BMW Drivers are horn dogs???..........article

[RDMcG]

Strange, but maybe the stereotype is true. I have driven the things for 20 years and generally avoid using the horn......



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8968283/B...

[Morba]

poll by webuyanycar... hardly the best set of people to be polling then is it.

[Major Fallout]

I don't think I know where mine is.

As my granddad used to say "You can't blow a deaf man off the road".

I never really understood what he was on about, but I felt it fitted this thread.

[epom]

a horndog means something totally different around here !!

[Wizardskills]

The comments on that article are most amusing.

[Mr2Mike]

Major Fallout said:

I don't think I know where mine is.

As my granddad used to say "You can't blow a deaf man off the road".

Surely somewhere off the road is far safer if you are that way inclined?

[Dave Hedgehog]

the reps most likely to be glued to my ass wanting to race my RS4 would be low model 3 series drivers, they all seam to have little willy syndrome

[AClownsPocket]

Had to use mine in the 5 for the first time over the weekend as some tit in an A4 didn't understand lane discipline and nearly mated our two cars.

Don't like using it as a rule, find its a bit arrogant and preachy.

[Dog Star]

Wizardskills said:

The comments on that article are most amusing.

Not sure "amusing" is the right word; there appear to be a lot of fked up people with some very bad attitudes to "prestige" cars out there. Scary to share the roads with them.

For what it's worth - as a driver of a bigbgerman "prestige/aspirational" car - I almost never beep for any reason (couple of times a year maybe). It's a sure-fire one way ticket to a roadside "confrontation" or road rage.

[anonymous-user]

Dave Hedgehog said:

the reps most likely to be glued to my ass wanting to race my RS4 would be low model 3 series drivers, they all seam to have little willy syndrome

I like the way you cunningly fashioned your response to mention you have an RS4. Quite, quite brilliant.

[Fleckers]

I had a 1 series as the company hack at the same time as I had and still have my jag

I use the horn on the Jag more then I ever did in the 1er

[Dave Hedgehog]

Simonium said:

I like the way you cunningly fashioned your response to mention you have an RS4. Quite, quite brilliant.

had, past tense

but whilst i did have it, it was very noticeable that it seamed to attract a very large number of 318 / 320 drivers who where glued to my ass trying to prove gawd knows what, most of them with 19" rims

i have wondered if bimmer M drivers get low powered rep audi's glued to there rear ends

[joebongo]

I get far more Audi/TDI heroes pulling out on me or up my backside or other dangerous manoevres in the wife's Nissan Primera than I ever get in the 740, so the horn on the Nissan gets used a hell of a lot more.

It's the same old lack of respect based on the car being driven and perceived superiority of the owners/renters of the bling cars.

[Fastdruid]

Dave Hedgehog said:

It was very noticeable that it seamed to attract a very large number of 318 / 320 drivers who where glued to my ass trying to prove gawd knows what, most of them with 19" rims.

There are a number out there who seem to have forgotten that the 318 is *not* a quick car. They then get *really* uptight when you refuse to cede to them after they've failed to beat you off the line. Especially when in a stty 14yo Mondeo est (A whole 0.6sec slower 0-60 than the 318 by the figures, ie its *all* in the launch)

[sparks_E39]

I don't beep my horn, probably because forgot I had one seeing that it didn't work most of last year until I replaced the ignition barrel. What's the point of sounding your horn if someone pisses you off? Makes you look like a knob then.

[Fleckers]

i dont do the you have p155ed me off

i do the you have not seen me hoot

[g7jhp]

The horn should only be used to make others aware of their presence, not used aggressively.

So OK to sound your horn to make people aware you're behind them in the overtaking lane whilst the middle and inside are empty (as long as you smile)

I always prefer a quick flash!

[W41RU5]

The horn in my last bmw didn't work most of the time so I had to make do with just shouting loudly and hoping they would hear.. But on a serious note this does seem like another 'BMW drivers are aholes' article, although I am massively biased on this subject