I have to admit I’m with Hugor on this one. I’ll quite happily go ‘hell for leather’ on a nice route on my Top Trek 9.7 but on the road it is a different story.
For the past year I have been driving my Insignia. 1.8i 16v VVT, this is more than capable of warding off any other modern top spec car but it doesn’t mean that I have to drive like a lunatic.
The inside lane on the A9 (dual carriageway) is dominated with lorries, which ultimately ruin the condition of the road. The council refuse to keep these roads in a good state of affair, so, why should I damage my car because the road tax which I pay for is not being used in the correct vein.
Also, we are encouraged now to look after the environment, and we, as a nation of intelligent human beings have a responsibility to embrase this. My car is of a very high spec and came equipped with cruise control.
The law states that the speed limit is 70mph. As there is always room for discrepancies to be safe I travel with the cruise control set to 72mph. In my experience the inside lane is very rarely clear so I will use the outside lane. If the police or an emergency service vehicle approaches me from behind then, yes, I will move over as I hope everyone on this forum would.
Some idiot, (I don’t like using that word but this chap really was), undertook me recently, it was totally unprovoked. So I accelerated up to his speed (87mph) and drove inches from his rear bumper with my headlamps on full beam. I was furious. If he had only waited another 5 minutes or so I would have turned off for my junction.
He had absolutely NO patience.