Norm Peterson

I wouldn't blame the Altima for much of your Mr. A's embarassment. Most drivers that you run across really don't have a whole lot of hard driving experience at anything other than stomping on the throttle straight away from the traffic lights, and your guy simply bit off a bit more than he could chew. He's obviously uncomfortable about not having lots of paved runoff room (or perhaps afraid that he'll hit the barrier/guardrail/guard cables). I'll bet that he's the kind of guy who always heads for early apexes and cuts the left lane people off when there's two left-turning lanes at a major intersection and he's starting from the right lane. Probably doesn't look much past whatever is just barely over the hood line.

I'd be a little careful about lumping all everyday sedans into a category that suggests they have little cornering/handling potential. Or about assuming much with respect to their drivers. Here's one that just might surprise ya, if I took the numbers off.





Norm

JCON

Back when I had my W8 I was going through the EZPass right before a bridge here in DE, it goes from 2 EZPass lanes and 6 toll lanes down to 4 and then 3. Well me and a 3.5 Altima are side by side so I start to speed up to get to the merge, so does he, I slow down, so does he, this goes on two more times and I have 200' to merge. So I floored it. Now I don't know what his 3.5L V6 is capable of (least of all pulling at 70mph), but when the flat plane crank shaft 4.0L W8 goes WOT, it can hit 168mph in 5th gear without mods. In a matter of seconds I was over 120mph and climbing fast and I couldn't even see him.

Altima owners around here are mostly kids with more money than a standard civic owner. They are all DBs though. My old 4.0L put him in his place and I am hoping my new 4.0L can as well, although I know top end pulls will be different.

2005Redfire6

Moral of the story, you just should have took one for the team and PIT manuevered him off the road.

Joshspony

I hate people like that. I go to work at 10 am and home at 7 pm, so I am lucky to aviod the "rush hours".

Whitehorse10

And mess up my paint? lol

X3xMONGOOSEx3X

I constantly run into these kind of people. The only people who never seem to mess with me are other Mustang or sports car drivers/non import. I've also never been flipped off while driving until I got a Mustang. Apparently it's my fault that I nearly got run off the road by this bitch. No turn signal just start moving into my lane when I'm literally right next to her. I slowed down and let her in and she honks her horn and flips me off. Why's it always women though? I guess they all do hate me. and.....RANT

satur9poet

I never knew Altimas had enough power to lift up the front end. Wow.

"Captain Altima" has me in stitches! Great story!

2005Redfire6

Lol thats why I said take one for the team.

Whitehorse10

Yeah you know those FWD cars will lift the front end a little if they slam the gas. It wasn't like the tires came off the pavement or anything. Just that tell tale signature that old boy had just stomped on his loud pedal.

By the way, great signature quote.

The_Enforcer

im glad im not the only one that thinks about PIT maneuvering people that deserve it! lol