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Debadge the car - keep the badge for when selling it
I've always taken any flashy badges off my cars - why on earth would one want others to know what engine/etc their car has I don't understand the whole badging thing it's so so weird, but I realise I'm in the minority with that
Do you have a Tesla OP?
Pieface
It’s a Seat FR, so nothing amazing, but seems to attract other less fast boy racers, especially other Seat owners
I think you're over-thinking it and it's more to do with people's inability to maintain speed on a road.
I can't really think of a 'quick' FR. Performance is adequate but they are not that fast.
We've got two on the driveway (2 litre diesel Ibiza and 2 litre diesel Leon) and never get "raced".
I borrowed my sisters mk 1 fiesta ST once to go to a wedding, had to pick up my shoes from work at 10pm on a Friday night. immediately before work is a a park and ride and that night there was a massive cruise like something out the hallowed pages of MaxPower and the police were in the middle of raiding it. I was pootling along thinking "bollocks to cars with labels" despite being completely uninvolved I felt like a right fudd on the return journey with every set of trafficlight having like 4 knobs revving their engine.
Similarly, I’d love an old (looking, ordinary family) banger with 350bhp + under the lid. Then when Arsehole Willie in his Corsa starts faffing around at the lights…….off I pop.
Bmw 335d with no badge. 300hp and looks identical to 320d.
I've never had anyone trying to race me in any car. The same thing happens to me. Overtake at 70, pull in in front, they overtake me, pull in and slow down.
I put it down to not paying attention and or not driving on cruise control.
Sometimes I speed up to 73 to pass!
I drive a car that has a badge on it that seems to attract people that want to race you
Are you sure it's not the Carlos Fandango wheels?
It’s a Seat FR, so nothing amazing, but seems to attract other less fast boy racers, especially other Seat owners.
There's your problem. Seat FR driver's are the wannabe Audi driver's round here.
Quick those Seat's 😉
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Make it into a game: how many complete loops (them passing you, you going back around them again) can you manage before they realise?
I know where the OP is coming from a bit though. My car's the opposite of shy and retiring, debadging doesn't work when you've got four big exhaust tips and a ridiculous spoiler. I just ignore them and let them carry on, slowing down a bit is the easiest way.
My car’s the opposite of shy and retiring, debadging doesn’t work when you’ve got four big exhaust tips and a ridiculous spoiler
Oooh, what ya got?
Oooh, what ya got?
A small penis?
I find it best just to race them, it's fun.
What's up McFly?
I’ve always taken any flashy badges off my cars – why on earth would one want others to know what engine/etc their car has
Dude, when I'm rolling in my 1.6 Focus I want the world to know about it.
I’ve always taken any flashy badges off my cars – why on earth would one want others to know what engine/etc their car has I don’t understand the whole badging thing it’s so so weird, but I realise I’m in the minority with that
Mine hasn't got a badge, but I bought it like that. Doesn't really need one - those that know, know. Those that don't, just think it's an A5
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Oooh, what ya got?
@theartistformerlyknownasstr, an old silver/rusty Vauxhall with a vanity plate
A small penis?
When you're as good looking as me penis size doesn't matter 😀
Nice, a proper old school V8
I borrowed my sisters mk 1 fiesta ST
I doubt that. The ST was like thirty years after the mk1.
I doubt that. The ST was like thirty years after the mk1.
I had the Mk1 equivalent of the Fiesta ST (not my pic - wish it was)
I get this in a silver mondeo which isn't really the most racy car out there. A lot of people just don't know how to maintain a steady speed. But there are a lot of stupid board people as well...
supersport isnt an ST though is it .....
Ive got a badged up pseudo hot hatch .....because like many others the interior spec i wanted only came in this model - that and many of the poverty spec models had all the hallmarks of being ex-hire cars.
reality is its not even Tepid still has a 3 cylinder engine with the capacity of a milk carton and no turbo.
slow as ****.
Doesnt stop the morons though, Driving at 60 using the speed limiter does though. Relaxing while cruising listening to radio 6
Have you seen the film Duel? Use that as your template.
My car always wants to race, i deal with it by letting my wife drive.
Seat FR... really?
Surely that's a fairly average performing car these days.
Just bang a "Powered by fairy dust" sticker on it?
supersport isnt an ST though is it …..
I didn't say it was?
Relaxing while cruising listening to radio 6
Nothing relaxing about listening to MAH's waffle 😉
I didn’t say it was?
cougar tried to imply it.
I love playing the 0-30 traffic light Grand Prix in my ix3. Not lost one yet 😂
Doesn’t really need one – those that know, know. Those that don’t, just think it’s an A5
But thats a proper penis extension car, lots of power, but not great handling.
I love playing the 0-30 traffic light Grand Prix in my ix3. Not lost one yet 😂
So, the magic numbers then. With just the one 282bhp motor, 0-62mph takes 6.8 seconds. There's none of the whiplash acceleration of the rival leccy-SUVs. The battery is a modest 80kWh gross, 74kWh useable. BMW looks to be dragging its feet badly here.
No doubt 0-30 is a slightly different matter in an EV, but still, my 2.5t diesel Discovery is 6.95s 0-60 😂
But thats a proper penis extension car, lots of power, but not great handling.
True to a certain extent. What it's bulk gives up in nimble handling, the drivetrain makes up for some way in pure grip
It's not even that quick to be fair for 444bhp. Come up against a similar generation M3 though on anything but bone dry roads and it's not even a fair fight
Anyone worrying about folk 'racing' them on the motorway need to be more like Ogmios....
OP what colour is your car? I used to have a Leon FR, it was the older one with the 2.0 Litre petrol so it was pretty quick. It was completely anonymous though probably because it was quite a dull colour a sort of mid metallic blue.
I've got a Focus ST. I test drive a couple and knew I really like them but went out my way to get one in High Impact Boring Ford Blue. There are a couple of ST exclusive colours and red which I avoided. As a result it really doesn't get a lot of attention.
I get it in my car, it's actually quite plain for some reason seems to attract dickheads. Had one on Saturday, some chav in his knob-mobile with windows down and some loud (C)rap music belting out, took off a the traffic lights all revs and belted it down to the next roundabout, then went all the round it and back the way he came from. I assume he actually wanted to turn right but wanted a race first!
It’s a Seat FR, so nothing amazing, but seems to attract other less fast boy racers, especially other Seat owners
So what badge do you have on it?
I’ve had people do that for years, and I’m pretty damned sure that a 51-plate diesel Octavia isn’t the sort of car that entices idiots to ‘race’ me! I’d be happily pootling along, minding my own business at around 74 or 5, which is actually about 70 according to my satnav, someone would come up behind obviously going a bit faster, otherwise they wouldn’t be catching up with me, they’d sit there fairly close for a bit, indicate and pull out and overtake, then pull back in and then slow down, forcing me to lift off and slow down as well. Then they’d speed up a bit, so I’d do the same until there was a reasonable gap, then I’d find the gap closing up because they’re slowing up again.
This has nothing to do with ‘racing’, I think it’s an obnoxious sense of superiority, personally enforcing the speed limit because nobody is allowed to go faster, and they need to be controlled and taught the error of their ways.
There have been comments on here to that end at times as well.
Personally, as far as I’m concerned, they can do one.
Applying Hanlon's Razor, I'm pretty sure that this behaviour is neither racing nor speed limit policing. It's just that there are an awful lot of stupid people in this world and many of them drive cars. Their speed is erratic because they are too stupid to master the operation of their cruise control, in fact most of them don't even know their car is fitted with such a device. They trundle along, blissfully unaware of almost everything around them, and certainly unaware of how much they are annoying others.
Last year someone either tried to race me or just annoy me, I’m not sure which. Overtook, then slowed down to 60 ish with their mate still next to me so I was boxed in.
After a couple of minutes of this their mate also pulled in ahead of me, I hit reset on the cruise control and overtook them and that was that, all very odd.
The rest of the time I’m pretty sure it’s just people not paying attention to maintaining a constant speed and adaptive cruise control probably has a part to play too.
This has nothing to do with ‘racing’, I think it’s an obnoxious sense of superiority, personally enforcing the speed limit because nobody is allowed to go faster, and they need to be controlled and taught the error of their ways.
As the late great George Carlin said: "Anyone driving slower than me is an idiot, and anyone driving faster than me is a maniac."
It’s definitely goading. The car is nothing special but the FR spec for the time / model was the easiest way to get the spec I want.
It’s also not them being bad at managing speed, slowing down to 60 then up to 90 to overtake is not due to inattentive driving.
Also they had a jelly number plate.
If you want to believe that driving a certain model of car makes you somehow special and noticeable and affects other people's behaviour then crack on.
Also they had a jelly number plate
Ah yes, the 3D-throbber plate of choice for BMW drivers round here...
If you want to believe that driving a certain model of car makes you somehow special and noticeable and affects other people’s behaviour then crack on.
But it quite plainly does in some instances. Whether you WANT it to, is more the measure of someone's attitude to driving tbh
Interesting. The make and model of car you drive doesn't make you special, but it does make scotroutes think about your penis.
scotroutes
If you want to believe that driving a certain model of car makes you somehow special and noticeable and affects other people’s behaviour then crack on.
TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR
But it quite plainly does in some instances. Whether you WANT it to, is more the measure of someone’s attitude to driving tbh
+1. I do think that the type of car you drive does affect how other drivers around you behave. Whether it did/does in the OPs case though, I dunno.
My Wife's Ford Ka & our Shitroen C3 Picasso family fun bus being prime examples of cars that people would cut-up left, right & centre as you were clearly just an old dodderer on the way to the bingo hall.
I've never noticed this kind of behaviour , but obviously its a thing, just judging by the number of people on this thread who have also experienced it.
I've got a friend who used to have a golf gti who reckoned it used to happen to him all the time.