Diesel driving nutters

[F1SERB]

Why is it,every diesel Audi and BMW driver
that I come up behind suddenly decides
They are driving the fastest car on the planet
Peugeot 206s are the same too

[ukkid35]

F1SERB said:

Why is it,every diesel Audi and BMW driver
that I come up behind suddenly decides
They are driving the fastest car on the planet
Peugeot 206s are the same too

Why do you care?

Unless it's wet you can out drag almost anything you find on the road - if you choose to.

[F1SERB]

Everyone wants to race
No one wants to get out of the way

[C3BER]

Used to be 1ltr fiestas.

[pmessling]

Won't mention the usual tail gating offenders then in the same cars.

[jamieduff1981]

I usually find it's diesel Vauxhall Insignias that catch up then need to overtake regardless what speed I'm doing.

At traffic lights it's usually Audi A3s that pull up next to me trying to have a go.

Knobs the lot of them.

[natben]

Audi A5 drivers seem to think they can match up to the Cerbera, must ruin 3.0TDi drivers day when they relise it can't.

[m4tti]

Most of these jokers are driving company cars, tying to believe they have some ing better ,,,, so like Paul said.... who cares.

Do track days , scare yourself a bit then realise these people really don't need anymore time of day

[Pursyluv]

To be honest i've stopped competing with these 3 and 4 litre Audi/BMW type company cars, good bhp, lots of torque and drivers who don't give a st about their engines............or any other part for that matter!

We've nothing to prove, have we?

Oops....edited to say this is a Tamora drivers view

Edited by Pursyluv on Saturday 29th June 22:28

[C3BER]

You will find at 155 they give up

[QBee]

The current A8 4.2 TDi has 350 BP, but more particularly for a mid speed range race, 590 lb ft of torque. That's why they can compete between 30 and 120 mph. Auto gearbox is very slick and saves gear changing time.....

[slippery]

I have to admit to baiting cars occasionally. It's not because I think I can beat them. It's because I want to hear them beat me. Don't always assume the worst! My cars are both petrol though, so I know it wasn't aimed at me!

[jamieduff1981]

There are some quickish diesels around but the ones driven like bellends are always a 1.whocares or 2.stillboring diesel.

I don't think they're even baiting for a show - they drive the same way around everyone* treating other roadusers as obstacles to be overcome regardless of danger and inconvenience to everyone else. I doubt they even register what kinds of cars they're doing it to - they just want to push their way to the front irrespective.

• apart from Scottish Insignia drivers whom I never notice in the daily drivers but seem to be tailgated and eventually overtaken by every time I'm on a NSL single carriageway doing around the speed limit in the Cerbera.

[The_Edge]

I thought I was being baited by a fettled Leon a couple of weeks back, but to the earlier point, turned out to be quite a nice chap ( /lad) who wanted to hear 4.5l of V8 rip past him, a few times.

Ended up at the same pub for lunch coincidentally - made his day!

So there's different perspectives to this and apparently they're not all twonks

[Byker28i]

pmessling said:

Won't mention the usual tail gating offenders then in the same cars.

Backfire and flames usually makes them back off

[Boatbuoy]

Who's gonna take on an Audi R18 E-Tron?

[m4tti]

Boatbuoy said:

Who's gonna take on an Audi R18 E-Tron?

Because you see loads of them on the road don't you...

[pmessling]

I had a4 tail gating today. Then the dick decided to undertake. And continued all the way down the line in the fast lane.

[jackwibble]

pmessling said:

I had a4 tail gating today. Then the dick decided to undertake. And continued all the way down the line in the fast lane.

From your description sounds like lots of people were offside lane hogging and said Audi driver was using the space in lane 2 which is fine as long as they didn't "undertake" at excessive speed!

The main problem on motorways apart from Audi/Merc/BMW diesel driving tailgaters are pople losing the inability to drive on the left because they can't be arsed to swop lanes and plan ahead to overtake slow movers they then catch up.

Phew.... rant over .....

[jamieduff1981]

jackwibble said:

pmessling said:

I had a4 tail gating today. Then the dick decided to undertake. And continued all the way down the line in the fast lane.

From your description sounds like lots of people were offside lane hogging and said Audi driver was using the space in lane 2 which is fine as long as they didn't "undertake" at excessive speed!

The main problem on motorways apart from Audi/Merc/BMW diesel driving tailgaters are pople losing the inability to drive on the left because they can't be arsed to swop lanes and plan ahead to overtake slow movers they then catch up.

Phew.... rant over .....

I know what you mean, and there aren't many occassions that I come across this apart from when driving in England, but I think many are loathed to undertake and maintain a position in the rightmost lane because they too want to overtake everyone in front.

My observations are that the people to back off to let cars who have done what Audi man above do into the rightmost lane again once he reaches the obstruction in Lane 1 or 2 keep the overall speed of Lane 2 or 3 lower. If people were a little less keen to slow down to let others pull out, the traffic would thin out quicker and the need to slow down to let others pull out would evaporate very quickly. In short - just finish your overtake quickly and move left - stop frigging about letting people who can't plan ahead pull over at the expense of you and everyone waiting behind!