# Rudest car on the road! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 13, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947 "2010-12-13T02:29:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![misterkrc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@misterkrc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misterkrc)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/1 "2010-12-13T02:29:58Z")
Where I live, the rudest car on the road is the Chevy Suburban… It seems like they never signal, always speed, and cut in front of you with no room to spare… pretty much can’t see anything when one is front of you. They’re everywhere. How rude! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/2 "2010-12-13T02:32:34Z")
Think how bad it would be if there was someone inside. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/3 "2010-12-13T02:58:11Z")
Hoping for pics of a vehicle that resembled genitals of one form or another; bitterly disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/4 "2010-12-13T03:08:59Z")
My first thought was ‘bikes with loud pipes’, but of course those aren’t cars. So I’ll have to say, ‘Cars with loud pipes’. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/5 "2010-12-13T03:09:02Z")
where I live, it’s pretty much any Mercedes or BMW… well, anything. ---
**Author:** ![Shmendrik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/6 "2010-12-13T03:21:07Z")
I love the smell of confirmation bias in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/7 "2010-12-13T03:25:25Z")
> [@Shmendrik](#): > > I love the smell of confirmation bias in the morning. no, that was me. I had cabbage for dinner. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/8 "2010-12-13T03:28:17Z")
Aaaand UB continues to wow and amaze with vehicles that continue to draw the wrath of the Dope. (Avalanche, which is a suburban with a notch cut out of it. In my defense, I’ve had the Bike a week and it came with the loud pipes. ) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/9 "2010-12-13T04:02:42Z")
exotic cars, expensive SUVs, many cheap SUVs, definitely Mercedes, most audis, pretty much any vehicle that costs over $50K. Definitely cars and SUVs that cost over $100 000. Just today had a mercedes SUV crawl up my ass on a 2 lane non-highway that I was doing the speed limit on in heavy rain, blare their horn, flash their lights and decide to finally pass us on an uphill no passing zone and scream in just barely in front of us as another car was oncoming, and almost forcing me into the ditch. So they could make a left turn about 300 yards ahead. I seriously hope that they wrap the damned thing around a tree after accidently letting their damned insurance lapse with a high alcohol reading in their bloodstream. Let them get dragged off to jail and not get compensated for their penis surrogate. ---
**Author:** ![Tracyfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@Tracyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracyfish)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/10 "2010-12-13T04:17:21Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > My first thought was ‘bikes with loud pipes’, but of course those aren’t cars. So I’ll have to say, ‘Cars with loud pipes’. [Woo woo!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_JtoW7GrdY) ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/11 "2010-12-13T04:35:11Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > Hoping for pics of a vehicle that resembled genitals of one form or another; bitterly disappointed. Like this? NSFW!! [http://pictures.todocoleccion.net/fot/2007/10/25/6247333\_1318165.jpg](http://pictures.todocoleccion.net/fot/2007/10/25/6247333_1318165.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/12 "2010-12-13T04:41:32Z")
> [@misterkrc](#): > > Where I live, the rudest car on the road is the Chevy Suburban… It seems like they never signal, always speed, and cut in front of you with no room to spare… pretty much can’t see anything when one is front of you. They’re everywhere. How rude! Hey no, just a minute. My dad drive a Tahoe…you nailed it. My pet peeve is Illinois drivers. It seems like every time I put on my blinker to change lanes just to have someone race up next to me or not let me in when I try to merge, they have Illinois plates. (Confirmation bias, I’m sure). I never understood that mentality. Why do that? It drives me even more nuts when they attempt it, but if I move over fast enough they back way off. It’s not even that they were in a hurry, just didn’t want someone in front of them. For a few years, I stopped using my blinker to change lanes when I was in Illinois just so people wouldn’t do that. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Surb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@The\_Surb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Surb)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/13 "2010-12-13T04:46:32Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Hey no, just a minute. My dad drive a Tahoe…you nailed it. > > My pet peeve is Illinois drivers. It seems like every time I put on my blinker to change lanes just to have someone race up next to me or not let me in when I try to merge, they have Illinois plates. (Confirmation bias, I’m sure). I never understood that mentality. Why do that? It drives me even more nuts when they attempt it, but if I move over fast enough they back way off. It’s not even that they were in a hurry, just didn’t want someone in front of them. For a few years, I stopped using my blinker to change lanes when I was in Illinois just so people wouldn’t do that. In Indiana, we called them FIP’s. ---
**Author:** ![Cammacdon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Cammacdon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cammacdon)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/14 "2010-12-13T04:55:39Z")
Any car with those bright white headlights that burn my eyes into cinders. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/15 "2010-12-13T05:17:42Z")
> [@The\_Surb](#): > > In Indiana, we called them FIP’s. We call the FIBs ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/16 "2010-12-13T05:45:04Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > My pet peeve is Illinois drivers. It seems like every time I put on my blinker to change lanes just to have someone race up next to me or not let me in when I try to merge, they have Illinois plates. Then drive like you’re from Boston and start merging first and THEN put on your turn signal. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/17 "2010-12-13T06:50:52Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > Like this? NSFW!! > > [http://pictures.todocoleccion.net/fot/2007/10/25/6247333\_1318165.jpg](http://pictures.todocoleccion.net/fot/2007/10/25/6247333_1318165.jpg) That mitigates the situation somewhat – thanks. ---
**Author:** ![JuliaSqueezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@JuliaSqueezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuliaSqueezer)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/18 "2010-12-13T15:23:20Z")
In the Midwest, when it’s foggy, rainy or snowy, there is a rule in place dictating that silver and grey cars will not, EVER, turn on their headlights during the day. Like Marisa Tomei told Cousin Vinny, “Yeah, you _blend_.” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/19 "2010-12-13T15:33:08Z")
> [@JuliaSqueezer](#): > > In the Midwest, when it’s foggy, rainy or snowy, there is a rule in place dictating that silver and grey cars will not, EVER, turn on their headlights during the day. Like Marisa Tomei told Cousin Vinny, “Yeah, you _blend_.” That’s _everywhere._ ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947/20 "2010-12-13T15:37:12Z")
In Northern Virginia, it’s the Black Saab. There are very few of them, but they are all NY or Jersey boys, who think their Yankee status somehow qualifies them to drive like complete @$$#0!3$ bcause they are “better” drivers. Yes I have discussed it with a few of them, and yes, they all openly admitted (they were bragging, actually) this mindset. Thank you for letting me get that off my chest! 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudest-car-on-the-road/563947.md?page=2)