Treatment by other Road Users in 5 Series

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3rdPillar

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 Blackburn
I have a new 5 Series loan car from BOWKER BMW in Blackburn, whilst the Z is having a service. It BLACK, M-SPORT with blacked out back windows, a proper pimp mobile. I have has possession for less than 24 hours and diven approx 30 miles.

No one has smiled at me! No one has let me out of a junction into traffic! Infact other than on bloke who mouthed !anker. No one had noticed me.

I want my Z BACK!!!
 
Quite a few people dont like the Z either to date had a scaffolding lorry hit me and many people tailgateing me and driving at me like people possessed just put it down to BMW sindrome or plain jealousy. :x :fuelfire:
 
I get a mix, but I think its normal. Some people let me out, some cut me up. Had a guy in a people carrier 12 inches from the back of the car (no lie) doing 50mph the other day... I took a risk, braked enough to bring the lights on without slowing... he kept his distance from that point.
 
Maniac said:
I get a mix, but I think its normal. Some people let me out, some cut me up. Had a guy in a people carrier 12 inches from the back of the car (no lie) doing 50mph the other day... I took a risk, braked enough to bring the lights on without slowing... he kept his distance from that point.
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sounds like a nob ... probabaly wasn't Z related though.

I percieve a definate "different" reaction from being in the Z.
 
You are screwed either way it's still a BMW & most people hate them but I don't always understand why :?
 
Laughable thing was, we then sat side by side in traffic for the next 20 minutes as we crawled into the city... he never once looked anywhere other then straight ahead. I admit, if he'd got out of the van, I'd have risen to the challenge as he performed his manoeuvre at the end of a very bad day for me. He simply wasn't paying attention, thought I was holding him up as I was coasting down, then he looked further ahead and saw three lanes of near stationary traffic, dimwit.
 
I don't get the whole BMW attitude.... OK once, maybe 20/30 years ago you had to be doing a bit better than most to afford one...

Now, anyone can get one, so it doesn't mean jack....In fact there are more clapped out BMWs going about than other makes.... :rofl: :rofl:

Old habits die hard I guess.... :headbang:

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Got my first ever abuse in the Z today - kid on a push bike at the edge of the road as I carved around a roundabout - shouted 'Dick !' according to Mrs B. Maybe he mistook me for someone called Richard :?

I can however tell you how many f*cks I give, especially on a day like today...


Zero. :P
 
I was past him when he shouted it - bloody little :chicken: :lol:
 
I find that in the Zed it is difficult for other people to make eye contact with you because it's quite low. Takes the wind out of their sails a bit.
 
the zed is a car that people imagine is more expensive than it is, (except new ones - they are well dear) but i guess the older ones are no more expensive than the other cars on the roads, just a bit different I guess.

I dont give a toss, i have the roof down if it isnt raining, i find the whole roadster experience a step up from a motorbike, no funny clothes and you can hold a conversation and the fact that i cant fit 2 kids, a dog and the shopping is precisely the reason i own it.

and im always tickled when the guy in front sprays his windscreen hoping to get me - they should buy one themselves and then they would know why owning a roadster even in rainy britain will always make you smile
 
Well to be quite honest, it's not difficult to understand why there's so much jealousy.

as some may know I've not particularly aimable to the e85, however saw one today outside the lloyds building with the roof down, stuck in traffic and it just looked so beautiful.

I can say I'm a convert to the convert.

:lol:
 
It's a little ironic, seeing as I now own a BMW, but I always perceived BMW drivers as a trifle more arrogant than those who drove other brands. Before any hackles rise, I'm saying it was only a perception. :)

It was completely unscientific but it seemed that every time I let someone out at a junction or pulled in to let someone pass, if they were in a BMW I'd never get a wave or a smile; just a sneer. I don't think it was anything to do with money either as I never seemed to have the same response with other premium brands.

Now I know there are some t'riffic people on here so not all BMW owners are bad. Thing is, when I let people other people out at junctions now, the missus says: "They'll wonder what's going on - a BMW driver being polite!" :P
 
While in the military. I saw the same phenomenon. The newly promoted Non-commissioned officers tended to act like power hungry arselochs.

One must remember that BMW's are an entry level luxury car. The blokes with the M-B's tended to be older and more established. The RR owner was the sort that earned their money the old fashioned way. It was given to them by relatives. So the BMW along with the Porsche driver. Tend to be the newly slightly wealthy. And would assert this new found success by acting like an asswipe to others. The super rich are too busy to bother with the peasants.
 
bigdog said:
The super rich are too busy to bother with the peasants.
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+1 :thumbsup:

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