One for a bit of fun.
Which make of car causes the biggest tailbacks or are driven badly (no indicators etc) or sit at crossroads/roundabouts waiting for a 60 gap to cross/join; you get my gist here. My other half and I have come up with our top 3.
In descending order (ie worst culprits first)
1. Metro (Maestros used to be the worst but not too many left on the road now)
2. Escort
3. Micra
I might add that any Rover (esp 200 series) is well up there.
Maybe we can get a top 10 if enough people are game.
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BMWs tailgating in the fast lane and slamming on the brakes for every little deceleration causing the ripple effect to leave enormous tailbacks behind them on busy motorways.
As a BMW driver I apologise on behalf of my species.
Generalisation... it's great isn't it.
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I would say VW Polos. No offence to Pologirl, but most of the Polos I see are driven by old ladies, who have at some time had to buy a car and someone has advised them that a Polo is the most reliable.
Watched one take a full 13 attempts to park in a supermarket car park today between two cars.
These same old ladies need half an hour at each junction as well.
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Always used to be Volvo 340s it seemed to me - perhaps Rover 400s?
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Vauxhalls specifically Astra, Vectra, Corsa in that order.
Volkswagons Golfs, Passats
Mercedes any.
All are quite common on my daily commute round the M25.
Jim
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Everybody on the road except for sensible me and the raging nutters.
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Cabrios with the hood down.
Always waiting that little bit longer so everyone can have a good look.
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Tractors.Especially pulling machinery.
On several recent occasions, the 12 year driving it (ok, he looks that young) on a main A road, has driven past three pulling in places where emergency phones are located, totally ignoring the rapidly accumulating tailback of several DOZEN vehicles dawdling at sub 40mph(30mph up inclines). Do these people not have a test to pass where courtesy to other road users is included??
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One amusing case I heard of was of a stolid type of lady, the neighbour of a workmate. In preparing to move off at traffic lights she deliberated so long that she was finally picked up on the camera and fined for crossing on red.
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Didn't they used to say:
"The car in front is a Toyota"
Also there is a sub-species of Jag owner known as 'Gold XJ Gentleman' - typically a retired businessman in his late 60's who drives his Jaguar XJ6 at around 45 mph.
Cheers, Sofa Spud
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Anyone not driving a Subaru Impreza.
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Tractors.Especially pulling machinery.
Not always true.
On my way along an A-road in Warks yesterday evening, I came across a convoy of \'Super Tractors\' pulling machinery and bailed hay. You know, the behemoths with four driven wheels the size of a sheikhdom.
They were actually causing frustration by being nose to tail, and going sufficiently fast (about 40MPH), that they couldn\'t be safely overtaken by most traffic. On the other hand though, they weren\'t going fast enough to satisfy the other traffic. It was all getting very ugly.
Thankfully, I was on the Hornet, and able to gently leapfrog to the front. Having checked that there were no likely farm or field entrances ahead, and no piles of mud like I\'d seen a few miles earlier, I was lucky enough to then nail the three tractors in the blink of an eye.
On the plus side, I then had a nice empty playground for a few miles until I caught the tail of the traffic in front. :-)
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We get the super tractors round here that make overtaking difficult. I worry about something so big going so fast. Just hope they never hit anything.
My other pet hate is the driver who insists on driving so close to my bumper that I have to slow down for my own safety and inturn cause a queue further back. Sorry guys behind - just wish I could tell the idiot on my bumper that if he were to back off then we would all go along a lot faster.
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Jeez those super tractors at speed really bounce up and down on those big over inflated tyres. They look quite scary and unsafe.
(good job the Alfa has ND's bulk in it to weigh it down)
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Anyone wearing a hat.
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Anyone in front of me when I'm in a hurry.
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Two or more women having an animated conversation.
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why do women drivers holding a converation not do so without turning to look at their passenger all the time ?
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Because us girlies are polite souls who know it's rude to look away from people when you're talking to them.
Added to which, if we can't check our make-up in the rear-view any more, we have to ask our passengers to do it for us....
(It's Friday isn't it.......?)
:x
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I can't believe no one has mentioned the all time worst culprit... the Honda Civic. So prolific that HJ even comments in CBCB. Other jap minis are often guilty - Starlet, Micra, Swift etc.
Ed.
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I can't believe no one has mentioned the all time worst culprit... the Honda Civic.
Can we narrow this a little to 1.4-litre variants thereof? (Who actually buys those?)
This is why me (in 2003 Civic 1.6) and my colleague (old-shape Civic saloon 1.6 VTi) work so hard to redress the balance - no-one could ever reasonably accuse me of getting in the way (and my colleague even less so)! ;-)
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why do women drivers holding a converation not do so without turning to look at their passenger all the time ?
to see the other person's face
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why do women drivers holding a converation not do so without turning to look at their passenger all the time ?
to see the other person's face ... as it hurtles through the windscreen in the accident cause by rear-ending the vehicle that pulled out in front while the driver was looking to one side.
(sorry NW - couldn't resist!)
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to see the other person's face ... as it hurtles through the windscreen in the accident cause by rear-ending the vehicle that pulled out in front while the driver was looking to one side.
Ah, but you missed the key bit -- we slow down, to reduce the risk of rear-ending anyone.
(Sorry, I know that you boys have a deep-seated objection to that 4-letter word beginning with s!)
[/tongue-in-cheek]
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OK - as it is thrown into the headrest by the force of the rear-end collision caused by the sudden braking not noticed by the car behind...
[/appalling sense of humour]
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Horses always slow me down when I want to get up to 160. I find hitting them at 60 usually does the trick.
NW, what do you say to that?;-)
"slow"? what is this "slow" you speak of? I've never heard of it.
Adam
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Adski - SLOW is an acronym they paint on the tarmac on the approach to interesting roads. It means:
Shift Lower by One, it's Windy
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Horses always slow me down when I want to get up to 160. I find hitting them at 60 usually does the trick. NW, what do you say to that?;-)
I don't have much practice at driving into horses, so I'm sure you know best how to do it.
Have you tried dropping back a bit and then accelerating rapidly so that you can hit the horse at 160?
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Unless cam belt snaps ;-). I`d say pretty safe
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Was mech1
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Oh har de har har...I suppose that'll teach me to be a sarcastic little...
NW, you really don't know! EEEEVVVERYONE knows if you hit it at 160, the airbags go off!
Steve, cheers mate - I'd forgotten all about that...until now.
Adam
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"Anyone wearing a hat"
HJ excepted, of course! I'm sure he doesn't wear it when he's driving, anyway...
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Re Super Tractors - round here there are quite a few JCB Fastracs, which can do 60 mph solo and seem to get up to 40+ with trailers.
In East Anglia there used to be some fearsome 'Big A' fertilizer spreaders, monstrous 3-wheelers with gigantic wide tyres. These things had Detroit Diesel supercharged 2-stroke V6 or V8 diesels, so they could get up quite a speed. If you met one coming the other way on a narrow road it was a bit hair raising. They could operate over fields at 40 mph, spreading fertiliser.
Cheers, SS
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These big 3-wheelers are called Terragators - there's a website with pics - they're still made, though they have 'normal' Caterpillar or John Deere engines these days.
Cheers, SS
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>>Horses always slow me down when I want to get up to 160. I find hitting them at 60 usually does the trick.
You lot can be horrible sometimes. And I thought you were nice, Adam.
As for HJ not wearing his hat, well JBJ I simply cannot imagine that. Although you have had a different experience of the pleasure of meeting him than I have. :)
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As for HJ not wearing his hat, well JBJ I simply cannot imagine that. Although you have had a different experience of the pleasure of meeting him than I have. :)
Tell all!!!
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