Cars that are nearly always driven badly

[Tankrizzo]

Anything Ford and vaguely sporty with stickers. Usually wearing appallingly bad window tints.
Very narrow, tall and low-powered cars.
Any new hatchback with 4 exhausts spells trouble.
Anything with references to fairy dust/some 'humorous' female slogan which screams "I DRINK APPLE SOURS AND PRETEND I'M DRUNK".
Anything above 3.5T with foreign plates.
Anything where it's a big vehicle and clearly not a usual daily where the driver gets in and magically grows a huge pair of get-out-of-my-way billy big boll0cks. Disco. Cayenne. VW Transporter with questionable-quality camper conversion and plastic £2.99 lei hanging from mirror driven by 45-year-old overweight IT consultant with Point Break sex fantasy.

MDK to all of them.

Interestingly I think the standard of taxi drivers has improved massively since most of them became Eastern European. They actually seem to care about their cars.

[RobDown]

oh forgot to add: anything with "Addison Lee" written across the back of it

[cmvtec]

A lot of these seem to be proportionate the the amount of that model on the roads.

I will say though, Zafira is pretty steadfast as being driven badly. Regardless of driver.

Seat Ibiza, too.

[AJB88]

Ford Rangers seem to be the new bully on the road, especially the "Wildtrack" ones.. must be on cheap lease deals.

[Glosphil]

MitchT said:

- Vauxhall Corsa (I promise, the world won't melt if you exceed 18mph)
- 99% of SUVs, but Nissan Qashqais get a special mention
- Most MPVs
- Minis, particularly when driven by young women
- Audi A3, specifically 2.0 diesel ones
- Seat Leon R
- VW Golf R
- Skoda Octavia VRS

That's me damned then - I'm 72 and drive a black Octavia vRS. Having passed the IAM advanced driving test and been an IAM Observer doesn't seem to count.
The most dangerous driver around where I live drives a black Vectra with a grey front bumper moulding - he looks to be in his mid-twenties. I've seen him have a number of close calls. The latest being when turning right in the face of oncoming traffic. Caused heavy braking and horn blowing.

[Monkeylegend]

Well I hate to spoil it for you lot with your stereotypical prejudices and sweeping know it all statements, but I saw a Mokka and several German cars being driven very sensibly the other day, even using indicators.

Some of you need to get out a bit more and broaden your very narrow horizons, it will be a revelation to you to find that you appear to know the best part of bugger all in relation to this topic.

There are good and bad instances of driving of all makes and types of car and all ages and types of people.

Now who would have thought that.

Being a PH'er does not by definition make you any sort of driving god.

IMHO of course, feel free to disagree with me.

I await my roasting and trial by PH

[gforceg]

Mike335i said:

gforceg said:

Riley Blue said:

These list threads are pointless, they just serve to illustrate posters' observations.

Fixed that for you.

Not sure you did... There is always lots of exaggeration and generalisation in these threads that the observations themselves are lost. See one or two badly driven Zafira’s in a week and most forget about the 15 averagely driven ones. All of a sudden all Zafira drivers are the worst scum in the world.

Fair point reasonably made. I think prejudice is a bit strong for some and its use suggests a certain judgement in itself.
Ah well, no harm done.

[crofty1984]

Any car I own.

[rallycross]

The Mokka is definitely on this list, bought by morons, and seemingly driven by idiots.
Hard to imagine the thought process behind buying one of these apart from low cost finance from Vauxhall (or quite likely motability).

[Ahbefive]

All BMWs and most Audis.

[MrGTI6]

I'm always getting Nissan Note drivers pulling out straight in front of me without looking. They then tend to forget where the accelerator is.

[ashleyman]

Anything with PHV sticker in the back window. Mostly, Prius, Sharan or Galaxy.

[deltashad]

AJB88 said:

in MK its mainly:

Nissan Almera's (didn't even know they made as many as you see in MK)
Honda Jazz
Nissan Micra
BMW's - usually low spec ones 318's etc
Mercedes - usually low spec C class
VAG group - low spec again


and the MK taxi special, the Toyota Prius!!

In Ploiesti the worst have to be taxis. All of them, most are death traps. Im sure they engage gear and disengage brain.

[thebraketester]

Ford Galaxy. Usually in the middle lane of the motorway driven by an AL employee.

[av185]

Mike335i said:

All of a sudden all Zafira drivers are the worst scum in the world.

They are.

That's why most Zafiras spontaneously combust.

Good Karma.

[rambo19]

I drive a lorry.

Without doubt, the single worst drivers are audi drivers.

[Buzypea]

Buzypea said:

For aggressive driving, has to be Golf GTD every time.

Ha, I posted this earlier. Didn’t go out in the car much today, but coming back from the in laws a Golf GTD came past us at silly speeds in a 40 limit causing the missus to exclaim “what a tt”.

I don’t know what it is about the GTD but they are nearly all driven by tools.

[Johnnytheboy]

Monkeylegend said:

Well I hate to spoil it for you lot with your stereotypical prejudices and sweeping know it all statements, but I saw a Mokka and several German cars being driven very sensibly the other day, even using indicators.

Some of you need to get out a bit more and broaden your very narrow horizons, it will be a revelation to you to find that you appear to know the best part of bugger all in relation to this topic.

There are good and bad instances of driving of all makes and types of car and all ages and types of people.

Now who would have thought that.

Being a PH'er does not by definition make you any sort of driving god.

IMHO of course, feel free to disagree with me.

I await my roasting and trial by PH

Not remotely unexpected. More drearily predictable. Thread like this always have one of a select few posters trying to show their superiority to the PH herd.

Anyway...+1 to the dash cam thing. If someone in front of me does something deliberately irritating to another driver, I make a point of trying to spot a dash cam, and it's astonishing how often there is one.

[pomodori]

Johnnytheboy said:

Not remotely unexpected. More drearily predictable. Thread like this always have one of a select few posters trying to show their superiority to the PH herd.

Anyway...+1 to the dash cam thing. If someone in front of me does something deliberately irritating to another driver, I make a point of trying to spot a dash cam, and it's astonishing how often there is one.

"CCTV" or "You're on film" stickers are always a big clue.

Avoid at all costs.

[Monkeylegend]

Johnnytheboy said:

Thread like this always have one of a select few posters trying to show their superiority to the PH herd.

I think on this occasion though you have failed .