I don't usually start threads about individual cases of bad driving I come across, but this one in Bristol is worth the effort.
I was using a very tricky sliproad where there's limited visibility of traffic approaching from behind on the dual carriageway I was about to join. Speed limit 40 mph, and I was doing about 40, close to the white line preparing to pull on to the dual carraigway.
A dark metallic coloured Aston Martin Vanquish comes up behind, then, just as I'm pulling on to dual carriageway, the Aston driver swerves to the left and boots it, undertaking me and cutting out again in front of me, the great ugly bulbous flanks of the supercar just inches from clouting the front corner of my car. The Aston roars off, with astonishing acceleration, way in excess of the 40 limit.
The Aston was dark metallic - either metallic black or very dark blue or green and it had a short personalised registration. We were quite close to the Bristol City football ground - I don't know if that's of any relevance. But the person behind the wheel of that car is obviously a menace on the road and not fit to be behind the wheel of anything!
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I sympathise, SS, often see this sort of driving indulged in by Bentleys, Rangies with dark windows, etc on the M56/A5103 in South Manchester. Don't know, like you, if any relevance but this is the route to and from Hale Barns and Alderleyv Edge...both big money country.
Manchester United match days see a stream of exotica coming down our road, recently found to be a rat run from A5103 to Old Trafford. Quite a few driven badly or too fast.
Ted
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Nothing changes - when I was a boy Jaguars had a name for attracting bad drivers.
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...Nothing changes - when I was a boy Jaguars had a name for attracting bad drivers....
Jags were fast and cheap, so much beloved of cops - and robbers.
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''the great ugly bulbous flanks of the supercar ''
I don't think I'd call a Vanquish ugly from any angle.
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''the great ugly bulbous flanks of the supercar ''>>
Hint of envy?
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>> ''the great ugly bulbous flanks of the supercar ''>> Hint of envy?
Did you sit in the road murmuring "Oh my, oh my!"?
And then go up to Town the following morning and order a large, and very expensive, motorcar?
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The Aston roars off with astonishing acceleration ..........
It sounds like it vanquished your car!
;-)
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Undertaking is a bit rude SS. But the great ugly supercar didn't hit you.
Were you forced to swerve or brake?
No doubt the driver was in a hurry. At least once past he didn't get in your way but went off briskly. Be thankful for small mercies. Expensive cars are always dawdling in my path in this town.
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Is 'Intelligent Speed Adaptation' a device that causes drivers to crash if they try any unusual manoeuvres, HJ?
Many here would approve such a thing.
That'll learn'em, eh?
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Quote:..""I don't think I'd call a Vanquish ugly from any angle."" I think the DB7 and DB9 are beautiful, but not the Vanquish. As for envy - I certainly didn't envy the driver's lack of skills! I think he went on to carve up more traffic ahead, but I couldn't see exactly what happened.
Usually supercars are driven carefully and sensibly around town, in my experience, so I thought this incident was out of the ordinary.
Edited by Sofa Spud on 16/11/2009 at 16:04
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Quote:....""It sounds like it vanquished your car!
;-) "" But he could have done that in an old Ford Transit or even a Nissan Micra since I had no intention of exceeding the 40 mph speed limit!
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I've just been looking at some photos of the vanquish and it is those bulbous rear flanks that spoil an otherwise beautiful car. It's the abrupt way they flare out from the body ahead of the rear wheels, on the door panel, that give it a 'modified' look, even when it isn't modified.
Edited by Sofa Spud on 16/11/2009 at 16:15
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Undertaking in the manner described is rude, ignorant, dangerous and just bad driving all round.
The make of the undertaker's vehicle matters not.
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An example of the saying "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men...."
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