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[Bionic]

 
Why is it that when I am tootling (not) along some young fool in a fairly new Ford (Fix Or Repair Daily) Ka tries to give me grief by being right up my *rse and wants me to go faster? Its a 30 zone with many blind hazards. He does it every night when I pick up my missus from work, probably he finishes at the same time, and if by chance we are stuck at the lights (it happens regularly) side by side he looks like he could kill us. That is funny in itself cos I am not small due to many years of manual labour and he looks like a good meal would not go amiss! Can he not read the decals on my boot lid telling him what is under the front lid, or does he think I just stuck them on to impress? Or is that he might one day, due to a mistake on my part (can't see that happening unless I end up in a wrong lane and some idiot in front blocks me), manage to pass me and so be able to brag to his mates what a powerful motor he has?
You couldn't make it up..........
Still, let him dream on, one day he might just get a car that has a lot more to it!

[Martian]

Why is it that when I am tootling (not) along some young fool in a fairly new Ford (Fix Or Repair Daily) Ka tries to give me grief by being right up my *rse and wants me to go faster?

The Ford KAck is well known for rusting between the front & rear numberplates, so they're probably rushing to their destination before it takes hold.

[Kevin Wood]

Why is it that when I am tootling (not) along some young fool in a fairly new Ford (Fix Or Repair Daily) Ka tries to give me grief by being right up my *rse and wants me to go faster?

The Ford KAck is well known for rusting between the front & rear numberplates, so they're probably rushing to their destination before it takes hold.

 

[OOMV6]

It reminds me of some years ago on the french motorways, before the sanitised world of speed cameras.
The french are well known for their hanging on to the bumper of the car infront, but it always amazed me that whilst doing 85-95 mph in the ouside lane (of 2 lanes) there was always a small 1.1 or 1.2 litre engined car behind pushing to get pass.
As I generally drive larger engines cars, my best moments happened when I pulled in to the inside, whereby letting them pass, on approach to a slight incline. Needless to say, their rush was slightly hampered at this point, whilst I maintained the speed. Often women too. Not being sexist, just an observation

[Kevin Wood]

It reminds me of some years ago on the french motorways, before the sanitised world of speed cameras.
The french are well known for their hanging on to the bumper of the car infront, but it always amazed me that whilst doing 85-95 mph in the ouside lane (of 2 lanes) there was always a small 1.1 or 1.2 litre engined car behind pushing to get pass.
As I generally drive larger engines cars, my best moments happened when I pulled in to the inside, whereby letting them pass, on approach to a slight incline. Needless to say, their rush was slightly hampered at this point, whilst I maintained the speed. Often women too. Not being sexist, just an observation

Try driving a kit car over there. Every idiot has to get in front of you. After a couple of miles of twisties with the locals pulling all sorts of suicidal tricks to get past, you get one of those 2 mile long, dead straight inclines with no side roads. Pull out, red line it in 4th and reel 'em all back in again.

[omega3000]

Ford KA "coffin" on wheels .....rust from inside out badly 

Maybe MR BEAN has changed to a KA 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb2D8wX1fa8 

[Bionic]

 
OOMMV6, I can remember when I drove coaches (the Biggies) over to Austria and Spain and one of my favourite passenger 'entertainment' turns I was asked continously to do ( musat have gone round by word of mouth from previous passengers) was to wait until there was an upside down pram ( Citroen CV) ahead then boot the coach into high gear and pass it closely so the passengers could see it rockin and rollin in my backwash draught like it was demented. Always raised a laugh cos even then the French were hated by the groups I took over. (Irish)
That must have been the worst car ever designed other than that atrocity, the corrugated panel van by the same maker! Makes me still wonder if that 'car'? designer was taking the *iss out of the french too?

[Rods2]

I expect he in a rush for his daily pedicure, before he goes on a date with his boyfriend. 

What real man wants to be seen driving a hairdressers car. 

[Vamps]

I expect he in a rush for his daily pedicure, before he goes on a date with his boyfriend. 

What real man wants to be seen driving a hairdressers car. 

  I was going to have a proper go in the Megane Convertible tomorrow with a view to taking it to work on Monday

[Bionic]

 
Hairdressers car?  Ahh, Now I know what the screaming noise was .....it wasn't an engine it was a hairdrier on wheels 

As for the Megane ragtop, that at least has a bit of go about it even though its short of a mig........go on and have a go if you really must and experience the difference. Give me the comfort of a full climate control any day....I have lost enough hair already without any more getting blown off by the draughts of a ragtop 

[OOMV6]

OOMMV6, I can remember when I drove coaches (the Biggies) over to Austria and Spain and one of my favourite passenger 'entertainment' turns I was asked continously to do ( musat have gone round by word of mouth from previous passengers) was to wait until there was an upside down pram ( Citroen CV) ahead then boot the coach into high gear and pass it closely so the passengers could see it rockin and rollin in my backwash draught like it was demented. Always raised a laugh cos even then the French were hated by the groups I took over. (Irish)
That must have been the worst car ever designed other than that atrocity, the corrugated panel van by the same maker! Makes me still wonder if that 'car'? designer was taking the *iss out of the french too?

Hey, sounds like fun 

Gotta say that I'm undecided as to 2CV (snail as it is known). Gotta give them some credit I suppose. Citroen said they wanted a car for the farmers, that could go across fields and go on the road. Ok, I admit the Land Rover was a slightly better design for that job (but did you know that when the Land Rover prototype was first tested with the steering wheel in the middle (again, meant to be of agricultural design) someone screwed up with the steering. It proved an interesting test, as when you pulled the wheel left, the LR when right, and vice versa), but the snail did plod on for decades. Mind you, so did the beetle. Hmm, another thread maybe.
Ah, the H-van. Mmm, another "interesting" piece of machinery. Wouldn't mind one of them, just for the sheer hell of it.
And don't forget the Mehari. Wierd .... and made of plastic.  And fetching loads of money now.  e.g. http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/list/15/mehari/
Sorry about hijacking the thread

[OOMV6]

Oh, and let's not forget what Citroen did when the Army said they wanted a 4WD vehicle for the desert.
They stuck an engine in the boot of a 2CV and so a 4WD was created. They called it the 2CV Sahara. 
Two engines, front engine driving front wheels, and back engine driving back wheels. S'pose the advatage behind that if one engine didn't start you can bump start from the other.
Don't think there was a long production run on those.

[D]

The Ford KAck is well known for rusting between the front & rear numberplates, so they're probably rushing to their destination before it takes hold.

As opposed to Omegas that never rust. 

[Martian]

The Ford KAck is well known for rusting between the front & rear numberplates, so they're probably rushing to their destination before it takes hold.

As opposed to Omegas that never rust. 

Every car will rust at some point, the KA just happens to do it incredibly quickly.