On the way to a night out with friends yesterday evening, I was driving towards town and happened to stop at some traffic lights next to a little hotted-up Honda Civic. You know the ones; horribly noisy exhaust systems, oversized tachometers and suchlike sticking out all over the interior, etc.

So the obnoxious little twerp driving the thing decides to show this lanky old Volvo what's what and take off under full throttle with no prior warning.

I noticed this happening and stomped on the accelerator quite hard... and there goes the old automatic Volvo, with a beefy, down-to-business roar and chirp from the rear tyres, flying off past the little Honda.

It was just such a classic moment and so unexpected that I simply had to share it.