[Closed] I don't give way to BMW's...shame me!

Was waiting at a small roundabout in rush hour last night behind a small red Toyota Starlet. 5 mins go by. I watched at least 20 cars exit (allowing ample time for Starlet to progress). But no. I put the radio on. Listened to some music for a while. Finally, after the whole of 'Can't Be Sure' by The Sundays, and once the roundabout was momentarily completely clear of all approaching traffic, the driver deemed it safe to move on.

I (stupidly) followed behind (at some distance I might add) as was taking the same exit. Starlet heads up the hill. Wide road, no parked cars. Every time a car approached on the other side the Starlet dabbed the brakes. Every time a bend in the road appeared - brakes. Here comes a railway bridge ahead. Brakes. We get to a busy-ish T-junction. At this point I'm thinking of winding the seat back and taking a nap. I wondered if Harriet Wheeler was still doing anything muscial these days. Then, without warning, this most timid of drivers lurches out of the junction causing an approaching car on the main road to perform an emergency-brake.

I shook my head slowly and reached for a Ricola. Wondering if it was her elderly son that once T-boned my old Scirocco in a similar manoeuvre not a million miles from there.

chestercopperpot - Member
When you buy German you have privileged access to roads. It's about time the jealous peasants understood this.

That may have once been true but now certain brands have been diluted by making FWD shopping carts. 🙁

chestercopperpot - Member
When you buy German you have privileged access to roads. It's about time the jealous peasants understood this.
That may have once been true but now certain brands have been diluted by making FWD shopping carts.

I would second that regarding the series 2 ..dull!
On the other side of the coin I've mate with a 4.8L v8 X5 who is the most laid back driver I know ..
I could just sit and listen to that engine burbling all day

Beemer driver here 2wd variety RWD.

Sometimes I don't indicate just to reinforce the stereotype. 😀

I also choose not to bother to indicate when I'm going around or pulling into the lane of a middle lane hogger knob. They don't deserve courtesy

I have to wait for up to 30 seconds for them to to come through on my side of the road ..they then have the temerity to wave at me !!
Oooh it makes my blood boil...

Bastards! Sucking away your life in 30 second increments 🙂

cycle commuting .. showed me was that BMW/ Audi/ white van man will drive aggressively, ..if there is a traffic island in middle of the road, they will actively accelerate and try to beat you to the gap.

That's relatively courteous, I don't mind that as much as the ones (can I add big double cab pickups to the list please for this one?) who aren't bothered about getting in before the island and will happily just squeeze past alongside the island and force you into the kerb.

In a place with very little traffic on the roads, if you are getting 10+ cars bottled up behind you, you are doing something wrong.

Yes, I agree - BUT

If you're an old guy living out in the sticks, and you depend on your car to get to the shops or visit family etc, but you aren't a very confident driver any more, shouldn't you still be allowed to make your way around at what is still over 60% of the speed limit anyway if it makes you safer and more relaxed?

I don't mind people driving slowly, but what they should do (and be aware of the need to do so) is pull the **** over occasionally.

I knew you would understand Funkmasterp... 😆

shouldn't you still be allowed to make your way around at what is still over 60% of the speed limit anyway if it makes you safer and more relaxed?

No.

the ones... who aren't bothered about getting in before the island and will happily just squeeze past alongside the island and force you into the kerb.

Take the primary when coming up to traffic islands.

I don't mind people driving slowly, but what they should do (and be aware of the need to do so) is pull the **** over occasionally.

Why? Does it wind you up? It's a maximum speed limit, not a target. If you think like this, you've got an attitude problem.

See what I did there?

Anyway, I have both a rwd BMW and a Touareg SUV. Bow to me peasants, bow.

My BMW has an M Sport sterring wheel & cost less than my MTB, i'd rather commute by my fixed wheel though - which cost less then the car.

I don't give way to taxi drivers, bunch of berkshires. Forum taxi drivers excluded of course!

Why? Does it wind you up? It's a maximum speed limit, not a target. If you think like this, you've got an attitude problem.

If you don't drive to the speed limit, conditions permitting, you'll fail a driving test.

If you want to bimble along at half the speed limit, what are you losing by letting people past occasionally?

My BMW has an M Sport sterring wheel

Cougar, aimed at this:

molgrips - Member

with nothing better to do than trundle around at 35-40mph ruining everyone elses day.

If that ruins your day, you have an attitude problem.

I may have snipped a little bit of the end of the post, but that's just to make me look better. I'm allowed. one of my cars has 6 cylinders and the other has 2 turbos. That make me better than my fellow man.

Why? Does it wind you up?

Ignorance of the effect of your actions on other people - that's what winds me up.

But what if he's watching you get steadily wound up. He's then not ignorant, just a git so that makes it ok surely?

tinybits - Member

one of my cars has [s]6[/s] not enough cylinders and the other [s]has 2 turbos[/s] is a tractor. That makes me [s]better than my fellow man[/s] sad.

V8 FTW. 🙂

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yeah but no but but but it's LED headlights and everfink.

OK, it's a bloody tractor, it's also a 1 series. I'm a little embarrassed whenever I drive it (its BMW ****er blue), but it ticked the right boxes and it was cheap.

I don't even drive, gave it up.
I just waft about on a cloud of eco-smug.

Ah, lowest life form. A walker. Even cyclist hate you!

Yup this is all BMW drivers, including me. We don't car about anyone else, don't use indicators, pull out on people and generally don't give a shit..

Oh wait... Nope that's just every single driver ever! 😆

BTW I have a theory about BMW indicators, they turn off too soon. I've driven a lot of cars and BMW indicators turn off too soon: Indicate to go right round the round-a-bout, you have to turn slightly to the left on the approach... Indicator turns off. As said I don't car anymore, I drive a BMW. 😉 Why cos I'm cool as **** 8)

tinybits - Member

Ah, lowest life form. A walker. Even cyclist hate you!

Walk?
In this weather?
I'm chauffeured from pub to pub.

Indicate to go right round the round-a-bout, you have to turn slightly to the left on the approach... Indicator turns off.

My car does this too. Pro tip - you can use the indicator again by moving it up or down 😉

My car does this too. Pro tip - you can use the indicator again by moving it up or down

I don't give way to BMW's...shame me!

I don’t use an apostrophe to pluralise an abbreviation;).

airtragic - Member

I don't give way to BMW's...shame me!

I don’t use an apostrophe to pluralise an abbreviation;).

Well spotted, never knew that! 🙂

Anyway..... on way home today find myself on the road that always always has issues.... a slow uphill section merging 2 lanes into one.

A car shoots up the outside lane to escape some of the jam and then proceeds to attempt to cut in a few cars ahead of me.

No indicators (only indication is pulling the car to a hard left) and managed to get in next to a moped rider who had little choice in the matter. :).

I wont comment on the make of car. 😉

A car shoots up the outside lane

Why do you think there are 2 lanes there?

I think I need to own up to accidently executing the biggest knobber Beamer driver manoeuvre ever.

Driving my 3 day old 5 series Estate. 3 lane road, 2 in my direction, 1 oncoming lane and the middle lane was a bit narrow. It was a 40MPH limit with the left lane travelling at 30 so I pull into the middle. Passing the traffic nicely when a huge lorry comes the other way and is a significant way into the middle lane. Not being 100% confident in the width of my new car I pull across into the gap to my left - immediately behind the hearse and in front of the lead car in the funeral procession. Once the lorry has passed the road reduces to 2 lanes and I am stuck there.

I can't imagine what a **** I must have looked to everyone around me. The optional extra I should have specced was a seat I could sink right into so no one could see me.

Achem’

What about Clio’s driven by young male drivers?

I’d call them cockwombles, sadly they probably don’t own the first four letters of that word. 🙄

Tailgating me doing 40 in a 40 will only induce me to decrease speed until you back off, yip.. you can go apoplectic all you like sunshine..

Have a nice evening.

That may have once been true but now certain brands have been diluted by making FWD shopping carts.

Yup the Kev's, Dave's, Gary and Bazza's ruin it for everyone, with arrogance only matched by their chimp like stupidity. Still they are easily trained and exploited 😆

Jesus H Christ there are some people with problems on this thread . I drive my car to get from a to b as safely as possible . I let people out if it doesn't cost me much time and obey speed limits so I guess that I have nothing to add to the thread . I can however outdo the OP for being petty . When out on my bike I always acknowledge other cyclists but I totally blank people on E-bikes .

When out on my bike I always acknowledge other cyclists but I totally blank people on E-bikes

I sometimes don't spot they're on e-bikes until after I give them a friendly nod, then I have to take it back by following them for 5 minutes* screaming abuse.

*I can only manage 5 minutes, they're usually dropping me by then.

I drive and I don’t mind who I let out, I’m gracious/kind and don’t give a shite about being cut up as long as it’s not dangerous or makes me slam brakes.

It’s a car and a road ffs. Just get a life you miserable baskets!

Frankenstein - Member

Just get a life you miserable baskets!

Reported for evading the swear filter.

Always love this line. A car is a tool, like a hammer or screwdriver, for doing a specific, really boring job

Yep, and just like a hammer or a screwdriver some are much nicer to use than others, same as bikes. These days you can have the nicer version for the same price as the not so nice version so which hammer do you spend your money on?

Just off to read the thread about the £4000 bill to fix an old shitbox.

Yep, and just like a hammer or a screwdriver some are much nicer to use than others, same as bikes. These days you can have the nicer version for the same price as the not so nice version so which hammer do you spend your money on?

Err.......apart from the fact that hammers don’t need insurance, tyres, fuel etc. So I’d go for the one that costs the least to run. Plus if a bikes just a tool to you surely you’re on the wrong forum? Bikes are great. I’ve never actually looked at the price of a hammer. It’s primary function is for hitting stuff so, as with a car, I don’t rightly care what it looks like or how nice it is.

Just off to read the thread about the £4000 bill to fix an old shitbox

That’s more than I paid for my last two cars 😯

This is just getting weird now. I’m off to google hammer reviews.

Driving a fair distance a year for work I can reliably confirm that some people who drive cars are ****s and behave accordingly.

I didn't drive today so all was good in my world. 😀

I drove today, nothing happened out of the ordinary. Drivers stopped for traffic lights, pedestrian crossings, entered and exited junctions in controlled and considered manner and some used indicators (most of them) and no one along my journey seemed at face value to break the speed limits.

Lovely.

Best active start to a lesson.

People judging others for the type of vehicle they drive when people rightly get pissed of when people on bikes get similar prejudice.

Anyone else feeling the hypocrisy here - or is it just me...?

Err.......apart from the fact that hammers don’t need insurance, tyres, fuel etc. So I’d go for the one that costs the least to run. Plus if a bikes just a tool to you surely you’re on the wrong forum? Bikes are great. I’ve never actually looked at the price of a hammer. It’s primary function is for hitting stuff so, as with a car, I don’t rightly care what it looks like or how nice it is.

You do realise the tyres, insurance and fuel cost of any new car does not necessarily have to be more expensive than an equivalent shitbox? In fact, newer cars are often more fuel efficient, come with four new tyres and have safety features that bring the insurance down. Tax is usually cheaper too and tyres are tyres.

I’d imagine the majority of people on here can appreciate the benefit of a reasonable tool box rather that a Wilco’s special. Remind me not to ask you to do any diy for me.

If you are happy running old cars then good for you. Some of us prefer something a bit nicer that should require less maintenance.