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April 12th, 2005 12:23 AM #1
Looking good while driving frugally
By Lester Dizon
The Philippine STAR 04/06/2005
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On an early Sunday morning, I loaded my wife Shawie (she was my navigator) and my daughter Vette (she’s my good-luck charm) into the BMW 120 and proceeded to the Shell station at Fort Bonifacio. On the way there, I diced with a driver of a Ferrari Maranello 550 who must’ve been irked that a 4-cylinder German hatchback dared to challenge his V-12 Italian GT machine on EDSA. I overtook the silver GT on the bridge in Guadalupe but he stormed pass me after the Rockwell overpass. Duh! Driver, wife and daughter in a 5-door 4-banger against a single occupant in a two-seat twelve-cylinder GT — you do the math. Of course, I lost! But he had a hard time shaking me off his tail. And besides, we were turning into the Fort anyway… (Kids, please don’t try this at home. Racing is done by professionals and should only be held in a controlled environment.)
Still smug from the impromptu road race .....................
Find it absurd he comments "racing is done by professionals and should only be held in a controlled environment"
Whoever is the editor of this paper should have edited or totally trashed this article, street racing is ILLEGAL, whether you have an econobox or a Ferrari.
Kaya dumadami mga gago magmaneho diyan sa atin e, dahil mga "motoring journalist" kuno e imbes na tungkol sa road courtesy, manners ang isulat e kung ano anong kabulastugan pa.
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April 12th, 2005 01:45 AM #2But he had a hard time shaking me off his tail.
Another example of irresposible journalism. He should atleast be given a notice for his actions by his superiors. What an A-Hole... and to think that he was with his wife and kid.
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April 12th, 2005 07:18 AM #3
is this a real motoring journalist or one of those lifestyle section reporters who go out and test drive cars when they're not reporting celebrity gossip or where the best place to wax your legs is?
anyway, like ILD said, [size=5]THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL[/SIZE] a 550 maranello will not leave any 4-cylinder car behind like it's standing still. either he's flat-out lying to make his story more exciting, or they were both stuck in traffic (which is also lying...by omission)
keep dreaming.
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April 12th, 2005 07:34 AM #4
waw. so contradictory. racing is done by pros in a controlled environ...and what's he doing? exactly the opposite. so irresponsible den.
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April 12th, 2005 08:40 AM #5
Hmmm, I guess being a motoring journalist makes good money. Note that he drives a BMW 120.
And he is street racing with his wife and kid. What is more irresponsible for a journalist is his stupidity that he published that article then quotes, "Racing is done by professionals and should only be held in a controlled environment" as if to justify his article for whatever reason.
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April 12th, 2005 10:04 AM #6On the way there, I diced with a driver of a Ferrari Maranello 550 who must’ve been irked that a 4-cylinder German hatchback dared to challenge his V-12 Italian GT machine on EDSA
But he had a hard time shaking me off his tail.
And besides, we were turning into the Fort anyway
Or maybe... he is just having the illusion that he was racing a Ferrari... when all the time the Ferrari driver was actually just cruising or fiddling with his sound system. :bwahaha:
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April 12th, 2005 10:08 AM #7
yeah, malamang pinaglalaruan lang siya ng 550 driver at the most serious. heheh.
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April 12th, 2005 10:14 AM #8
sabi ko na nga ba eh..
too much fast and the furious is BAAAAAAAD for you.
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April 12th, 2005 10:20 AM #9
reminds me of the story from the protegetech boards...
a 323 & civic were dicing it out in the highways at around 160kph. when suddenly a Ferrari came out of nowhere and overtook them like they were standing still. this shocked them back to reality and promptly stopped their fooling around.
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in my opinion, ang dapat na yearly emissions testing ay ang mga PU vehicles. we regularly espy a...
LTO accredited emission testing centers