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John Sims

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Well obviously there are people who drive BMW's who aren't necessarily "BMW Drivers". Equally there are "BMW Drivers" who don't drive BMW's (a lot of them seem to drive Audi's strangely enough) but they are still "BMW Drivers".

Only you can tell if you are a BMW Driver but obvious traits are:-

a) The assumption that you have a God given right to what ever part of the road you are on and nobody else has.
b) The assumption that as you are of higher standing to everyone around you, everybody else should get out of your way.
c) The belief that, no matter what specification car you are in it is faster, better handling and brakes better than any other car on the road.
d) You have super human reactions (and BMW brakes) so can stop if anything should happen, at any speed, even if you are two foot from the rear of the car in front.
e) Headlamps give you unquestionable sole right to the right hand lane.
f) BMW's are exempt from any hands free mobile phone ruling.
g) BMW ownership allows use of any parking space be it Disabled or Parent & Child no matter what the status of the car driver.
h) Driving unreasonably slowly and weaving from lane to lane, while on the phone, is perfectly acceptable and should be followed by bouts of driving faster than anything else on the road.
i) BMW drivers are omnipotent and, as such any fault is always the other drivers.
j) (Ref i above)Any hooting of a BMW is totally unjustified and should be rebuffed with what ever hand gestures and verbal abuse can be deployed in the available time.
k) (In the event of J above) It is entirely acceptable to pursue other road users who have "wrongly" hooted a BMW in order to extend the available time to continue to unleash what ever abuse might be appropriate.
l) BMW's are exempt from any law of physics which necessitates spacial awareness.
 
One thing about BMWs though, they may be nice, they may be expensice, and they may be fast, but 90% of them don's have working indicators.[:D]
 
I think BMW drivers have taken over the "Knob Mantle"previously given to Volvo drivers!
By the way...what does BMW stand for?[8|]
 
I drive a BMW... and yes I am guilty of flashing my headlights at people in the right hand lane of motorways who are going more slowley than I want to be going, when they could be in the middle or left lane.

Yes that also means that I break the speed limit on motorways.

And yes... If I had machine guns and rocket launchers fitted to either of my BMW's I would use them on people who sit in the right hand lane at 70mph when the middle lane is clear.

[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
 
ORIGINAL: cococola

I think BMW drivers have taken over the "Knob Mantle"previously given to Volvo drivers!
By the way...what does BMW stand for?[8|]
BMW Better-Make-Way, John sims makes the point about audi drivers,well ive just bought an audi so we will have to see if i my driving changes,the blokes on the audi forum refer to audi's as " the thinking mans bmw " !!!.
 
ORIGINAL: Mark Bennett

ORIGINAL: cococola

By the way...what does BMW stand for?[8|]

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, or in English, Bavarian Motor Works

Wrong again Mark!!

Bayersiche Mist Wagen or Bavarian Dung Car.......[;)]

Just as well Rolls rejected the Silver Mist name......
 
Bavarian Motor Works.

I've owned 4 BMW's and found them all to have perfectly good indicators.

I think the main problem is that "Mondeo Man" is now "BMW Man", as BMW 3 Series now outsell Mondeo's. So all those nobs who drive all of the time on the motorway without indicating are also finding themselves doing the same in the city.

I also think you can level criticism at most drivers / things nowadays pet hates include:-

Seeing the city gent who can afford £50k plus on the new sports car, or can afford to fuel the latest useless-size 4x4 or futility vehicle, and yet can't affford the extra £100 notes for a decent car kit.

Or those who indicate back into the inside lane on a motorway. But at least they go back into the inside lane, which is a criticism I can level towards anyone who has grown up south of Leeds and therefore is used to driving on roads with 3 lanes + (and therefore think the inside lane is for anything over 7.5 tonnes, 2CV's and Trabants)

There's also the group of people who most definately shouldn't be on the roads - those that the "driving" is second or lower on the priority list for the brain to process while driving. You can spot these people as they manage to cary on a conversation without pausing despite pulling off the most scary manouvres with no thought for other road users.

There's also those who wake up on a frosty morning and think it's perfectly acceptable to defrost the car whilst driving (albeit a lot slower, and a lot more eratically than normal).

Also those who think it's perfectly acceptable to be in the wrong lane in a queue so that they can push in later on in said queue, causing the freekin' queue that I'm stuck in to get longer - who the hell decided that the expediting of their journey was more important than mine (taxi's and buses - you know who you are!)

Oh, and if you ask my work colleagues they'll tell you I drive scary (I have pointed out that I am trained to Advanced standard and they are not, so probably they shouldn't comment[;)]), but I don't drive a BM at the moment, so that's proof that anything can be scary (even a Focus Diesel Estate!)


Oh, and my last pet hate (non- motoring) are those who think they are far more intelligent than the rest of the populous and so decide to comment on other people's grammer. That really get's my goat.


Anyway's thanks for the rant. Nice to see the forums back to usual service[:D]
 
ORIGINAL: Indi9xx
and yes I am guilty of flashing my headlights at people in the right hand lane of motorways who are going more slowley than I want to be going, when they could be in the middle or left lane.
Me too.

ORIGINAL: Indi9xx
Yes that also means that I break the speed limit on motorways.
It's difficult not to

ORIGINAL: Indi9xx
And yes... If I had machine guns and rocket launchers fitted to either of my BMW's I would use them on people who sit in the right hand lane at 70mph when the middle lane is clear.
If I could fit them in my 944, I'd join you.

BUT do your indicators work? [;)][;)]


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Strangely though over the last couple of years I have been involved in 3 rage incidents with the following 3 cars:
1) R33 skyline who thought the best way to cope after being humbled by a 944's cornering capability was to try and nudge me from behind of the A43.
2) Stuck up old sod in a Jag S type who tried to pull out in front of me, then stopped, then had a go when I didn't stop to let him out.
3) Complete meat head in some weird Rover 800 turbo thing who thought it was clever to drive 2 foot from my rear bumper around blind corners at "rapid" speeds, whom then reacted very very badly when I gave him the internationaly recognised symbol for someone who pleasures themselves.

So all in all BMW drivers like you said, but not actually driving BMW's.

Luckily I drive the SAAB most of the time and nobody bothers with that so incidents are rare these days.
 
ORIGINAL: carlmthompson


Oh, and my last pet hate (non- motoring) are those who think they are far more intelligent than the rest of the populous and so decide to comment on other people's grammer. That really get's my goat.


[:D]

you mean gets? [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
 
ORIGINAL: rob.kellock

ORIGINAL: carlmthompson


Oh, and my last pet hate (non- motoring) are those who think they are far more intelligent than the rest of the populous and so decide to comment on other people's grammer. That really get's my goat.


[:D]

you mean gets? [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

Grammar actually. [;)]
 
ORIGINAL: carlmthompson
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Also those who think it's perfectly acceptable to be in the wrong lane in a queue so that they can push in later on in said queue, causing the freekin' queue that I'm stuck in to get longer - who the hell decided that the expediting of their journey was more important than mine.....

Forgotten that one. That is sooooo BMW Driver [:D]
 
The only BMW owners I know well have bougt them "because they are rear wheel drive and handle better than front wheel drive cars". The problem is they have no interest in driving and wouldn't know what is meant by the term 'handle' in reference to cars.

Incidentally I remember reading a few articles in a serial in Evo magazine a year or so ago where they wanted to buy and prepare a car capable of lapping the ring in under eight minutes for £15k. They ended up going for one of the M3 models (the square one that looks like the car off Mad Max). I wonder if they could have done it alot cheaper by going for a 944 turbo? According to the website Dave of Northloop has lapped the ring in 8m19s in a standard turbo (with the already legendary Performance Friction brake pads). I'm sure you could easily shave the 19 secs off with a few relatively cheap mods to achieve that goal for alot less than £15k. I never did finish reading the series so never got to find out if they did it or not.
 
The only BMW owners I know well have bougt them "because they are rear wheel drive and handle better than front wheel drive cars"

Th only people I know who buy them, (I call them "clients") don't buy them. They are company cars and driven as such.




 

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