Badly driven exotica?
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I've experienced this a couple of times and thought if I had a car that nice and that expensive, I'd drive it carefully and at the very least, I'd drive it courteously for fear of some disgruntled and jealous person defacing it.
Example; a fairly new Aston Martin Vantage Roadster pulled straight out of a side turning in front of me yesterday (an open junction and clearly saw me); it was so close to having a 530i embedded in the side of it!
A beautiful car but I wonder how long for driven like that?
I think the owner clearly doesn't appreciate what they have and should donate it to me
So what cars have you seen driven badly enough to make you cringe?
I'm not really including nice cars driven spiritedly in this; more the type of incident I describe above.
Example; a fairly new Aston Martin Vantage Roadster pulled straight out of a side turning in front of me yesterday (an open junction and clearly saw me); it was so close to having a 530i embedded in the side of it!
A beautiful car but I wonder how long for driven like that?
I think the owner clearly doesn't appreciate what they have and should donate it to me
So what cars have you seen driven badly enough to make you cringe?
I'm not really including nice cars driven spiritedly in this; more the type of incident I describe above.
Saw a Maserati GranTurismo, well actually we heard it first and wow it sounded good, shame it was being driven like an ass
The bin lid driving it decided he wanted to change lane from where he was to the one we were in.
I was a passenger in my Dad's Jeep and only he was quick on the brake pedal the Maserati would have pushed us off the road.
Nice car, its a pity it didn't come with some lessons for the driver
The bin lid driving it decided he wanted to change lane from where he was to the one we were in.
I was a passenger in my Dad's Jeep and only he was quick on the brake pedal the Maserati would have pushed us off the road.
Nice car, its a pity it didn't come with some lessons for the driver
k, very sad sight 
Sat at the front of a double decker bus in Kensington following a brand new F355 spider (this was back when I was a student), the rears of which are wider than the front - something the driver clearly didn't know, as he joined the bus lane and tried to squeeze past the traffic, making sure the front was threaded through the gap and past the narrowing kerb..but then scraping the rear wheel along it a good 5m and eventually bouncing the whole rear of the car up onto the kerb.
I don't know, it just made me weep.. :'(
I don't know, it just made me weep.. :'(
Hyde said:
Saw a Maserati GranTurismo, well actually we heard it first and wow it sounded good, shame it was being driven like an ass
One of those caught me up in our (30mph) village high street with a taking-the-piss closing speed. Tailgated me briefly until I turned off and then booted it away.Back in 2008 when Audi R8s were pretty much new I had to brake hard to avoid one understeering into the side of my car as we joined a roundabout from a motorway slip road. I found myself behind him (as he'd decided to stay in my lane after the understeer event) and he drove over a big cross hatched area thinking it was a third lane. It took him a while to actually find the road again.
In his defense, he could have been pissed.
In his defense, he could have been pissed.
There is a South Wales con man car enthusiast who is known around these parts as Mr GE due to his cars all wearing GE plates.
I have witnessed him driving like a loonatic in numerous supercars, the worst example was around 8 years ago when I seen him undertake numerous cars (including mine) in his 360 Spyder, before cutting into a very narrow gap in front of a young girl in a KA, the KA slammed on and swerved and very nearly caused an accident. I have also seen similar stunts in a Murcielago, Murcielago Roadster & a 997 Turbo.
Hes been seen being a knob in various other supercars (by other people) including Koeniseggs', Ferrari's, Lamborghini's etc. At the moment he has an Aventador, 458 Spyder & FF to name just a few so you get the general idea of the Exotica standard.
I have witnessed him driving like a loonatic in numerous supercars, the worst example was around 8 years ago when I seen him undertake numerous cars (including mine) in his 360 Spyder, before cutting into a very narrow gap in front of a young girl in a KA, the KA slammed on and swerved and very nearly caused an accident. I have also seen similar stunts in a Murcielago, Murcielago Roadster & a 997 Turbo.
Hes been seen being a knob in various other supercars (by other people) including Koeniseggs', Ferrari's, Lamborghini's etc. At the moment he has an Aventador, 458 Spyder & FF to name just a few so you get the general idea of the Exotica standard.
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