[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by masraum

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.

You just described the type of tool that tries to race everyone at a stoplight. It's not your Miata, it's the penis compensator sitting next to it.