(Sunday) I'm set at 75mph on the cruise control when I notice what appears to be a late model ocean blue Dodge-looking car surging up the entrance ramp to my right. Judging from the rate of speed it's heading up the ramp it's doing greater than 80mph. I deactivate the cruise control to speed up a little to pass a slower car to my immediate right to allow the person to my right the choice of changing lanes to avoid this Dodge barreling up the entrance ramp.

I'm passing the slower car to my right at about 80mph when the Dodge makes its way on to the interstate. The Dodge swoops around the slower car and is nearly kissing my rear bumper. I look in my rearview mirror to see who this person is and it's a young blond with chrome sunglasses. At this point there's plenty of room for her to pass me but she continues sitting on top of my bumper like a vulture on a rotten tree limb waiting for a Gazelle to die in the dry Sahara desert heat. I downshifted into 3rd gear as I'm watching her barrel forward again into the lane next to me. She's trying her best to blast past me - she's getting about a car length on me when I decide to floor it. I can hear the two stage manifold opening up like a small V8 trying to tunnel up through the hood.

I'm pulling on this Dodge like crazy and there's no traffic in front of us for miles, so I'm dying to see how this Dodge performs. She's doing a fairly decent job of keeping up even though it's only by a bus length up until 100mph. As I'm looking in the rearview mirror I can see she's having a harder time keeping up as the car is begining to bounce left and right. It's over once I upshift to 4th as I can tell the blond in the Dodge starts to shut down.

I slow down to see what her reaction is after bursting the sound barrier right in her face. As we're approaching our separate exits she maintains about 80mph and barrels North as I cruise South.

After this little encounter I had to research this car just to see what the deal is with this car. It turned out to be a 2006 Dodge Stratus Coupe. It's quite funny how Dodge describes both the 2.4 liter 150HP engine and the 2.7 liter 200HP engine as "packing serious punches."

 

Nice kill

 

packing a serious punch... a 2.4L I4 pumping out 150? Yea, thats pretty serious.

 

Really? Are you being serious? You're getting pretty creative with your writing.

Nice kill though. Keep it safe.

 

by the time you sell your CL, you'll be able to write a book about all your kills

 

Yeah, but will it be sold as fact or fiction?

 

CL vs. xxxxxx (Whos next lol)


I put your kills in a chronology list from latest to earliest. Looks like you've raced everything from Porches to Mack trucks


Sorry... not really a hater,,, just think its funny lol


06' Stratus / 12-20-2006

Dodge Magnum / 12-17-2006

LS400 / 12-16-2006

Accord V6 / 12-07-2006

Lexus ES300 / 12-08-2006

C230 kompressor / 11-30-2006

Altima SE-R / 11-25-2006

Nissan Armada / 11-25-2006

MACK TRUCK / 09-17-2005

Porche Boxter / 09-17-2005

 

^^^ haha. ou another street encounter! gee, I wonder who wrote it USURPER!?!...What a surprise!

 

I missed the Mack truck encounter.

USURPER - Nice kill.

I wish I could get in on some of your action. I haven't found anyone that wants to play in a while.

 

Thats the kinda race I like to see...

A superior car putting an inferior car and an inferior driver in their place. That always cracks me up.

 

Not trying to be a on you USURPER, but you seem to always be racing women in somewhat slow cars. Maybe these woman aren't trying to race you, but they're all up on your bumper because the CL-S is just so damn sexy they're attracted to it much like a starving lioness is to a young gazelle that just rolled around in some lemon grass . I say don't race, pull over and see if you can't get yourself a little pu-tang!

 

dude, your stories are hilarious.

 

my friend had a white '05 2.4 i-4... we used to make fun of how slow it was..he had a cheap intake and a fart can on it LOL...got burned by everything out there including senior citizens with walking canes

those things are SLOW lol...nice kill

 

If everyone will notice from how I wrote the first paragraph I didn't know what the hell that thing was. The only way I could tell it was even a Dodge was by the nose. Everything Dodge puts on the road now has that same annoying grill and similarly shaped headlights.

It took a minute of researching to find out this Stratus thing was Dodge's replacement for the Avenger, which is why they braught back the Stratus. A boring replacement in my opinion. Otherwise, if I had known what it was I wouldn't have wasted my time and gas.

For the 43,754,967th time: This forum is called STREET ENCOUNTERS right? Not RACING AND COMPETITION. I did "racing and competition" when I was a teenager in V8 musclecars on the drag strip and that got old. I wouldn't race a foreign car on a drag strip - now THAT is what I would consider to be a "ricer." Somebody spending 3-5 times more money to race a superior car in competition, and half the time getting beaten or winning by a 10th of a second. You'll never see me on a drag strip in my CL S no matter what mods I decide to put on it in the future.

None of these people that decide they all of a sudden want to see how fast their car can go are "racing." But down in the South we don't do that "Honk your horn three times" to signify that we want to race whethe the car in question is superior or inferior. We don't even roll down the window to people we don't know. We just line up aggressively and GO. It's the way it's been done ever since I've known there to be street racing in the South unless you're obviously out with a friend and "racing" is the intention.

The first time I heard of this honking the horn three times business I laughed my ass off. If the "race" had to be that serious that the two people needed to make up their own makeshift audible christmas tree they may as well go to a drag strip.

 

Sounds like a :killer: to me. None of these other people in the "street encounters" forum seems to get this much hater attention as my threads do. And half of those other encounters sound so corny it's not even worth responding to but apparently you love my threads.

 

Eh. I don't need ass. That's what my fiancee is for. I hung up my status a while ago, though, I do flirt from time to time. Sure none of these women are actually racing. They just all of a sudden want to go over 90mph in a 55mph speed limit zone. Down here in the South when a chick wants to she won't be trying to outrun you she'll follow you for miles until you pull over at a gas station or she'll pull up next to you and smile. Where I'm from if people don't want to "race" they simply maintain their present speed they don't race up to your car and try to blow by you or get right on your bumper and goose their car up to your rear bumper until they get your attention like many of these people have done when they want to "race" me. Down here that's our way we signify we want to "race" not honk the horn three times or sit side by side in two lanes while driving, roll the window down and tell the other person what we want to do. We just GO.

 

WOW that is an impressive list I missed the MACK. Maybe next time you can post how you beat a John Deere mowing the grass along the highway. Remember "nothing runs like a Deere."

 

If the only reason you're on this website is because you like your friend's CL S you need to take your pencil pushing, cubical-working, tight leisure pants wearing, pocket protector having, orthopedic shoes-wearing, sorry ass and that cheap ass 18-year-old family car to a GM discussion board mr. "Here's my kill list." Nobody over 55 even drives a piece of garbage like a Chevrolet Impala anymore. Your wife doesn't even know your corny ass is acting the fool in the street. If she did you would need to be contacting a divorce attorney or perhaps even DHR to have your kid taken away from your irresponsible, reckless ass.

Nobody even wants to race your ass after they see the baby seat strapped in your back seat and that 80's "baby on board" sign dangling from the rear window of your sign. Once they see that Brady Bunch hauler wobbling down the street they laugh and shut down. Why don't you go down to the corner store and get some baby formula for your kid and some tampons for your wife. Lock this thread down all you want, moderators since you evidently don't care about people harrassing other members.

 

USURPER, I'm starting to think twice about helping back up your "street encounters" posts now that I've read your ranting and raving replys and seen your reported races in cronilogical order. As much as I encounter cars that want to race, I also encounter those POS cars that are POS cars not just because they're underpowered cheap-o econoboxes, but because of the way the owners drive them, a.k.a. doing 90 mph and tailgating. Do people come up on my bumper all the sudden and it appears they want to race me, well, yeah, but if it's a chick in a Dodge Stratus, I'm going to assume she's late for a party because she spent an hour too long on her hair and make up. Plus I don't care how dark it is and how fast you're going, the Stratus is pretty reconizable from the front. And as far as this whole "southern" style of street racing and driving, it's no different than the north east where I'm from originally or the west where I live now, there's no three honks here either, but there is a fair amount of people that just drive fast on the highway, and they're usually in POS cars much like the Stratus. There also seems to be an abundance of bondo'd 4 door Accords with monster wings and torn off body kits driving the same way. Am I going to race them and then start a thread about it on street encounters. Nah. Not worth it because... A) it's not really a race when they just drive 90mph on the regular and B) it's a POS car that even my old carborated CRX HF could've kept up with. I got into a little enounter with a Jetta GLI 1.8t last night but it only went for two gears, so I didn't feel it was worth starting a thread about, but now that I have read this one, I think it's more credible than a female driving a Dodge Stratus in the fast lane on the highway. I know you're creative, and I enjoy your style of writing, but your pretty much just racing any 'ol thing that comes your way. I didn't want to admit it before this particular thread came along, but after this Stratus "race", eh, you kind of lost some credibilty on this one. And also, why not take the CL-S to the track? That's where you'll most likely find the cars that are in the same class as ours, and if you so happen to line up next to a Dodge Stratus, then you can start a thread telling us how rediculously you beat it at the track. Not really a true street encounter though. Sorry.

 

Show me rules and regulations on ACURAZINE where it says encounters have to be with certain kinds of cars that only the members approve of.


Show me the rules and regulations of ACURAZINE where it says it's okay for people to harrass and insult members if some of you don't approve of the cars being raced.

Show me the rules and regulations in ACURAZINE that state a person should only have 1 street encounter a month.

Show me in the rules and regulations where it's okay to continuously insult and harrass a member for no logical reason, particularly in a forum called "street encounters" which depicts the type of "racing" that is considered ILLEGAL no matter what cars are being raced, where they're being raced or how they're being raced.

I don't need anyone's help to defend my posts - never asked anyone to and never wanted anyone to. You're all a bunch of hypocritical, anal retentive people that break the same laws I break. Because you're racing a WRX, a Mustang GT or a Porsche does not condone the fact that you are BREAKING THE LAW.

Bragging about modifying the hell out of your cars with cold boxes, OEMs, superchargers and turbochargers does not excuse you from racing in the street.

If I don't run in your threads to harrass and insult your encounters or whatever your Acura endeavors are, then you should have the COMMON SENSE to be MATURE and objective enough to have the same consideration.

If the moderators are going to allow people to senselessly attack members for no apparent reason this thread may as well be locked too.

 

Your such a tool. Believe me I don't like my friends CL-S but he likes it so I respect that. Just like he respects that I like my SS. You keep going on how my Impala SS is an 18 year old car. Funny thing is is that your Acura can't beat my Chevy in any tangable way. So your are saying that an 18 year old Chevy is superior to a modern Acura. I agree totally. Then you say the SS is ugly, thats opinion and opinions vary. I am on this site because except for you and a couple others the people on here are legit. They are real car guys. I respect them and their cars even though I may not like what they drive. Its jackass's like you that give the rest of us a bad name. I won't even comment on the rest of your rhetoric. Basically we all enjoy your writing ability but don't want to hear about you racing a girl on her tricycle with your CL-S. If the CL-S is half the car you think it is then race someone worthy of the car. Then tell us about it.

 

Don't be such a dick. You're the aggressor and you start shit but you cry because I won't respectfully bow and kiss your ass to keep the peace. The bottom line is this: I don't give a damn if you own a 2006 Corvette Z06. You don't own an Acura. Therefore, neither your presence here nor your comments are worth a damn. You drive a stale family car with a baby chair in your back seat. While you're making up a bunch of bullshit about the CL S to get back at me you're also offending a significant portion of the members who happen to be CL S owners on this discussion board to justify defending your precious grocery getter.

 

Funny but its your fellow CL-S owners that are criticising you. I just happen to agree with them. Whats wrong with peace. I like this site because nobody on it is a real Chevy fan so I get to get a different perspective. Plus its always nice to keep track of what your opponent is doing. My comments must be worth something because you are responding to them. I gave you no bullshit just fact. The several encounters I have had with the CL-S I have had no trouble beating it. So whats worse getting beat by a sport coupe or getting beat by a grocery getter. Thats why I love it when you flame the SS or me, because you don't get it. While your trashing me who races 90% on the track against fast cars that are really racing. You are really flaming yourself who is racing cars that don't know they are racing. If they are, their in cars that couldn't beat a CL-S running on 4 cylinders with the tranny slipping.

 

Wow... where to start. Okay, so I love how now you're playing the victim on this thread. You claim you're a graphic designer and yet you can't handle criticism. Being a graphic designer myself I'd have to say criticism is 7/10ths of being a designer, whether constructive or destructive, it happens and you have to be aware what you put out there is going to be judged whether you like it or not. The fact is that there are no special rules to the street encounter section that differ from the rest of the site. The only real rule is to try to be respectful to others and not attack them. Unfortunately some people are guilty of just saying rude things without reasoning behind them, but in this case, I'm just stating that you're going to get some criticism if you're racing a Dodge Stratus and Mack trucks, that's all. I got flammed when I posted I beat a WRX in a street encounter because it was from a roll and not from a dig. Okay, I got it, I know it would've been different if it was from a roll and I agreed with the criticism, but when you get criticised you go off like you're a battered wife or something. Dude, you raced a woman in a Stratus and wrote a thread like you were Stan Lee creating a comic book senerio. I have to agree with crippler22 that people do respect the CL-S, even those who own and drive other cars, even though it might not be the car for them, but when you're posting races against way less superior cars, you're going to get some slack for it. In fact I'd say you're the one disrespecting the CL-S now because you're associating it with a freegen Dodge Stratus. Come on now. Plus I know you never asked me to back you up on your corny threads, I just figured I'd try to get people to see where you're coming from because you seem to have this lenthy rambling aspect to your writing, though it's entertaining, and some people just assume that you're making this shizzit up as you go, which you very well might be, in this case I REALLY hope you did make up the fact you raced a Dodge Stratus. Did I mention you raced a Dodge Stratus??? OMG. So anyway, get off your high horse, come back down to earth and see that we're not trying to attack you, it's just that until you post a thread about racing some car of substance we're going to think you race pretty much anything with four wheels, and apparantly 2 wheels or 18 wheels as well. All street racing is illegal, and so should posting races against Stratus, Mack trucks, or gasp, GSX-Rs. I think the moderators are leaving this unlocked because none of us are attacking you, we're just criticising the fact your races are lack luster, and that's being kind. I'm actually siding with the Impala SS guy here, doesn't that at least spark something in your mind that maybe you're posting rediculous threads?

 

It seems this dude always gets in a fight with someone when he posts a thread. But in all honesty, he does have a point, Street Encounters are about racing any car in general on the roads.

Its hard to win on this site, think about it, if you beat a car that is known to be faster than the CL-S, like a Mustang GT or a GS430, then you get flamed for lying or that you beat the driver and not the car. Then you go and post a story about beating a slower car and put the smack down on him/her, you get flamed for beating an inferior car.

Overall, its hard to have a street encounter with another car that is completely comparable to the vehicle that you are driving. So in essence, it always ends up being an unfair advantage to one car or another. Either you beat a slower car, or you beat a faster car, but in the end, it seems you always get flamed for posting about it.

 

He doesn't mean the technology in your car is 18 years old, he is making fun of the fact that the vehicle has been around for 18 years. Honestly, I think thats a pretty stupid point to make about it being 18 years old, that shows longevity and that it is obviously a good design for Chevy.

But honestly, you can't really compare a car that was made from 2001-2003 to a vehicle that is a 2006, technology advances.

But I am curious, besies HP and Torque, why does the SS beat the CL in every "Tangible" way.
1.) Gas Mileage- Pretty Similar
2.) HP and Torque- Advantage SS
3.) Handling- Advantage CL
4.) Exterior Look- Personal Opinion
5.) Interior- CL, navi and overall a better look

I don't know, but for you to make a claim that it overall is superior is really grabbing for straws.

 

The vehicle hasn't been around for 18 years the platform has though. But comparing my 06 Impala SS to the 1988 Lumina is like comparing a 350 from a 69 Camaro to the LS1 in an 02 Camaro. Both have similar design but are to totaly different engines. The LS1 is far superior and technologically advanced than the LT1 350 of 1969. You are right the CL-S and Impala SS are close in every way except power. I will say when I drove the CL-S when it was new in 03 the handling was nothing to get excited about either. In fact the Acura salesman admitted the CL-S was a little soft for a sport coupe. Acura fixed that in the 07 TL-S, which I drove as well. I didn't buy the SS to drive hard on the twisties and I hope you didn't get the CL-S for that because you and I have the wrong cars for that. We are both limited by the weight of our cars and the fact that they are front wheel drive.

 

who has the dumbest name: usurper? or crippler?

 

Its got to be Crippler22, because he knows more about cars and racing than 01clsstock does.

 

Sry to say but u are wrong about that..

 

Dude just to tell u this before it gets locked..

SS is Slow i just ran the 04 one just to see if u were telling a truth and let me tell ya i got a bus lenght on him wtf i thought u said its FAST...?? What happend its got killed by a 03 CL-S 6SPDS??? Ok u raced with ur friends CL-S but Automatic which is slower than the CL-S I have... Dude i just dont like the way u say that the CL-S cant fuk with the Impala SS come here and we go to a track and see if u can even cacth up with me.. Just remeber its all about the driver...

 

Just to show how stupid you are I will respond to you. You raced an 04 Impala SS and won. No shit shirlock its a totally different car and engine. 240 horse V-6 VS my 303 horse V-8. Its all about the driver if thats the case I can beat your 2 years of experience while driving blind folded in reverse. I have been racing for 17 years. Thats almost as long as you have been alive.

 

Look people. I didn't even bother to read your posts because this has really gone too far. I tried checking this site out over a year ago and was greeted with the same kind of rude, inconsiderate, judgemental, anal retentive, hypocritical, assine, juvenile kind of behavior, yet, somehow I'm expected to be the one to accept this inhospitable behavior - ignore it as if nothing happened - but if I react to the childish behavior then I'm the one to be villanized while the fool(s) that follow me in various other threads continue to insult and harrass me for no apparent reason.

On top of that I get other people that seeming are oblivious to the reason why I reacted the way I did - they only see the end result and chime in with their own catty remarks: "Oh you act so childish" or "Aren't you 34-years-old?" or some other unecessary sarcastic comments.

No one chimmed in and made any negative remarks about the guy that made the thread about racing a Nissan Titan. Nobody chimmed in with any negative remarks about the Volkswagen GTI thread. Nobody chimmed in with any negative remarks when the thread was made about racing an old ass Honda CRX or an old ass Porsche 911 turbo but when I post a thread here comes the peanut gallery and the retirement home club with their unwarranted comments.

Hey, I understand this is the internet and it's all good. I'm far from being an altar boy or a saint. I can drop bombs with the best of them but that's not what I'm here for. I don't run around in the forums insulting people and making wise cracks like nearly half of the members here on this site. If somebody makes a typo so what? If somebody posts some misinformation, then so what? If someone's story sounds inaccurate so what? For all any of you know most of the people on this site could be lying.

All I'm saying is some of the very ones of you that are always pointing fingers and trying to indirectly call someone childish or immature are the very ones that need to check yourselves. Leave people the fuck alone that you don't know, particularly, people that don't fuck with you to begin with. If you make the decision to attack someone be man enough to accept the consequences for your actions instead of thinking someone has to play the better man role so you can continue making unecessarily rude, disrespectful, undermining comments and feel justified in doing so because you assume the person you're directing your comments toward isn't as well versed in whatever the topic in question was.

 

AcuraCLTypeS03 is probably hands down one of the most annoying postwhores on this site.

crippler22... the ImpalaSS runs very similar times to a 6 Speed CL so stop please stop trying to imply that your car can murder any CL. There has been people that have run low 14's stock in a CL as well. In my personal experience I ran a Dodge Charger RT when I was Bone Stock and I took him by about a carlength to 100 which runs very almost exact same numbers as an Impala. A Race between the two would depend on the driver.

 

Trust me u wont be able to fuk with me and my CL-S and u are the one that dumb to think that 06 SS will output a CL-S 6PSDS.... Even with my 2 years of driving i bet i know more than u and i been throught whole bunch of cars and been throught a 300 HPS Jetta built motor alll by myself and friends... So u need to take ur SS talking into the Impala forum oh wait u guys dont even got a impala forum u just keep on going at it.. I cant wait till i see a SS on the road and i ma bring my camera just to prove ur ass wrong...

 

Sry about that BLUECL i ma stop being a post whore but i got use to it cuz on my old forum we use to be post whores but i'll stop..

And please explain this SS Driver that impala would not murder a CL-S 6 SPDS and expesiacly with the kind of driver i am when it comes to shifting.. But hey CRIPPLE lets go in for twistes?? yes thats where the skills are gained

 

Yeah and there have been people with stock SS's running 13.6 @ 102 mph which is 1/2 second quicker than your 6 speed cl-s. The time slips are on ls1tech go check them out.

 

I would love to take you up on the offer. After I teach you how to drive I will teach you grammer. If you are such a great driver please tell me what performance driving schools you attended. Drivers ed doesn't count.

 

Buck Baker Racing School
Web site: www.buckbaker.com

Headquarters:
1613 Runnymede Lane
Charlotte, North Carolina 28211
(704) 366-6224

Thats the school i went to..

Yes dont get suprised if i leave a couple of buses lenghts..

 

2 things:

1. About JBlueCLS6's comment:

and 2. About this whole thread in general: