Are you crazy? Everybody knows it’s those assholes on the green plastic motorcycles. Not only do they scream in front of you at 90 MPH weaving in and out of traffic, but you ALSO have to see their ass cracks. At least you never have to look at the crack of that Hummer guy’s ass.
Coming back from Maryland last week I saw a Green Plastic Motorcycle Douchebag weaving in and out of traffic on 95 going 70… resting his feet by dangling them an inch from the road. The road that was going by at more than 70 miles per hour. What kind of asshole wants me to start the last day of my vacation off by watching his feet get ripped off?
The new ones perhaps but 30-year-old VWs have been known to be capable of putting several hundred thousand miles on the odometer with just routine mainentance.
Really, don’t ever get stuck behind a Buick driver. That, and drivers with hats. The worst, though, are Buick drivers with hats. If they also have a handicapped license plate or mirror hang tag, it’s the slow driver trifecta; you’re better off just getting out of your car and walking. Seriously, Buick drivers seem to pilot their Regals, Lucernes and Lacrosses at far lower speeds than their Rascal scooters, probably so they “don’t wear the car out” or “to save the higher speeds for really special occasions.”
Saturns. The most inattentive spaced out drivers on the road. If it’s a Saturn with a jesus fish, I try to get far away quickly, so that I won’t be caught up in the blast radius.
Naw, it’s those goddam Amish and their buggies. What sane person would take a horse-drawn vehicle that can make all of 5 MPH out on an open highway? And then paint it black so it’s essentially invisible at night?
Plus the horses crap everywhere. Inconsiderate bastards.
Thank you, Spartydog. Now, instead of just staying between the lines with my Golf TDI, I now have a specific target. Let me know when you’ll be in the neighborhood.
Oh, and for the record, the Volkswagen diesels are tanks. I know several folks who are well over 200k with theirs. We’re a little over 90k on ours, and we feel like it’s just broken in.
I think bad driver trends must be somewhat regional. In my area I have noticed for years the VW drivers (except for the Bugs) are the worst drivers around on average and they are followed by the Large SUV drivers. These combine a combination of usually distracted drivers in a luxury status symbol, they can’t hold to a lane, either cannot or don’t bother to look for cars when changing lanes and of course cause serious grief on the NJ highways by thinking that as they have an SUV they can drive through snow storms faster than traffic. Instead these are the vehicles that skid off the road or worse into other vehicles.
As the Large SUV* drivers are usually wasteful consumers and not people that actually have an real need for an SUV of any sort, I actually consider them worse than the VW drivers that appear to be nice enough to realize they are bad drivers and so buy VWs as a clear warning sign to the rest of us. Sort of like a permanent student driver sign.
I understand that a few actually have trailers to pull and some few are still work vehicles, but the bulk of these oversized landwhales are for commuting on the NJ highways or too rich soccer moms. See in my area, the soccer moms are too good for minivans and thus increase the incident rate of terrible large SUV drivers.
In my old age I’ve mellowed, I don’t let other drivers bother me. But since this is a car thread of sorts I’ll post a strange thing that happened yesterday. I saw a Suzuki Samuari
and a Plymouth Barracuda in the same parking lot.
You know what kind of drivers suck? The ones that drive a certain type of car, you know the one! They always do something mildly annoying, or they do the exact other extreme for no discernible reason other than [del]confirmation bias[/del] they drive that kind of car! :mad:
For me, it’s SUV drivers–Cadillac Escalades to be specific. I think they are so used to navigating their boats, that they forget the other smaller craft in the um, water. But then, I tend to look derisively at most SUVs and their drivers–that 4 wheel drive comes in so handy for lugging those heavy groceries home. :rolleyes:
Also Suburban drivers are absent minded, IME.
I drive a Volvo and can say that I exhibit neither of the two salient characteristics listed upthread.
I remember reading somewhere that VW Jetta drivers were the most aggressive and worst behaved on the road. I have a friend who drove one–when she wasn’t cutting people off and then giving them the finger, she was tailgating and honking, but even she wasn’t the worst driver I’ve ever been stuck with. That prize goes to my token Republican friend* who used to drive a minivan (as did I). She once drove me somewhere and I can still get the shake just from the memory. She would step on the gas–stomp it to the floor, then release and let the car “glide”. Then she would do it again. This is how she conveyed her vehicle from her driveway to wherever she needed to go. I almost got car sick. :eek:
I’m over 200K on my gas powered '97 V Dub, nothing beyond normal mainentance. My wife loves her '05 Passat, drives it all the way to western Canada, no problems at all.
Does anyone remember the Family Guy episode where Brian’s stupid blonde girlfriend specifically mentions driving a Jetta? I thought it was a sort-of-subtle joke. Seems to me that the overwhelming majority of people who drive Jettas fit that dizty valley girl stereotype to a T. I think their popularity amongst women seems to be driven solely by the cuteness of its name.
I don’t understand the appeal of VWs, really. Maybe I just haven’t had enough wheel time behind one, but even if all the stories about the awful reliability and British Leyland-esque build quality and electrics are not true, why would anyone want a VW over any other FWD econobox? What does it do that a Japanese FWD econobox doesn’t? It’s a mystery.
