Which make of car causes you the most grief?

[TSM]

I can see why thoes X5s can cause grief. I had the chance to drive one this week and though its a realy comfortable ride you are realy disconnected with the traffic and small things around you.

[Balky001]

Mercedes drivers - they are big and fat and handle like boats (and so do their cars) and few Merc drivers can judge the width properly - blocking off filtering opportunities (I'm sure this is not true of any Merc drivers here).

Also grannies in Micras, Corsas, Fiestas etc are a little unpredictable and tend to stay in the lane they may need for the roundabout 5 miles ahead!

got to be the boy racers for me, there is always a fat "CREW!!!" of them that sit in a little car park overlooking the main r'bout in the town i live, and i have to drive past them nearly every time i go home, i guess they can here me comming down the short stretch of duel carrageway leading up to the r'bout and they all look up and start signleing that they want to race me!!!!! i have even had one pull out and chase me!.....yeah thats right in a nova!!!!! soon lost him but is is every time i go home!!!!! they are all so anoying and need to get a life!!!!! "12.00 on a friday night oh yeah lets go sit by a r'bout and look like D*cks!!!!!!!!!"

Originally Posted by Jimmy2Feet

got to be the boy racers for me, there is always a fat "CREW!!!" of them that sit in a little car park overlooking the main r'bout in the town i live, and i have to drive past them nearly every time i go home, i guess they can here me comming down the short stretch of duel carrageway leading up to the r'bout and they all look up and start signleing that they want to race me!!!!! i have even had one pull out and chase me!.....yeah thats right in a nova!!!!! soon lost him but is is every time i go home!!!!! they are all so anoying and need to get a life!!!!! "12.00 on a friday night oh yeah lets go sit by a r'bout and look like D*cks!!!!!!!!!"

It's cos most of them aren't old enough to go drinking, or don't look old enough, so they hang around McDonalds instead pulling teenage slappers who mistakenly think that they are 'cool'

I have had aggro from an Evo, a Lotus Esprit and even a 1.2 Corsa but in the vast majority of cases it is BMW's. They are the worse without a shadow of a doubt.

Whether I am on my bike or in my hot hatch you can guarantee a BMW will give me grief.

Anything being driven by somebody wearing a hat

[Viney]

Nice to see Volvo not in there

I normally find Imprezas, Evos and the like to be really good/amongst the most considerate. I've never had one try to race me, either.

Only once has one caused me any grief and to be fair, whilst he should have spotted it (I did, thankfully!) that was because someone pulled out on him, which caused him to veer in front of me without looking.

Originally Posted by Viney

Nice to see Volvo not in there

I've read a few times that people reckon Volvo's day as the "bike killer" of choice of for people who can't drive is over. I have to say, based on the way they're generally driven, I have to agree.

Old people with fantastically bad judgement of speed and distance now seem to opt for small, dirt cheap cars like Kias or Daewoos, sorry I mean Chevrolets- oh, no I don't, I mean Daewoos.

Originally Posted by Amanda M

Pensioners in micras and rovers

I ride in my bosses car a fair bit for business meeting etc, and he drives a bmw, and is probably the stereotypical beemer driver too, quick to get on the horn, and most journeys are accompanied by his explanations of why bicycles shouldnt be allowed on the road ("There's just not room for them. They were ok in the old days when there were just horses on ther road, but with the roads how they are now it's just dangerous, they should just ban it." ) tailgating on the motorways, talking on the phone while driving, etc etc. However, unlike the old people in micra's, he's got some concept of how it all needs to work if people are going to get where they're going, knows how wide his car is, and understands the apparently mind-bogglingly complex workings of a mini-roundabout. Dont get me wrong, the boss makes me wince with his driving sometimes, but the ones that always get me are in the hesitant, slow, dithering ones that change their mind halfway through a manouver.