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difference in driving attitudes
disco maniac:
i usually drive either my disco or the wifes clio, whilst the disco has a few off road mods the clio is a nice standard diesel, and occasionally you meet the odd muppet who has no road manners and think they own the road.
now heres the thing................i used my sons corsa, which has a few street mods (stop laughing, this is serious) but not the silly exhaust.
almost without exception everyone on the road decided to test my driving skills and my patients. why ???? now bear in mind i drive an arctic and ride my suzuki, i have a fair amount of road experience and have seen alot of muppets on the road.
but so many in such a short space of time.
Taylor:
i drive a cliosport mate, its got a loud exhaust but its purely performance related, people are constantly cutting me up, sitting up my arse and genrally being twattish, unfortunately thats just the way it is
lambert:
because the public hate boyracers even more than they do offroaders so give no quarter as a result?
thermidorthelobster:
Funny isn't it. I get cut up a lot more in Abby's Rover than I do in the Disco. However, I get more road rage from other people in the Disco; I think men in particular find it a bit threatening because it's big.
When I had the Range Rover I got respect from everybody. People would let you in to a queue, not get shirty if you nipped in front of them, etc. They may well have been muttering under their breath but I never got attitude.
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
Jealousy perhaps? They see 4x4s as something to which they aspire and without being too 'gender specific' (just come back from annual brainwashing session) boyracers as something they would like to have done in the past and missed the chance.
Also stereotyping has a lot to do with it.
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