Wait, 110 miles per hour? I don’t think I’ve ever driven the Corolla that fast - I think the fastest we’ve had it going was around 90 mph, and it wasn’t straining at that speed. It goes 110 kph all the time. 
Take off you hoser’
Dude, c’mon, you can’t be serious, you drive a Gen I MR2. 
I’ll be in the the lookout for ya! 
Your Corolla’s speedometer goes to 110?
Heh…now I’m gonna start bragging about how my ancient buggy can do 180 without breaking a sweat.
You need to adjust your color space on your monitor so the red comes out more. Then it looks really fast.
Tell me about this shit. I was driving into Tokyo today doing a leisure 90 (unfortunately kph) on the express road, which has a limit of 60! kph (about 40 mph, if anything that slow can be called “express”) slowly closing in on the car ahead of me, about 100 meters ahead. The other lane is packed so nowhere to go and a fucking semi runs right up my ass. WTF?
I could gun it and race up to the next car but for what? It will take me 30 seconds to close the distance anyway, and that car is stuck behind someone else.
Asshole.
Works fine on every stick I’ve ever driven.
Niiiice car! Shame about the dick.
That’s the most annoying traffic situation for me, too. If there is actually space in front of me I can pull over, or go faster, or…just stay at the same speed and screw the tailgater. Even if I do that, it’s still safer than being tailgated when there’s already someone in front of you!
They also nearly always tailgate when there isn’t space to move over to the right, not that I would do that if there is a car in front of me, since it’s my turn to pass that car next. If there IS room to the right the tailgater would have taken it already and tried to pass me on the right, but that will cause me to speed up since I already have all the space I want, no sense in slowing down even more to accomodate yet another person in the queue.
Well, that didn’t take long…
Don’t look like much? How about an estimate for $5,329? They don’t cost much, maybe $2000-$4,000. But you gotta find 'em. Keep in mind, this is a mid-engine car. So that louvered panel that the trunk lid has been pushed up and over? Yeah, that’s what pops up so you can get to the engine and do wacky stuff like oil changes.
And of course it was hit by a 2002 Pathfinder. I’ll be getting another one just as soon as I can find one that’s halfway presentable. And I’ll be adding the .50 cal taillight mod. Hell, maybe the whole Spyhunter package!
Goddammit.
I’ve got trailer brake controllers in both the cages, so I can flash my brake lights without actually applying any brakes. As others have noted, it typically has zero effect.
It could be worse, OP, you could be on a motorcycle. For some reason swerving (within the lane) from side to side seems to make them back off like nothing else.
I can’t do that on the sidecar rig though. It is a magnet for tailgators. With Russian drum brakes I NEVER follow too close, and those yellow advisory speed signs are pretty much the limit of what will allow me to keep it rubber side down on the curves…and I can do every bit of 65 MPH on the straights assuming no hill or headwind.
If there is oncoming traffic, I’ll pull off to let them pass, but very often they refuse to pass when there is ample opportunity to do so.
The only episode of ChiPs I remember seeing starred Larry Linville as a driver who had a neck brace on because he had been rear-ended. He had his car fitted with a metal plate at the back that he could lower so that it would send up a shower of sparks behind him.
Always thought that was a good idea…
Time to go trolling for ambulance chasers, dude.
Oh man, that sucks!
I’ve often wanted to rig my truck to dispense rocks or tar blobs to people that follow me so close on the highway that I can’t even see the hood of their car, much less their headlights. As **Kevbo ** mentioned, I can at least try to shake them off by flicking the trailer brake controller.
It’s a big red pickup truck, almost as bright red as your MR2 - perhaps people think it’s actually a fire truck and I’ve got some sort of mythical right-of-way, so they’ll get there faster if they stick behind me? My brother in-law is a fire marshall - I should see if he can get me a couple of those KEEP BACK 200 FEET decals.
Sorry to see such a beautiful car so damage. But I have a mantra: “I am not in a hurry to get myself killed.” If someone’s tailgating you, let them pass. It’s better to be ‘Inigo Montoya who is late’ than ‘the late Inigo Montoya’. And really, how much time do you actually lose?
OK but. I was behind a slow moving car and was being tail-gated. As per my policy, I pulled over and let her tailgate the slow mover in front. Who promptly panicked and swerved into my lane. Girl Mullet driving luverly early model red Commodore (mmmmm mmmmm) sodded off up the freeway not giving a shit that she almost took two people out. The only satisfaction I get out of these situations is seeing them pass the exit to my nice suburb and knowing that the next exit is the outer burbs where with any luck, she’ll kill one of her own kind.
Ahh, Tailgaters.
I only hope that none of them die for another 3/4 months, as by then I have been assured that the special section of hell that I have designed and set aside for them will be completed.
A friend of mine had a Peugot 306 that had an very handy mechanical flaw that helped in these cases. Basically while driving, he was able to ease the car into/towards reverse gear. Now the gear wasnt selected (good job at 60mph), but the reversing lights did come on…
I always wondered what the bastards thought when the car in front they were trying to mount suddenly appeared to reverse back at them???
My Corollla’s speedometer goes to 130. I’ve never driven it anywhere near that fast though.
Glass Coke bottles work better. They’re heavier, cause more damage on impact and if you are ever stopped for some reason, the cop won’t give you grief over a Coke bottle like s/he will over a beer bottle in your car.
What do you mean, how would I know about the damage caused?
Make sure you get the oil slick option installed. That was always the most useful one.