A3s and Golfs - why won't they leave me alone!!!

[Orb the Impaler]

What is wrong with these stupid tools in their glorified shopping carts? It is starting to do my head in

Almost every time I drive anywhere (I don't ever speed in built up areas but I don't dawdle or hang about, "amble" up to lights etc and I always make a smart getaway from the lights. I don't consider myself a "good" driver, but I like to think I'm inoffensive and don't hold people up) I get some revved up tosser in a Golf or A3, lights blazing, up my chuff, weaving around etc. Driver is invariably shaven headed oik or Asian lad. At traffic lights they're comical - what the fk do they think they are playing at? Why do they see someone in a 5 litre V8 as "competition"?

It's got to the stage that I dread seeing them and know that I'm about to witness some weapons grade tool activity. And it's never a performance variant either - always a diseasel or 1.8T.

I'm beginning to hate them....

[Blue Meanie]

Or maybe you're just a paranoid weirdo?

[soad]

Orb the Impaler said:

What is wrong with these stupid tools in their glorified shopping carts? It is starting to do my head in

Why do they see someone in a 5 litre V8 as "competition"?

Trying to out-perform at lights? fk them stupid chav s. Don't take any notice - or just smoke them as you peel off...

[scirocco265]

Orb the Impaler said:

Driver is invariably shaven headed oik or Asian lad.

Maybe it's the type of driver rather than the cars themselves?

[Nuttah]

Blue Meanie said:

Or maybe you're just a paranoid weirdo?

^^ This, sounds like you have some personal self confidence and anger issues, if your getting wound up by such things you have a problem, try getting some help to calm you down etc.

Edited by Nuttah on Monday 5th April 19:23

[busta]

Because you're driving what the Golf and A3 drivers would be in if they earned more than £25k a year so they notice you.

[cheadle hulme]

Whats so wrong with "ambling" up to lights anyway?

[chr15b]

Feel lucky, it's saxos and puntos etc who feel they have something to prove round my way

[anonymous-user]

Why does it bother you? If they want to rev their cars away from the lights its up to them.... you dont have to race with them.

[SmoothRB]

Young lads full of vim and vigour but can only afford hot(ish) hatches.

If you drive anything remotely fastish or sporty they are always going to 'try and challenge your dominance'.

[jains15]

scirocco265 said:

Orb the Impaler said:

Driver is invariably shaven headed oik or Asian lad.

Maybe it's the type of driver rather than the cars themselves?

Admittedly, in Slough I have seen groups (up to 4) Asian lads crusing around in cars that at least look like S3's. They tend to be a little banzai but not anymore than I would consider hooning.

However, I do agree that you can recognise them as the 'type' that would drive like an arse (body languauge & general demeanor, clothing, driving habits etc) that transcends race anyway. For every idiot Asian biy racer in Slough there's a white british one, a black one and a Polish one as well! Maybe my area is a special case as there are a lot of extremely rish Asian families around here you see young asian lads tooling around in some serious machinery (Gallardo anyone?) so seeing them in A3 or S3's is not out of the ordinary.

ALso, I think it's quite possible that ownership patterns have done what Clarkson theorized, and that the sterotypical BMW driver of old is now driving VAG, giving them a similarly bad name. Seems to be German machinery more often than not though.

[1bhp]

First of all wow calm down

Orb the Impaler said:

It's got to the stage that I dread seeing them and know that I'm about to witness some weapons grade tool activity.

I'm beginning to hate them....

The above clearly tells me you have some sort of phycological problem which is the bigger issue you should be worrying about.

As said in the previous post, you dont have to race, i think you should really look deeper and ask you self why this is bothering you so much, i know exatcly the type of people who your reffering to, genraly young lads in their 1st fastish car, they think they are the fastest things on the road, bless em, they dont bother me one little bit infact i always crack a smile when i see them, i dont have the urge to prove my car is faster than theirs or feel the need to put them in their place i just continue happly on with my journy like everybody else.

[SmoothRB]

1bhp said:

As said in the previous post, you dont have to race, i think you should really look deeper and ask you self why this is bothering you so much, i know exatcly the type of people who your reffering to, genraly young lads in their 1st fastish car, they think they are the fastest things on the road, bless em, they dont bother me one little bit infact i always crack a smile when i see them, i dont have the urge to prove my car is faster than theirs or feel the need to put them in their place i just continue happly on with my journy like everybody else.

Yeah well maybe you have been laid in the last year or have a penis longer than 5 inchs?

Anyway sometimes it is fun to lay the smack down on a hot hatch if you have a serious car. Obviously 9/10 you should not though.

[Daston]

I always find its R32's that sit right on my arse. Lukily they disapear quite quickly

[ShadownINja]

Orb the Impaler said:

Why do they see someone in a 5 litre V8 as "competition"?

Well, it is. Your car is heavy. My Golf is like Elise backwards. A true race car for the road. None of this rubbish alloy wheel nonsense. This is pure lightened steel wheels. 13" of pure grip and handling. The suspension is boat-like for better digging into of the corner. Sublime cornering perfection. Put the passenger seat down for streamlined, wind tunnel proven aero efficiency. It's shorter, too, so will always beat you on any circuit or even in a straight line up to 156. You know I speak the truth.

This video is all you need.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI0JIGPlIyM

[Zad]

[1bhp]

SmoothRB said:

1bhp said:

As said in the previous post, you dont have to race, i think you should really look deeper and ask you self why this is bothering you so much, i know exatcly the type of people who your reffering to, genraly young lads in their 1st fastish car, they think they are the fastest things on the road, bless em, they dont bother me one little bit infact i always crack a smile when i see them, i dont have the urge to prove my car is faster than theirs or feel the nee:Dd to put them in their place i just continue happly on with my journy like everybody else.

Yeah well maybe you have been laid in the last year or have a penis longer than 5 inchs?

Anyway sometimes it is fun to lay the smack down on a hot hatch if you have a serious car. Obviously 9/10 you should not though.

Haha i you got that rite!

I agree with tou about laying the smack down tho, but that should come from a fun happy place with a mutal respect between both drivers not a OMG i feel imtimidated and im now getting angry and frustated must drive faster to make me feel like a man again place

[ShadownINja]

Zad said:

I must admit, I watched 4 or 5 versions in a row of that video. I'm not feeling quite right at the moment.

[adycav]

When I was 19 I used to have a Metro GTi, and I was convinced that it was the fastest car in the world. I used to take great pleasure in attempting to race much more exotic and faster machinery, especially with mates and/or totty in the car.

It's all good fun as long as recklessness is kept in check.

[stealthgrow]

Another thread by the op

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

seems he dosent like asain guys in A3s or asain guys with range rovers and spinners either lol