On my way home from the store i was about to turn to enter the highway (which was clear btw, just fyi) when i saw this Jaguar X-Type up front almost ready to make the turn. It seems like the driver was a guy in his late 20's - early 30's.

I noticed he was looking at his rearview mirror quite a lot when i pulled up behind him.

When the lights went green he entered the highway and so did i. First thing i noticed is that he floored it (you notice it from the way the car looks, lean on one side, fast acceleration, etc)

So, given i really didn't have that much fun i decided to run as well. On the turn i squealed my tires just a little bit so i presumre i had good traction, at least.

He was already 1 - 1/2 cars ahead of me when i got back in a straight line and i just floored it even more. At this point my auto was in magic mode and was still stuck at 1st.

I hardly caught up (read: slowly) when i finally shifted 2nd. At this point i started to gain on him... albeit still slowly until my front end was at his cars rear wheels.

Then came 3rd and it was all over. I passed him a bit faster and it was all over At this point we were already both doing around 80-90mph (at least that's what it felt, i didn't look at the guage anymore... got too excited hehehe)

I then slowed down and he pulled up beside me. Both gave each other the thumbs up then he exited the highway.

I'm not sure if it was the 2.5L X-Type or the 3.0 but let me tell you it was a nice run. This was also the first time i ran the Max the closest to redline on automagic shifting.

 

Houston highway, clear, what highway were you on, i need to go there

sounds like a nice run

 

It was early morning on highway 6

I found it odd myself but hey! Worked to my advantage

 

lucky!never been on a clear highway. what year is your max, anyways?

 

Nice run
It amazes me how often I read stories about races on the Org and 80% of them end with drivers giving each other a thumbs up. I've raced so many peeps out here in Jersey and Ny and have not received one! It usually ends with a different finger up in the air, or with no acknowledgement at all. I guess people out here are aren't cool about getting burned.

 

It's a 2k2 SE.

Well, i've had other fingers put up... entire fists even! this was actually the first time i saw a thumbs-up

 

Do you have overdrive ?

 

I still don't know how to answer this question given i'm not really sure what it is.

If you're talking about that button found on the shifter. No. I don't have it. The shifter doesn't have any button of any type.