The fast lane'¦ what is it!?

[edelschmetterling]

ORIGINAL: clyde

But that is one of the (many) good things about driving a 993, or indeed any Porsche, you just indicate, drop a gear or two and blast out into the middle lane in front of them. Or is that only me....?

Yes, but you have to travel at the same speed as the car on the right first, then pedal to the metal, pause, indicate and then use the 'over taking' lane... What!?! This is almost as strange a law as the one that stipulates defending yourself from an intruder in your own home is illegal, no doubt if you say you were defending someone else that's probably okay. [>:]

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Do not overtake on the left or move to a lane on your left to overtake. In congested conditions, where adjacent lanes of traffic are moving at similar speeds, traffic in left-hand lanes may sometimes be moving faster than traffic to the right. In these conditions you may keep up with the traffic in your lane even if this means passing traffic in the lane to your right. Do not weave in and out of lanes to overtake.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_069862

 

[harry]

Most generally get the message when you undertake them. Hate idiots on the road []

 

[clyde]

I seemed to have caused a bit of confusion here. I was replying to Andy's post concerning the bloke in the middle lane slowly overtaking him when Andy was in the inside lane. So Andy would have been in front of the "slow overtaker" when he accelerated and as such he's not undertaking him (unless of course he was in his wife's oil burner in which case by the time it had wound itself up the overtaker may have past him [] ).

I would never advocate undertaking anyone on the Queen's highway [8|].

As an aside, you'd think with all the money the Queen has she would keep her highways in a better state of repair wouldn't you?

 

[edelschmetterling]

ORIGINAL: clyde

I would never advocate undertaking anyone on the Queen's highway [8|].

As an aside, you'd think with all the money the Queen has she would keep her highways in a better state of repair wouldn't you?

'Hear hear'... God save the Queen ...oh, and make the Government put our Road Taxes to their rightful use! Oh, and make the Government stick to its promise and open the Dartford bridge to toll free traffic. Oh, and make the Government let traffic flow freely so we can live in a Greener Britain. Oh, and make white van drivers and taxis have consideration for other users of the road even if it's just by giving them the ability to use their indicators. Oh, and stop stupid lorry drivers 'over taking' ever. Oh, and stop people hogging the 'over taking' lane, that's an important one. Oh, and...

 

[harry]

ORIGINAL: clyde

I seemed to have caused a bit of confusion here. I was replying to Andy's post concerning the bloke in the middle lane slowly overtaking him when Andy was in the inside lane. So Andy would  have been in front of the "slow overtaker" when he accelerated and as such he's not undertaking him (unless of course he was in his wife's oil burner in which case by the time it had wound itself up the overtaker may have past him [] ).

I would never advocate undertaking anyone on the Queen's highway [8|].

As an aside, you'd think with all the money the Queen has she would keep her highways in a better state of repair wouldn't you?

I think the OP meant the outermost lane. I would not undertake an idiot in the middle lane, I would move out to the outer lane having flashed the idiot in the middle lane. One cannot overtake on the guardrail if you even tried [].

 

[marlin]

An one else googled ---------- Auspicium melioris aevi []

 

[jdpef356]

ORIGINAL: clyde

ORIGINAL: Andy B Aces High

Clyde, Easy in the Porsche...not so easy in the missus Polo Diesel.

Well that's what you get for driving one of Germany's "other" marques Andy []

Steady on now, you can't go round slating the 'other' marque, after all the Polo Diesel are all part of our family now []

 

[Porker993]

ORIGINAL: marlin

An one else googled ---------- Auspicium melioris aevi []

I kinda knew what it meant, from my schoolboy Latin.

Can't make any sense of it in this context though. Perhaps someone can explain.

 

[gresley]

Yes I have - I think we are all hoping for it!

Andrew W.

 

[edelschmetterling]

ORIGINAL: Porker993

ORIGINAL: marlin
An one else googled ---------- Auspicium melioris aevi []

I kinda knew what it meant, from my schoolboy Latin.

Can't make any sense of it in this context though. Perhaps someone can explain.

In reference to the 993, last of the Air Cooled Engine being a 'Token of a better age'...

 

[ianpop]

Go to Germany and it's expected. They all drive like that - even the diesel Polo. Wow betide anyone who loiters!

 

[944s2]

The few times I've been in Germany the slow cars almost take your front bumper off as they know what may be coming in Outside lane!

 

[clyde]

ORIGINAL: ianpop

Go to Germany and it's expected. They all drive like that - even the diesel Polo. Wow betide anyone who loiters!

But it's OK to overtake on the left in Germany Ian [][][]

 

[Porker993]

ORIGINAL: edelschmetterling

ORIGINAL: Porker993

ORIGINAL: marlin
An one else googled ---------- Auspicium melioris aevi []

I kinda knew what it meant, from my schoolboy Latin.

Can't make any sense of it in this context though. Perhaps someone can explain.

In reference to the 993, last of the Air Cooled Engine being a 'Token of a better age'...

Yes, well, I would agree with that.

 

[Johnny C]

Dare I say it, anyone with a 993 who hasn't at some stage undertaken a lanehogger has got the wrong car

Cantrary to most people, I found that when I switched from a golf GTI to a 3.2 (many yaers ago now!) I had far less of a problem with lanehoggers. I thought I'd have had more, but most people seemed to respect that a porker behind is probably wanting to get past.

Since I got HIDs on the 993, people shift over even quicker. Not because I flash them, I just tend to drive with the lights on and I got the whitest and brightest ones so maybe people think I'm an unmarked copcar or something.

I must say, when I've driven in the US where you can undertake on the freeways it's far more civilised, people don't seem to hog the outer lane, no point I suppose.

 

[edelschmetterling]

ORIGINAL: Johnny C
Since I got HIDs on the 993, people shift over even quicker. Not because I flash them, I just tend to drive with the lights on and I got the whitest and brightest ones so maybe people think I'm an unmarked copcar or something.

I'm going to get those head lights then... ;-)