FTO AUSTRALIA

Just took a couple of mates for a "demo" of the FTO last night. The reactions were genuinely amusing after my very short but spirited session.

1. Just after I hit the brakes from the possibly ever so slightly illegal speed, the comment was made "Does anybody else here have a small willie?". This was accompanied by some nervous laughter.

2. "It is like being in a video game. but it is real."

It was not like I had done anything really pushing the limits of the car. I will leave that for when it is safe and legal to do so. But until you get used to the handling of cars like these, it does take you by surprise.

What have other responses been?

my nephew and his mate (one im my car and one in steve's, years ago)

said "man that was like i was in gran turismo

you guy's are mad, can we go again"

Had the same reaction with my 10 year old nephew, once getting into mivec after a few gears hes like,

It sounds like we are playing Need for speed underground !

ive had mixed reactions

totally white faced and petrified, grabbing at my arm telling me to stop (my reaction being, dont touch the driver! no matter what you do!)

telling me off saying im gonna kill someone

words of praise and excitement like they were going on a amusement park ride

usually guys will just be really impressed with the cornering and handling, "man this corners is better than the integra i had a couple of years back" (he'd spent a hell of a lot of money on that one, getting 170kw+ at the flywheel)

a bad one was when a drunk girl in the back threw up, but luckily she was considerate enough to land it all on her hand bag

once i had 3 guys in the back (in my first fto) and one guy cracked the screen on his mobile, and left a crack on the plastic armrest/indent at the back

my ex gf pulled up by my side when i had just recently bought the car.
Her expression on her face was priceless when she saw that i was driving the car. She was cursing herself!!

Other incidents involve my sister test droving it while I was crapping myself!!
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do u guys handbrake it for some fun?

my funniest one was yesterday...

'OWWWwwwww is that all the time we get? its disapointing!'

(we hit the speed limit and the rush ended) eheheh

i dont get a reaction! ITs becuase the FTO handles so well, that it gives out the perception your not gonig around a corner that quick!

But in my EL falcon less corner speed, but a lot of screams!

maybe its just tehy trust the FTO but know the falcon handels like a barge!

reaction?????? my nephew and niece vomited after 30 minutes of riding my car...they get out of the car and take a bus instead....funny? i dont think its funny. its yucky!

ed wrote:reaction?????? my nephew and niece vomited after 30 minutes of riding my car...they get out of the car and take a bus instead....funny? i dont think its funny. its yucky!

Sorry to hear that ed, what causes them to be sick, to they suffer from motion sickness, is the car overly bumpy? Or is it your driving

I'll never forget I took my mum to my brothers place and I was travelling down a familiar road the day after I just did a twisties cruise around the Dandenongs........ well kinda forgot that my mum was the passenger and began to drive a little bit like I was opn my own..... the next minute my mum was in tears telling me she never wanted to get in the car with me again.... and that she wanted me to sell the car because it was too fast for me to drive........
Sorry Mum xx

That similarly happened to me...

I had my mum in the car, and accidenatly dragged a gsr of the lights, got up to 160 in an 80 zone, and coped a can of whoopass lecturing.

1/2 way around a round-about with the back end hanging out was enuff to get a white terror look of "WTF are u doing?" from my GF..which was promptly followed by the sheepish question "can we do that again?"

Boris wrote:accidenatly dragged a gsr of the lights

I know accidcents happen, and I do sympathise, but can you please explain this one too me !

ith all your storys about your mums I had to share. My mum was in the car one day well I flicked in sign ways on a dirt car park(in the laser not an FTO), it was slow and in control enough to pull up when a car approached from the opposite direction. ANyway, I would laughing for days after when the lady in the other car was shaking her head at me but all I could hear was my mum laughing her head of, go mum thanks for being a champ!

my best reaction was....
"awww WTF!!! dudEE!!!! omfg!!!! they F@%ken HURTS!!"

lol i was speeding just a little and ran over a pot hole.... lol omg that was funny

and another time when i had a full car of chicks from school, decided to show off and be a little bit of a hero, started taking corners reall fast, redlining the first and second gear... and ended up dating one of them...

cornering while redlinging second gear? Whats that like 120-130k's?? i'd bet that would get some reactions

yea lol
the corners were not small and werent huge..... it was just right....pretty fun stuff... lol

ANBU_fto wrote: and another time when i had a full car of chicks from school, decided to show off and be a little bit of a hero, started taking corners reall fast, redlining the first and second gear... and ended up dating one of them...

Hahahaha if those chicks went with some of our "single" boys member during Malacoota trip, then theres no way any of the boys would be single anymore hahaahaha