Worst Driven Cars

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Swole

693 posts

120 months

Tuesday 23rd May 2017
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~Reviving as this thread as it exists already~

I've been a train commuter for absolutely ages, but a change in contract means that I am now on the roads for a beautiful 100 mile round trip per day. Lucky, huh. It didn't take me long to realise that being polite on the road and letting people out here and there could seriously damage my progress when I want to be somewhere by a certain time.

I leave home around 6:30am so progress is pretty good whilst most eat their breakfast but, there are these people who just dawdle and go nowhere, and over a few miles being stuck behind them with no safe overtaking opportunities, they clogg up the roads.

So, I've come up with a list of cars that I now dread to fall behind, and that I most certainly won't go out of my way to let pull out from a junction in front of me.

Honda
- Jazz
- Accord
- Legend
- CRV

Ssangyong
- Anything

Volvo
- Anything

Fiat
- 500
- 500L

Land Rover
- Freelander

Toyota
- Landcruiser
- Corolla
- Avensis
- Auris
- Yaris

Nissan
- Micra (of course)
- Almera
- Note
- Cube

Peugeot
- 106
- 206 (worst if CC)
- 207 (worst if CC)
- Partner
- Bipper
- 3008

Citroen
- Berlingo
- Nemo
- Xsara Picasso

I could go on, but i'm narrowing down most of all cars quite quickly. I suppose the conclusion is that if your desire is for mundane cars then you will be a mundane driver. Can these people not just have a separate lane?!

Jimmy Recard

17,540 posts

178 months

Tuesday 23rd May 2017
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I've done about 130 miles on a few motorways this morning. The one that stood out was a VW Fox driver. He didn't leave the middle lane once over about 30 miles that I saw him. I set cruise control to 69mph and stayed in the near lane whenever possible.

Every minute or so I would overtake him and then a minute or so later he would surge past and then drop back. It happened 12 times (I counted) over roughly 30 miles.

Why would you drive like that?

V10Ace

301 posts

92 months

Tuesday 23rd May 2017
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Uncle John said:
Skoda VRS, look how fast..., small willy.
Is this just a "White" thing ??? I'm sure it only applies to you guys and maybe the Chinese ? Never understood this comment...Little bit gay and insecure...laughlaughcop

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Tuesday 23rd May 2017
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Swole said:
~Reviving as this thread as it exists already~

I've been a train commuter for absolutely ages, but a change in contract means that I am now on the roads for a beautiful 100 mile round trip per day. Lucky, huh. It didn't take me long to realise that being polite on the road and letting people out here and there could seriously damage my progress when I want to be somewhere by a certain time.

I leave home around 6:30am so progress is pretty good whilst most eat their breakfast but, there are these people who just dawdle and go nowhere, and over a few miles being stuck behind them with no safe overtaking opportunities, they clogg up the roads.

So, I've come up with a list of cars that I now dread to fall behind, and that I most certainly won't go out of my way to let pull out from a junction in front of me.

Honda
- Jazz
- Accord
- Legend
- CRV

Ssangyong
- Anything

Volvo
- Anything

Fiat
- 500
- 500L

Land Rover
- Freelander

Toyota
- Landcruiser
- Corolla
- Avensis
- Auris
- Yaris

Nissan
- Micra (of course)
- Almera
- Note
- Cube

Peugeot
- 106
- 206 (worst if CC)
- 207 (worst if CC)
- Partner
- Bipper
- 3008

Citroen
- Berlingo
- Nemo
- Xsara Picasso

I could go on, but i'm narrowing down most of all cars quite quickly. I suppose the conclusion is that if your desire is for mundane cars then you will be a mundane driver. Can these people not just have a separate lane?!
You've listed most of the automobiles on UK roads, are there any that put their foot down and go for it, nearly reaching 50mph?

Catatafish

1,361 posts

144 months

Tuesday 23rd May 2017
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I'm not going to wade through the rigorous statistical analyses above, but I would hazard a guess that it's all tosh and car type has sod all in connection with bad driving.

av185

18,433 posts

126 months

Tuesday 23rd May 2017
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Jimmy Recard said:
then a minute or so later he would surge past
Is this really possible in a Fox.

Were you on a push bike...biggrin:

willmagrath

1,207 posts

145 months

Tuesday 23rd May 2017
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Prius. Around here they are used as Ubers and Taxis around heathrow. They go everywhere in the middle lane with their fog lights on!

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 23rd May 2017
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I would have said that car type has little to do with poor driving, but there do seem to be a disproportionate number of Minis (BMW Minis) on the road where the driver feels they have something to prove by driving too fast and/or erratically.

Craikeybaby

10,369 posts

224 months

Tuesday 23rd May 2017
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Catatafish said:
I'm not going to wade through the rigorous statistical analyses above, but I would hazard a guess that it's all tosh and car type has sod all in connection with bad driving.
I'm going to disagree with you there, especially with regards to the list of mundane cars mentioned above, they are bought by people who see cars as appliances and have no interest in driving.

TheTwitcher

161 posts

87 months

Wednesday 24th May 2017
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I live in West Cornwall and it's the last week in May.

For the next four months, anything with a roof box on top...

fivepointnine

708 posts

113 months

Wednesday 24th May 2017
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cb1965 said:
I would have said that car type has little to do with poor driving, but there do seem to be a disproportionate number of Minis (BMW Minis) on the road where the driver feels they have something to prove by driving too fast and/or erratically.
I'm getting to the point where I would rather deal with fast and erratic vs the 40mph brigade. If you have ever seen the movie "Office Space" sometimes I feel like the guy in the opening scene punching his steering wheel out of frustration on my morning B road (no safe overtaking areas due to sight lines, not due to being a difficult/narrow road) commute.

TonyG2003

256 posts

91 months

Wednesday 24th May 2017
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The joys of stereotypes. We have 4 cars and you get quite different reactions from other drivers from lots of tailgating or plenty of room whilst driving in exactly the same manner.

People do seem to tailgate our old Honda Accord.

M-SportMatt

1,923 posts

137 months

Wednesday 24th May 2017
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Range Rovers

I see a few on my 25 mile b-road journey to work and they just don't have any road manners at all.

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Thursday 25th May 2017
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M-SportMatt said:
Range Rovers

I see a few on my 25 mile b-road journey to work and they just don't have any road manners at all.
They are big. They are tough. They are expensive. Get out of my way, quick!

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Thursday 25th May 2017
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TheTwitcher said:
I live in West Cornwall and it's the last week in May.

For the next four months, anything with a roof box on top...
I can forsee lots of twitching in that neck of the woods.

talksthetorque

10,815 posts

134 months

Thursday 25th May 2017
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I get none of this - pootling around in my Leon.
Idiots are idiots, but apart from the occasional flash for yikes overtaking someone on a clear sighted road ( which happens a lot judging by threads and comments on here) Leon driving is fairly uneventful with no perceived extra annoyance or pleasantries from others toward me.

I now have an Audi on order.
Sitting in the new car facing The Four Rings of Satan on my steering wheel I wonder if
I will turn in to a raving lunatic forcing people in to the verge and tailgating so they fear for their lives
people's perception of my driving will change.

MorganP104

2,605 posts

129 months

Thursday 25th May 2017
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nonsequitur said:
M-SportMatt said:
Range Rovers

I see a few on my 25 mile b-road journey to work and they just don't have any road manners at all.
They are big. They are tough. They are expensive. Get out of my way, quick!
I drive a Range Rover (a full fat one with a V8, natch), and deliberately go out of my way to be courteous to other road users, mindful of the bad reputation Rangie drivers have.

It amuses me no end to see the surprised (and often grateful) looks on the faces of other motorists, as they thank me for letting them out, giving way, etc. They never saw it coming! laugh

On a serious note, I don't get why the majority of Range Rover drivers are such tts. Anyone who's ever driven a FFRR will know piloting one is a most relaxing pastime. All thoughts of road rage dissipate as the big Rangie wafts you along in supreme comfort.

I'd have to be a very strange and twisted man to want to drive like a twunt in my car. Maybe others are?

Justin Case

2,195 posts

133 months

Thursday 25th May 2017
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The worst drivers of all operate (driving is too strong a word) newspaper delivery vans. The only time you are unlikely to get hit by one is when they are parked on Zebra crossings to make deliveries.The irony is that more often than not the lead story in our local paper is about some unfortunate getting killed on the local roads.

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Thursday 25th May 2017
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talksthetorque said:
I get none of this - pootling around in my Leon.
Idiots are idiots, but apart from the occasional flash for yikes overtaking someone on a clear sighted road ( which happens a lot judging by threads and comments on here) Leon driving is fairly uneventful with no perceived extra annoyance or pleasantries from others toward me.
problems.
I now have an Audi on order.
Sitting in the new car facing The Four Rings of Satan on my steering wheel I wonder if
I will turn in to a raving lunatic forcing people in to the verge and tailgating so they fear for their lives
people's perception of my driving will change.
As long as you don't park badly or get a chav plate, I can't forsee any problems

Spyder5

1,071 posts

164 months

Thursday 25th May 2017
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For quite a few years now I've had a nemisis car, something akin to the Reliant Robin in Mr Bean. I'm convinced that the old (tall) shape Mercedes A Classes are trying to kill me - sometimes it the B Class too.

Shocking drivers who will I am sure bring me to a grizzly end one day