quick question about other drivers...is this just me?

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adam.b

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I collected my lovely z4 last week and am loving it...except for one thing.

Other drivers seem to think its fine to overtake or undertake at any time to get people past me...usually as I am tootling about playing with the wireless or just heading home. Todays epic was some chap trying to peer over the top of the steering wheel in a massive diesel volvo estate, undertook me on an island...nearly causing me to crash...then got in my way once the dual carriageway appeared. Fantastic!
Is it just me or is the Z4 a bit of a knob magnet?
Ageing Subarus seem to be the worst offenders!!
 
They certainly attract attention, I seem to see a lot of TVRs, Lotus' and abused Jap cars wanting to play a lot! But there are some other types in big engined Audi's / Range Rovers / Mercs / Jags who seem to want to test me. But the best one I had was a slammed, blacked-out Lexus IS300 on split rims making an awful racket with it's bigbore exhaust.......lol
 
Watch out for white van drivers, they seem to think that they can out perform a zed lol.
 
dr_john said:
Watch out for white van drivers, they seem to think that they can out perform a zed lol.
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Errr... dey hav a jagwar enjin innit donchaknow? :hairdryer:

...powered by liquidised egg and bacon fart...
 
All the time. They are woefully unaware of how many ponies are under the bonnet.

Knob ends are best ignored.
 
Nah it's you ;)

Kids in Saxos with big exhausts and dropped Puntos with black privacy glass.

They can't drive either so best letting them go unless you want to get intimate.....

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aquazi said:
I hardly get that!

Depends where you live i guess.


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Same here... wait a minute... we both have black Zeds with red calipers and CSL's... That's probably the reason :poke:

I would love to have someone wanting to race me, but it just never happens :-)
 
A commonly raised thread issue this I'm afraid.

Best advice is to get used to it. Wont change and you'll always have certain types on your tail looking to prove that they really do have the sweetbreads, regardless of what they see in the shower each morning.

For me it was always Audi A6's, 350z' or dropped and forgotten cars from 1992-1995. Obviously I never ever rose to the challenge :wink:
 
You have good days & bad days... yesterday evening in the sunshine behind the shades could see everyone looking, some with the plonker look, some with a u lucky ....... big grin, not a single bit of aggro.

However, Monday evening out of the toll booths minding my own business and I think I met you mate in his Volvo who decided to try & floor it & push in-front. He was quick, but not quick enough so I gave him a little wave.
 
We don't have white van man here to any great extent. It's AJG who take the parcels north and the van is driven by Scott, who gives me a wave and a cheery grin. I have to say it's large Audis that misbehave on the A9.

The road appears safe. It's wide and quiet a lot of the time, so drivers of big cars treat it like motorway, heading round its sweeping curves on the right at over 100mph. Trouble is, there may just be someone coming the other way doing the same. We sit in the office in Aviemore and cringe when we hear the ambulance pass, or when the helicopter goes overhead.

Part of the local entertainment is getting the local paper and seeing who has been caught going how fast by the mobile cameras.

Me in my Z? I set the cruise at a true 60 and tootle along with a superior air... with the top down and a big grin on my face.
 
I was forced to overtake a god awful VW golf this morning on the way to work, due to his inability to grasp the concept of driving in a single lane (it was a two lane junction and was plodding across both lanes, sideways) Oh he was also wearing sunglasses, while there was frost everywhere, I suppose the sun came out yesterday and now he assumes it's the maldives... anyway I proceeded to overtake at my arliest convenience to which he shakes his head furiously in my rear view mirror then tailgates me for a good 4 miles eventually undertaking me when it pans out on a dual carriageway only to then go back in front of me again :headbang: needless to say I took a longer route to work...
 
bradmarsh1989 said:
Oh he was also wearing sunglasses, while there was frost everywhere, I suppose the sun came out yesterday and now he assumes it's the maldives....
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Sunglasses are for bright sunshine and not heat.... that's probably why :poke:
 
I find the biggest problem with other BMW drivers, I had a 5 series right up my arse on the M27 the other day and many a 3 series driver has wanted a race, what's the point? Have they got something to prove? I rarely rise to it as I like my clean licence.
 
1postseller said:
bradmarsh1989 said:
Oh he was also wearing sunglasses, while there was frost everywhere, I suppose the sun came out yesterday and now he assumes it's the maldives....
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Sunglasses are for bright sunshine and not heat.... that's probably why :poke:
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i laughed at that comment too. low sun in winter is worse than summer. i didn't have any sunglasses yesterday and with my roof down, the sun was just above my windscreen. was probably quite dangerous infact.
 
My commute home is through North London.
Can't say I get much abuse at all even with the roof down in the Summer.


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I had very little trouble with eejits when driving #69, probably due to her being a soothing Alpina Blue colour. IMmie seems to be the proverbial (imola) red rag to a bull. Idiots appear from all sides. I occasionally see (imola) red and remind them what she's capable of. When I'm feeling particularly vindictive I'll then back off, allow them to catch up in their wheezing diesel or chav chariot and show them again.

The nice thing is almost all zeds will show most of the rep-mobiles or kiddy carriages a clean pair of wheels from the lights and without breaking too many rules.
 
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