FUN : Whats the most dangerous car you have seen?

[elemchukwu]

My volkswagon 1990 passat, smoking burning oil from the bonnet and transmission gear shift. While doing a 100k on the freeway.

[hwassall]

Bond Bug. Mate cornered too fast in his, it tipped over so he stuck his arm out to stop it and snap.

[JoePhandango]

quote: Or boy racers in their Ford Oxymorons blasting round blind bends in country roads too fast to account for oncoming traffic.

I was in 3rd gear at the time John, doing under 30, I've never been a 'Boy Racer'. I bitterly resent being referred to as such. I don't read Max Power and I have little else but contempt for the XR3i brigade. My Sierra was an unmodded 1.8 GL which an excellent friend while I was setting up my own business. I kept it immaculate until insurance premiums/running costs/business slowdown forced it's sale. If you drive around assuming that every corner you round is going to have a gobsh1te in a 4x4 coming around it's centre, you'd never get anywhere. Do you round every bend in your (rather lovely !!) V8S at a crawl in case there's a 4x4 in the middle of the road ? I doubt it !!

[gnomesmith]

Was once a passenger in a hired RHD VW 1500 Variant. Controls were switched from left to right by cross shafts, front bulkhead lacked stiffness, driver frightened me. As I pressed on the imaginary passenger brake pedal the bulkhead distorted, the cross shafts came out of allignment and the throttle opened fully which was not what I needed at that time!

VW recalled the offending cars, after several calming malts I decided that I was no longer friends with the driver.

I had similar if not quite so alarming problems with a dual control Mk1 Escort that I used as a driving instructor, brake and clutch could decide to interact until I bolted a two foot strip of angle iron to the bulkhead.

The Chevvy V8 powered 2CV that used to live in New Malden looked dangerous but was very well engineered and regularly performed with great success in the Grand Prix de Kingston. I wonder what happened to it.

Edited by gnomesmith on Wednesday 19th December 16:16

Edited by gnomesmith on Wednesday 19th December 16:17

[JSG]

quote:
I was in 3rd gear at the time John, doing under 30, I've never been a 'Boy Racer'. I bitterly resent being referred to as such......Do you round every bend in your (rather lovely !!) V8S at a crawl in case there's a 4x4 in the middle of the road

Joe,

No offence meant - I didn't actually refer to you as a boy racer - it was a generalisation. I live in a village with many narrow lanes around it, one or two which I avoid in the V8S due to morons in the centre of the road.

When transporting the kids I am a 4x4 driver (gobsh*te) and often end up with two wheels (usually both nearside) on the bank avoiding people in the centre of the road who are on the phone and trying to avoid getting their tyres dirty (yes we have BMW X5s and Merc ML whatevers around here), although in some cases the culprits are driving hatchbacks or riding bikes.

[hertsbiker]

quote:
Finnish taxi drivers are nightmare too - especially in the snow & ice.... wheelspins, sliding round the corners, handbrake turns, 160kmh down the motorway....

Then again they are kind of used to this - alarming for non-Fins though.

Cheers,

Paul

I thought they were excellent drivers last time we were there!

Never before have I seen such skill and contempt for ice. Fantastic example of how good studded tyres are !

The roads in places were so bad I couldn't walk on them, yet these guys go hacking around in 2wd cars. My Finnish mates are even better drivers though, and they showed me that the cars stop just as quick WITHOUT ABS !!

I don't often praise other cultures, but these guys are so much more skilled than the average Brit.

[pbrettle]

Oh,yeah - Fins are very good drivers. But just scare the living daylights out of us Brits who see snow once every four years! They get hit strong and long (oooerrr) each winter and therefore are better drivers as a result.

Simple things like specific times that they have to fit snow chains and snow tyres help. Plus, if it covered in snow for 3-4 months in the year, you cant just sit at home and blame the weather - life kind of stops if you do that....

Bloody nice place by the way - recommend it for anyone wanting a European weekend break - only a weekend though, there is not much there as it is only a small country (population-wise) and are famed for mobile phones!

Cheers,

Paul

[JSG]

Ted,

please delete this and lock the post - Paul should be the last one -

He started and now he Finnish

Oh god it's been a long day and the ciders nearly gone

Edited by JSG on Wednesday 19th December 22:48

[Hazzer]

Terror?

I was in Mexico City err - last year I think and we took one of the yelloew VW Beetle taxis from the club back to the hotel... Fairly normal you might think - I stepped into the back of the cab - and went straight through the floor....

Now this didn`t put the taxi driver off who calmly loaded the other 8 people into the cab!!

...And drove us all back to the hotel!

I was convinced the Beetle was going to fold up!

Took the train on the next night!

Haz

[PetrolTed]

The taxi I took in Bulgaria was a bit concerning. I thought I'd better strap myself in so reached up for the seatbelt. It had been torn off...

[Marshy]

My Dad worked in the insurance business all his life, and used to travel quite a bit. One time he was picked up from an Italian airport by his counterpart there. Noticing my father fumbling for the non-existant seatbelt, his host tried his best to ease any fears: "You no worry aboutta di seatbelt Mister Marshall - we crasha you die."

(Apologies for the poor rendidion of an Italian accent!)