Bad parenting confession time: My nine-year-old son has picked up my habit of yelling “If you can’t park it, don’t drive it!” This isn’t just an SUV problem, we also see land-yacht style sedans, oversized station wagons, and the odd minivan with parking lot issues. At least they seem to smart to try to parallel park those puppies.:eek:
How has this thread lasted this long without a mention of the Ford Explorer, Expedition, and Excursion, the worst automobiles ever produced by an American company, and the idoits who drive them.
Audis I used to think Beemers were the car of choice for the idiot who overtakes on the inside lane, breaks the speed limit regularly and won’t let you out of an awkward spot in traffic or thank you for doing the same but no, its Audi drivers. Gits.
Rovers In the UK they are almost always driven by the elderly or deluded 30 something couples who actually think its a cheap alternative to a Merc or BMW. Its not, its just cheap OK.
Puskin – Beemer is the word of choice for the idiot who knows nothing about cars. It’s BIMMER.
Also, Audis rule all other cars, and Audi owners are naturally superior, so get out of the way you human detritus. 
My wife and I have noticed that at the head of every traffic jam is a Toyota Corolla: Officical vehicle of the anti-destination league
Grrr… I got stuck behind one of these yesterday at a red light. :mad: It was an Oldsmobile or a Buick, IIRC. The driver was barely able to see over the wheel (couldn’t tell if it was a man or woman). My experience has taught me that I knew for sure I was in trouble, and unfortunately there was only one lane in my direction so there was no way I could get around them[sup]*[/sup]. Light changes green, and much to my surprise they actually proceeded within two seconds of the light change. My joy of having my long-held prejudice against such drivers broken was short-lived when they slowed way down for no known reason, no turn signal, nothing to indicate their intentions. Of course I’m highly irritated by all of this but I still manage to keep my blood pressure level within three digits. Then they pull off to the shoulder, apparently lost or confused. I take this opportunity to get the hell around them. As I looked in my rearview mirror they pulled back onto the street, likely pissing off the people who were still stuck behind them. My prejudice against old people who drive Buick-style cars lives on.
[sup]*[/sup]I use “them” and “they” here as English, unfotunately, sorely lacks a generic singular pronoun to denote a person of unknown or unspecified gender.
I have to agree on the BMW thing. I like the car, but I won’t buy one because of the negative stereotype.
I also hate white vans, they scare me. My one and only accident was with an unlicensed (taken away) white van driver who ran a stop sign and then left the scene. Although the idiot got out of the car first (wearing a name tag) and gave me plenty of time to memorize the license plate. Since then I always get away from them.
I bought my Subaru because not many other people drive them around here (Legacy, not Outback). That also has the benefit of not having a negative stereotype.
All red pickup trucks are driven by assholes. (No scientific proof, but just check it out the next time you’re driving.)
The ONLY vehicles to ever pass me on a two-lane (one each way) road with a double yellow have been SUVs and a rich bitch in a Lexus (she passed me on the left over a double yellow while speeding through a school zone - WHERE are the cops when you need them?!).
People riding behind the steering wheel of RAV4s are blind. They usually attempt to change into my lane while I pass them.
People in rice rockets have parents who will give them $40,000 a year to spend on their car, but won’t check to make sure their son or daughter actually has a license.
People in Trucks with 4 back wheels never actually go off the highway.
People in SUVs will end up in the ditch as soon as it snows.
Here in LA, we have something called “Diamond lanes” (carpool lanes). Essentially, if you have two or more people in your car with you, you get to enter the freeway and drive in a special lane… and since NO ONE in LA carpools, these lanes are always wiiiiiide open - but - if you’re NOT carpooling and you get caught driving in one, you pay a nice, big, hefty fine…
…anyway…
Like everyone else in this city, I don’t carpool; so I get to sit and wait in the non-carpooling lane with everyone else. As I ever-so-slowly inch my way closer and closer up the freeway on-ramp, I like to pass the time by looking over and watching the few lucky car-poolers that get to whiz by me in the open lane…
…and do you know what I’ve noticed???
95% of all the cars in the carpool lane aren’t carpooling at all!!! It’s just one guy, in his own little self-important world, chatting away on his cell phone and BREAKING THE LAW!
And you know what else I’ve noticed???
100% of these inconsiderate, non-car-poolers are driving, you guessed it… BMW’s, Mercedes, Jaguars, Lexus’s or any other of those luxury car that’s out there!!!
So, the stereotype holds up once again. These rich, snobby, impatient a-holes are just waaaaay too important to follow the rules and wait in line with rest of us scum!!! :wally
As a bicycle rider I go by the assumption that all drivers are jerks. However, BMW and Mercedes are definitely worse than average. Just last night a Mercedes overtook me with literally one inch to spare. And one time a BMW forcibly tried to overtake me and almost run me off the road. The traffic was heavy so I was keeping up with the car in front of me and there was no room in between for another car, but he just pulled up beside me and edged towards me. When I yelled at him to complain, he demonstrated his ignorance of traffic laws by telling me that bicycles belong on the sidewalk.
Yakuza cars (white Japanese luxury sedans) and construction vehicles (cranes and dump trucks) are also awful. I had a construction crane use a loudspeaker to tell me to get out of his way.
I’m suprised no luxery car, rice rocket or camero owners have come in here to defend their honor 