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfsD-...e=channel_page

[J57ltr]

Do rentals apply? I had a Dodge R/T once in Georgia that ran pretty well, I smoked a small Mercades couldn't tell what it was by the grill I ran it up to a little over 120.

Then one time I got an 05' Grandprix with the supercharged 3.8L V6 it was the newest one at the time with the gen. 5 M90 supercharger. I was driving around at night and had a Sunfire pull up beside me and start reving the engine. He had the fart can and all. I smoked him off the line and into second. He followed me into a parking lot and asked what I had done to it. I laughed and told him it was a rental car. Make sure to turn off the A/C when doing a burnout in a FWD car.

I have had a few fast cars one was an 89 Thunderbird Supercoupe with a 5speed that I did quite a few things to (OK a lot), and I have a 78 El Camino that was pretty much stock except for the intake carb, distributor, cam (210, 218 duration @ .050 .495" lift) and a 2200 stall convertor and 3.08 rear. The exhaust was still manifolds but I ran 2 1/4" into a flowmaster Y then a Torque Tech 3" single (one side of a dual system) exhaust and a Flomaster 3 chamber muffler. It ran 14.1's at 95. The SC's best run was 12.78 @ 107.

Jeff

I used to do a lot of street racing, but had a few bad things I saw happen. I had a friend that got his truck shot up because he won and saw a few bad accidents so the only time I ran my own cars was at Baytown. I don't really like street racing anymore (little older and wiser I guess), I had an idiot loose control of his car doing about 80 and just about killed a friend and I and burned down our house, and he didn't have a drivers license or insurance, Effin' illegals

http://www.sccoa.com/forums/showthre...light=Saturday

It's a little long but some great pics of a Saturn Vs a Dodge van and tree