I once had one of these clowns in an Evo VI tailgating my SV off a roundabout on a dual carriageway. I accelerated hard from 30 to 100 and pulled away from him more than convincingly.
At that point I thought ok point proved and shut off. But he kept accelerating whilst I was engine braking and undertook me. He then came to the queue at the next roundabout and I sailed past him!
Proves that it is not worth messing with these planks as they have no sense and will take any risks. If that guy had of crashed into the back of someone long after I had stopped racing then I could have still faced a stiff punishment or even jail if someone had been killed.
I think the SV would struggle full stop against an FQ400 or something. With a standard model like the Evo VI from a rolling start you will be in deep trouble if you do it from 80mph+ as at that speed there won't be much difference in performance. I def wouldn't pull up alongside one at 90 and start trying to race it.
My mate had an Impreza P1 which is quicker than the Evo VI at the time I had my SV and when driving the car I found it definitely felt a lot slower than the SV but only up to 90ish. Standing start figures from 0-100 the car does get beaten easy.
You really need an SS600 if you want to spank all of those tw*ts in all scenarios though. So yeah I'd swap an SV for one when all things are considered but not my Zixxer in a million years.
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