Since living in So Cal (approx NE LA area
) and driving around in my NSX, I really haven't encountered anyone trying to "hit me up for a race" on the street. Never really did either when I drove my Civic hatchback or old coupe, or old RHD Integra around. I guess the main thing people are concerned with these days are the cops, and them being a helluva lot more strict over the past few years. Just the smallest infraction may cost them their car and more. Unless you're really flying through the streets at high speeds or weaving in & out of traffic and making it obvious, I never see a NSX pulled over. The look I get from cops are the same looks you'd see from them if they saw a Ferrari 360 or Enzo on the road.
I may get a couple of turbo cars wizzing by and hitting their BOV on me while driving but that's about it. I do get a lot of "white-trash" looking cars trying to tailgate me or pull some dipshit move next to me, which I have a couple of ideas as to why
. The rest of the "potential racers" I see are just rubber-necking and admiring the car, as I'm sure they don't see a NSX too often (mostly the 350Z/G35 guys do this.... heh).
NSXDreamer2 said:
My license plate writes "SLOW V6", maybe that's why I almost never be challenged?
Funny thing.... when I had a CRX back in the mid-late 90's, I had the license plate "SLOWCRX" and the motor was built up but everything looked stock on the car (body, exhaust, wheels), it was just lowered a little bit. The reaction I would usually get from people was that they'd be more curious as to what I really had done to have a license plate like that in such a stock-looking car, and for the most part I'd never really get hit up on the street (and this was back way before Fast & the Furious and when cops would just tell people to go home late at night at the street races, and back when I was still in my late-teens, early 20's age
).
But I've gotten that out of my system and grown out of that stage. Now I just like to drive around in my NSX, and enjoy it for what it is and for what I have. Besides, the NSX is a rare car to see. If peole see you driving stupid around them all the time, it's not that hard for them to forget a car like that the next time they see you on the road.