driving in Moscow (video)

driving in Moscow (video)

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Medic-one

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3,105 posts

204 months

Thursday 15th July 2010
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http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1042221/ff6f3d9b/r...


Yup, that's defenately i place i won't be taking my car, ever....

CraigyMc

16,423 posts

237 months

Thursday 15th July 2010
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Medic-one said:
http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1042221/ff6f3d9b/r...


Yup, that's defenately i place i won't be taking my car, ever....
Absolute nutters, the lot of them. Most of the crashes were folk running red lights.

odyssey2200

18,650 posts

210 months

Thursday 15th July 2010
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Ohh Those Russians

[/boney M mode]

Are they all colour blind or pissed?

R360

4,334 posts

207 months

Thursday 15th July 2010
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yikes thats mad and seems like hardly anyone stops to find out if your ok

banksey

65 posts

173 months

Thursday 15th July 2010
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Nice how they all get out to see if they are ok... some as the first one goes, they all just drive off!

Wolands Advocate

2,495 posts

217 months

Thursday 15th July 2010
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Oh yes, that brings back memories. The Garden Ring (Moscow's inner ring road featured heavily in those clips) is a scary, scary place if you're a nervous driver - five or more lanes of traffic in either direction with no central reservation...and I spent several years doing it in an RHD UK-registered car!



Quite liberating if you aren't a nervy driver though - "making progress" becomes quite an art form and when you get back to the UK, you have to remember not to drive "Russian-style", which is rather tedious!

Edited by Wolands Advocate on Thursday 15th July 14:54

hardmouse1

61 posts

174 months

Thursday 22nd July 2010
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That video is well bad, however i cant stop smiling about it....... noway in hellwould i be driving my car there!!! not unless i have a tank tank

Piersman2

6,599 posts

200 months

Thursday 22nd July 2010
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hardmouse1 said:
That video is well bad, however i cant stop smiling about it....... noway in hellwould i be driving my car there!!! not unless i have a tank tank
innit!

Piersman2

6,599 posts

200 months

Thursday 22nd July 2010
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I worked in Moscow a couple of years back... doing the run to the airport on a Friday evening was an experience to behold. The only rule is.... there are no rules! smile

Fartgalen

6,640 posts

208 months

Thursday 22nd July 2010
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Piersman2 said:
hardmouse1 said:
That video is well bad, however i cant stop smiling about it....... noway in hellwould i be driving my car there!!! not unless i have a tank tank
innit!
Dem bloodz iz proppa menkul bro.

Deluded

4,968 posts

192 months

Thursday 22nd July 2010
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Anyone have the link to the video posted a few months back of a similar thing but involving Chinese drivers and cyclists?

That was hilarious.

madala

5,063 posts

199 months

Thursday 22nd July 2010
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....I bet a more than a few of those crashes were fuelled by Vodka.....especially the pedestrians....amazing how many of the cars etc had the same horn sound....lol....;)

AMcLean

82 posts

167 months

Friday 23rd July 2010
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Wolands Advocate said:
Oh yes, that brings back memories. The Garden Ring (Moscow's inner ring road featured heavily in those clips) is a scary, scary place if you're a nervous driver - five or more lanes of traffic in either direction with no central reservation...and I spent several years doing it in an RHD UK-registered car!

Quite liberating if you aren't a nervy driver though - "making progress" becomes quite an art form and when you get back to the UK, you have to remember not to drive "Russian-style", which is rather tedious!
You must be mad to take your 156 GTA there. I'm bad enough when my wife's driving mine on quiet back roads in Scotland !!!

littlebasher

3,782 posts

172 months

Friday 23rd July 2010
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What a st hole

Wolands Advocate

2,495 posts

217 months

Tuesday 27th July 2010
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AMcLean said:
Wolands Advocate said:
Oh yes, that brings back memories. The Garden Ring (Moscow's inner ring road featured heavily in those clips) is a scary, scary place if you're a nervous driver - five or more lanes of traffic in either direction with no central reservation...and I spent several years doing it in an RHD UK-registered car!

Quite liberating if you aren't a nervy driver though - "making progress" becomes quite an art form and when you get back to the UK, you have to remember not to drive "Russian-style", which is rather tedious!
You must be mad to take your 156 GTA there. I'm bad enough when my wife's driving mine on quiet back roads in Scotland !!!
Mad perhaps but I got away with it! That car survived several Russian winters without ever suffering anything more serious than once having a flat battery brought on from being left parked unused outside for a few weeks in -20 temps when I was away on business. That and getting through suspension bushes faster than normal....

The thing in Russia is that it seemed to me that the faster you drove (within vague reason) on the Garden Ring, the less likely you were to be stopped by the police. If you drive carefully and slowly they will pull you almost instantly on suspicion of being drunk!!

Edited by Wolands Advocate on Tuesday 27th July 20:28