So I was down in our parking garage this morning and started up our 2009 Dodge Challenger when its initial rumble ended up setting off the "wee-ooh wee-ooh wee-ooh" alarm of the car parked next to me.That was so funny I had to do it four more times.
Caroline Pardilla, Deputy Managing Editor

allenychung says:
12:49 PM, 12/10/09
I know the feeling, my car made someone's alarm chirp one time, felt so juvenile, so gleeful. =)
carguy622 says:
12:53 PM, 12/10/09
Is that a Prelude? I miss the old Honda.
caroscuro says:
01:03 PM, 12/10/09
allenychung,
Yes!
carguy622,
Yeah, actually that belongs to one of our editors. I would have taken a video of the flinching car but by the time I remembered to it had already gone away.
SadButTrue says:
01:08 PM, 12/10/09
@carguy622,
Good eye. That's my Prelude. I miss the old Honda too, as you know.
-JS
vt8919 says:
01:10 PM, 12/10/09
This totally made my day. Thank you, Caroline!
bodyblue says:
01:38 PM, 12/10/09
It does my American heart good to see the Challenger scare the beeps out of a Honda.
hybris says:
04:41 PM, 12/10/09
This is how a muscle car should be, when start the earth shakes, lighting strikes, hybrids and EV's run away in fear! LOL!
But seriously I wish my truck could do that stock.
the_big_al says:
02:44 AM, 12/11/09
that's funny... I once had an old truck that would set off car alarms. In fact I would often drive through the school parking lot blipping the throttle just to set them off. It wasn't hard to do... combine an over sensitive alarm probably set that way on purpose just so it would go off if you breathed on it and a 350 motor with NO, and I mean absolutely NO mufflers, cat or barely even an exhaust pipe and it'll set off any alarm with a 100 yard radius.
lowmilelude says:
04:59 AM, 12/11/09
Hey, a Prelude! Miss mine. Had to give it up when the Recaro baby seat would not fit into the back.
ddoouugg says:
07:18 AM, 12/11/09
I remember when an editor wrote a very good post about Vtec being the gateway drug to M cars. He wrote it because he just bought a Prelude. I don't remember who it was and I'm too lazy to look it up, but it's probably in the M3 posts.
SadButTrue says:
12:05 PM, 12/11/09
@ddoouugg,
http://blogs.insideline.com/roadtests/2009/04/2002-bmw-m3-gateway-drug-meets-real-deal.html
We're working on making the old blog posts more accessible. A little kink in the redesign process.
-Sadlier
misterfusion says:
03:36 PM, 12/11/09
I say it all the time, but I don't know what bugs me more: The fart-can-equipped losermobiles that continuously parade up and down my street, or the dumbasses who have their car alarms calibrated so sensitively that a minor sonic wave sets them off.
But that's not really true -- I DO know which one I hate more. I'm fine with the kids modding their cars, even if that fancy aftermarket exhaust is totally wasted on a 106hp Hyundai. No, it's the idiots with the hypersensitive alarms on their POS 1991 Cherokees that need to be sent to Puppy Lake.