Cars with proper road presence

[Fleckers]

[quote=gareth.e]

I don't know what I would do if I ever came across one in the road..



/quote]

hopefuly you would clean it up afterwards

[Ikemi]

Fleckers, it's a TVR Speed 12

I nominate the Elise S2 ... It looks pretty aggressive in a rear view mirror!

[Swoxy]

Come on, would you really move out of the way for a little, Rover engined, plastic car?

[Lord_Howit_Hertz]

swerni said:

Ford Raptor, I want

Although most of me wants to agree with you, I recently posted a picture of a car on here, and didnt even notice (at the time) this was in the background.



Maybe it was the surroundings or something, but it didnt quite have the presence it should have.

[adamfogerty]

North Yorkshire Police - Subaru Impreza by conner395, on Flickr

[Tango13]

MGZRod said:

No description needed.

You b'stard, I need some clean underwear now Joking apart I find that a black M5 complete with blacked out grill and a heat reflective windscreen (looks slightly mirrored from certain angles) does the job quite well.

Certainly scared the st out of a trio of chav scum who thought they would have a game of "We are hard so we will dawdle across the road to proove it" on the way home from work

[rallycross]

Evo's do work well in this respect my red Evo 9 Gt was great for scaring people out of the way, older porsches with pop up lights also work really ( the flash does not pop the lights up so you have to use the main switch but it seems to work !

Caravelle VR6 was also pretty good at snow plowing the dawdlers out of the way

[BMWBen]

2 Wycked said:

My friend's Dad has just taken delivery of this. I used to think mine had decent presence but this is one car I'd certainly be moving out of the way for.

Agreed, the very definition of "meaty".

Big, powerful saloons meet this criteria.

[Ikemi]

Swoxy said:

Come on, would you really move out of the way for a little, Rover engined, plastic car?

Oi! It might be Honda'd!

But it isn't

[Debaser]

[GKP]

Swoxy said:

Come on, would you really move out of the way for a little, Rover engined, plastic car?

Probably not.

[robsco]

[quote=Switch`]

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+10 Road Presence for epic noise

Edited by Switch` on Wednesday 30th March 19:01

[/quote]

Ah, the mythical Cerbera Speed 12. If I ever saw W112BHG gracing our roads, I'd probably pull over and have a [delboy] connery [/delboy].

Its just saying : "Get the fk out of my fking way."

[Jayho]

swerni said:

these both do.

ps DLR not fogs

That just made me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLnWf1sQkjY

[david_h]

TTwiggy said:

My old Jag XJ8 seems to be immune.
The combo of 2 tonnes, a decent turn of speed and the fact that I don't really care if it gets damaged (cost me less than £2k, is worth about £1.5k) means that I tend to take a 'which one of us is going to bottle it first?' approach to London driving.

So true.

I bought a £100 Volvo 940SE on a k-plate a few years back off my mechanic. Taxed and MOT'd.

Ran it until the tax ran out, 6months or so.

The rear bumper fell off one side due to a rusted mount, so I tied it back on to the body with some rope. This was the ultimate look.

Best car ever to drive around London in, no one would come near it. Big, heavy, few dents, unloved Volvo.

[deveng]

MGZRod said:

No description needed.

We have a winner

[dowahdiddyman]

[Ikemi]

[cptsideways]

Stop nannying about, there are many people who just see sports cars as limp wristed penile extensions, so think what others might be thinking Then again a chrome infested fake Hummer is also about the most laughably gay vehicle on the road too.

There are'nt many vehicles that have real road presence unless the bumpers are level with the rear window & it looks a bit tatty.



I notice a huge difference in road respect when I drive this old beast about compared to my other cars.



Also anything with an external wastegate is great for anti numptying This strangely caused quite a bit confusion

Edited by cptsideways on Wednesday 30th March 20:20

[MGZRod]

Apart from my mad max suggestion. I suggest this, on a slightly dark evening, one of these is terrifying baring down on you!

[ewenm]

Anything noisy and unusual - the Caterham and Mustang are both given lots of space and wide berths by everyone else. The Volvo isn't but I don't find myself being cut up or no-one letting me out of junctions in it either.