Love to be hated?
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I've had problems with w*nkers in maxpower hatches,they think they can keep up, lol.I usually drive my Z much more gently than I do my company RAV4,and do try to be extra polite in the Z which really confuses people.BMW drivers don't enjoy the best reputation, especially high end models, so when I let people in from side roads, and am generally Mr polite, other drivers don't know how to handle it.I have had to get out of the car a couple of times when I've been abused more than I think is fair, but it helps that I'm 6ft and 16 and a half stone ( ex rugby player) so windows get wound up and doors locked when I approach their cars. BUT, you just don't know how much of a nutter is in the other car.its mainly tossers in vans that are the worst. My wife loves it when she gets hassled by cars hugging her bumper, especially when the road is busy in front,( usually on her way home from work on a dual carriageway) men in inferior cars think she can't drive because she's a woman and try to intimidate her to pull over, so, she boots it and they can't keep up.She then slows down and lets them pass and they never EVER look over. She just smiles at them. It's the green eyed monster at work, plain and simple.
I have to admit i am quite impatiant especially when i've been driving for a while, i do admit i would have been impatient regarding the OP. the part about not squeazing your car through a gap i couldn't blame anyone for but playing with radios, on mobile phones, talking to passangers is really annoying especially when you end up stuck at lights because of it, its even worse when your waiting to get at a pump in a petrol station and some inconciderate a$$ sits there looking in the mirror well aware their holding u up.
actually thinking about it in my little 205 gti track day car i shock a lot of people as it goes a hell of a lot faster than it looks, plus it handles like a go cart. it tends to provoke people in newer cars to hug my bumper but they dont tend to launch it into corners like i can and they end up getting bored and drop right off.
i think you just have to learn to ignore the idiots and just remember what a nice car you own.
i think you just have to learn to ignore the idiots and just remember what a nice car you own.
Some fat arsed drunken football hooligan that happened to be waddling past me whilst I sat at some traffic lights the other day called me a 'posh ignorant tw*t'.
I did nothing to provoke the numpty, just sat waiting for the lights to change (hood down but no music blaring or anything), only noticed him when he said what he said.
I just ignored him and drove off.... If I was any bigger I'd have liked to have got out and knocked him out...
There is just NO need for people to be so rude.
I did nothing to provoke the numpty, just sat waiting for the lights to change (hood down but no music blaring or anything), only noticed him when he said what he said.
I just ignored him and drove off.... If I was any bigger I'd have liked to have got out and knocked him out...
There is just NO need for people to be so rude.
klarky said:
This happens in all small hatches, if i drive the swift people always try to see whats in your boot and dont like giving way but its a different story when they see the BMW grill coming at them. Some people really hate getting over taken by a small hatch aswell.
Mine is RED so I constantly get abuse from white van drivers. Especially ford transit ones. They always tend to scream "w@nk3r" at me.
Then again if I was them (dirty, uneducated, bigamist scum with dirty fingernails) I'd probably do the same when I saw a red z4 with a young guy half their age in oversized sunglasses pull up next to me.
To be honest, I quite enjoy it. Needless to say I ignore it or smile back. Or if the opurtunity is there, I say "thank you" to their disbelief.
To the person that started the thread - grow up - we are supposed to set a high standard on the roads. If some pr1ck gives you hastle, be intelligent, smile back, move over to let him pass, don't be like them by showing them aggression. They will just feed off it. GIVE THEM NOTHING. and they'll f off very quickly.
Then again if I was them (dirty, uneducated, bigamist scum with dirty fingernails) I'd probably do the same when I saw a red z4 with a young guy half their age in oversized sunglasses pull up next to me.
To be honest, I quite enjoy it. Needless to say I ignore it or smile back. Or if the opurtunity is there, I say "thank you" to their disbelief.
To the person that started the thread - grow up - we are supposed to set a high standard on the roads. If some pr1ck gives you hastle, be intelligent, smile back, move over to let him pass, don't be like them by showing them aggression. They will just feed off it. GIVE THEM NOTHING. and they'll f off very quickly.
The other side to the Man/Woman thing, had a disturbing experience last night going through the long roadworks on The M1, some letch driving a large truck who kept gesticulating with hand and tongue his obvious desire, this went on for 15 odd miles as I just couldn't get away (I would slow down/speed up and so would he). Come on guys what's that all about, did he think it was going to get me going? 
The only thing that kept me smiling was thinking about the drag marks on his knuckles
The only thing that kept me smiling was thinking about the drag marks on his knuckles
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When i first got my Z4 i put up with sooo much stick from colleagues at work, getting called a poser, mid life crisis etc etc it got pretty bad for a while, even the guy i give lift to gave a bit as well, Whilst i would just shrug it off and laugh along with them i did actually consider getting rid of the Zed, but then i got to thinking that i would only be doing that to make them feel better. the slagging eventually died off when i adopted the statedgy of mentioning at every opportunity that i drive an excellently designed and manufactured car as oppose to some inferior piece of crap. so they all eventually shut up.
A couple of weeks ago we had an office day out and went to a restraunt for Lunch and we would be taking our own cars or sharing. 2 of the girls and 3 of the blokes i work with all tried to get me to take them in the Zed as it was a nice day and they knew i would have the roof down. i thought this would be a perfect opportunity to remind them all of the slagging i took and to use their own inferior cars instead.
One night when walking to the car with the guy i give lift to he asked me to drive a certain way home as he knew one of his mates was working outside a house so his mate could see him in a Z4.
It boils down to plain old jealousy and whilst it pains me to say it it is a very British trait, we hate to see people do well for themselves or get better things than us, My experiences in the states and other parts of the world is you are patted on the back and told well done, good for you, Never happens in good old blighty.
F**k the lot of them if they can't handle me driving a nicer and better car than them then they are the one with the problem Not me.
The latest stunt i pulled was to email them all the picture of me and Vroom Vroom i posted on us and our Zeds and it was titled, New desktop background for you. :lol:
A couple of weeks ago we had an office day out and went to a restraunt for Lunch and we would be taking our own cars or sharing. 2 of the girls and 3 of the blokes i work with all tried to get me to take them in the Zed as it was a nice day and they knew i would have the roof down. i thought this would be a perfect opportunity to remind them all of the slagging i took and to use their own inferior cars instead.
One night when walking to the car with the guy i give lift to he asked me to drive a certain way home as he knew one of his mates was working outside a house so his mate could see him in a Z4.
It boils down to plain old jealousy and whilst it pains me to say it it is a very British trait, we hate to see people do well for themselves or get better things than us, My experiences in the states and other parts of the world is you are patted on the back and told well done, good for you, Never happens in good old blighty.
F**k the lot of them if they can't handle me driving a nicer and better car than them then they are the one with the problem Not me.
The latest stunt i pulled was to email them all the picture of me and Vroom Vroom i posted on us and our Zeds and it was titled, New desktop background for you. :lol:
Having grown up in the UK and now living in the US, I certainly see a difference in attitudes and I agree there is generally more verbal abuse to people driving nice cars in the UK. On the other hand, road rage rarely ends in major bodily injury as it does in the US where everyone including the postman is armed with a semi-automatic handgun. Here in the States, I am far more likely to get a thumbs up than an insult for driving my Zee/Zed. I think this is because of the ethos of the "American Dream" (i.e. making money is a good thing and having fun spending it is OK). In the UK, an owner of a nice (sporty) car is assumed to be nouveau and therefore an object of derision, which I can't quite fathom.
Flipping anybody off is probably not a good idea, because you have no clue whether the recipient is crazy.
Flipping anybody off is probably not a good idea, because you have no clue whether the recipient is crazy.
Can't say I've really been the victim of much bad feeling on the road. I tend to be a very considerate driver though, taking notice of all that's going on around me and making way for other road users more often than not (contrary to the, incorrect, bmw driver stereotype)...
Obviously get plenty of eedjits in their flower-pot "enhanced" saxos and the like trying it on at lights or driving right up my chuff. At the lights I tend to laugh and ignore them, when they're glued to my rear bumper I either slow right down on a single carriageway or pull into the slower lane on a dual and let them on their merry little way. Nothing beats the pleasure of cresting the next hill to see them shoot past a speed trap as fast as their little alloys will carry them anyway!
Sars; that's absolutely disgusting behaviour. Really don't get what goes through the heads of neanderthals like that, what was he trying to achieve? Either trying to impress/pull you, in which case perhaps we should feel sorry for him and suggest they revoke his day passes from the home, or trying to intimidate you... in which case, what a big and clever man he is, without a doubt perfectly capable of getting it up. Lets hope he doesn't hit a tree/bridge/sharp pointy thing at about neck height next time he does it to someone!
Obviously get plenty of eedjits in their flower-pot "enhanced" saxos and the like trying it on at lights or driving right up my chuff. At the lights I tend to laugh and ignore them, when they're glued to my rear bumper I either slow right down on a single carriageway or pull into the slower lane on a dual and let them on their merry little way. Nothing beats the pleasure of cresting the next hill to see them shoot past a speed trap as fast as their little alloys will carry them anyway!
Sars; that's absolutely disgusting behaviour. Really don't get what goes through the heads of neanderthals like that, what was he trying to achieve? Either trying to impress/pull you, in which case perhaps we should feel sorry for him and suggest they revoke his day passes from the home, or trying to intimidate you... in which case, what a big and clever man he is, without a doubt perfectly capable of getting it up. Lets hope he doesn't hit a tree/bridge/sharp pointy thing at about neck height next time he does it to someone!
Unfortunately, I think your quite right. Current attitudes in the UK shocking - you can barely be seen to be doing well for yourself without someone trying to make you feel guilty about it. It's not right. That plus the current thinking that the country should help out those who can even help themselves, but that's a whole other thread :xkromozome said:
What's even funnier is that I'm driving a car they see as reflecting that I'm a high roller, but i'm most certain not
. My Z4 cost me just over £10k almost 18 months ago. Now, even the cheapest shitty Vauxhall Corsa 1.0i 12v in the most basic spec has a list price of £10k (I couldn't quite believe that, but just look at this link for proof). Now who's the twat: the person driving the nice secondhand car, or the mug who's plowed their hard-earned into a brand new metal box on wheels?nickoneone
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my encounter with jealous f*ckwits was also on the M6. I was in the inside lane toodling up the road to Scotland for the weekend, minding my own business when a Rover 75 came up the middle lane, pulled up beside me to match my speed and the drivers wife started wildy giving me the vicky with her face all screwed up. they both looked to be in their sixties, and the driver looked like the type who wears string driving gloves. I almost went off the road I was laughing so much at the incongruity of it . That didn't go down well with them tho' and she seemed to get even more frantic. I finaly blipped the throttle and left them in my exhaust fumes.
Just read that back and realised how self important it sounded! So didn't mean to!Tweed said:
What I meant to say is that I'm generally a laid back driver, not rushing to get anywhere as quick as humanly possible, so don't mind letting people out at junctions or if they aren't ready and waiting in gear when the lights turn... Not that I'm better than the rest of you road hogging slack jawed swine in your shiny status symbols...
...I did it again, didn't I?
