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[GinoGinelli]

My miggy seems to be like a like a poo to flies!

Just had a suicidal jaguar overtake me downhill approaching a busy roundabout with a blind right turn! If I was a nutter and had stabbed the V6 rather than the brakes, he would imprinted into the front of the 125 to Finchley Central!  

I seem to get this all the time, I swear it was nowhere near as bad in my Mondeo (nothing special- just a bog standard '02 LX). Certainly don't in my old BM.

You'd think an old barge with practically zilch value would be the last thing to mess with!

Is it just me?

[Darth Loo-knee]

I think it could be you have alot more knobheads around where you live

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I find that young women drivers have become more assertive over the years.when I was young they just drove shopping cars,Mini ,Hillman Imp,Austin 1100 etc etc.
Saw 2 women the other day one in a BMW M3 and another in a TVR Cerbera......crazy.

[Lynne]

I get this all the time.  It's boy racers at night that really bug me, they tailgate you with their full beams on expecting you to move for them, so they can get past you in their little saxo's etc, so I put the blind up, slow down for a wee while and then really p$$$ them off by pressing that little pedal.  Oh sheer joy  

Used to have the same problem with my cavalier - must be car envy.

[Proz]

Yes i get this too .... some old person nearly reversed into my side today  :-/....... i think my car is cursed  

[Albert1]

I've long had a suspicion that older and/or lower value cars get treated less courteously by other road users.

[Jay w]

I've long had a suspicion that older and/or lower value cars get treated less courteously by other road users.

The upshot of that is when you are playing chicken with a 07 BM/Jag/Audi you know who will back off first  

[Pete Wright]

YES!!! It seems that the Miggy has "Please pull out on me... I don't mind" written on it. I have searched everywhere and can't see it.

I do have to say however, that the Miggy is not as bad as my old Discovery which seemed to attract smaller cars, micras were the favorite and seemed to leave it until I was just about to wipe them out before pulling out on me. So many times I felt like saying "Do you not realise what would happen if my Discovery hit your Micra?? You are dead!!"

Must read a Micra manual and see if it has the paragraph saying" You rule the road, bigger cars WILL stop for you pull out at will!"

[mars]

I think certain cars are like magnets to the idiots. When I had a 2.8 injection Capri I had always got some Xr or Gti or whatever right on the back trying to get me to boot it.

[Martin_1962]

My Sunbeam attracted twits.

My best humiliation was a little hatch trying to get past at lights, first set I didn't really try and kept alongside.

Next lights, he was outside lane all the time.

I used full throttle, and as I hit power band in first he hit red line. I first thought he had braked

WHen moving into our first house I borrowed a trailer, and at one set of light an MG Metro tried it on, I won despite having a trailer

[Kevin Wood]

WHen moving into our first house I borrowed a trailer, and at one set of light an MG Metro tried it on, I won despite having a trailer

There's no better way of leaving egg on someone's face than taking them at the lights with a trailer on. Especially if it's a glider trailer getting on for 10m long.

Kevin

[Martin_1962]

WHen moving into our first house I borrowed a trailer, and at one set of light an MG Metro tried it on, I won despite having a trailer

There's no better way of leaving egg on someone's face than taking them at the lights with a trailer on. Especially if it's a glider trailer getting on for 10m long.

Kevin

I've done it with a caravan on before now as well - even with a 2.0 Omega

[Entwood]

About 3 years ago (before I knew about OOF) I was sitting at some lights, in the old 2.5 miggy, with the 'van on the back, when a poxy little Fiesta with the noisiest exhaust ever sat beside me with the kid revving it and  giving me the "eyeball treatment" .... so I left foot braked (auto box) released the handbrake, raised the revs to about 3000, lifted off the brake and then pushed it back down .. moving about 6 inches... without looking away from me the idiot dropped the clutch and roared away ... jumping the still red lights straight into the side of an artic .... if it wasn't for the side bars he'd have been under it.

I drove away quietly when the lights changed

I drove back that way about 15 minutes later, Police all over the place, no damage to the artic which was about to drive away, Fiesta probably written off, laddo was in the back of the police car .... crying .....  

[feeutfo]

yup, 5 none fault accidents in 5 years. 2 in one day once, 1 on the way in to work and one on the way home.  Luckily they always seem to drive into a part of the car that needs attention. By the time i sold it, it was in better nic than when i bought it. 2 new head lights and front bumper. Rear bumper and exhaust. The whole left side re sprayed and both driver side doors. A muppet magnet, defo.

[JamesV6CDX]

About 3 years ago (before I knew about OOF) I was sitting at some lights, in the old 2.5 miggy, with the 'van on the back, when a poxy little Fiesta with the noisiest exhaust ever sat beside me with the kid revving it and  giving me the "eyeball treatment" .... so I left foot braked (auto box) released the handbrake, raised the revs to about 3000, lifted off the brake and then pushed it back down .. moving about 6 inches... without looking away from me the idiot dropped the clutch and roared away ... jumping the still red lights straight into the side of an artic .... if it wasn't for the side bars he'd have been under it.

I drove away quietly when the lights changed

I drove back that way about 15 minutes later, Police all over the place, no damage to the artic which was about to drive away, Fiesta probably written off, laddo was in the back of the police car .... crying .....  

Would you have been happy to sign your name to that as a Police statement?