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Just to get this out of the way, i know plenty of jap cars and there capabilities. This story is meant more to inform the ones that know what they are doing in tuning jap cars, why they are made fun of by that stereotypical garbage can big wing image.

So i'm driving back from el paso, tx, which is a boring 45 min drive. I was in my beetle, which is a tdi. In case you don't know about diesels, before 2002 they are 90hp, from 2002 and on they are 110hp. Needless to say, i have the 90hp diesel engine. Well some riced out civic with a monster muffler flies up onto my rear, and tries to start with me. Typically i'd wave him off, but since this is a long drive, i figured i'd embarrass myself for the sake of entertainment. So i leave it in fifth, and step on the throttle. He's already downshifted (i know because my windows were down and his motor was screaming) and get's on it, and the funny thing to my surprise, is that i pulled away from him from 60-90 mph. After 90 the diesel's rpm gets above 3k and starts loosing power where he finally caught up and left me. So i'm thinking maybe he got a bad start, so we go a few more times and low and behold, i constantly pull him from 60-90. The rest of the way home i was laughing in tears.