Race Time!

[Lexus Gaz]

My new girlfriend is into cars :D She keeps on at me to race her in her 206 GTi. I've said I'm not racing on the road but I'll more than happily take her on at santa pod or round a circuit.

Her car is standard apart from the exhaust backbox, and my lexus is standard bar a k&N panal filter.

I've no doubt she will do me on pullaway but I think once the lexus gets going I think I should have the edge.

So what do people think? Am I going to be ok here or Am I just going to end up looking silly? I wont hear the end of it if she beats me!.

[Parthiban]

Is it the 180bhp one? If so, I don't think you'll have a chance.............you're down on power and so much heavier.

[Steve_D]

I think your never going to hear the end of it!

[Lexus Gaz]

Her car is the smaller 134bhp one not the 180. I wouldnt even bother if it was the 180 one!

[aaronabbott]

it would be tight cos the 206 is sooooo much lighter as the speed gets up it is should start to pull away

[Parthiban]

it would be tight cos the 206 is sooooo much lighter as the speed gets up it is should start to pull away

Yep the weight is going to be the key factor, even the lower power version gets to 60 quicker than the IS...........I wouldn't do it :shutit: :)

[Monster-Mat]

however your car is 300% more reliable, more comfortable

just tell her to wind her neck in...its a luxury car not a boy racer car

[coolrides]

i think you going to get your doors blown off. the big car not that good at getting off the mark. just hope she messes up the start or stalls.

good luck. my mate keeps smoking me in his glanza turbo, quite anoying lol but it is running 167bhp. nippy car

[thetruck]

talking of races, well it wasnt really a race but this morning the road to work was CLEAR so i thought i would let it rip off the line at the lights. there was an a3 that i left stationary when i moved off. I was giving the car all it had, redline changes, the works.

This a3 caught up and overtook me while i was about to redline 4th!

I love the IS but y is it so desperately slow?!?!?!?!

[sparkystav]

Redline in 4th?

Hmm i'm sure thats over 70mph! lol ;)

[Dan_Harris]

yeah not sure how car dependant it is but getting around 60 in 2nd / 80 in 3rd / upto 105 in 4th then it starts struggling :(

[The Transporter]

Technically speaking, the little Pug has a better power to weight ratio but when you add around 300Kg for all the "Stuff" that girls always have in their cars, spare shoes makeup clothes, Vodka bottles, and a handbag full of house bricks then there is a much closer match..

Just to tip things in your favour, don't forget to spray a little Armourall on to her floor mats so's she is all over the place in her heels :winky:

[coolrides]

talking of races, well it wasnt really a race but this morning the road to work was CLEAR so i thought i would let it rip off the line at the lights. there was an a3 that i left stationary when i moved off. I was giving the car all it had, redline changes, the works.

This a3 caught up and overtook me while i was about to redline 4th!

I love the IS but y is it so desperately slow?!?!?!?!

a3 1.8 or 2.0 turbo. pocket rocket. stay clear if you lookin a race lol or if it a s3 your f*cked. think they over 225bhp

[Paradroid]

When the 206 gets 1/2 day down the strip, it will have built up enough speed so that body panels will start to peel off. You've just got to hope it disintegrates before the finish line.

My mate had a 206 GTi, same spec. He went on to me about how rattley and tinny it was, I thought it was just because he'd come from owning a Mk4 Golf. Then he took me out in it and I had to bite my tongue, it was shocking, 80k on the clock and it sounded like it was falling apart.

I'm going to buck the trend and say I think the IS200 shifts, and my last car was a MG ZS180 (with a few tweaks too), it would hit 60 in less than seven seconds. I can't explain why I think the Lexus is quick, I think it's just the smooth and consistent way it builds up speed. On a country road the handling and brakes make up for the lack of power.

But yes in a straight line with a modern turbo diesel alongside it does show that it's not a quick car. Some crappy Kia Proceed diesel whupped me the other day. I still felt superior though lol.

Good luck with the race. Empty the boot out, including the spare wheel. And don't tell her about that track :)

[thetruck]

talking of races, well it wasnt really a race but this morning the road to work was CLEAR so i thought i would let it rip off the line at the lights. there was an a3 that i left stationary when i moved off. I was giving the car all it had, redline changes, the works.

This a3 caught up and overtook me while i was about to redline 4th!

I love the IS but y is it so desperately slow?!?!?!?!

a3 1.8 or 2.0 turbo. pocket rocket. stay clear if you lookin a race lol or if it a s3 your f*cked. think they over 225bhp

yeh i think thats what it must have been cos it literally came from nowhere!

just checked the a3's vitals on parkers and im thinkin it was a 1.8T.

Lucky i wasnt racing her or it would have been even more embarassing!

[thetruck]

Redline in 4th?

Hmm i'm sure thats over 70mph! lol ;)

sorry i meant 3rd, i was about to change up when i saw her getting ever closer and closer.

[sparkystav]

That'll be over 70 as well!

redline in second is 58 i think.

Stav

[gall84]

ive raced a 206 gti,the outcome wasnt good so i wouldnt do it,and my friend has a 180,also very fast raced that plenty of times,wasting my petrol really,lol!!