The wife seems to do it quite often. With no tach and an automatic transmission, it's hard to tell, but it sure feels like it when I'm riding with her. Then again, with only 3 gears and 120 horses, stomping the pedal and leaving it there is the only way to get anything resembling power to come out of that car sometimes.
I rarely do it in my own car, I don't see much of a point with an automatic. It does exhibit an odd behavior that almost resembles VTEC, though the engine certainly doesn't have it, where the exhaust sound completely changes and the car "takes off" (as much as it can for a 4-cylinder) until the next upshift. It does this consistently, and it really does feel/sound like a second cam kicking in, even though I don't have one. Weird.
I don't think I've ever hid redline on my bike. It's a cruiser that makes all its power below 4,000 rpm, but has the rev limiter at 7,200. There's no point to going up that high.
The wife did it once on her bike. She accidentally had her throttle lock engaged and moved the throttle in neutral while she was trying to get something out of her backpack. It hit the limiter, backfired, and cut out. She immediately shut it off and freaked out because she thought she blew up the engine.
I rarely do it in my own car, I don't see much of a point with an automatic. It does exhibit an odd behavior that almost resembles VTEC, though the engine certainly doesn't have it, where the exhaust sound completely changes and the car "takes off" (as much as it can for a 4-cylinder) until the next upshift. It does this consistently, and it really does feel/sound like a second cam kicking in, even though I don't have one. Weird.
I don't think I've ever hid redline on my bike. It's a cruiser that makes all its power below 4,000 rpm, but has the rev limiter at 7,200. There's no point to going up that high.
The wife did it once on her bike. She accidentally had her throttle lock engaged and moved the throttle in neutral while she was trying to get something out of her backpack. It hit the limiter, backfired, and cut out. She immediately shut it off and freaked out because she thought she blew up the engine.