But I do think its more to do with those in cars believing that they ‘own’ the road – a bit like the UK really…
Size does matter unless you have a Merc or BMW, then you rule the road, no matter what.
One of my friends in Thailand is a fairly wealthy business owner (and chief of police for the province, but that has nothing to do with him owning all the most popular restaurants and hotels in town, really).
He owned a car wash as one of his many business’s in which I used to regularly meet up with him there before heading out for a ride.
The number of BMW’s and Mercs that came in to get washed, with scratches bumps and scrapes on them was amazing. Just about everyone was highly polished, with a gouge or crack somewhere on it.
What was more amazing was when he told me how much some of them cost with import duty.
A 318i was working out at the time around 30,000-35,000 pounds. A 5 series was close to 50,000-65,000.
He always impressed me with how shrewd he was with his money as well. I asked him why he didn’t have a nice car like that. He saw no point, he lived in Thailand and didn’t want it getting damaged. So his cheap oldish pickup did the job and a couple of nice bikes.