Chased By Police

[bcl]

Just thought I’d share an experience.

My son and I decided to test drive a new F6 6-speed auto yesterday, as we’re looking at replacing my son’s stolen Sti with a F6. It was along New South Head road in Sydney, with lot’s of bends and hills.

My son drove the car first. He’s a young gun, does track work, and handles a car very well. After 5 minutes or so, he gets more confident, gets the hang of changing manually the auto and the 6-pot brembos, approaches a 90 degree right bend aggressively then boots out of it quite well. Go a k or so and my son says there’s cops following us and the lights are flashing. I say “sure”, look around and there are flashing lights about 200 metres behind us, and about 10 cars between us and them. He says “I’ve lost my licence now… double demerits”. Gradually all those cars move aside, and police get closer to us, and we came to a stop at a set of lights behind a line of 15 cars.

The cops come up beside us, and continue, and we breathe a sigh of relief. Cops turning right… no, u-turns, and drives slowly back past us, and we agreed not to even look at them.

On the return of the test drive we drive back the same way, but sedately. We were horrified to see that where my son took that corner, it was actually Rose Bay police station.

Pretty lucky I’d say.

The car was Ego, which looks a bit bland, and does not look remotely like a boy racer colour. We reckon if it was octane, rapid, red or any bolder colour we’d be gone. So we have a new found respect for that colour.

The other possibility is that they saw the trade plates, and decided it was too much trouble. I wonder if they’d actually impound a car that was being test driven.

My son thought the F6 was a bit sloppy, nowhere near the fun or precision of the STi. I thought the grip of the tyres was a bit ordinary, but as I expected. The woman salesperson I think was a bit horrified, but she said we handled the car very well. God knows what she really thinks …. those hoons, perhaps.

Any way a lot of test driving fun, but could have been very expensive.

Brian

[RHR]

SO is your son gonna come to the dark side or is he gonna stick with the skooby

[GOLDIE]

But brian you know how to fix the handling so he should just go for it.

Ian

[Flukey]

Good story Brian.

[ZAP]

Brian,

What does he think about the handling of your car ?

My car has a similar setup to yours and I feel that it is far from sloppy. While it is not a point and shoot weapon like a worked Rex, it can hold it's own in the twisties and on the track.

Also was it YOU or your son that is interested in the F6 ?

[BALLBREAKER]

I know exactly what your saying,dosnt feel to good when your hart jumps out of your mouth. allmost makes u sick.CHEERS BB.

[bcl]

SO is your son gonna come to the dark side or is he gonna stick with the skooby

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No, I'm looking at buying it as a company car. In 6 months I may do a major parts transplant between the cars. It'll give us time to evaluate options.

I'm not going to commit to an auto unless I'm happy with it as a longer term option.

I expect that he'll gain some respect for what the Ford can do.

We still have 2 STi's to play with.

Brian

[bcl]

Brian,

What does he think about the handling of your car ?

My car has a similar setup to yours and I feel that it is far from sloppy.  While it is not a point and shoot weapon like a worked Rex, it can hold it's own in the twisties and on the track.

Also was it YOU or your son that is interested in the F6 ?

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He's only done about 5 minutes driving of my car around our suburb, so not enough to assess... he was trying to come to grips with the gearbox and clutch.

After driving the auto F6 I got back into my wifes my06 STi. Around town that STi is a very easy and nimble quick car to drive, although it is now far better after fitting the lowered STi springs that are available. I think the grip of the F6 tires lets it down; the Pirelli Corsa's I have would transform it; equally the STi tires are near semi slick also. In a straight line I doubt there's much between the 2 cars.

Of couse I'm more interested in the F6, and my son needs some education.

Brian

[01txr]

Good one, was the female sales rep in the car at the time.

now that would be a great vid seeing her face under hard breaking and turning.

[SCRIBR]

nice mining!