Other drivers treatment of different cars

[Railwayman]

When I drive my sons Picanto or daughters Micra I seem to attract far more morons attached to my boot lid than when in the merc. I can only put it down to a belief I should not be there especially if driven to the speed limit of the road, I ignore them and carry on regardless. A women (with young daughter in school uniform along side her) very recently planted her self 3 feet of my boot waving me to speed up (late for school) was doing 45mph on winding country lane, she attempted an overtake on a semi blind bend and had to slam on and tuck back in on approach of a car. Would appear that getting to school on time was more important than getting there alive.

 

[StephenSJason]

I have a Micra as my daily, yes really. I get nothing but grief in it, I’m like excrement on people’s boots it would seem. I’m tailgated even if I’m tanking it and people want you out of the way; if it could do 140mph it would still be too slow as it’s a Micra, and it surely must going to slow. I guess I have generations of elderly people and Asian families who managed to fit 13 of them in one car to thank for the stereotype.

There are a few nice folk who treat me ok, usually us lot in the “shht car club”, you know, people in Toyota Carina’s, old Civic’s and that.

My C63 is generally painless. In fact I find most people want to get out of my way which is funny as usually I’m the one in the inside lane not gunning it. People tend to like following it and pacing with me and at junctions no one refuses me exit. I find mostly people seem to enjoy the noise it makes whether that’s cruising or a little throttle. It does attract scum though who draw alongside me on a dual carriageway and try to egg me on with a phone recording it.

The one thing I don’t like about it is that some people seem to get wound up with jealousy over it, although this is generally over the internet. The usual comments come flying in trying to belittle ownership, usually from someone who lusts for one but cannot aspire to own, despite good 204’s being vastly cheaper than a BMW 140i for example. Whether people like MB or not, it’s fair to say most people wouldn’t mind one of the later AMG’s. I watched a YouTube dash cam video of a C63 on one of those compilations of bad driving recently. The C63 owner was in the wrong, made a quick cut across but nothing horrific yet the comments about it were all about “daddy’s car”, “only 460hp out of a 6.2l, how poor is that”, “my diesel would beat that”, “I never liked these cars, no point in them”, “must be on lease” and “only council estates chavs buy them”. What a bunch of pricks. It’s not MB or C63 specific though, M3’s and all prestige go through it too.

 

[snipez999]

That tends to attract the slow to react people who don’t take into account that you may have cut across, but did so with timing and placement that meant they did not have to alter speed or direction to compensate. The kind who will flash or toot you five seconds later like you’ve been in a time warp or something!

 

[E55BOF]

E63S - you are just another tw@ in a Merc because I don’t know the difference betwee....aaaaagh my ears are about to explode......dive, dive, dive!! Followed by a swift swerve out of my way

I know what you mean; give it just a touch of throttle and it wakes up and growls a touch; it sounds like a seriously powerful car, not a Corsa with a £49.99 eBay 'sports' dustbin exhaust.

That tends to attract the slow to react people who don’t take into account that you may have cut across, but did so with timing and placement that meant they did not have to alter speed or direction to compensate. The kind who will flash or toot you five seconds later like you’ve been in a time warp or something!

There's a lot of that about too; what they're really saying, without realising it, is that their car's performance and/or their driving ability means that it would be unsafe for them to do it, so it must be unsafe for you too.

Sometimes they're right, of course; the trick is to know when it's unsafe for you, and not do it...

 

[219]

Whether people like MB or not, it’s fair to say most people wouldn’t mind one of the later AMG’s.

While I fully respect your choice of car , and admire your enthusiasm ; it is also fair to say that I , at least , am not 'most people' and have no ambition to have such a car , much preferring the ones I do have .

I'd go so far as to say that most members of public ( most people ) who have little or no interest in cars , wouldn't differentiate between one model and the next .

 

[zipdip]

While I fully respect your choice of car , and admire your enthusiasm ; it is also fair to say that I , at least , am not 'most people' and have no ambition to have such a car , much preferring the ones I do have .

I'd go so far as to say that most members of public ( most people ) who have little or no interest in cars , wouldn't differentiate between one model and the next .

Derek sort the print out I had to get the glasses to read it

 

[Alex225]

I've found since driving silver saloon cars that you get bullied out of the way on less occasions than any of the hot hatches I've owned. I used to have a tweaked Clio 172 and people always used to cut you up, either no noticing to just barging a smaller car out of the way. Happens an awful lot less in my E Class. Not sure if it has more presence or it's just a bigger car and people take it more seriously, no idea.

I have noticed on a couple of occasions people taking issue with the other half's CLS and not sure if that's because it looks more fancy. Had a very strange reaction from a chap in a Hyundai SUV thing. Had sat behind me at a normal distance along a dual carriageway and then goes to my right at a set of traffic lights. Anyway, I pulled away more quickly not full on drag race but it's a 3.0 diesel auto so it gets moving easily. Obviously this chap didn't so further up the road, takes a run up in an attempt to overtake but doesn't and then starts aggressively flashing and gesturing. I had my 60 year old mum in the car so wasn't driving like a tool (trust me, she'd have told me if I was) so I can only assume his back went up because of it being either a quicker or nice looking car.

People definitely do treat cars differently though, subconscious or not I don't know but it definitely happens.