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

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  • rev_henry
    rev_henry Posts: 4,965 Forumite
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    DKLS wrote: »
    Except on the M62 where the lanes (particularly in the hilly bits) are:

    Lane 1. Goods vehicles doing 30.0 mph.
    Lane 2. Goods vehicles doing 30.5 mph.
    Lane 3. Everyone else doing 85 mph with a fag paper between them. Or 95mph when the visibility drops down to 1 metre and its pishing it down :eek:
    Lol bit of an exaggeration there but people on the M62 don't seem ever to be able to drive sensibly.
  • DKLS
    DKLS Posts: 13,461 Forumite
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    The worst seem to be the ones that havent driven the M62 before and gawp like tourists and slow to 40mph at the point where the M62 splits where that stubborn farmer lives.
  • reevsy
    reevsy Posts: 29 Forumite
    I have a medium size car, but, yes I bully. I love it.
  • rev_henry
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    DKLS wrote: »
    The worst seem to be the ones that havent driven the M62 before and gawp like tourists and slow to 40mph at the point where the M62 splits where that stubborn farmer lives.
    Haha. Although I've heard that contrary to popular belief, the motorway isn't like that because he wouldn't sell up, its just because of the gradient of that area, it would be too steep if it went straight through the farm, so they built it round it to make it flatter.
  • instaunt
    instaunt Posts: 112 Forumite
    foxy-roxy wrote: »
    it's almost as if they see a small car and think i must be going slow and want me out of the way.

    I would agree that there is a perception by bigger drivers about smaller cars in front ... but I don't think it's speed.

    1. they are thinking "hey, I can bully this guy because if I do get too close and cause an accident, that tiny car won't put a dent in my big beast!"

    or

    2. all of a sudden they realise they have a bigger penis ... sorry, I mean car ... than the guy in front so they start to feel all macho.

    I'm going to go for 2. ;)
    I've been making animations for my daughter. Tell me what you think? Search for "Where are you Pickles?" and "Pickles and the Bully" on YouTube.

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  • Mark_Hewitt
    Mark_Hewitt Posts: 2,098 Forumite
    it's almost as if they see a small car and think i must be going slow and want me out of the way.

    I drive a Fiesta, which isn't 'large' but is so bloated these days you can't really call it small any more!

    But I find especially on single carraigeway roads that the 40mph drivers quite often are those in big cars, Mondeos and the like.

    Perhaps they don't feel comfortable driving such a sizable car on a narrowish road. So they are doing 40mph at the same place where I'd been keeping an eye on things to make sure I didn't go over 60mph!
  • Liz3yy
    Liz3yy Posts: 1,301 Forumite
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    I drive a small car, a Saxo with a tiny engine, so small that it struggles uphill at times. I'm always getting other larger cars up my bumper wiling me to go faster but it's tough as I simply can't.

    Yesterday on the way home from shopping I had a Merc up my backside for quite a while, I ignored him, wound down the windows and carried on my merry way, I didn't have anything to rush for after all. The Merc soon backed off and took an alternative route to get from me in the end!
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  • I have an MX5 and a Mondeo estate and certainly get treated differently depending on which one I am driving.
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  • iolanthe07
    iolanthe07 Posts: 5,493 Forumite
    When I drive my wife's Micra I get bullied and intimidated all the time, yet I am going the same speeds as I do in my large Mitsubishi. Evey one thinks Micras are really slow, but they can be quite nippy in the right hands.
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  • Bossworld
    Bossworld Posts: 426 Forumite
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    edited 29 October 2009 at 3:44PM
    I've got what I'd still call a medium size car (306) but it's an older N plate, so I don't get too much respect on the road. I'll get idiots driving up the !!!! of my car when i'm in the outside lane behind a queue of traffic but then again I don't think it matters what you're driving there'll always be someone who's too impatient to employ their common sense. Same as when you see a learner car, sometimes it's an instructor driving it but you're automatically expecting it to be going slowly.

    The A19 has a horrendous problem of people sitting in the outside lane for no good reason. If there's someone very close behind me and there's sufficient space I'll always dive back into the inside lane (logic is i'd rather have the idiots in front of me than behind), but if I'm going to cut myself or someone else up, I won't shift over. I do make a point of putting my right indicator straight back on as soon as they've drawn level though, as sometimes they'll be driving up your !!!! and then not put their foot down when they've got the chance to go past.

    Not looking forward to moving down to a 1.2 as I'll have much less road presence and acceleration.
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