Mercedes Driver - WHY???

[soulpatch]

No this isnt one of those "XXXXXX Car drivers are w*nkers" threads

Just would appriciate other points of view in case I am being narrow minded!

Going off a sliproad on to the A38 to Exeter. Its a single sliproad leading on to the Dual Carrageway.

I was doing about 70MPH behnd another car going onto the sliproad. When i got on to the sliproad I moved into the outside lane and accelarated up to 90MPHish. While I was doing this a Merc that was behind me on the sliproad was sitting RIGHT on my arse. When I moved over after overtaking the car (at this point doing about 95) he shot past me, then pulled back in and slowed down to 70. I then overtook him again (trying to do a constant speed of 90) and that was it. Didnt see him again!!!

For the life of me I cannot understand why he went to so much trouble and putting his and my life in danger to overtake me just to eventually go slower than I am!!!

Am I not seeing the bigger picture here or something!?!

[deltaf]

Yes mate your missing the fact that he was a complete feckwit with a tiny tool, hence the Merc to make up for it.

[chrisx666]

Normally when you see a flash motor slow down to 70 and weave slightly, it is because they are on the phone or rummaging through a briefcase.

>> Edited by chrisx666 on Sunday 30th March 19:11

[gopher]

I Got very annoyed at a Merc driver the other day – Usually they are a good bunch – better then most of the 3 series drivers around here- but this guy really took the biscuit. Joining the m4 at ~70. Merc doing slightly less – I have a choice speed up and join in front or slow down and join behind, decide the speed up option as there is plenty of slip road and no traffic apart from him. No: Merc Man doesn’t like it and speeds up! – Suddenly he’s beside me both of us doing around 80 and I’m running out of slip road – ok – brakes on let the fokker have his way – down to 60 and ready to pull out behind him – no such luck – he has decided to slow down as well FFS HOW DO I JOIN IF YOU BLOCK ME!!! – I ended up joining @40 but took great pleasure in flashing him to say pull out in front of me a couple of miles on when he wanted to overtake someone, just wish I had a tiv so I could completely out-blast the bast*rd (not long till Tiv now God I'm getting itchy!!)

[littlegearl]

don't worry i had some fecker in a mk 4 golf gti the other day, joining the M6 from the M54 i was doing about 80-85mph passing the golf at 70-75 then the motorway started to move down to join the M6...

so its now effectively a two lane slip road, i'm in the righthand lane, and move in behind the truck already on the M6, whereas the golf (on the lefthand lane of sliproad) boots it down the inside of the truck across the hardshoulder causing the truck to brake...

i move to the middle lane, pass the truck catch up another car and move to outside lane which is packed with traffic doing around a steady 75, golf swerves from inside lane to outside lane braking so he doesn't go into the back of a mondeo, causing a second mondeo behind him to brake, i'm behind the mondeo and have to brake as i suppose does everyone behind me...

the outside lane traffic speeds up to nearly 90mph but still packed solid, but this isn't good enough for the golf driver as he starts weaving across the outside lane behind the first mondeo, then sort of putting two wheels onto the middle lane trying to fake an undertaking manouver...

we go along like this for 3-4 miles when the golf suddenly swings back across all 3 lanes whilst braking down to 70 and thats where he stays...

its almost like a completely different driver was driving the golf for those 4 miles, before and after he was totally normal and quite a considerate driver, whereas for those 4 miles he was just a TWAT!!!

[moleamol]

I think the bigger picture you might speak of is that generally they are tw@ts I get this all the time from fcukwits not having a clue what the Integrale is. It extends to every corner of motoring, not just the reps. It's funny though buggering off and watching the frustrated little numpties trying to keep up

[littlegearl]

moleamol said: I think the bigger picture you might speak of is that generally they are tw@ts I get this all the time from fcukwits not having a clue what the Integrale is. It extends to every corner of motoring, not just the reps. It's funny though buggering off and watching the frustrated little numpties trying to keep up

couldn't put it better myself!!!

i though it was just people not liking being passed by a car thats a quater of a century old when i overtake them, though i drove my mums week old new mini today for over 100 miles and people still put their foot down when you were alongside them on a duel carrideway or whatever...

this is doubly annoying in the mini - 'cos if i was in my cavalier i would just stick it out and its faster than every rep mobile going unless your heading into 2.5 V6 or above territory, unfortuantly the mini still has a 4000rpm curfew on which means i couldn't just drop a gear and floor it...

though it would still do nearly 90 at less than 4k rpm, which dispatched most people...

[planetdave]

get out the chill pills and accept that 'I showed him how to drive' competitive bollox. Testosterone rules core did you see her slobber slobber. Numpties will rule the world - there are more of them

[shadowninja]

the way i see it... if they pissed you off, its probably not the first time they've done whatever they've done, and they will piss someone else off, who, at the next set of lights will get out and kick seven shades of crap out of them, so I just smile smugly knowing that they will eventually get a bruising (that thing we call a car can sometimes appear to make you feel invulnerable...)