A&Q about Lotus
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Careful Cowboy. That may just turn him on too.
Originally Posted by slaughtr
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.
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Tailgaters: Yes, more w/Elise than any other car I've owned. I turn on my flashers, which helps most of the time.
Racers: Mini tried the other night; my Corolla is faster, let alone the Elise. M3s, Mustangs all sorts of other cars feel the need to catch or pass me.
Traffic: Isn't it surprising what chances people will take to get a car length or two ahead. I try to always look far ahead and have passed the cut-and-thrusters sometimes 5 times in a single rush hour jam. This is often when I'm not even in a hurry.
I particularly love the guys that pass on the far right when there is clearly an entrance ramp coming up. V dangerous and impolite.
I was at a lite last year and the 3 black fellows in the delivery truck next to me said, "Wanna race?"
I said, "Sure, just let me get into reverse." They laughed, light turned green and I drove away at a normal rate. 20 minutes later, I had parked and locked the car and was walking into my destination building. They drove by and one yelled, "You won."
I mention their skin color only to mention that around here black people seem to really love the Elise, which is great. Have we many black Elise owners here?
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Apparently, I don't speed enough for the satisfaction of others. (I drive near the speed limit in the city. Too many revenue collectors and too many blind spots.)
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Originally Posted by slaughtr
..... 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.
Bahahahahahahah!!!! Kill them with homosexual "kindness".
My story isn't nearly as funny....
A few days ago I'm minding my own business on a newly re-paved (read: SMOOOOTH) 4-lane road. I was behaving and waiting for my car to warm up so I wasn't really getting on it.
Once the car warmed up I, of course, had to play in 2nd cam land. Mind you, I'm keenly aware of my surroundings because it was after dark and well cops can hide better in the dark No one in front of me and some cars a few car lengths back behind me. 2nd cam on!
Well I get her up to decent, but still probably "unprudent" speed and start to shut her down (coasting in gear) as I'm approaching a police station. I'm back to legal limits and an older white Cadillac STS comes flying up in the right hand lane. He pulls a car-length ahead of me and then gets on his brakes.
We get caught at the next light and the two N'SYNC rejects start yelling through their open windows. The driver spouts some garbage about "not as fast as you thought it was huh? You better bring it back to the dealer." I didn't have the heart to point out that there was a Police station just to our left (mind you it doesn't look like a typical police station... it's in a nice Suburb of Chicago and was recently built and occupied... it looks nice).
So I tell him... "Oh you were trying to race me back there? I didn't even notice you, but hey your Grandpa's car sure is nice..."
Kids, kids, kids. Man, to have a race there should be at least two participants, right? Oh well, this poor sap, in a clean but older STS (automatic) wouldn't have stood a chance. What a tool
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I guess I'll be posting here every day!
Today, it was a stupid guy in a V6 Mustang with custom side exhausts who saw me approaching from behind, downshifted, and chirped his tires as he sped off trying to get me to race.
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I was helping my mom drop off here car at the dealership when I stopped @ the light. to my right a mustang gt pulls up and honks the horn then starts revving it. I was'nt going to race cause it just seemed wrong with my mom in a car behind me. Then a sport bike comes between me and the mustang gt. The bike start revving, the light goes green, and I thought for a second that I could take the bike. Bike peels off I peel off and keep up with the bike but slow down when I hit 3rd gear. I'm goin 60 and I don't want a ticket. The mustang gt catches up then drops it a gear then screams past me. My mom told me later at the ford dealership that she just had to laugh at me trying to race the motorcycle.
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Originally Posted by darkSol
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.
In my experience, they slam on the brakes too since, clearly, there must be some obstacle that I'm reacting to.
I have a low opionion of most other drivers, but only because they seem to get so much of their input, such as how fast to go and when to brake, from the vehicles around them. Shouldn't they be trusting their senses, and not mine?
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Originally Posted by bluejae
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
You didn't recognize me?
I'm kidding, of course.
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Originally Posted by habendanio
The bike start revving, the light goes green, and I thought for a second that I could take the bike.
My friend has a CBR600 and that thing, from my experience, would take any car on the road. Sport bikes vs. Cars in a straight line is a complete mismatch. He gets alot of nuts that try to race him as well. Even a kid on a modded goped.
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I pulled over today to let a Honda civic pass me.
I had an SUV ride my bumper flashing me in the center lane on the freeway yesterday. BUT, that worked out ok. The 18 wheeler in the lane next to forced it out of the lane, then squeezed it off the shoulder, then drove slow intentionally. I wish I knew who was driving the rig. I'd buy him a case of beer.
Not long before that a woman in a minivan nearly ran right over me changing lanes. I barely escaped with maybe 6 inches on either side (BMW on the right). (10A fuse on the nautilus horn didn't hold up long.) OK, no biggie; maybe she didn't see me. Then, she gives me the finger. If I had a gun that would kill someone for 10 minutes, I would have shot her twice.
A few weeks before that some guy in a monster SUV gives me the finger. What's really odd is I don't really know why, but I suspect the Lotus I was driving had something to do with it.
I make it a point to not offend people when I'm driving the Lotus. I probably drive more aggressively in my VW. Nonetheless, people don't flip me off for no reason in the VW.
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Food for thought. This car slows so fast when you down shift or even just let off the gas that some people behind you might take it the wrong way. In heavy-ish traffic I make a point of tapping the brakes when I down shift or let off the gas and am coasting. I realized that people were zipping up on me quickly because they don't realize I am slowing down rapidly when I lift the accelrator or down shift. Once I modified my behavior in heavy traffic I only get tail gated occasionally, usually by some punk ass kid in a ricer who is jealous or a big pickup/suv who feels like being a bully.
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Yesterday I was at a light where I hear SCREEEEEECCCH. Family mover, complete with family, almost rear ended me. I just glance at the guy then go back to staring at the light. It angered me, but I'm sure he felt like a complete idiot for not noticing the bright yellow car stopped infront of him, and his wife appeared to be yelling at hime, so I decided not to react in any way or give him any grief, gesticular or verbal, for almost rearrainging my neck bones.
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Oh I am sure his wife griefed him way more than you could ever. I can just hear it now, "Didn't you see the friggin $200,000 ferrari there? what are you thinking? Do you know how much our insurance would have gone up, etc etc ......"
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a particularly attractive passenger in a too-short-for-elise-riding skirt asked me to help her out of the passenger seat. averting one's eyes makes helping such distressed damsels' exits difficult
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A few weeks before that some guy in a monster SUV gives me the finger. What's really odd is I don't really know why, but I suspect the Lotus I was driving had something to do with it.
yeah that happens a lot, so far i've had various hand gestures, shouting, a 20oz (venti) starbucks thrown from the suv in front of us (for no apparent reason other than could we swerve around it), someone tossed a red bull can or something similar in front of the car in the way home from the lotus dinner.
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Charlie,
You should know better than to drive behind Frank
Aloha
Thomas Praetzel
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Originally Posted by pwe
In my experience, they slam on the brakes too since, clearly, there must be some obstacle that I'm reacting to.
The worst is when they do that and you're BEHIND them... idiot drivers who come to a near or complete stop just because the lane next to them slows or stops... WTF?! DRIVE!!
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Driving on the highway to get sushi and this DODGE (put number here) lifted pick-up truck is driving in front of me. He all of a sudden swerves into the middle lane for no reason. I was not tail gating him or nothing. So when I pass him he gives me this dirty look. My friend in the passenger seat is like "dude, he's got a camo hat on."
Anyways, I'm a good 10 car lengths ahead of him when I notice him in the far right lane now over taking traffic and trying to catch up to me swerving into the middle lane. I was in the fast lane. So I speed up and trapped his a$$ behind me and a Ford F-250. I could see him cursing his a$$ off in the rear view mirror.
On my way home from eating sushi and this punk in front of me in his white Jetta flicks a cigarette. I ended up either hitting it or running it over, nonetheless I drive right through his flicked cigarette and it's sparks. My friend is like "WTF, pull up to his ass." I wasn't sure if the guy did it on purpose or not but you shouldn't flick cigs out of your car if someone is behind you. (FWIW, he flicked it into the ground as I recall thus the sparks). So I pull up next to him expecting my friend to give him a look or something, but to my suprise my friend screams at him at the top of his lungs "WTF is the matter with you man!? Why the F@#K you flick your cigarette at us a$$h@le?!" The kid looked like a little punk Eminem look-a-like and my friend is just screaming at him on the highway. I'm trying to tell him to chill out but it didn't work and now my friend is threatning to follow him home and kick his a$$......it was getting out of control.
It's funny in these situations, on the inside I wanted to kick his little a$$ my self but since my friend was trying to, I all of a sudden........felt the anger dissapear and felt sorry for the kid. I must admit, it was hilarious watching the kid (who was probably only a couple years younger than us) taking the next exit off the highway.
Some people just hate on the Lotus. They are a bunch of haters. It's usually the big trucks/american muscle cars but now I'm begining to realize it's everybody and anybody who dosen't know what it is and has a small penis.
John
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My biggest problems seems to be with Mustang GT's. Everyone who drives one in my area seems to have to prove that they can light up their tires at any stoplight.
I have pulled up next to a ton of other cars and no one else (except some stoned guy in a chevy Chevette) has even revved their engines to try and race. (Chevette guy was driving half the speed limit to start with ... so not sure he was playing with a full deck of cards anyways)!
The other day a Mustang GT convertible followed me to the parking lot at work and called me some names for not racing him at the light 10km's previous?!?! It was pretty much rush hour and traffic was snaking along, I guess I'll never understand.
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As a comment to being 'provoked' ... back in Sept '04, when nobody had seen this car before, the bad events were happening to me in droves. Tailgators, people tossing things at me, guys in trucks/cars/motorcycles f'ing with me ... etc, and I think that list was just from one single drive.
Things are MUCH tamer now. The fever has died down thank god.