[Closed] Audi vs Range Rover - most irritating drivers?

The irritating drivers drive all sorts of cars, the jealous only notice the ones they're envious of.

You focus on drivers of cars you're prejudiced against. Some people driving 12 year Astras are utter knobs too.

but none as bad as pickup drivers, without doubt, the most annoying, and I have absolutely, utterly, completely no intent to own one.

Ford drivers are the worst IME

Women Golf drivers.

End of thread.

I've two encounters with RR owners in the last two weeks that were fantastic. One, the bloke waved me through on my road bike as I was faster than him down some lanes, and the second time a nice lady pulled aside for a friend and I as we were heading uphill and she was heading down. Based on that small sample, RR drivers are great.

RR drivers - great

RR-Sport drivers - tools

Men driving people carriers

You can see the complete frustration on their face of having to drive such a pile of cr*p and they decide that to compensate they need to speed, sit on your bumper and generally just be angry with the world.

Anyone who drives anything in London - no-one ever let's you out at a junction.

You focus on drivers of cars you're prejudiced against.

Yeah, I enjoy it.

Men driving people carriers

You can see the complete frustration on their face of having to drive such a pile of cr*p and they decide that to compensate they need to speed, sit on your bumper and generally just be angry with the world.

Yes, mainly the little ones though. Zafira size.

In my experience the biggest *-wagon around the North West is the Range Rover/Audi Q7/BMW X6 - just any huge expensive 4x4 - driven by some snotty, self-obsessed Cheshire rich bitch who thinks the most important thing in the *ing world is to get to their Hairdresser/lunch/personal shopper/personal trainer appointment.

And if anyone else should happen to die in the process of achieving that, then that's a price worth paying

I find the RR drivers the most arrogant - parking on doubles, disabled bays (with no badge), etc.

"I've got a car that cost X times yours, so I can park it here if I want"

But none of these people actually buy their cars, they're just leased - so they can try and live the lifestyle to which they'd like to become accustomed. Most of them are still tools though.

merc m-class here. mostly completely oblivious school-run mums with no idea of the size of their car.

It's because you are jealous of their wonderful automobile, isn't it?

Admit it, you want one, don't you? You'd love to put your toe on that small slab of aluminium, pressing it until smoke comes out the rear.

You'd grasp that leather clad object and shove it to the left, to the right, all around until you could no longer hold on.

Possibly.

Pointless thread, isn't it?

I find the Nissan(?) Qashqai - I think that's how its spelt - almost universally poorly driven. Not sure why. Maybe they're hard to control or something. Always give them a wide berth.

I'd say the worst driven car on the road is without doubt the Nissan Micra

Kia drivers. Cos that was what the women was driving who hit me.

Shows how far BMW have fallen. A few years back they would have owned a "driven by tools" thread.

APF

Pointless thread, isn't it?

Yes.

Pot calling the kettle black, isn't it?

Pot calling the kettle black, isn't it?

Racistist!

Men driving people carriers

You can see the complete frustration on their face of having to drive such a pile of cr*p and they decide that to compensate they need to speed, sit on your bumper and generally just be angry with the world.

Yes, mainly the little ones though. Zafira size.

I drive a C-Max!

Fortunately I'm a very calm person! But yes, I'm a lot less happy driving that than I am the midget*. On the other hand I can get bikes in the back and it's not mised a beat yet.

*Took it out for a spin last weekend, the brakes didn't work and the steering had siezed, but it was still more fun than a barrel full of KY jelly.

I like driving people carriers. Motorways are for cruising, and they cruise well.

Men driving people carriers

You can see the complete frustration on their face of having to drive such a pile of cr*p and they decide that to compensate they need to speed, sit on your bumper and generally just be angry with the world.

Yes, mainly the little ones though. Zafira size.

Women in red Minis.
Thick as shit.

cayennes.nicest?prius.

The irritating drivers drive all sorts of cars, the jealous only notice the ones they're envious of.

+1 (Closes the door of the BMW), I got the optional extra of indicators.. 🙄

Men driving people carriers

Know that their thing works, hence don't need to compensate with a flashy car.

+1 (Closes the door of the BMW), I got the optional extra of indicators

I've just ordered an Audi, when it's delivered next year I'll have to leave this forum. As Top Gear has educated too many on here to hate Audis now and now BMW drivers.

As Top Gear has educated too many on here to hate Audis now and now BMW drivers.

Drac, only the seriously hard of thinking form their opinions based on that, so it doesn't matter.

Sweeping generalisations v Unsubstantiated clichés - most irritating threads?

[i]As Top Gear has educated too many on here to hate Audis[/i]

Ah, so [i]that's[/i] where it comes from! I really do miss out not having Clarkson tell me what is [i]cool[/i]. 😕

What are you getting Drac?

Ford drivers are the worst IME

Black Q7

RR drivers - great

RR-Sport drivers - [s]tools[/s] drug dealers

Q7 + 1

Buses + 1000

big white 4x4's, usually with black wheels..

People who don't drive but ride a bike on the road are the worst road abusers,think they have a devine right to do whatever they please on the road & are so stuck their own A-holes it beggers belief !Ban them I say,no better yet burrrrnnnnnn 'em !

big white 4x4's, usually with black wheels..

Sorry for the tangent (prob start another useless thread off this) but when did white cars become cool? I've noticed more and more expensive white cars lately - it used to be only if you couldn'd stretch to metalic or black that you went for white...

+1 for RR-sport and BMW X3, X5, X6

not had any issue with audi drivers 4x4 are usually driven by fat women takin there kids to school when its just down the road. but for me anyone who drives a bmw is a complete ****er & i aint jelous as i wouldnt want one.

You are all going to love the V12 Bentley off-roaded (bigger version of the Audi A7 if you can beleive that is possible) when it arrives in 2012-2013!

Personally I think that you see lots of badly driven cars and it's down to the driver not the car. No stereotypes.

"People don't hate you because you drive a Range Rover, they hate you because you can afford to drive a Range Rover" - [i]J Clarkson[/i]

They hate you because you never get mud on it

I still see far more crappy driving being done in BMW's than in any Audi's. Clarkson was just being his usual provocative arsy self on that rant, I think because footballers had rather taken to driving them. The d1ck'ead driving the Octy VRs who went tearing past me just after I pulled away from a set of traffic lights, and then past a Megan Scenic on a bend shortly after ought to have his keys confiscated. No reflection on Skoda drivers; I drive one. That's the point, a crap driver is a crap driver, and make of vehicle is largely irrelevant. Taxis, minibuses, white vans and any SUV on a half-mile school run are the worst.

Tough call, 2k on Berkshire roads this summer and I've regularly nearly been killed by RRs on the school run and middle aged men in Audis. But the Zafira (middle aged male) driver was the only one who actuallythreatened to run me over. Classy.

Agree with lynchmob, don't want one, I'd rather ride my bike cheers.....

I think there does tend to be a similar attitude of any one who drives a 4 x 4 or pick up that for some reason they own the road. They expect you to give way to them if the road narrows when coming towards you etc.

Then of course there is the 4 x 4 driver who has no idea how big their car is so stop when traffic comes towards them.

All 4 x 4's are good for killing pedestrians too.

Boy racers, women in 4x4 and posh people in flashy BMW and Mercedes are the worst on the road IMO

Audi drivers are the worst I reckon, at least they have the fairy lights on them so when you see those in the distance you can brace for a truly spectacularly bad piece of driving coming up...

TBH, At least 95% of all drivers are tossers.

And no, [b]you're[/b] not in the 5%...

Anyone who drives anything in London - no-one ever let's you out at a junction.

There's a lesson to be learned there.

I'll let you work out what it is. 😉

While I agree the pimped-up RR Sports/X6s/Cayennes etc are ridiculous, the rest of this thread is just the usual crap that has been done to death.

I drive a leased BMW which seems to many on STW to put me somewhere on the social scale between sex offenders and the rioters. It's boring. I've "got" a BMW because it is cheap to run, safe, comfortable and decent to drive; the same reason 99% of people have got German cars.

I can't get over how many people drive Chelsea Tractors, RR's with 30" wheels & ultra low profile tyres who usually think they can park wherever.
My prize of the week goes to the proud owner of a convertible Aston Martin who abandonded it in the (paying part) of Harrogate District Hospital last Friday, just dumped it in 2 bays. I wish he'd been there when I parked my 51 Passat cos i think I might have parked close enough so he(or she) had to climb in through the passenger side. Nice motor driven by a Nob.

My boss meets all your criteria: lives in rural Cheshire, drives a black Q7, is loud, boorish, chauvinist, plays golf a lot and is a shockingly bad driver. In the car his foot is either flat on the accelerator or hard on the brake, he is incapable of holding a set speed; he rushes up behind cars then brakes hard. On a trip to London my neck began to ache with the constant acceleration and braking and I had to rest my head on the headrest. He has an accident around every two years. He needs specs but often doesn't wear them; on one horror drive a cyclist indicated and pulled out a good 100 yards ahead but my boss didn't spot the bloke until he was almost on our bonnet so he gave him the full horns and shouted abuse, which continued all down the road, to my embarrassment.

He is extremely good at business and a very good and fair boss but a shite driver.

Silver focus drivers! Oh that'll be me then. 😳 Actually blue mondeo drivers are the worst!

I think there does tend to be a similar attitude of any one who drives a 4 x 4 or pick up that for some reason they own the road. They expect you to give way to them if the road narrows when coming towards you etc.

They all do this, do they?

Then of course there is the 4 x 4 driver who has no idea how big their car is so stop when traffic comes towards them.

Hang on, didn't you just say that anyone who drives a 4x4 [i]doesn't[/i] give way? Now you're saying that they [i]do[/i]? I'm confused

All [s]4 x 4's[/s] cars are good for killing pedestrians [s]too[/s] if they're driven by half-wits.

Fixed that for you. Mind you, I've never killed anyone in my 4x4 or, indeed, any other car I've owned. Just under a half a million miles driven and you'd think I'd have learned to do it properly, but no, I've failed to kill/injure/come into contact with any pedestrians or cyclists. I have been driven into whilst in my my big, look-how-much-of-the-road-I-own 4x4 (how they didn't see me I don't know) but that's hardly my fault.

If we are going for these sweeping generalisations anyone driving a van is a ****.

What Nickf said +1

Crispo, i've got a 4x4 & a transit too, Ha Ha Ha Ha.

There's a lesson to be learned there. I'll let you work out what it is.

Caught the train in from Enfield for the odd visit when I needed minimal tools - that was a pain in the arse too. I'll be buggered if I'm doing it with drums of cable, power tools and a 20kg toolbox.

As for the train, London folk are just ad ignorant on there too. At 6.30 am when people are stood up because all the seats are taken, why do people think its acceptable to sit in the aisle seat while their bag occupies the window seat?

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They hate you because you never get mud on it

Reminds me of a short debate I had with a motorist a few weeks back. We overtook a RR Sport being driven slowly down an unmade road, dodging the small puddles as he went. He caught us up at the bottom on a short tarmac stretch, wound down the passenger window & started:

"Oi! you splashed my car."
"Oh."
"I've only just had it cleaned"
"Oh, sorry."
"Sorry! Is that all you can say?"
"Well no, but you could expect a little dirt from driving a 4x4 down an unmade road couldn't you?"
"They're mountain bikes aren't they?"
"Yeah."
"Well why don't you **** off & find a mountain to play on then?"
"OK, will do. That's a c**k-wagon isn't it? - keep up the good work".

Didn't hang around to catch the irade of expletives after that & there was no way he was gonna drive it down the bridalway opposite.

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You need to get them to shift the bag off the seat, be rude if you have to, it works. The worst culprits are the Faux IT Types with thier ibad's playing kill em' all games.. Just pull thier earphone out of thier left/right ear and shout "shuv up skoolboy"

As for this stereotypical "bad drivers" I'll vote:

Mums driving kids in PukeWaggons.

Utterly reprehensible and downright irresponsible.

All other bad drivers cover a range of cars irrespective of type/age/hair colour/sexual deviance/personal ignorance

Before you call me a co*k, I've a white Van, it carrie amogst other things my bikes.

The thing is, once you notice someone being a dick in a particular type of car, you tend to notice others doing the same thing. I think it's also fair to say that someone being a dick in a 4x4 stands out somewhat, due to the size of their vehicle.

They hate you because you never get mud on it

Don't tar everyone with the same brush 🙂

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Most appalling drivers in my experience are mazda 6 drivers, driven by dads that seem to think their saloon is some sort of cool sports car and drive like their on a racing circuit.

I speak from experience not prejudice or jealousy.

I do think the range rover/audi/bmw haters have issues though.

[i]posh people in flashy BMW and Mercedes[/i]

Are you 9 years old?

Range Rover probably the most AWESOME 4X4 by far.
Anyone care to give me some feedback regarding LandRover Discovery as a road based car? I'm looking for a mile eating tow car.

Fair play, randomjeremy!
You are certainly the exception to the rule.
I imagine a mountain bike would be just as quick, but obviously you need to carry lots of heavy equipment on your commute 😉

The RRS is really great offroad, but even better onroad. Dispatches enormous European trips in amazing comfort with loads of room for kit. Shame so many douchebags seem to drive them though 🙂

Transit van drivers or asian women in Hounslow

tough call

Hang on a minute! This is all getting a bit....

😆

You're not one of the group of Nomad-riding Land Rover fans I met at The White Room in July are you RandomJeremy?

Men driving [s]people carriers[/s]a beetle especially a convertible trying to look cool in their wifes/GFs/mistresses car

You can see the complete frustration on their face of having to drive such a pile of cr*p and they decide that to compensate they need to speed, sit on your bumper and generally just be angry with the world.