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Me and a colleague were driving back from a meeting yesterday in stop/start traffic on the A19. Conditions weren't great as it was raining but visibility was fine and it certainly wasn't dark.
Anyway, as we're crawling up the slip road for our exit a chap driving a brand new 18 plate A6 estate in lane 2 drives straight into the back of the Golf in front of him. Not a big impact, maybe 10 mph but give him quite a shove. Bloke in the Golf jumps out, has a look at the back of his motor and just shrugs his shoulders (as no visible damage to car) says something to the fella in the Audi and just drives off!
However, as they start moving again Mr Audi continues to properly tailgate the Golf despite having literally just crashed his brand new car due to tailgating and not reacting in time! Seriously WTF is wrong with people? This **** moron couldn't correlate tailgating with crashing his car despite having not 30 seconds prior just crashed his car through tailgating. He was lucky the fella in the Golf couldn't give a monkeys about his car. There would have been absolute hell on if someone just crashed into the back of me then tailgated me immediately after.
Guess he didn't plump for the radar collision avoidance thingymebob!
Crash 4 cash.
Crash 4 cash.
In a brand new and very expensive Audi? And when it's likely to be deemed your fault?
Look at the adverts on tv.
they are actively looking for ****ers to sell them to, its no surprise when they occasionally succeed.
it says a lot nowadays, that when you see an audi being driven considerately, you notice it.
i saw a ford being driven badly once. true story.
I don't believe you.. it's always a white diesel Audi (or in this case a black one)
i saw a ford being driven badly once. true story.
was it a red Sierra? think I know the guy.
I don’t believe you.. it’s always a white diesel Audi (or in this case a black one)
i was in a black diesel audi so it must have been my fault
it says a lot nowadays, that when you see an audi being driven considerately, you notice it.
I honestly can’t say I notice any particular difference in the quality of driving in any given make of car, with the possible exception of the sort of ‘driving god’ who has an M-Series BMW, like the knob who drove down a steep, very slippery snow covered road where a colleague and I had slid to a stop, and who, having missed taking out the wing of a parked car only by virtue of two of us pushing him away, slid straight into the front of a Transit who was also stuck. And who, a little later, tried tearing off back up the hill, only to slide back down, narrowly missing the Transit he slid into earlier. A class example of the sort of driving I tend to see from BMW drivers, but is more widely spread across other makes. It’s synonymous with bloody van drivers though, being tailgated at 80 in the outside lane by yet another dickhead in a large van is a regular, everyday occurrence.
I bought an Audi 10 days or so ago - man, the standard of my driving has declined since then. I feel so much more entitled all of a sudden.
The 2nd worst thing after tailgating - it's when you leave a sensibe but not excessive gap between you and the car in front and some twunt feels the need to pull out and fill it with their car. For extra twuntishness they are going 10mph slower than you and have the power of an ant fart to work with to do anything about accelerating up to speed.
Well, obviously im not saying it’s only audi drivers who drive like dicks, yes you get dicks in all makes of car/van/whatever.
but it does ‘seem’ to be more prevalent in audis
i accept that it could be confirmation bias of course.
The force is pretty strong with white diesel evoques as well.
white diesel evoques
While we are making totally unscientific and unsubstantiated allegations, I'd say it's pretty rare to see any SUV driven by someone who seems to have a clue. Range Rover Sports are probably the worst, but M5s and Q7s are close behind.
Was the driver Ronnie Pickering?
Who?
Ronnie Pickering!
Who?!
RONNIE PICKERING!!
He drives a Citroen doesn't He?
Nothing to do with Audis, but a guy in a golf ticked all the d!ckh3@d boxes the other day. Slip road onto M6. Backed up all the way onto the roundabout. Sliproad goes from two lanes to one. Guy on a golf goes down the outside of a massive coach in front of me (he's in the lane that is about to disappear). Coach doesn't move across (probably didn't even know he was there). He starts to lean on horn, and when the coach doesn't move across (it had nowhere to go really) stops and gets out of car and starts laying into the driver (verbally). Then gets back into car and accelerates wildly, gets in front of coach (whilst clipping a couple of cones) and then gets out of car to remonstrate with driver again.
Thing is he moved forward about three feet in front of the coach and then sat in a traffic jam with the rest of us for about 30 mins before it started to move again.
Dummfopf!!
I don’t believe you.. it’s always a white diesel Audi (or in this case a black one)
White diesel Audi drove into the back of my car 2 years ago. Driver using Google Maps on his phone propped by the gear lever. Police not interested.
So not surprised your Audi driver did this. Having seen one join a motorway at 90mph, swerve into lane 4 and then drive right into the back of a line of stationary traffic anything is possible.
Maybe it's an autonomous test Audi and he's just the guardian gathering data (or maybe he's just a typical Audi driver...)
Foggy this morning, silver grey audi estate overtook me on a 30mph residential street, doing 40-45 maybe, no lights on. Some people are idiots, some of them drive Audis
Ahh the old fog coloured car flying about in fog with no lights on. What a tit.
That's a nightmare Flaperon. There are far too many people still on their phones whilst driving. People can barely walk and text never mind pilot a couple of tonnes of metal and text.
Today's bellend was actually a grey petrol Audi. Still an Audi like.. Tailgated me for 4 miles then overtook as soon as we hit a dual carriageway, jumped back in front then slammed his brakes on for a wall of traffic. Nice one mate.
but it does ‘seem’ to be more prevalent in audis
i accept that it could be confirmation bias of course.
Why would you buy an Audi rather than a cheaper VW/Skoda/Seat that in nearly all cases is built on the same platform, with the same engines, uses the same switchgear. Some minor cosmetic differences, a worse ride quality (by most accounts) and a higher price. I'm guessing the insecurities that lead someone to buy an audi also lead to the whole MGIF, queue jumping, speeding, drive like a dick thing.
I'm not sure that logic stands up. If you are insecure and want to show off, you buy a BMW, a Merc or a Jag, all of which are more 'flash' than an Audi. If you are even more insecure you buy an SUV from one of those manufacturers.
Fiat 500. Yet to see one not being driven by a ****.
Driver in Skoda Octavia overtook me plus 2 other cars in front, doing well over 70 on a 60mph A road in thick fog, and by thick I mean about 50 yards visibility. How he knew there was nothing coming in the opposite direction when he started the manouver is beyond me. Do Skoda have some sort of radar tracking that can detect cars coming towards you? Sounds like something Audi (VAG) might want to develop for their cars...
If you are insecure and want to show off, you buy a BMW, a Merc or a Jag, all of which are more ‘flash’ than an Audi. If you are even more insecure you buy an SUV from one of those manufacturers.
Not sure. SUV's yes (the whole "I can't bring myself to buy an estate car" - wtf is that about?). Jags don't seem to attract the same sort of dicks - I think they still have an old/sensible hangover. Audi completely falls into the same category as the BMW but there aren't cheaper versions of BMW with a different badge so the dickhead quotient in Audis is higher.
If you want to narrow it down to models then Mercedes A class and BMW 1 series seem to be particularly badly driven.
The other model I avoid at all costs on the bike is black Vauxhall Astras. seem to particularly attract dicks in the city.
Why would you buy an Audi rather than a cheaper VW/Skoda/Seat that in nearly all cases is built on the same platform, with the same engines, uses the same switchgear. Some minor cosmetic differences, a worse ride quality (by most accounts) and a higher price. I’m guessing the insecurities that lead someone to buy an audi also lead to the whole MGIF, queue jumping, speeding, drive like a dick thing.
My theory is the other way around. Audi, especially the boring ones, are just another VAG car but are definately a tiny bit nicer to be in. A tiny bit. You (or your company) would buy one for that extra comfort if you spend a lot of time in your car. A lot of time in your car means a lot of miles. They are also quite popular. It stands to reason therefore that with that many driver miles they are statistically more likely to be involved in 'incidents'. They are also easier to be driven quickly than some other small engined cars. They are therefore more likely to be the overtaker/agressor in the 'incident' rather than the slower 'victim'. The reason I don't have many memories of incidents with Morgan drivers on the motorway is not necessarily because Morgan drivers are not cocks.
And some of them are shouty cocks. There is that too.
M2s. Been driven at by two in the last three weeks. One was in that BMW blue colour synonymous with knobbers. I think anyone driving a beemer in that blue should take a retest 😉
They seem to crash into houses quite a lot too..
https://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2015/12/26/audis-in-houses/
extra comfort if you spend a lot of time in your car. A lot of time in your car means a lot of miles...... They are also easier to be driven quickly than some other small engined cars
extra comfort? Audi Ride Quality
performance? engines are the same across VAG group.
performance? engines are the same across VAG group.
Did I say performance? No, I said easier to be driven quickly. Different. Try driving on the motorway in a tinny 1lt clio with the engine buzzing away and the road noise barely muted by the non existent sound deadening and then do the same in an A4. 80mph feels very much more relaxing in the A4. Ergo, easier.
And yes, I still maintain the Audi is nicer to be in than the Skoda equivalent taking into account ride quality, interior materials used and some of the extra tech.
misread -thought you were saying it was easier to drive an audi quicker than a VW or Skoda.
Cars have generally got so much bigger and quicker it's easy to drive almost anything fast these days. Even small cars insulate you from your surroundings so much that you have no real impression of speed any more.
Why would you buy an Audi rather than a cheaper VW/Skoda/Seat that in nearly all cases is built on the same platform
well people are stupid and succumb to marketing, and peer pressure - so a large percentage of buyers will be buying them because they think it is a status symbol.
Same with Beats headphones, diamond rings, TAG watches, BMWs, etc.
I have noticed a higher frequency of bad undertaking on the motorway recently, dangerous enough to make me think I should have a dash cam.
Somebody drove their Audi into the back of my Defender once. Lol. Left a nice imprint of the tow hitch in the front of their grill.
Why would you buy an Audi rather than a cheaper VW/Skoda/Seat that in nearly all cases is built on the same platform
Same platform doesn't necessarily mean same quality of build, just same parts bin. I've currently got an Octavia VRS, has an awful lot in common with the Golf GTI of the same age however paint, build quality and finish are far inferior to that of the Audi/VW equivalent.
I won't be having another... in fact I quite fancy an older S4 Avant (apologies in advance) I won't get a white one though - don't worry.
@HoratioHufnagel - Ouch! some of the Audis in Houses content is not for the faint of heart.
There's a cock here in Lancaster with an A3.
They've actually painted it in urban camouflage, so it's harder for other road users to see.
How could anybody be so stupid/selfish?
APF
@alexpalacefan I take your urban camo A3 and raise you the twunt in the white T5 I saw on the M25 yesterday who’d replaced the headlamp daytime running lights with… red ones.
pffft, forget camo or red lights.
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