Driver stereotypes based on marque (and behaviour?)

MarkMas

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My key driver stereotype is that any driver wearing a hat is going to be a liability. Baseball cap = tearaway or moron. Homburg or flat cap = dope.
 

sionie1

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Just adopt the Aussie method for signage.. I saw these years ago along the Great Ocean road, found them on Google,
 

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Gazcw

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I used to have a Rover 800 Fastback and so I liked this 'anti-Audi' ad:

(It was a pretty useless car...)
I like the way it is put together. Badly with lots or rattles, squeaks, bluetack and the knowledge something will come away in your hand very soon.
 

Wack61

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I don't think that I've ever received a thumbs up from a cyclist.
What really drives me insane when driving are tailgaters. HGV/PSV/delivery drivers tend to be
the worst. Other than that, there's no discernible demographic that stands out as being worse
than others.

I've received many a thumbs up from bikers when I see them filtering and I move over to give them room

German cars definitely have a bigger percentage of dicks driving them in my experience , if I see a car undertaking and weaving on the motorway it's usually a bmw audi or merc

Even in Normandy on a dual carriageway, I was overtaking a line of trucks , me doing about 75mph when in the distance a flash of headlights , then another
I just stayed where I was because I wasn't dropping 20mph , squeezing in between 2 trucks to let him past

Then he's right behind me , another flash , I got to the front, pulled over and , it was the only audi I saw all week.
 

Flint

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I used to have a BMW M3, followed by an Audi S4; so I'm probably up for most unpopular member on here.
However; there was a noticeable type of driver who inhabited BMWs, then they appeared to move on to Audis, and I thought they were knobs too.

Just don't tar me with the same brush.
 
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I used to have a BMW M3, followed by an Audi S4; so I'm probably up for most unpopular member on here.
However; there was a noticeable type of driver who inhabited BMWs, then they appeared to move on to Audis, and I thought they were knobs too.

Just don't tar me with the same brush.
You're absolutely right. This was about ten years ago?
I just laugh at BMW drivers with the wabbit teeth.
And I thank them, for keeping the rest of the world amused.
 

Corranga

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My key driver stereotype is that any driver wearing a hat is going to be a liability. Baseball cap = tearaway or moron. Homburg or flat cap = dope.

Some of us baseball hat wears just aren’t as blessed as others in the hair department and don’t like a burnt head ;)
 

MRichards

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Porsche drivers are known as "Porkers" in OZ and are universally disliked both on the road & track for their total lack of consideration for anyone other than fellow porkers. Famously they were banned from competing in the Phillip Island 6 hour relay for repetitive cheating in their mistaken belief that they owned the win in the event. So they now run their own 6 hour & nobody else supports them,good riddance. As has been mentioned,some years ago BMW drivers were always identified as wankers.
Maserati drivers do incur the unreasonable wrath of people driving Holden utes locally called bogans. In my 3200 one of these knobs leans out his window to call me a "fken rich ct". I was rather flattered at the compliment,as I'm not what he assumed I am. Generally,many people recognise the boomerang rear light clusters & express their appreciation.
We are also cursed with Nissan Micra drivers hogging the fast lane,totally oblivious to everything else around them,self-assured in their belief that "speed kills"
You may be interested to know that those old signs on the Great Ocean Road have been replaced by many signs advising Asian tourists that we drive on the left. It seems they hire cars with no checks on their driving abilities & get killed when they wander into the oncoming traffic,which,quite often,involves very large tourist busses.
 
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Porsche drivers are known as "Porkers" in OZ and are universally disliked both on the road & track for their total lack of consideration for anyone other than fellow porkers. Famously they were banned from competing in the Phillip Island 6 hour relay for repetitive cheating in their mistaken belief that they owned the win in the event. So they now run their own 6 hour & nobody else supports them,good riddance. As has been mentioned,some years ago BMW drivers were always identified as wankers.
Maserati drivers do incur the unreasonable wrath of people driving Holden utes locally called bogans. In my 3200 one of these knobs leans out his window to call me a "fken rich ct". I was rather flattered at the compliment,as I'm not what he assumed I am. Generally,many people recognise the boomerang rear light clusters & express their appreciation.
We are also cursed with Nissan Micra drivers hogging the fast lane,totally oblivious to everything else around them,self-assured in their belief that "speed kills"
You may be interested to know that those old signs on the Great Ocean Road have been replaced by many signs advising Asian tourists that we drive on the left. It seems they hire cars with no checks on their driving abilities & get killed when they wander into the oncoming traffic,which,quite often,involves very large tourist busses.
Is karma not a big feature of most Asian religions? If so, Asian tourist drivers meeting their end, courtesy of very large tourist coaches full of Asians......um.....seems to have a beautiful ....... I can't think of the right word just now, but cosmic rightness will do for now I think ;)
I've never understood the popularity of utes and their American cousin, the .........ugh......I can't find the 'Murican urban term for these cars......and I've forgotten it, of course. Anyhoo. I think they're ugly and the very notion of a 'truck based car' sounds so, so wrong.
If somebody shouted, "Fken rich ct!" to me. I would retort, "Why thank you dear boy. Yes I am. Exceedingly rich. And exceedingly happy with life." "Now, please stand aside peasant. I appear to be down wind of you and your foul odour is making my eyes water."
 

Felonious Crud

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Is karma not a big feature of most Asian religions? If so, Asian tourist drivers meeting their end, courtesy of very large tourist coaches full of Asians......um.....seems to have a beautiful ....... I can't think of the right word just now, but cosmic rightness will do for now I think ;)
I've never understood the popularity of utes and their American cousin, the .........ugh......I can't find the 'Murican urban term for these cars......and I've forgotten it, of course. Anyhoo. I think they're ugly and the very notion of a 'truck based car' sounds so, so wrong.
If somebody shouted, "Fken rich ct!" to me. I would retort, "Why thank you dear boy. Yes I am. Exceedingly rich. And exceedingly happy with life." "Now, please stand aside peasant. I appear to be down wind of you and your foul odour is making my eyes water."
The popularity of pick-ups in the US is because they are classed as business vee-hickles and hence attract lower tax than cars.

An actual American may be among soon to tell me I'm an a$$, and wrong, but that's my understanding.
 

safrane

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The popularity of pick-ups in the US is because they are classed as business vee-hickles and hence attract lower tax than cars.

An actual American may be among soon to tell me I'm an a$$, and wrong, but that's my understanding.
Same in the UK is it not?