Does small engine syndrome exist?

[Mikey]

only seems to be lads with 1.0/1.1/1.2/1.4 cars that love to race and rag their cars, i ask why? there slow...

so is the need to try and shows its fast?

[Jamie]

I dno but my Pc game tag is; .,s.yndrom3.'...

Lol.

I had some 1.1 106 up my ass earlier i was like ffs. It was my Girlfriend.. lol

[LeeM]

i love to hammer my car, i dont try and race people though apart from recently when i tried it on with an obviously tuned r34 gt-r and an f430. but that was fun lol

[m17ky-u]

well where your young, you cant afford to pay high insurance rates, so thats reason for small engines. Also its kl to drive like a complete dick when young, shows how good a driver you are (lol)

[ricksimmonds]

as above, when young you drive like a tit, well i definately did big time, but it was in 1.2's and 1.4s becuase of insurance

[Mikey]

i dont think ive ever had it though.

my 1st car was a 1.6 16v gti 106.

maybe coz it want slow i didnt act up?>

[LVC_VTR]

its because they are so slow that you have to drive them like a tit to get any power out of them lol

[Rob_Furio7]

i dont think ive ever had it though.

my 1st car was a 1.6 16v gti 106.

maybe coz it want slow i didnt act up?>

does mummy and daddy love you very much and pay for the insurance lol??

[Mikey]

does mummy and daddy love you very much and pay for the insurance lol??

trade insurance my mate. lol

mommy and daddy pay for fcuk al.

[Spanky]

i woudlnt sayi drive my car like a tit, reason being is a i no if i crash it thats it lol (already been there)

But i do like to have a good old fly around sometimes, 3 wheels on corners, etc etc

Mainly only on back roads late at night tbh

No one of these chavs who lieks to see how fast he can get down his street, of how many handbrakes turns he can do in a car park (unless its snowy ;) )

do somtimes liek to let her blow a kiss at the redline in 5th on the motorways every now and then.

Call me a cock if you wish, but i have no need to lie lol

[ricksimmonds]

i think its more the age and maturity level tbh, if had a 106 gti for 1st car i would be 6 feet under now pushing up daiseys!

[Mikey]

although i did right the gti off a month after buying it lololol.

[ricksimmonds]

i woudlnt sayi drive my car like a tit, reason being is a i no if i crash it thats it lol (already been there)

But i do like to have a good old fly around sometimes, 3 wheels on corners, etc etc

Mainly only on back roads late at night tbh

No one of these chavs who lieks to see how fast he can get down his street, of how many handbrakes turns he can do in a car park (unless its snowy ;) )

do somtimes liek to let her blow a kiss at the redline in 5th on the motorways every now and then.

Call me a cock if you wish, but i have no need to lie lol

+1 apart from the motorway bit as ive already written of a vtr at over 120mph and dont think id walk away again lol

[dobbo_1]

cock jokes:D

[LeeM]

i think its more the age and maturity level tbh, if had a 106 gti for 1st car i would be 6 feet under now pushing up daiseys!

i managed to nerly kill myself in a 1.0 corsa :wall: defo be dead if i had even as muh as my btr at 17! you learn from mistakes though

[RobVT]

first car was a nova 1.4sr rotted away before i could of killed myself
2nd was a 106 roland garros had loads of fun some shitty arse moments but all was good headgasket failed twice so cut all my losses
and had my vtr for 2 years now been sideways round pretty much every round about in my area, all fun

[Rob_Furio7]

trade insurance my mate. lol

mommy and daddy pay for fcuk al.

hah lucky you

[Spanky]

+1 apart from the motorway bit as ive already written of a vtr at over 120mph and dont think id walk away again lol

Ive allways been ok on motorways, only ever push the car that far when its like nie on empty inthe early hours.

Although ido like just cruising at 70 then planting my foot and feeling the power :homme:

Only ever had one lary moment and it was doing 120mph and sudenly seen a hedgehog (hate killing things) but was all so quick and i idnt wana swerve so just heard a bumm bump, but to top it off there was some crazy idiot crossing the motorway about 500metres after the hedgehog!!!!!

Right under a bloody foot bridge to!!

Misse him by about 5 metre, which at that speed wasnt much!

I quickly slowed down...

[Woody91]

The only time i rev my car really high in the rev range is if i need it to pull through the higher gears like going onto a dual carriageway

[SaxOhdear]

Yes it seems the case does'nt it?

I had a 1.2 Corsa so far up my chuff, i thought he wanted to steal my spare wheel!

We then proceed to pull up at lights, where his passenger look's over with his Nike Cap so far up his head it was not worth wearing, and also a gelled fringe and started saying " you up for this mate, you ready?"

I mean are they serious, just a simple hand gesture and snailed of the line, as im not giving him the satisfaction.

He is probably to this day wrapped around a BP garage forecourt somewhere ... shame!

[ricksimmonds]

Misse him by about 5 metre, which at that speed wasnt much!I quickly slowed down...

lol you probably wouldnt of felt much if you hit him at that speed anyway, he would of being doing superman impressions!

[SaxoLuverShane]

Yes and no.

Yes because you do see a hell of a lot more smaller engined cars being ragged about the place, but that's because they are usually driven by young and immature drivers.

No because I know a few people with bigger engined cars who are exactly the same (CTR, Corsa 1.8 SRi and even someone with an Astra VXR) and rag their cars around everywhere.

It's purely down to maturity in my opinion, and due to the fact most small engines are driven by young drivers, they are mostly immature. I am 19, vtr as my first car, had it a year and a half almost now and yes, I have "raced" a few cars, but 90% of the time, I do not bother as it's in dangerous conditions, not worth the effort as I would clearly win/lose or I just can't be arsed to waste the petrol.

[ally-vts]

i loved kicked the balls out my 1.2 corsa to see if i could get it to 100 haha

[Saxotim]

i used to rag my 1.1 about all over the place, now iv got the vtr i dont feel the need to, give it a good blast down the backroads every now and again though ;)

[SaxoJamie]

only time I "rag" mine is on the motorway. you kind of have to just to keep pace with everyone else

[pattersonvts]

i love to hammer my car, i dont try and race people though apart from recently when i tried it on with an obviously tuned r34 gt-r and an f430. but that was fun lol

lol did u win?? jokin

[CitroenSport]

hammerd my 1.1 saxo all over blew headgaskets, cylinders the lot (didnt have a rev counter haha) but now i have a vtr i dont feel the need . . simple as only had 1 race with a 206 gti ;) yess

[JamesR]

Yes it seems the case does'nt it?

I had a 1.2 Corsa so far up my chuff, i thought he wanted to steal my spare wheel!

We then proceed to pull up at lights, where his passenger look's over with his Nike Cap so far up his head it was not worth wearing, and also a gelled fringe and started saying " you up for this mate, you ready?"

I mean are they serious, just a simple hand gesture and snailed of the line, as im not giving him the satisfaction.

He is probably to this day wrapped around a BP garage forecourt somewhere ... shame!


every once in a while i get someone like this and if its quite then i do give him the satisfaction of getting beat, ( only when the traffic lights are like 200 metrs apart and i havnt really got enough room or time to get over 40 or 50 )

as long as its QUITE, and your NOT wheel spinning and hitting about 90mph in a 20mph zone and swerving all over the road then i dont see the problem with a little 100 - 300 metre "race". :p

[TU-Tuning]

No its cause theyve just passed their tests and its their first car tbh

[Mrk1]

I work at a Petrol Station and it drives me mad! :wall:
Plenty of the little tossers with stupidly loud exhausts and that love to wheelspin on and off the forecourt thinking they are the dons of motorsport with just as ridiculous barry bolt on "performance" parts!

[Sunday]

I work at a Petrol Station and it drives me mad! :wall:
Plenty of the little tossers with stupidly loud exhausts and that love to wheelspin on and off the forecourt thinking they are the dons of motorsport with just as ridiculous barry bolt on "performance" parts!

we get alot of twats like this down near me, one of them lost his licence, hopefully it taught him a lesson not to drive like a twat 100% of the time, because he got it back yesterday :n:

[Marky_C]

You only rag your 1st car as it's the thrill of being a new driver.
I've kindly have done around £2500 - £3000 pounds worth of damage to my mums car in my first 2 months of driving. Needless to say she was very thankful.
But since getting it back in December after having to make a fault claim i no longer drive fast at all.

[slow106]

i raged the tits off my punto 1.2 then my 106 1.1 i caned the arse off it. i think as there slow you need to rag them just to make them move. now i have some power there no need. tap the throttle and your doing what the 1.1 was doing anyway :)

[Nij]

lol at this thread......

i say it exists............

yes people will rag the sh*t out of their car, any car they get their hands on, which generally is a 1.0 up to a 1.4 because of their speeding offences etc thats all they can afford to insure.
yes older people (midlife crisis guys with their porkers, evos, elise's and caterhams) though these tend to be a little more sensible about it.
but then again I know people who rag the hell out of a 7800cc vehicle (mind you we all do, you have to to move the bloody things, once moving there fun and powerslides can occour!).

then there are sensible drivers, who get the piss taken out of them by the people who rag their cars.

i dont konow what i am trying to say, i have lost the plot, but at the end of the day it exists lol

'over & out'

[Add91289]

its all good till your upside down in a ditch, then you wish you hadn't

[Tim_emm]

does mummy and daddy love you very much and pay for the insurance lol??

my thoughts exactly lol

[Tim_emm]

i woudlnt sayi drive my car like a tit, reason being is a i no if i crash it thats it lol (already been there)

But i do like to have a good old fly around sometimes, 3 wheels on corners, etc etc

Mainly only on back roads late at night tbh

No one of these chavs who lieks to see how fast he can get down his street, of how many handbrakes turns he can do in a car park (unless its snowy ;) )

do somtimes liek to let her blow a kiss at the redline in 5th on the motorways every now and then.

Call me a cock if you wish, but i have no need to lie lol

where abouts in the town you from lyk?

[Jazz]

Its usually the young guys with big insurance premiums and small engines with bolt on backboxes etc who really want the fast versions of whatever they have got ( they want vxr, st, cupra etc) but they just cannot afford those sort of models so they get the 1.2, 1.4 models and think that if they rag them around they'll get a similar effect.

By the time they can afford to buy and insure the proper sporting models they've usually grown up a bit and realised driving isn't about redlining it everywhere.

[Tim_emm]

No its cause theyve just passed their tests and its their first car tbh

well i passed my test last sep but wasnt driving till about 2 weeks ago. n i dont drive like a tit.....all the time. only some times :-p

[Tim_emm]

Yes and no.

Yes because you do see a hell of a lot more smaller engined cars being ragged about the place, but that's because they are usually driven by young and immature drivers.

No because I know a few people with bigger engined cars who are exactly the same (CTR, Corsa 1.8 SRi and even someone with an Astra VXR) and rag their cars around everywhere.

It's purely down to maturity in my opinion, and due to the fact most small engines are driven by young drivers, they are mostly immature. I am 19, vtr as my first car, had it a year and a half almost now and yes, I have "raced" a few cars, but 90% of the time, I do not bother as it's in dangerous conditions, not worth the effort as I would clearly win/lose or I just can't be arsed to waste the petrol.


same here

[JamesR]

well i passed my test last sep but wasnt driving till about 2 weeks ago. n i dont drive like a tit.....all the time. only some times :-p

i admire your honesty, we all like to drive a litte fast occasionly.

[Mikey]

my thoughts exactly lol

read again....

[mul_vts]

i'll be honest i drove like a twat the first 7months or so, but you soon find that when it costs you £180 for a pair of front tyres every 4months you soon give up that expnsive hobby lol

[Ferg]

I had some 1.1 106 up my ass earlier i was like ffs. It was my Girlfriend.. lol

Strap on?

I think there is a reason ~

Young Driver > Expensive insurance > Small engine > Immature > Rags their car.

Older Driver > Cheaper Insurance > Larger engine > More grown up, less immature in general > Drives more sensibly.

[Tim_emm]

read again....

i did. i read it right after i posted that

[PETE-VTR]

i used to rag my 1.1 about all over the place, now iv got the vtr i dont feel the need to, give it a good blast down the backroads every now and again though ;)

dittooo!!!!

[nathan818]

well i was in my mates 1.1 rover 25 the other day and he was ragging it and it still wasnt going anywhere,so yea i guess its true.

[Tim_emm]

well i was in my mates 1.1 rover 25 the other day and he was ragging it and it still wasnt going anywhere,so yea i guess its true.

i was in my car doin bout 130 on the clock ( prolly out jus a lil bit ) and this rover metro flew past me. (odv an engine conversion)...just a lil lesson. never judge a book by its cover :p

[nathan818]

i was in my car doin bout 130 on the clock ( prolly out jus a lil bit ) and this rover metro flew past me. (odv an engine conversion)...just a lil lesson. never judge a book by its cover :p

id have loved to seen your face at the time,would have been epic

[craigant]

i rag my mums 1.25 fiesta ZS rly dont know why, maybe because i aint payin the petrol! but not tryin to act hard as its purple corners like a boat and bit of a grannys car.

[Jamie]

Strap on?

I think there is a reason ~

Young Driver > Expensive insurance > Small engine > Immature > Rags their car.

Older Driver > Cheaper Insurance > Larger engine > More grown up, less immature in general > Drives more sensibly.

Haha only just noticed that

[Ferg]

Wondered how long it would take you Jamie LOL ...