I saw this thread earlier today and thought it was just silly because stupidity comes in any make and model, but then I went out and as I was waiting for traffic to clear so I could make a left hand turn I saw a car ride the tail of the car in front of it then cut in front of the semi-truck in the next lane and speed off. The road was wet, too. The car was a VW. I guess I should be grateful that their car had the maneuvering ability to pull that off or the truck probably would have hit that car and set it careening into me.
I was going to post this very sentiment. For a long while, I drove approximately 150 miles per day with a lot of those miles being on US19 in Pinellas county Florida. Probably only the locals will really appreciate what that means. I saw more bonehead moves come from Volvo drivers that any other group. I learned to keep my eye on Volvos and to try to be prepared for whatever unbelievable piece of insanity they might pull.
I know a guy who has two of these. He said they get 49 mpg. I don’t know how many miles are on them or anything else about them.
To condense my rant:
I’ll agree that Volvo drivers are lousy drivers and you have to look out for them. However, they know they are bad so they drive a Volvo (I wouldn’t feel right buying a car named for a female body part) because they are afraid that their bad driving is going to get them killed.
Volkswagen drivers think they are great and that every road is either the Autobahn or a Formula 1 track. They are a bunch of posers that just don’t get the fact that driving in traffic is a matter of adjusting to a system. They do the most egotistical things imaginable.
Mini van drivers are just clueless. They will drive forever in your blind spot. They force you to pass on the right because they have no concept driving with the flow. They pull out in front of you as if you don’t exist. Instead of watching the road they are busy eating their egg McMuffin, slapping their kids or teaching their dog to drive.
Interesting you should say this. A minivan creamed my friend’s car as she was pulling into my drive way yesterday. The woman was tailgating her and claims she “looked away for just a second.” Mmm-hmmm. She hit my friend’s car going 45 mph and sent her from a near stop into a 50’ skid into the ditch between my yard and the road. That little 1991 Corolla was about half the length it was before, rear end flattened, but my friend walked away from that accident. That was a good little $800 car right there, that Toyota. The fucking minivan is totaled too. Maybe she’ll buy a VW next.
Took the cops 45 minutes to get here, with a car blocking one lane of a two lane road, car fluids all over the place, and the kid in the front seat of the minivan (!!!) complaining of neck injuries. But that’s a separate thread I guess.
Oh my. I’m glad your friend is okay.
There was a spectacular (in a bad way) accident near Madison last week. A woman was driving on the Interstate, speeding and talking on her cell phone. She lost control of the mini van, went into the median and over into the lanes going the other direction and nailed another car. The driver of the other car survived, but the speeder died, as did her two kids who were passengers.
No. Its those square-backed Scions. Its like Og rolled snake-eyes, stuck them together with wheels at the corners, and added the most pathetic loser not playing Xbox at the time. (Poser goatee optional, MSRP may vary) They’re almost as bad as the pick-up trucks slam-dancing through traffic to work in the early morning rush hour. But at least Scion owners aren’t stupid enough to paint their phone numbers and company names on their door panels.