I'm coming home from watching the football game last night and i pull up behind a Celica and an IS300 getting ready to go at it. There's 3 lanes heading south (on Peachtree Industrial Blvd for Atlanta natives) and the IS300 is in the far left lane, then Celica is in the Middle and grandma in the accord is in the right (not interested in the race). I'm sitting behind the Celica. As their sitting there revving it up I decide if they go for it, I'll hop in the right lane and see if I can catch em. We've got about 1/4 mile (maybe not quite that far) until the next red light. When the light turns green they take off and I shoot over to the right lane and gun it. I'm at least a car and a half behind b/c I couldn't gun it being behind the celica. I was by the celica really fast and caught the IS300 by 500yds and was by him. When we got to the next light the Lexus pulls up and the driver says "Yeah we know, that's faster". Funniest part of the whole thing was the Celica, I didn't know those things were so slow.

 

Good kills! The celicas suffer from lack of torque just like most hondas & tegs. You have to launch them at high rpm to get them to move. Was the celica a gt or gts?

 

To tell the truth I don't know. The trunk was debadged. It had one of those HUGE tailpipes to make it sound like something it wasn't. Looked new but I was paying more attention to the IS300.

IS300 driver said his car was stock, mine's stock also. I don't think it was a GTS b/c it was suprisingly slow

 

the is3 also has alot more potential