Cars that are nearly always driven badly
Discussion
J4CKO said:
How about motorbikes then that go past at twice the speed limit or more, or who filter way faster than they really should and get all angry when someone dares change lane.
I see this too. I feel that the amount of anger people display is directly proportional to how much they have themselves cocked up.I don't often do x2 speed limit, but my personal record is x4.
J4CKO said:
Bikers seem to have a superiority complex sometimes,
That's because we are superior, obviously 
J4CKO said:
and to be fair its tempered by having to stay alive but they dont always help themselves, especially the weekend warriors out in a group.
True datJ4CKO said:
The standard of bike riding is higher, on average than car drivers but there are some complete nutcases out there on two wheels.
And that.For balance, I am happy to disparage every BMW GS rider. Why the feck are you trying to filter through London with a full aluminium luggage kit? You know it's just got your sandwiches in.
You don't just let yourselves down by unsuccessfully trying to squeeze past cars, you let all bikers down.
And when you do finally make it past cars that aren't at least 1m apart, it's necessary to ride 60cm behind every other bike, to somehow re-inflate your bruised ego.
Very odd.
rustfalia said:
Any car fitted with a dashcam.
Dashcam bingo:Charge down busy urban street like a knight of the road on a perfect white stallion before being pointlessly aggressive with someone struggling to pull out, drive the next 1/2 of an mile with the horn on continuously so everyone can see that someone pulled out on you
Take a roundabout like an even more entitled version of Lewis Hamilton before you get cut up while trying to undertake someone who clearly has no idea where they’re going because nobody could have predicted that would happen could they, lean on horn for next 1/2 mile etc
Be a prick to someone stuck in the wrong lane trying to get over, aggressively block them before breathing heavily while fumbling the dashcam’s incident button
Etc
Etc
Round here it's generally easy to spot certain driving types by their car from a mile off:
- Merc A class or CLA/C/E/*** will be driven up your arse, regardless of your speed. Usually a variant with black wheels and performance badging.
- Qashqai/Sportage/Kuga will be up your arse in a 30 zone, you'll loose them at the NSL, however in the next 30 they'll come steaming up your arse again. Don't let these pillocks out from side roads in front of you either, they won't acknowledge a thanks.
- Nivara/Ranger type pickups are almost exclusively driven by actual farmers round here, they not be the quickest but they won't cause you much grief.
- Corsa VXRs usually driven at full whack, easiest to let them pass on the straights, a nearside indication as they look to begin an overtake is usually met with a thanking acknowledgment.
- Anything else German with some degree of performance badging is usually a commuter passing through, will usually try to pass on a roundabout despite heavy traffic and gaining no advantage. The sort of driver to only ever use L2 to go straight ahead.
- Merc A class or CLA/C/E/*** will be driven up your arse, regardless of your speed. Usually a variant with black wheels and performance badging.
- Qashqai/Sportage/Kuga will be up your arse in a 30 zone, you'll loose them at the NSL, however in the next 30 they'll come steaming up your arse again. Don't let these pillocks out from side roads in front of you either, they won't acknowledge a thanks.
- Nivara/Ranger type pickups are almost exclusively driven by actual farmers round here, they not be the quickest but they won't cause you much grief.
- Corsa VXRs usually driven at full whack, easiest to let them pass on the straights, a nearside indication as they look to begin an overtake is usually met with a thanking acknowledgment.
- Anything else German with some degree of performance badging is usually a commuter passing through, will usually try to pass on a roundabout despite heavy traffic and gaining no advantage. The sort of driver to only ever use L2 to go straight ahead.
Smart cars.
Always hammering along doing mental overtakes with that puny engine screaming away as if it’s trying to burst free from the wart it’s attached to.
I suppose it’s taken an age to get the thing up to speed and the owner will be damned if he’s losing any of that precious built up momentum.
Always hammering along doing mental overtakes with that puny engine screaming away as if it’s trying to burst free from the wart it’s attached to.
I suppose it’s taken an age to get the thing up to speed and the owner will be damned if he’s losing any of that precious built up momentum.
Pica-Pica said:
OK. So if you take a driver from one of those cars, and put them in a car at the other end of your ‘lists’, does their driving improve?
If posters were to drive these cars they list, would they, as drivers, become incompetent?
I wonder.
That’s a really interesting question. Because i do drive my Aston Martin in a different way to other cars - I’m really conscious of not wanting to give the brand a bad name so I let more people out of junctions, behave nicely etc. Put me back in the Discovery and I’ll happily beep my horn at people etc etcIf posters were to drive these cars they list, would they, as drivers, become incompetent?
I wonder.
Anyone else have that? When you get behind the wheel of an Audi say, do you feel you need to drive like an a**e to show how fast the cars are? Or if you’re lucky enough to have a Bentley does that put you above the usual shenanigans?
DoubleD said:
Do you need to be so rude? No I dont thanks.
So you havent got an issue with someone who borrows money to buy a car thats growing in value?
Rude? You indicated that I was being superior. So you havent got an issue with someone who borrows money to buy a car thats growing in value?
Do we have to go round in circles? This line of argument has been done to death.
The bottom line is cheap credit, finance and more to the point easy credit has made all cars accessable to even more people; the good and the bad. Once upon a time cheap credit was harder to find so less undesirables in cars like new Golf R's of their era.
Saying that I remember Sierra 4x4's, 5 Turbos etc were always driven as bad so maybe those cars will always attract certain mindsets...
Cold said:
aka_kerrly said:
Isn't this just another opportunity to name and stereotype all the currently popular cars.....
It is but with the added knocking of leasing and finance. I did like the way some seem to be able to spot a leased car in their mirror. Perhaps the other driver pastes the documents on their windscreen?
The Vauxhall Mokka example is true in my experience though: always driven terribly.
Sa Calobra said:
DoubleD said:
Do you need to be so rude? No I dont thanks.
So you havent got an issue with someone who borrows money to buy a car thats growing in value?
Rude? You indicated that I was being superior. So you havent got an issue with someone who borrows money to buy a car thats growing in value?
Do we have to go round in circles? This line of argument has been done to death.
The bottom line is cheap credit, finance and more to the point easy credit has made all cars accessable to even more people; the good and the bad. Once upon a time cheap credit was harder to find so less undesirables in cars like new Golf R's of their era.
Saying that I remember Sierra 4x4's, 5 Turbos etc were always driven as bad so maybe those cars will always attract certain mindsets...
MrBarry123 said:
The Vauxhall Mokka example is true in my experience though: always driven terribly.
Round my way I also get a lot of Kia Sportage's of 2005 sort of age that are always driven by someone who doesn't seem to have a license.
AlexiusG55 said:
Kia Sportage. Tends to be driven by people angry that they can't afford a Q7.
Ha my mum drives a sportage, very sensibly may I add. Not really comparable to a Q7 in any way though.My answer would be insignias. I’d hate life too if I had to drive one.
The Audi thing is true and to some extent as mentioned by another poster when I owned mine I used to drive very courteously to try and offset the image slightly. Now I drive a mustang so just embrace the fact that I’m a colossal chav.
24lemons said:
miken2k8 said:
bmw's are only bad if it's 3series coupe e90
Well it didn’t take long for my car to be mentioned! Oh well, I like to think I break the mould when it comes to the usual BMW stereotypes. I try to be a courteous driver but I bet plenty of people’s minds are made up as soon as they see the badge.
Psycho Warren said:
round my way the white van drivers are dawdlers. Most of them are council maintenance ones so I presume there is some kind of aggressively policed tracking system with a "driving standard" program attached to it.
Soon as I see one on the road I just know its going to dawdle at 25 in a 30.
Its the fact they work for the council.Soon as I see one on the road I just know its going to dawdle at 25 in a 30.
The longer they take to drive between jobs means they will spend less time doing any actual work.
The ones in Bristol also have all the council propaganda about the 20 zones sign written on their vans, so if they go any quicker some busy body will doubtless report them
The self employed white van man normally has more work than there are hours in the day,and therefore becomes annoyed when people dawdle at traffic lights,sit in the wrong lane etc.
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