A&Q about Lotus
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i've seen many individual threads regarding attention and being provoked either into racing or just for the heck of it... i plan on posting here with whatever else i encounter
8/15/06
happened last night... just driving away from my first lotus meet and red pickup truck pulls up next to me and just starts revving away... it didn't make me mad or anything... just gave me and my gf a good laugh
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last night 16/AUG/06
at 1am (okay this morning...lol), getting out of the movie going to my ar, 2 dudes in a red gremlin or otherwise useless junked out red car, the passenger sticks his ass out the window at me, and they yell NICE CAR ***!, and attempt a burn out, the tires squeels and they lurch forward then almost stall, all this in front of 2 ladies that I happened to know (not with us of course), it was funny and the burn out provoked me a bit we all had a good laugh and the girls were grinning at me hmmm...
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Originally Posted by bluejae
i've seen many individual threads regarding attention and being provoked either into racing or just for the heck of it... i plan on posting here with whatever else i encounter
8/15/06
happened last night... just driving away from my first lotus meet and red pickup truck pulls up next to me and just starts revving away... it didn't make me mad or anything... just gave me and my gf a good laugh
Same thing happens frequently - usually a young guy in a vehicle that has a big engine but no chance, like an older 5.0 Mustang or a pickup truck. I did see one guy in a Carrera 4S decide to blow by me at 100mph on a highway in the Twin Cities, but about 20 seconds later a cop followed at about 100mph too. Never saw either of them ahead on the road...
John
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8/16/06 - Pickup truck for me as well - Beverly hills, Olympic Blvd. about 2:30 in the a.m. I was headed to a friend's place and the roads were empty. This yahoo comes right up on my bumper. I wasn't speeding, so I backed off a bit more. He came up on my left, (his truck was raised so all I could see were stupid, knobby tires) then cut in front of me, then to the right, where we stopped at a red light and he reved his engine. All I could do was laugh at the guy. Did he seriously think his monster truck was going to compete? The light turned green, and I calmly headed on my way. Feeling very Zen these days.
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It's always minivans with me.
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This morning, driving to work, there was an Acura on the freeway that was super aggressive, weaving in and out of the lanes like a madman. Of course I have already figured out which lanes are the fastest at that time of day. In the end, me moving peacefully around the lanes turned out to be faster than him playing highway checkers. See ya later sucker. Was pretty funny 'cause I think he kept trying to get ahead of me.
When I had my Boxsters I used to race a lot on 280 S and N; motorcycles and Carreras. For some reason it made me really excited.
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I really consider it provoking when these HUGE SUV's get right on my tail...cabbies do it too.
Boy do I hate it.
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8/13/06 Sunday
Crusing at night. A C5 Vette, Focus and a Chevy PU truck came off the highway off ramp and box me in on a two lane street. The C5 with a young driver began to rev his motor trying to get me to race. I ignore the situation and at the next stop light, the kid in the Focus put his head out of his window and yell "why don't you drive slower $^$&". I ignore him and move on. All I can say is sucks to be older and live in an area where the company you work for owns the town. I kept reminding myself don't do it, it is probably one of your coworker's kid.
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Originally Posted by LARRY22331
I really consider it provoking when these HUGE SUV's get right on my tail...cabbies do it too.
Boy do I hate it.
its it just me or whenever i'm in the exige... and look out the rearview mirror... it seems people are so close... i feel i'm being tailgated and it kind of pisses me off... i keep saying to myself... maybe its the mirror
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Originally Posted by solar
It's always minivans with me.
that reminds me...
in san antonio... minivan casually pulls up next to me and then guns it to move a freakin car length in front of me in what looked like 10 seconds... me and my friend couldn't stop laughing... he was like... dude you just got spanked by a minivan... and i just laughed
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its always the large lifted trucks behind me.
had a motorcycle in the HOV lane on my left almost swerve into my drivers front fender.
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Originally Posted by jhnmdahl
Same thing happens frequently - usually a young guy in a vehicle that has a big engine but no chance, like an older 5.0 Mustang or a pickup truck. I did see one guy in a Carrera 4S decide to blow by me at 100mph on a highway in the Twin Cities, but about 20 seconds later a cop followed at about 100mph too. Never saw either of them ahead on the road...
John
i actually can't tell what age they are... cuz i can't see them from my angle... especially when its a truck with limo tinting or something...
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4:am the voices started calling to me from out of the bathroom sink until i had no choice but to put on my clown shoes and leather mask and cut myself with a razor blade until they stopped...
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Originally Posted by solar
It's always minivans with me.
I get lots of guys in BMWs and Acuras/Lexus trying to stay in front of me from the traffic lights (usually in rather heavy traffic). A couple of idiots in pickups trying to prove their manhood.
But I also get a lot of guys (and occasionally girls) in minivans trying to get ahead of me in traffic in the next lane. I think they have manhood problems from driving minivans or something.
And almost everyone tailgates, and it's not just the mirror - a half to one second spacing between me and them - consider that average response time to start braking is 3/4 of a second...
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I get a lot of tailgaters as well. I do not drively slowly either! I assume it's because they can see right over me and thus have no fear of the "unknown" or sudden braking. I think they get a false sense of security.
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Originally Posted by bluejae
its it just me or whenever i'm in the exige... and look out the rearview mirror... it seems people are so close... i feel i'm being tailgated and it kind of pisses me off... i keep saying to myself... maybe its the mirror
No, it's like that with me too. More tailgaters per mile in the Exige than in any other car I've ever driven.
They also like to sit in my blind spots, sometimes for miles and miles on end if I let them. They'll block traffic in their lanes to sit there and do...Idano what, since I can't see them.
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Originally Posted by Stretch002
I get a lot of tailgaters as well. I do not drively slowly either! I assume it's because they can see right over me and thus have no fear of the "unknown" or sudden braking. I think they get a false sense of security.
I bet our brakes are better than theirs.
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Originally Posted by pwe
They also like to sit in my blind spots, sometimes for miles and miles on end if I let them.
God, I hate that.
If there's NOBODY behind me, but someone just sitting there in the next lane, behind me... just sitting there... I'll hit the brakes hard so that they fly past... then resume regular cruise speed.
I can't stand gazers who hide in my blind spot.
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Yesterday in stop and go traffic on our lovely interstate traffic here in Orlando a Pontiac Firechicken is trying to provoke me into a race revving his engine and lurching forward while we had probably 10 feet in front of us before the next car in both lanes in a construction zone! What a frikkin Moron... I really don't know what the out come would have been if I took the bait!
Once traffic cleared I found an opening and lost him thank God.
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Had a guy get mad at me for changing lanes without a signal. I was nowhere near him and I think he was just having a bad day and was driving a piece of crap truck so he decided to get mad at someone with a nice car.
Anyway he comes up next to me at a stoplight and starts yelling all kinds of obscenities at me, calling me all kinds of names. I didn't want to fight so I figured the best way to creep out a hick is to pretend I was gay and make him think he was turning me on. So as he's yelling, I started rubbing my nipples and asking him to yell at me some more 'cause it's turning me on. I swear he stops yelling, looks staight ahead and doesn't say another word until the light changes.
True story.