Which car are you MOST likely to see rammed up your exhaust pipe on a Motorway?

[longbow360]

i'm gonna have to go slightly left-field and say a citroen Picasso. More than any other car, and apologies if you own one, this is the one I find to be driven most badly, most speedily and most aggressively.

Perhaps there is a sense of low esteem that has to be overcome - "I may be driving an MPV, but my soul has not given in yet".

I personally quite like them, cause they are cheap and you get alot of car for your money, and if I can drive them near half as fast as those that I have encountered, then i'd have bought the buy of the century

[DanceswithUnix]

I agree with the second half of the quoted bit of what you said. I'm not a traffic cop and what speed someone else wants to do isn't my problem. And, moreover, if they're in that much of a hurry, I'm safer with them in front than behind me. Generally, changing lanes has a risk, simply because it's not quite as easy to see other cars when they're behind and offset, and because you might have missed one, and because someone might have accelerated just after you took your last glance, or the impatient one behind you decides to undertake just as you pull in to let him past, and so on. The risk increases, but that's not to say it's either a huge risk or hugely increased. But nonetheless, it is generally higher than staying in your current lane. And that risk increases, obviously, the busier the road is and the faster and closer together traffic is, and the smaller the gaps between vehicles are.

I think these are all issues with overtaking at tiny relative speeds. People sitting in the blind spot and not actually bothering to overtake is the extreme case, they should either pull back in or get on with it.

When traffic is slow & dense, well hey some people are just impatient idiots and nothing will ever change them. Don't really see how you could increase the relative speeds and make things safer though.

As for the original question, I agree it is generally German cars that are the worst, but I believe there is a pecking order:

VW, Audi, BMW, Merc

So a VW will get out of the way if a BMW comes behind them, a Merc shifts for no-one. Oddly, Skodas seem to have opted out of the list, presumably as the drivers actually bought a car rather than a brand name

[Phillikon]

It always seems to be pseudo sports cars driven by wannabe Range Rover or Merc drivers.
You know the Mondeo sport driver who seems to think his cars fast because it has an “S” badge emblazoned on the boot.

[KiMi-Tech]

I always find it's middle of the road rep-mobiles that obviously have little else to do.

[Zak33]

cor....this thread is popular

[Mblaster]

If we are going to ask those sort of questions, here's one:

What car is the one at the traffic lights in front of you with its brake lights glaring into your face all the time? It's not a big deal if it's a short stop at the lights, but if you are stuck in a long jam at night behind one of those it can get to be quite a pain!

The answer is - Mercedes. Most of them being automatic and all.

Rant over.

Yeah, it's always the automatics, don't really mind it when stationary, but then when they keep the brake on while moving slowly is just odd. I always think 'wtf? oh automatic...'.

[gobbo]

From what i've seen, any car with a TDi badge on the back, normally Passat/Jetta/Golf/A4

Most company reps seem to think these things are super cars and as such drive at full throttle all the time.

[wazi]

astra or corsa with the standard w#nker light fitment

[LWA]

It seems to me that, any vehicle that has lights that appear to be at full beam all the time (i.e. constantly blinding you) will generally be rammed up my exhaust pipe

[tiggerai]

A white van at close proximity usually. If this morning's episode is anything to go by...

I can go round roundabouts faster than him though... HA, that showed him.

[menthel]

Not the Focus Zetec 1.6 they have given me whilst mine is being repaired. It won't go fast enough to get onto someones bumper!

[Phillikon]

The good thing about these idiots driving so close behind you, is when you really brake hard they are close enough so that you can see the stupid expression on their face change to one of complete horror as they realise they are too far up your A*** to stop
Cracks me up every time.

[Ruggerbugger]

It was something with PMS in an MX5 on my way back from Autosport on Saturday. Driving slow enough until I passed her, when it was wooosh and past again. Repeat ad nauseum...

[ear-lution]

What Make and Shape of car are you most likely to see RAMMED in your slipstream, so close you can see their tax disk date?

lol - BMW 3 series drivers are pretty bad, them and the Golfers

[Phillikon]

OK along the same lines I have a rant, what is it with those people that seem to think just because the international weather person has said there will be fog somewhere on planet earth, they immediately put on every fog light their car has to offer, not caring about blinding the person behind them and in contradiction to the fact they themselves have good visability.

I really hate these morons!

[Betty_Swallocks]

I agree. And they keep them on for the next 3 days too.
I really don't see why foglights shouldn't be connected via a relay so that they revert to being off when the lights are turned off.