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
I also get a buzz when people ask what car I drive and I just say a "mazda 3"...
Its quite strange
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 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.
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!
...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
Its like a cloak of invisibility
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?
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...
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.
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 !
girls! they are just dead weight in races off the lights...
What can I say?? Chicks dig the line!!!!
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