For thoes of you who didn't know, I used to be a car freak a few years back. Well a mate just happens to pop into my house this evening and says "look what I just bought!" and I was like "Oh you little prick! as I saw the MR2 GTS turbo" The car that I always wanted but never could afford back in the days.
Anyways, I tell him to chuck me the keys and we go for a lil drive. We somehow ended up in the twistes all of a sudden. The next 30mins was pure enjoyment like a full half an hour of orgasm. It actually felt that good. That car was spot on with its handeling. I could chuck it into corners real hard and it would just do exactly waht I told it to do with plenty of juce to launch off corners.
I have to be a little honest. Maybe this honesty will make me the most disreputable member of KB but here it goes. I actually enjoyed that more than riding my GIXXER!!
Is it ok to feel this way or I am a freak who shouldn't be called a biker cause I have been unfaithful?
those MR2's are freaks of desighn -they go and turn and handle like nothing under $10000 should.
The concequences of a stuff up are just that little bit further away in a fast tin top than it will ever be on a bike.
To me its like driving a PS2 with a big screen
Biking is being in ya own movie.
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Sudeep! those MR2's are ujndoubtly nice/good cars - being turbo i take it you are talking of the SW22?
But mate! have you tried the AW11 with 4a-gze engine? Stock supercharged 4age motor! YEEEHAW! mate those SW22's are bigger, more bolbuss and just dont have the same chisel cut nose! mark1 MR2 SW = just an awesome car with the ONLY gripe being that if you plant it hard and slam it into a corner the car doesnt drift much, instead it picks the front off the ground and bulldozers it straight ahead... but a cement bag in the front beside each wheel arch helps with this!
Hey, most motorcyclists enjoy a good performance vehicle full stop.
I assure you M/R, the novelty of owning a fast car and no bike soon wears off. Especially when your mates are going for a ride or a track day. Best to have both.
I went without a bike for 6 months when I had my E38 and although I loved that cage with all my heart, I still got the shits with not being part of the bike scene. Except on Friday nights when totally unknown chicks are trying to climb in the car at traffic lights
Cars are what I do all day every day and have never really been interested in them,I just use them.Apart from setting my VWs up for fast gravel road driving the only fast car I had that excited me was done by accident - I got a diesel Escort van with a stuffed motor and dropped a petrol 1600 Xflow into it....unknown to me it was rally spec and I spent 4 yrs trying to make it run right.It was a shock to find it was the best handling front wheel drive car I've ever driven,a hell of a lot of fun in the wet - I could hold a line where ever I wanted it under full throttle wheelspin.Tall gearing and a cammy engine meant it was happy cruising at 100mph,it was a bit of a sleeper.
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If you like bikes, then you like good-handling performance cars too.
We've got two Peugeots and a Subaru Vortex (the latter now out of favour), and to be honest, the Peugeots give me more smiles than the bike does, as their handling is superb. Even though the 306 is my wife's, she usually gets me to drive it when we go places, and it is an absolute delight in the twisties. Every time I get into the bends in the country, I'm amazed at how much of a "driver's car" it is. I haven't yet managed to squeal the tyres (Continentals) and I reckon its limit exceeds mine by quite bit. The motor could do with a bit more oomph (it's the 137 bhp 16-valve version), but the handling is great.
The other Peugeot (the "Go Kart") is insane - it's a 205 GTi, weighs 870 kg, and has a brilliant 130 bhp 8-valve motor. The thing seems to have torque everywhere, and it's VERY hard not to spin it up taking off, even fitted with low-profile Michelin Pilot Sport tyres. I can only imagine what some of the other 205 powerplants feel like - there are 16-valve engines (like the 306 has) with 250 hp, and turboed versions with 460!
So what's wrong with appreciating good machinery of any kind? It's nice to be cossetted in a nice warm car, listening to your favourite CD, while fanging through some nicely linked bends.
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