Bigger the car, bigger the ego......

[Hasbeen]

MagicalTrevor said:

Maybe it should be 'drivers of Japanese pickups are tts'

That would be a very unwise thing to say in Oz, unless you want an argument, there are hundreds of thousands of us drive them, & here most utes/pickups are Japanese. However I have never experienced the behaviour you seem to find over there. Perhaps because we mostly drive larger cars, these things are not that big to us, so don't carry the same attraction to aggressive folk.

So many of us have boats, horse floats, car or bike trailers & caravans etc that we need something with a bit of grunt, & something like our Mazda 3.0L turbo diesel crew cab, will take the family, & tow the gear. They also have enough acceleration to be a reasonable daily driver.

I have had a crew cab ute for 30 years or so. For years they were wheezy 2.0, to 2.5L petrol things, that had trouble getting out of their own way. They were not enjoyable, but did the job, just. Now they come with the grunt of a turbo diesel, they are becoming even more useful, & popular.

I recently had a cup of coffee in a town/suburb of mostly small acreage blocks, on the outskirts of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland. I noticed that less than 12%, [1 in 8] of the passing vehicles were cars. It was all 4WD wagons, utes, a few vans & light trucks. Even the cars were almost exclusively V6 & V8 larger cars, & almost every vehicle had a tow bar on it.

We may have a common heritage, but our lifestyles are rather different today.

[hman]

Vladimir said:

My torches (Fenix TK ones) have a strobe effect. If I actually have the presence of mind and am attacked, I plan to strobe the assailant and hope they are epileptic.

You never know.

actual laugh out loud.

[hman]

I can vouch for this tttish behaviour as I drive the M11 a lot, it seems to be inhabited by these cretins particularly as you approach thetford and upwards.

They are either s or inbreds, or just idiots who knows?, but so long as you know that they all act the same then its easy to deal with - IGNORE THEM.

Wasnt there some link to a spoof site where some bloke had one of these wker chariots and he owned a screeding company?

[Decky_Q]

My brother in law bought one of the 'Barbarian' pick ups (he's a farmer), and I was taking the piss about the light up door sills and all with barbarian logo lit up on them. Truely hilarious tat to be added by a manufacturer. Took the badges of the back and sides but cant get the blue light up door sills off without spending money (I did say he was a farmer).

[J4CKO]

They are all latent homesexuals, based on a sample size of one.

I know a guy who has one and when we were younger he decided he fancied trying batting for the other team one night with me as the object of his lust, I politely declined and made my exit, in mitigation he was very drunk but still you dont try to bum your mates !

We speak now as he is married (to a woman) and has kids but he does drive one of these, a very butch looking black one, called an "Appoplectic Cow" or something.

I like these cars as they are easy to burn off if you do get any agro as by and large they are so slow, unlike X5's and the like.

[Roman]

hman said:

I can vouch for this tttish behaviour as I drive the M11 a lot, it seems to be inhabited by these cretins particularly as you approach thetford and upwards.

They are either s or inbreds, or just idiots who knows?, but so long as you know that they all act the same then its easy to deal with - IGNORE THEM.

Wasnt there some link to a spoof site where some bloke had one of these wker chariots and he owned a screeding company?

Dave Tordoff - careful what yer say mind, his mates are Coppers!
http://www.shuttleworths.co.uk/davetordoff/index.h...

[Marf]

Liquid Knight said:

StottyZr said:

SSBB said:

I'm sorry, but there has to be more to this. You are saying that the guy stopped and got out of his car in the middle of a major road, to have some fisticuffs with you, because you passed him on a dual carriageway?

Happens all the time

+1

Especially if you drive a small, classic or both car.

Happened to me in my old Charade Turbo after overtaking an Audi convertible who was doing 40 in a 60. I could see over a mile down the road ahead, indicated out and in, didnt cut him off or do anything to wind him up, other than over take him.

He nearly took out a number of cars trying to get past me, then stopped, got out and smashed my headlight.

Old bill picked him up the next day after I phoned it in.

So yeah, some people do react really badly to being overtaken.

Edited by Marf on Wednesday 25th April 13:10

[hman]

Roman said:

Dave Tordoff - careful what yer say mind, his mates are Coppers!
http://www.shuttleworths.co.uk/davetordoff/index.h...

Thanks for that !

http://www.shuttleworths.co.uk/davetordoff/index.h...

[jbi]

hman said:

Roman said:

Dave Tordoff - careful what yer say mind, his mates are Coppers!
http://www.shuttleworths.co.uk/davetordoff/index.h...

Thanks for that !

http://www.shuttleworths.co.uk/davetordoff/index.h...

that's brilliant

[BRMMA]

The vehicle of choice for the illiterate, casually racist neanderthal who confuses being fat with a skin head n some nice tattoos of dogs and his unfortunate offsprings names with being hard

[Liquid Knight]

I know what you mean about the M11 but as soon as you cross the boarder into Cambridgeshire on the A47 you will get people who will overtake, cut you up and then brake to try and make you hit the back of their car so they can get some whiplash money out of your insurance. The closer you get to Peterborough to worse it gets. VW Passat Taxis on the Breton bypass are sponsored by "injuryshysters4u".

[B.J.W]

I owned an L200 'Trojan' for a while. I don't consider myself to be lacking in any particular area, nor do I have any issues with other road users (unless you own a previous generation Xsara Picasso)

What I did find was that the crew cab pick/up combination made for an extremely useful shooting hack. Mud and kit in the back, a useful tailgate to sit on inbetween drives (and for putting your lunch on) and capable off road. It is this practicality that makes them (irrespective of marque) the most common use of transport on our shoot and pretty much everywhere else I have been. On road manners were not great, but you accept the compromise (although it was a bit too compromised for me as a daily driver).

Just thought I would offer an alternative take on the owners of these 'big' cars

[bqf]

I have a mate who drives a Nissan Navara. He landscapes gardens, lays driveways etc. He has a shaven head, and is large in almost every sense.

However, he is a very nice person, and is married to a policewoman. Never broken the law, doesn't have tattoos, or a staffordshire bull terrier.

Not sure you can judge anyone by A what car they drive or B what they look like. Often, the most mental individuals look exactly like you or I. Sometimes, those mental people are, actually, you and me.

Anyone seen/read 'American Psycho'??

[Tanguero]

busta said:

None of this happens in Norfolk, yet every second car is a double-cab pickup.

That's because no one can get past the unending parade of sugar-beet lorries so no one is doing more than 11mph.

[AndyWoodall]

If Danny Dyer owns a car, you can bet its a 'Warrior', 'Animal' or 'Smack my Girlfriend Up'.

While I've no doubt that most owners of these very useful looking double cab pick ups are perfectly sane, pleasant and law abiding profressional work men (or women), I have had roughly similar unpleasant experiences from these sorts of vehicles also sadly.

[CraigZR]

Theres quite a few of these about my area but i've not seen any angry driving from any of them. Its the Qashqai drivers that seem to feel the need to prove themselves.
I think drivers in general are getting more and more angry. Driving home last night the traffic was getting back up to speed after the tailback and the picanto or somethin similar hit the brakes for no reason and the girl driving left hand is getting waved about all over the place and her boyfriend is looking round all angry and giving the wker sign. They pull into lane 2 and as i pass i look over and they're both raging so i just gave a little wave and smile and carried on. I honestly dont have a clue why as i wasnt tailgaiting them and even when she braked there was a decent gap between us.

[hman]

busta said:

None of this happens in Norfolk, yet every second car is a double-cab pickup.

Disagree, I am up that way most of the working week backwards and forwards and they drive L200's etc. exactly as described here .

[jbi]

CraigZR said:

Theres quite a few of these about my area but i've not seen any angry driving from any of them. Its the Qashqai drivers that seem to feel the need to prove themselves.

The Nissan Qashqai isn't a very big car though

Length: 169.9 in
Width: 70.3 in

Ford Focus (hatchback)

Length: 171.6 in
Width: 71.8 in

[sday12]

Vladimir said:

Those pumped up pickups with hilarious semi S&M names like "intimidator" do seem to attract complete goons. As classy as a staffy chained to a double axle caravan.

'animal' 'warrior' 'barbarian' 'violator'

Okay, I may have made the last one up, but you get my point.

The tool mobile of choice, cocksocket on board with his goon mate.

As noted, slow as fk and handle like a boat, so easy to get away from.

[k-ink]

sday12 said:

cocksocket on board