Was coming home tonight from a friend's place where we watched the UFC fight (AWESOME TITLE FIGHT BTW!!) in my bone stock IS300. I was on a three lane highway and came to a stoplight with a camry in the far lane and a Toyota Matrix next to me in the middle. The light turns green, and I hear the torqueless Matrix wind up his engine and really gun it off the line. He got about a car length on me since apparently we were racing and he didn't send me the memo.

I didn't really have time to kick it into E-shift, turn off traction control, turn on Power Mode, etc., so I just gunned it from like a 10mph roll. By the automatic's third gear I had a good 3 car lengths on him and just shut it down just over the speed limit (~65mph) because I was pulling really hard on him at that point.

I'm not really proud of the kill because I'm pretty sure the Matrix is slow as *****, but I'll chalk it up as a first win! For only 210hp, the IS really surprises me, especially in the top end. It feels a little sluggish in the lower gears, but really starts to wake up in 3rd.

I think this car has a little more in it bone stock, there was a TSB on the ECU programming for my year IS involving weird shifting transitions and power delivery, so I'll have to take it back to the dealer. I think if I reset the ECU and drove it really aggressively for a couple of days it would be much more responsive too. I enjoy driving it like it is right now though, because I drive it like a grandma every day on my commute to get better gas mileage

 

nice, I think IS300s are bad as all hell. good looking cars

 

nice car and kill btw! With 215 horses very nice man and I think they're real light cars. Seen some take off from a dig and I can tell u it was really impressive!1

 

HA HA HA HA, A Toyota Matrix kill. Well you were in your daily driver........and a nice one if I may say so. Good Kill..

 

Thanks =D

All my friends want me to turbocharge it, but I refuse to touch the engine on this car. Body mods and possibly a catback exhaust is all I would consider for it. This thing has to be reliable ^_^

 

Nice kill

 

nice kill bro

 

On the way to work the other day, I beat a guy and his wife in an Infiniti FX35 (the SUV). I could tell he was really trying hard too haha... after I let off with about 2 car lengths on him, he gave me the biggest flyby and tore off down the road weaving in and out of traffic.

Then at another stoplight, a chick in a previous gen Civic caught me off guard and we were surprisingly even until the auto tranny kicked into 4th and I put about 1.5 cars on her. That was a case of not being in the right gear for me, but she definitely had me worried! haha

Neither of those were with "power" mode on or with E-shift. Pretty much just a mash of the gas =P

 

You beat slow cars congrats


really




You need to get an SRT intake with piggy back, Y pipe from XERD, and HKS axle back (forget cat-back)

There ya go

and power mode BAH!

thanks for the laughs

 

Hey, it's the only fun I get to have with my slow daily driver =P

Nobody really tries to race me in the fast one.... I think it's because they're scared of it