The car in the way.
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br d

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9,072 posts

255 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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For me it's a Matiz, always a bloody Matiz.

It doesn't matter how early I head out at the weekend for a hoon on the back roads of North Essex a Matiz will always appear from nowhere, pull out in front of me and do 21 miles an hour for the next ten miles.
To be fair, with those little skinny wheels and narrow gauge 21 miles an hour is probably about as fast as a Matiz can safely travel.

I went on holiday recently to Kefalonia. We hired a pretty gutless Punto that I had to play the gearbox like Steven Hawkins joystick just to get the bloody thing up the hills but every time I finally got it moving there was always a Matiz in the way doing 21 miles an hour. Perhaps they are restricted?

I'm sure in another 20 years I will end up driving a Matiz, then I might understand.


danjama

5,728 posts

171 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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Always a ford galaxy here in east london. Get on my tits.

David87

7,021 posts

241 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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danjama said:
Always a ford galaxy here in east london. Get on my tits.
Addison Lee? biggrin

can't remember

1,170 posts

157 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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Kia Sportage. The fact sport appears in the name seems to give the owner the right to dither in the right-hand lane at 10mph below the posted limit.

Dave Hedgehog

16,324 posts

233 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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David87 said:
danjama said:
Always a ford galaxy here in east london. Get on my tits.
Addison Lee? biggrin
grrrrrrrr


Rocketsocks

143 posts

167 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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Honda Jazz (turquoise coloured) and usually driven by a cast member from Cocoon.

MartynVRS

1,943 posts

239 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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Always a Peugeot.

Captainawesome

1,817 posts

192 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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fuking micras and picassos

The Wookie

14,209 posts

257 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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Theres always a last gen Mercedes C-class sat in the outside lane on the M42 doing 5 mph under the limit, backing up the traffic on my way to work.

BFG TERRANO

2,172 posts

177 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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Captainawesome said:
fuking micras and picassos
Yep, this! Always seem to be trying for some mpg record when all I want to do is my 50 mile journey to work.

Dave Hedgehog

16,324 posts

233 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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Everybody biggrin


Charvet

160 posts

148 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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MX-5s, usually in a faded red with a chrome (rusty) luggage holder on the boot lid,

ManOpener

12,467 posts

198 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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Round here, in the summer it's people carriers, particularly of the Korean kind. Or caravans and motorhomes. Or tractors.
Spring and Autumn it always seems to be rusty old Defenders lugging st too and from farms. Or tractors.

zeduffman

4,317 posts

180 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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Korean family buses and Toyota RAV4s are popular amongst the automatively inept round here.

yosamuel

103 posts

156 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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A Kia Sportage.

wombleh

2,368 posts

151 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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Usually some kind of tailgating mumbus centipede affair, no idea on makes, they all look the same to me grumpy

wildcat45

8,159 posts

218 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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Nissan Micras.

I understand that 60 or even 50 might scare you, so every lay by or two pull the fk over.

Surely pooltling on a busy A road with a quarter mile queue of cars vans an lorries behind you without good reason is some sort of offence? Obstruction? Driving without due care?

I never get angry at slow moving tractors or working vehicles. They've a job to do, and no choice.

ShaunTheSheep

951 posts

184 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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Citreon berlingo multispace

50mph on the motorway, 40 everywhere else

Sitting on the centreline making overtaking harder than it should be!

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

192 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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David87 said:
danjama said:
Always a ford galaxy here in east london. Get on my tits.
Addison Lee? biggrin
It's no smiling matter.

It's ALWAYS Addison Lee.

Urban Sports

11,321 posts

232 months

Sunday 13th July 2014
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Micra, Jazz or Yaris, everytime, does my tits in!