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Hi just wondering what most of you guys call people that hate 4 & 6 cyl turbo cars. I am talking about those V8 people that have only one view with that being V8's. I personally have a appreciation for all types of cars but I don't diss others for their choice of car and engine. I just simply say that its not really my type of car. A guy at my work is like a V8 nut and calls ne thing less a POS. I like to call him a redneck hick. what do u call them?

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the people like that aren't much different to people that think their reasonably stock turbo 6 will beat any random v8 (not dirrected at anyone, just making a point).

if it is a 'stang, it may have some mumbo, depending on what mods it has. a lot of the older v8's go better than the new ones. they don't have an ecu telling the motor to stop making power, or to control emissions. its as simple as to go faster, put your foot down further.

just think of cars like the XY GTHO phase 3 came out of the factory running low 14 second passes, and 0-100 in 5.5 seconds. now that may be common figures now, but this is a car built over 30 years ago. get a healthy one of these, throw some cams in it, different carby, bigger exhaust and a few other little things and you have a car that runs 12's, and will fry the tyres if you sneeze on the accelerator.

i love v8's especialy the big blocks they kick ass.

your friend is an idiot alot of people out there drive the best car they can get for their money and the application it will be used for. not always just for brute force and to be able to tow a horse float.

Yeah this guy i work with hates drifting. Says that people do drifting cos they can't do circuit racing. He recons that i should get a v8 or something for drifting. I tell him the reson people prob dont use v8s cos they are heavy and don't wip round the corners like the smaller cars. I was at winton raceway on the wkend and there was a mixture of cars. The v8's were in all the events but for some reason they all didn't want to have a crack at the drifting? i have NO idea why. Only one guy in a v8 gemini took it on, and he was not doing very well. spun out many times.

If "the guy you work with" finds out that Robbie Bolger took out 3rd place in the 2006 Toyo Drift Australia Series Championship, and 2nd place in the Oran Park top eight while driving a Monaro, your argument that you can't drift a V8 is going to go down the gurgler pretty fast.

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