Do you react differently depending on what car you're in?
Do you react differently depending on what car you're in?
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vrsmxtb

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2,003 posts

186 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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Inspired by the thread about being treated differently in different cars, how about your own attitude varying depending on what vehicle your driving?


OdramaSwimLaden

1,971 posts

199 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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730d; I might as well be invisable when trying to pull out from a junction.

Integrale; it's like people do an emergency stop to let you out.

.....so yes. I have to push in the BMW.



Edited by OdramaSwimLaden on Thursday 20th December 21:41

AMST09

570 posts

210 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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In my van, I am god, end of

wackojacko

8,581 posts

220 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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Not that I'm aware of....

Motorrad

6,811 posts

217 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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Drive the Mustang and everyone is my friend. Drive my 306 and everyone wants to kill me......

The_Burg

4,853 posts

244 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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MGF, smile on my face and relaxed.
Focus 1.6 Zetec, hateful thing,no smiles except on frosty mornings when the magic windscreen makes me happy. (Especially watching most the non Ford owning neighbours chiselling the ice off).


deltashad

6,731 posts

227 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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The MGF makes me feel like a gay.
The Merc makes me feel like a .
The integrale makes me feel like a superhero.

Ari

19,826 posts

245 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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It was a fairly simple question I thought! biggrin

I regularly drive a 3.0 litre petrol Mercedes or a 1.9 diesel Golf.

Do I drive them differently? A bit I suppose, no point making a bit of progress in the Golf as overtaking is much more difficult so go with the flow more.

Meths

2,103 posts

166 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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I'm a poor student whatever car I drive, so no.

Triple4

94 posts

167 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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Ford Transit - People just seem to think your a dirty scamming builder so dont let you out or honk the horn at the first opportunity.

Cadillac Escalade - People let you out, Go out there way to avoid you, stop as soon as you pull out of a space etc. Partially because of the size and partially because they think because im 23 that im a dodgy drug dealer.

Girlfriends Mini - Guys let you out thinking your a hot girl. Girls dont let you out thinking your a hot girl.

MagnaJeep

309 posts

184 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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Renault Trafic van - Relaxed, not as bothered about dust or dirt inside or signs of use outside

Passat - It's a very dull silver Tdi, but it's kept clean as well as possible
being used like a kind of taxi, doesn't really get noticed

Both being driven very calmly, haven't noticed any kind of negative reactions
against these.

Alfa GTV 86' 2.0 - although not very fast compared to modern cars,
it is somehow rare now. No hate or envy from others, but still some people want to race it. To be fair it is used mainly for hooning, when it's not standing on it's very own car lift.

Ural sidecar 56' - new toy for next season, haven't ridden it so far
Don't know how I will cope with it's very strange character and small power
and how other people will adapt to the resulting driving style.

Buell XB9 - Battle for pole positon at every single traffic light, I can't
get myself to ride it calmly, it's too much fun
Hated by every single (Austrian) chav with barrified shopping trolley,
get's the usual attempts of blocking when filtering, but haven't
noticed any difference to other bikes in that matter.



vrsmxtb

Original Poster:

2,003 posts

186 months

Thursday 20th December 2012
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I have to admit I found myself less patient and less tolerant of muppetry / mistakes from other road users when I got a car with a reasonable increase (to me) in power under my right foot. Not necessarily that I drove faster or more aggressively, just somehow more intolerant of idiots.

I can understand how this might be amplified in an already impatient / aggressive person with a big, torquey repmobile hence the BMW/Audi driver stigma.

Most chilled has to be in vehicles that can't be driven quickly, such as lorry slipstreaming in an old petrol Transit or pootling about in a noisy, uncomfortable small 4x4.

thescamper

920 posts

256 months

Friday 21st December 2012
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Roof down --- aaaah isn't this loverly.
Roof Up ---- aarrrgh get the f**k out of my way.

So yes I suppose the answer is yes.

chrisw75

100 posts

174 months

Friday 21st December 2012
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BMW Coupe = I own the road and speed limits don't apply

E-type = I wander along in the slow lane at 60MPH listening to the V12 purr and ignoring the world


NotDave

20,951 posts

187 months

Friday 21st December 2012
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The_Burg said:
MGF, smile on my face and relaxed.
Focus 1.6 Zetec, hateful thing,no smiles except on frosty mornings when the magic windscreen makes me happy. (Especially watching most the non Ford owning neighbours chiselling the ice off).
02 Mondeo gives me the same feeling. Treat it like I hate it, which I do... Or rather I hate my life meaning that a £900 Mondeo is my daily... Until frost/snow appears. Then that screen cloud9