Got smoked by a Camry!!! Options

[Zephyr]

I thought I'd get around waiting in line at a red light by gunning it from a stop at an intersection where my lane ended in a quarter of a mile or so. I wasn't trying to race anybody, I haven't done that since I was in highschool. I guess the guy next to me thought I was trying to race and he gunned it as well, and I figured "What the hell, lets see what this thing can do..."

Of course I lost. At least it wasn't by much, he just kept inching ahead of me in his lane. I was giving it all I had, but I just wasn't any match for the Camry Power. My folks had the same kind he was driving when I was younger and I can remember putting Camaros to shame in that thing.

The strange thing is, I thought the Camry and Celica have the same powerplant...

Anyway, I've seen people on this site sort of laugh when people refer to our Celicas as sports cars. I guess it's true, because short of a bunch of modifications, Celicas just look nice. I can remember a buddy of mine teasing me at a red on our way to work from the driver's seat of his Chevy S-10 right before he laid a patch and left me a half mile behind him as I tried to catch up in my 91 GTS, I just figured my 96 might have more pep in it since it has a hundred thousand less miles on it than the older one did. I guess not.

Oh well, I'm not a leadfoot anyway. I much rather prefer going twenty in a 35 so everybody sees how sweet my car looks!

[exxtractor]

Not a B.S. story... back in the day I beat a early 90's manual supra with my parent's 1993 automatic V6 camry. The guy was so pissed. It was hilarious, grat power plant and with my left foot on the brake I was able to get the rpms up before the light turned green. My dad always wondered how the tires were shot after just 10,000 miles LOL.