Had a little suprise on the way to work this morning..
Sitting at a light; 3 lanes, i'm in the middle. Right side merges into the middle about 80 feet after the intersection; or it can turn right and hit a freeway onramp. 98% of the time, people are stopping and turn turning right, so I generally don't pay attention unless someone is stopped and clearly going straight. In this case it's a very nice, jacked-up, black Excursion which warranted no more than a low level thought.
I noticed the very well done suspension, but that was about it. Although I'll race any willing party in anything with wheels, you generally don't drop the clutch against a large, jacked up SUV, so I wasn't really paying attention, poking through emails on my phone looking for the needy neurotics that show up at 6am...
The light goes green, and for a brief second or two the Excursion moves like a diesel pickup, making me even more complacent... About that point, again not really paying attention, I'm shocked by some very loud turbos spooling up at which time the Excursion RAPIDLY puts a truck-length on me. :burnout:
I throw the phone down and start going sideways from a mid-rpm 1st gear stomp; bang second gear and start to catch up but the truck is STILL putting up a hell of a fight, more wheel hop in 2nd and I pass it about the top of 2nd gear but the Black Mass wasn't giving up even a tiny bit. Buy the top of 3rd I'd say I had 2 cars on it. Overall it was about as quick as an SRT-10 RAM pickup or Lightning at very minimum, at least after a few seconds when it got rolling and the turbos spun up.
It was a comfortible win, but this truck moved a lot faster than anything that size should have a right to; especially not one that's jack up with big tires and mirrors that stuck out a good 2 feet. We gave each other thumbs up on the freeway and I noticed the A piller full of gauges as he punched it and took off again. Even on the freeway it pulled harder than any truck I've seen outside of a Lightning or SRT-10 RAM.
I didn't know you could make them that quick...
epper:
Sitting at a light; 3 lanes, i'm in the middle. Right side merges into the middle about 80 feet after the intersection; or it can turn right and hit a freeway onramp. 98% of the time, people are stopping and turn turning right, so I generally don't pay attention unless someone is stopped and clearly going straight. In this case it's a very nice, jacked-up, black Excursion which warranted no more than a low level thought.
I noticed the very well done suspension, but that was about it. Although I'll race any willing party in anything with wheels, you generally don't drop the clutch against a large, jacked up SUV, so I wasn't really paying attention, poking through emails on my phone looking for the needy neurotics that show up at 6am...
The light goes green, and for a brief second or two the Excursion moves like a diesel pickup, making me even more complacent... About that point, again not really paying attention, I'm shocked by some very loud turbos spooling up at which time the Excursion RAPIDLY puts a truck-length on me. :burnout:
I throw the phone down and start going sideways from a mid-rpm 1st gear stomp; bang second gear and start to catch up but the truck is STILL putting up a hell of a fight, more wheel hop in 2nd and I pass it about the top of 2nd gear but the Black Mass wasn't giving up even a tiny bit. Buy the top of 3rd I'd say I had 2 cars on it. Overall it was about as quick as an SRT-10 RAM pickup or Lightning at very minimum, at least after a few seconds when it got rolling and the turbos spun up.
It was a comfortible win, but this truck moved a lot faster than anything that size should have a right to; especially not one that's jack up with big tires and mirrors that stuck out a good 2 feet. We gave each other thumbs up on the freeway and I noticed the A piller full of gauges as he punched it and took off again. Even on the freeway it pulled harder than any truck I've seen outside of a Lightning or SRT-10 RAM.
I didn't know you could make them that quick...
epper:
