Do you have a big car? Are you a bully?

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inked wrote: »

I actually find that the worst offenders of tailgating and excessive speeding / agressive driving tend not to be the drivers in big German cars but the people driving old rustbuckets of various makes.

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I don't know where you drive then, because I find that " drivers in big German cars " tailgaiting and speeding, outnumber " old rustbuckets " by a factor of about 100 to 1.

I find that drivers of older cars usually stay well within the limits.

DKLS

inked wrote: »

I actually find that the worst offenders of tailgating and excessive speeding / agressive driving tend not to be the drivers in big German cars but the people driving old rustbuckets of various makes.

I can kind of understand why they are in such a rush as generally the cars are between 10 and 20 years old and in such a sorry state of repair that they may not make it to their destination if they travel too slowly.

(And I drive a Ford Fiesta)

The fast banger drivers are almost as bad as the bangernomic types with their bonnet 2" from the nearest artic, to save money on fuel.
They are easy to spot they usually have a MSE sticker in the back window :rolleyes:, I recently saw one !!!!!!, crash straight into the back of an artic, because he had no time to react to the artic driver braking, another dangerous banger off the road :T

lorweld

Please be nice to all MoneySavers. There's no such thing as a stupid question, and even if you disagree courtesy helps.

inked

Inactive wrote: »

I don't know where you drive then, because I find that " drivers in big German cars " tailgaiting and speeding, outnumber " old rustbuckets " by a factor of about 100 to 1.

I find that drivers of older cars usually stay well within the limits.

I was tailgated (in a 30 limit) for about 5 miles yesterday on the way home by a woman that looked about 100 years old and was driving a little fiat (quite new). At every junction / roundabout, I would pull away a little (without braking the speed limit) and she would come flying up behind me again and stayed right on my tail.

There are exceptions to every rule (as above) and just as I probably shouldn't have labelled everyone driving cars over 10 years old as bad drivers, the same goes for BMW / Merc drivers.

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inked wrote: »

There are exceptions to every rule (as above) and just as I probably shouldn't have labelled everyone driving cars over 10 years old as bad drivers, the same goes for BMW / Merc drivers.

I have never suggested that all BMW/Merc drivers are bad, just the apparent majority seem to be.

Takoda

DKLS wrote: »

The fast banger drivers are almost as bad as the bangernomic types with their bonnet 2" from the nearest artic, to save money on fuel.
They are easy to spot they usually have a MSE sticker in the back window :rolleyes:, I recently saw one !!!!!!, crash straight into the back of an artic, because he had no time to react to the artic driver braking, another dangerous banger off the road :T

Having read a few of your other posts - I get the feeling that you sometimes post just for effect!

Shimrod

Takoda wrote: »

Plus we aren't just discussing motorways. We are talking about selfish behaviour on the ordinary roads.

You can carry on but you won't convince me. Or anyone else who drives regularly.

If they drive aggressively on one type of road, why would they not drive in the same manner elsewhere? It's their driving style.

Obviously I'm not going to convince you - the facts given say tailgating (which is the particular style of aggressive driving the discussion started on) is endemic - and as a result obviously not restricted to a particular marque - but why let that stand in the way of a rant about BMWs!. On the way home today I was tailgated by a mondeo and BMW on the motorway, and a Merc and Mini off the motorway. Read into that what you will.

Takoda

Shimrod wrote: »

If they drive aggressively on one type of road, why would they not drive in the same manner elsewhere? It's their driving style.

Obviously I'm not going to convince you - the facts given say tailgating (which is the particular style of aggressive driving the discussion started on) is endemic - and as a result obviously not restricted to a particular marque - but why let that stand in the way of a rant about BMWs!. On the way home today I was tailgated by a mondeo and BMW on the motorway, and a Merc and Mini off the motorway. Read into that what you will.

You're obsessed with tailgating.

The discussion moved on from the original post. That happens just like conversations in real life twist and turn.

Selfish driving as I've said before covers a multitude of sins - not indicating, pulling out on someone, cutting someone up etc etc.

No one on this thread has ranted about BMWs.

A few people have commented about them (calmly) from their own experience.

You're just defensive because you probably get criticised a lot.

gord115

BruCey_SRi wrote: »

this topic amuses me.....i have a vauxhall corsa sri 05 plate, i debadged it (not because im a chavvy boy racer but i think it looks cleaner) little do these ''bullies'' know i have a 1,8 under my bonnet which in a car that ways hardlies anything really in comparison to its power - weight ratio so i have the benefit of slowing right down or if they try overtake once they get change to put my foot down so they cant get passed.

a recent example of this was a clear cut case of a business man in his business car thinking he was mint red lining his ford mondeo zetec TDCI which if im honest is pathetically slow and he would not move over into the slow lane because i clearly had the fastest car so his response was to do an emergancy stop at 70mph'ish right in front of me??? to which point i laughed out loud hysterically so i let him on his way to the point where i could overtake....his answer to that.....side swipe me nearly into oncoming traffic......i would quite happily of gone into him if i had my 13 year old swift but because my car was actually expensive i didnt.

moral of the story, move over if your car is knowingly slower however if you dont know, do the right thing and move anyway

Future BMW driver:eek:

FARE-COP

If we all observed good lane discipline more often perhaps this would be less of an issue.

I can't remember who it was that mentioned the BMWs & Mercs, but it struck a chord because this is one of my wife's pet hate subjects..

She always adds top of the range Audis to this and classifies the grouping as

'flash business types with a Germanic attitude, dark shades on a rainy day, slicked hairstyle, lead foot...etc'

and made me smile further when she said she felt that

'in order to join this grouping you needed a frontal lobotomy to want to and a wallet that you can break your leg falling over to be able to!!