Perception of MPS's amongst other performance car owners

[lats]

I like the sleeper look, it suits me just fine.

The reason I purchased my car was for the sleeper look...it ROCKS.

[noetzy]

But it's just annoying sometimes when someone asks about your car and you have to make a 15min explanation on the Mazda pecking order and where the MPS sits

Shouldn't take 15 mins to say:
Fastest production Mazda

[Street Road Laino]

but stupid people think its still a M3 with no bells and whistles. I quite like the fact that most people are none the wiser

[Nevermind]

I also get a buzz when people ask what car I drive and I just say a "mazda 3"...

Its quite strange

[RoNi_SiZe]

no lesson to be learnt here at all. pretty sure we like people not knowing what our cars are, as someone pointed out earlier it means we don't attract unwanted attention.

hrrmmm u know what man, I went for a drive after reading what you said and you're 100% right. It's great flying under the radar.

No commodore hoons picking fights with you.
Police just drive past w/o giving you a 2nd glance.
You get let through booze & drug buses alot of the time. In my previous cars I was pulled EVERY time I drove past a booze bus (maybe besides once). I think w/ the MPS I've only been pulled over 2 out of roughly 8-9 times. THIS IS TRUE MPS POWER!

[duglet]

...i get pulled over all the time..but im usually doing something

But when we head out to the spit on sundays...police presence everywhere...

The MPS guys always fly under the radar and are usually untouched.

Happy Motoring
duglet

[Nevermind]

Its like a cloak of invisibility

[Wardski]

Its like a cloak of invisibility

Starting to feel like a Klingon now..... Beam me up duggie

[teamfletch1]

hrrmmm u know what man, I went for a drive after reading what you said and you're 100% right. It's great flying under the radar.

No commodore hoons picking fights with you.
Police just drive past w/o giving you a 2nd glance.
You get let through booze & drug buses alot of the time. In my previous cars I was pulled EVERY time I drove past a booze bus (maybe besides once). I think w/ the MPS I've only been pulled over 2 out of roughly 8-9 times. THIS IS TRUE MPS POWER!

Don't think the new MPS (if it ever makes it) will have the same luxury, bigger wing and bonnet scoop going to attact attention

[PaulG]

Its like a cloak of invisibility

I'm wearing shoes of escaping !!!!

[HellionXR6T]

Starting to feel like a Klingon now..... Beam me up duggie

"We come in peace, boost to thrill"......

Yes I've had my experiences 'under the RADAR', it's soo true. I'd say the "cloak" factor was a definite 'draw card' to the MPS.... Soo true. Picking on HeavySlowVehicles is getting a little tedious though

[Nevermind]

Picking on HeavySlowVehicles is getting a little tedious though

Especially when they think they're sitting next to a plain old Mazda 3, your gone before they even realise you were up for the challenge... not that I condone or participate in illegal street racing

[Thelurker]

IMO people are starting to catch on to what they are.

I regularly read a lot of forums, the up and coming perception is the hero car for boy racers (ie the new WRX).

Personally, I hope they never get that much attention, at the very least in the meantime they are more often than not seen as a was that kind of car?

[Nexus]

If the (new) ford XR6 turbo ute owner I encountered today is any indicator : Oh look! an MPS - someone to drag.

Probably one of the few vehicles around that could give him a decent run, . Of course I didn't - wouldn't expect to beat him anyway...

[duglet]

If the (new) ford XR6 turbo ute owner I encountered today is any indicator : Oh look! an MPS - someone to drag.

Probably one of the few vehicles around that could give him a decent run, . Of course I didn't - wouldn't expect to beat him anyway...

Well not on takeoff....

Rolling start.... MPS =

Happy Motoring
duglet

[Nexus]

I'll go one someday - on a track, of course.
Not a chance of a safe squirt to the 60 speed limit even, so I just let him through, but gave the fronts chirrup on takeoff; I guess he knows I could've if I wanted to.
In 4 lane arterial with no other traffic anywhere and an 80K limit from the lights, then I might have given him a dash to the limit.

He was giving it rolling squirts here and there. They're pretty damn quick. I don't know if he was WOT or not, but it gets up and goes well on the roll. Got a good look at the back of him - inch long scratch and dent on the gate already too. ahha.

WOT basically doesn't happen for me - nursing a restricted license and all. conservative is the order of the day.

[zackd]

really? MPS wins?

I had one next to me from standstill at lights and I got to the "speed limit" first ... I think he was suprised , so we came to the next set of lights and he knew it was on ... I was quicker again but he just kept going way past speed limit when I slowed down, he had a girl in his car so I guess he felt he had to prove something !

[Nevermind]

girls! they are just dead weight in races off the lights...

[Birdhouse]

What can I say?? Chicks dig the line!!!!

[blackbetty]

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