Well, I trashed 'em with a Stinger earlier, and with boatloads of time to spare (I drove around for a full minute before all the damn Yardies were off the street). It was the Yakuza Stinger that proved to be their undoing. Currently I have a BF Injection, Infernus (that I carjacked off the street!) and a Cartel Cruiser saved. I don't know when, but I just know I'm going to need that Cruiser later and I have bad luck getting them so I'm keeping it saved. Anyway, I always grab a Yakuza Stinger or a Banshee from Asuka's condo and that generally works pretty well, so that's what I did this time. I ended up just hitting the guy that was closest to me and it worked every time - I didn't miss a single one 'cause they disappeared. I might have just gotten lucky - not sure. But it worked, and that's what's important. Then I killed (not really, as I found out) Ray's partner. And then I had had enough of actually playing so I went back to my hideout on Portland (where I have the Infernus - I stole it in Staunton but had 2 saved there already so took it back to Portland), saved, grabbed the Infernus and started doing jumps with it - man, that mofo is FAST. It handles like shit, but it's fast. Anyway, it gets some seriously good distance on the jump up between the bridges (you know what I'm talking about). And then I started just killing people and getting myself up to five stars, blowing up as many cops as possible and then loading my saved game and starting again.
I love that game.