A Porsche challenged me on the wat to Costco

[Jeff2017]

I was heading to Costco today when a Porsche 911 Carrera challenged me. He won of course. I am 100% stock but it was neat that he recognized the SHO.

 

[krewat]

I was once in front of a Porsche at a light - one of the Carrera turbo ones with the really wide rear wheels and big duck tail. I took off, not even trying, I guess he wasn't paying attention. He proceeded to try to pass me as we were both getting onto a traffic-laden 6 lane highway. I managed to easily get over to the HOV lane which was moving about 20MPH faster than the rest of the highway. This guy decides he has to prove he can go faster, crosses the HOV divider behind me, comes flying around me on the right doing close to 100, cuts in front of me as people in the HOV are slowing down (almost rear-ending someone), then flies back out into the regular traffic to get bogged down, he then rips back into the HOV lane does the same thing as last time, then decides to cut in front of a bunch of trucks to get onto the right shoulder (yeah, the shoulder), and flies down about a half-mile to where the shoulder disappears as it crosses a bridge and an on-ramp comes in. And again, got bogged down in traffic. Meanwhile, I'm laughing as I sail right by again in the HOV lane.

As this guy was doing this, I was waiting for a cloud of plastic debris to go flying into the air. How he didn't crash, I have no idea. He swerved in front of a truck once, and he almost lost it as it fishtailed badly.

Complete lunatic. The HOV lane at the time was 2+ occupants (I had my daughter in the car on the way to college where I work).

Porsche drivers are a mixed bag - complete lunatic, mid-life crisis guy who can't drive a stick, or the occasional decent "let's see what this baby can do".

Glad you got one of the good ones

 

[Jeff2017]

Yeah, this was the turbo with extra wide tail as well. The first sprint was kind of short as he let off as w came up on a curve. The 2nd was a wide open straight and I waited until I heard him hit it so he had a slight advantage not that he needed. I just wanted to see how fast he would pull away. I had to make right at Costco about a mile up the road so I didn't keep it floored past 80. He kept his foot in his and a Ford Pickup pulled out in front of him. He hit the brakes pretty hard at that point. I was impressed that I had absolutely no tire squeal whatsoever. And it handled quite well in the curve on the first pull.