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so why is it that most of the folks that try to goad me into racing are driving cars that have double the cylinders, 3x the cubic inches and 2-4x as much HP?

Seriously, I've been challenged by corvettes lots and lots of times. I remember one guy, probably in his 50s with the bleach blonde cougar in the passenger seat gunning it next to me in a Z06 in between two lights that were very close together while both stared over at me. And that was back when I was driving the plane jane, black, no spoilers miata with 130hp. Just the other night, I had some dufus in a flat-silver CTS-V try to race me. At least now I'm driving a bright red miata with a spoiler (stock) and turbo (stock), but it's still only 180hp. I just don't get it.

I'd feel silly driving something with a monster V-8 and 400+hp challenging a miata.

There are times that I wish I was driving an LSx conversion miata just so I could surprise the hell out of these guys.

The good news is that I don't think I ever get challenged by someone driving a Porsche.