[Closed] Car models driven like ****

Probably all driven by cyclists 🙂

All of them it has nothing to do with the case it's the driver.

Round here it's the BMW 1 series and the Merc A180.

The problem is they can be had for about £49* a month on PCP so are within the means of millenial dicks who don't want to be delayed by fripperies like speed limits and traffic signals.

*this may be an exaggeration but you get my drift

Vauxhall Astras. Not all of them, but of all the poor driving I see it's often an Astra.

All of them it has nothing to do with the case it’s the driver.

Drivers have no say in their choosing the car they buy?

Drivers have no say in their choosing the car they buy?

Errrr! Yes they do which is why it's all models not assigned ones.

Round our way it is grey import Toyota Previas (seriously). Only dangerous in supermarket car parks. Avoid if you value your dint free panels.

It's white beemers round here. They can't see my shogun lwb & just drive on the wrong side of the road at me. I just turn the truck off & wait 🙄

Any model volvo (including the middle aged guy texting in his white estate who drifted left across a lane into me putting me over the kerb on Tuesday morning - now with a wobbly passenger door mirror).
Almost all seat - sold as sporty cars, driven by morons.
Mini (anything) driven by women with no idea as to the size of it, and definitely with no interest in the welfare or safety of anybody outside of it.
Any vehicle with Addison Lee written on it.

Around here:

White 4x4s, I was carved up a few hours ago by a white RR Sport who stopped in the box junction I was stopped before, then passed another 2 cars and took the roundabout in the wrong lane to get to the shop about 45 seconds before everyone else.

Passat CC, not so much now, but it seems to be the car of choice by the local window/kitchen/conservatory sales reps, always ‘Blue motion’ spec to save on the BIK, always driven hard in every gear and especially over speed bumps.

S3/RS3 Golf R, 140i M Sport, driven aggressively by the local young entrepreneurs in the ‘powders industry’ making the most of opportunities County Lines presents to them. The local Police have a small fleet of unmarked Focus STs supposedly because of this. Coming to an auction house near you soon, Cat D “light T-Pack damage”.

Ratty £1000 BMWs 0-60 in a cloud of soot right outside a school in your knackered 20 year old BMW? Why not eh?

One of the worst drivers I witnessed in traffic on the M3 was a lady in her late 50's in a Honda Jazz, made use of all lanes for passing and weaving. Then made a beeline for the junction across several lanes of traffic as for braking distance, apparently it's just a myth.

These days I don't see a specific car type as a problem, just reasonable and douche bag driving across loads of different makes and models.

Vauxhall Corsa
Nissan Quashquai/Juke

All of em!

Fiat 500 with an (usually) young driver in it. No idea of the highway code, speed limits, braking distances nor the need to leave the mobile phone alone while behind the wheel.

Edit Also an inability to stay between the white lines on single carriageway roads.

Faux by fours around here

White Range Rovers seem to be the weapon of choice in S.Wales at the moment.
And yes it's all about the driver but certain types of car are more attractive to aggressive, arrogant drivers.

Good to see us white van men have moved in to the good books. Not a mention yet 🤨

I live on the outskirts of Solihull so any SUV made by JLR with a registration plate beginning with OU/OE/O#... (Usually denotes it's a company car). In rush hour they're right up your harris, 'needing' to be where you are in the road. Outside of rush hour they're generally driven by the partners/families of employees and have zero knowledge or respect for any rules of the road or etiquette for other users.

Hyundai i10.
Either stopped or 40 mph. No in between.

Round here it’s the BMW 1 series and the Merc A180.

Yeah, RLS I call them..

Spot them a mile off.

I always hang back, I like to watch the carnage.

White BMW 1 series round here too. And all types of Merc. And new golfs.

Scaffolding/roadworks vans.

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Carrying on from above ^^</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We have an abundance of 11 plate Free-Lunders which hog the middle of the road, be it motorway/dual-carriageway/country lane, steadfastly belching clouds of vile grey smoke behind them. I’m constantly surprised at the open mouthed drivers, maybe it’s because their mode of transport has actually started for once, or maybe their carehomes only 3miles away...</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">A diminishing number of Discovery/RangeRover M&S wearing Worzel Gummage types, presumably most have now broken down or in the dealers having repairs.. Ewokes down this way are becoming scarce, I presume the owners can’t afford the £11k BIK and have finally chosen a suitable vehicle for reliably getting to the call center on time.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Passats, whatever variety they come in. Another RLS and essentially flatchat swerving between static and moving targets.. this might annoy some on here because at some point it was the Vehicle Du Jour... I always look out for the smashed alloys and grubby outlook.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Audi A5’s are another vehicle that’s ripe for and RLS, driven flatchat everywhere by the bloke who drives with one hand on the steering wheel at 12o’clock, sporting the cocked head and jaunty right shoulder, 90’s blue mirror shades and a 12” cheese and bacon Subway sat firmly in his lap. Audi marketing “gurus” did well here, the never quite made it types, always needs to prove itself, divorced twice and now dating a smooth tanned 19yr old chavette.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Also, before I call it a day, those new A2 Slime/T-Woc’s driven by the Gammon Wife... At odds with their own family, Nigel’s off on one of his “lads weekends” at the shoot where the strippers are haggard and cheap. Kids just left Uni and always fail to call home.. so ultimately waywardly distracted whilst driving “literally” anywhere.</span></p>
And that’s it really, most other drivers/vehicles seem to fit right in the middle of “oh, who is that up my arse!/do it turn off here or is it the next one?? Oh God, it’s this junction!!!”

One last one.. I promise i’ll shut up after this... it’s not the driving per-se’ it’s the car(s) those that have AMG/M/RS anything... for some reason (and I think it’s because they’re still wearing nappies and need to vent some gas) it’s the driving towards you, dropping 5gears and revving the tits of it so it makes that stupid growl/pop/growl sound... whilst they sit in their shiny carbon cockpit cell.

🤷‍♂️🤣👊

I've definitely noticed an increase in asshole Skoda Octavia drivers, specifically the VRS model. Is Skoda the new Audi / BMW?

There's one particular prat who drives a blue one on the same morning commute as me (Skipton to Harrogate) who seems to enjoy overtaking multiple cars on blind bends despite oncoming traffic, only to slam the anchors on and hold everyone up who he's just overtaken while he waits to make a right turn at the same crossroads, every morning. If you are reading this and think that might be you, you're a moron and need to sort your life out.

Those and any 18 year old lad who can now get hold of a brand new Fiesta ST on PCP for peanuts. Try not to take any innocents out as you inevitably take your own life.

If you are reading this and think that might be you, you’re a moron and need to sort your life out.

I drive a blue Octavia 😳

But I'm not flash enough to have a VRS or live in Yorkshire.

based on today's 5ish hours of driving...

a 2002 red Audi TT
a red Citroen C3

the usual complement of

the BMW 1 series and the Merc A180

although none of those came as close to causing accidents as 2 abovementioned.

Special mentions also to the 1960s (ish) Land Rover which struggled to hold 40mph and dropped to about 20 going up Wenlock Edge, and the flatbed truck with a Transit on the back which was merrily spanking it at 80mph+ in lane 3 down the M5.

Ah yes, and the guy whose caravan started fishtailing down the M54 as he came out of the lea of an artic.

It's amazing you don't see more crashes, isn't it?

Around these parts it’s usually some entitled knob driving a car or a van.
Which species of van or car is entirely random. For example, the driver who came close to writing off my car was driving a Berlingo, a car I have a particular hatred for, along with the Partner.
During the 100,000 miles-plus I’ve driven over the last three years, I’ve seen enough poor driving across such a wide variety of different vehicles I no longer single out any particular make.
Well, that’s not entirely true, BMW’s do soo prone to having ****s behind the wheel who believe that their chosen mode of transport imbues them with superhuman driving abilities.

Those and any 18 year old lad who can now get hold of a brand new Fiesta ST on PCP for peanuts. Try not to take any innocents out as you inevitably take your own life.

All I would say is I have noticed the quality of driving has reduced dramatically as the popularity of pcp leased cars has increased, as lots of people can afford nice big overpowered cars that they don't have a clue how to control and have to drive it flat out everywhere so that they feel morally superior.

The current saturation of the second hand car market as a result of all the ex lease cars means that its a matter of when, not if, the uk car market will crash and put an end to that anyway, but thats a topic for another time.

That and the fact that traffic cops are rarer than unicorns here in central scotland means that most drivers just aren't scared of the police anymore and so will just drive like eejits.

Golf GTD, and of course 'I couldn't afford a Golf, so I got a Seat instead' drivers.

Disappointingly small Audis get an honourable mention.

Audi Q-anything

Presumably they're like a reverse TARDIS and really small inside so their drivers forget that it's actually bigger than a go-kart?

Before performing optical illusion of either being so big it has to take up a minimum of two parking bays, making its disabled owner appear perfectly healthy, rendering kids invisible or bending time and hiding passengers when parked in the drop off bay at the supermarket.

Any Seat with a Cupra or FR badge. Based on a very thorough survey during a recent 5 hr motorway stint. Every other knobber who wanted to get past me to then get stuck behind the thing I was stuck behind was in one.

But I’m not flash enough to have a VRS or live in Yorkshire.

Not flash enough to live in Yorkshire? Have you been to West Yorkshire?

making its disabled owner appear perfectly healthy

Not all disability is visible, eg Crohns and Asthma

One of the worst drivers I witnessed in traffic on the M3 was a lady in her late 50’s in a Honda Jazz

This^^^

A workmate is also a part time traffic cop. He says they are regarded as ground zero for the most erratic driving, blindly pulling out on other cars and just being on a different universe.

Personally I think SUVs are the worst. Oversized, late on the school run "I have to get there at all costs" and due to their ridiculous size & poor handling (over-reliant on tyre size to compensate for laws of physics), coupled with the lack of spacial awareness of the average SUV driver, makes for a dangerous combination.

Anything with a private plate

Anything with a private plate

Or a massive Leeds Utd/Rhinos back window sticker. Guaranteed muppet.

On my STW motoring thread bullshit bingo card I have a line already.

Around my way the financed 1 Series, and A180 are bad. But the worst is the white Audi A1 financed by a nail technician who is paying zero attention to the road, it's just who the car attracts.

Anything (but usually a Prius) with a TfL private hire badge in the back window.

I nominate the grey Range Rover.
I see no real correlation between shit driving and car model, but 2 days the other week, I had a grey Range Rover overtake me (on the bike) at about 45mph on a 30, practically barging all the other cars out of the way. I usually keep up with cars on this bit of my commute. Looked back at the vid footage and it was 2 different Range Rovers. So 2 tools have chosen the same model of car there then.

I agree with bullandbladder.

Nissan Qashqai, Juke and I'll add the Kia Sportage. I genuinely fear for my life when I see any of these when I'm scuttling about on the bike. They're usually being driven by distrated parents who are driving to school or kids party like their hair is on fire, using facebook at the same time.

Couldn't agree more about the comments regarding JLR vehicles near any of their sites and even in their site car parks, great advert for the company...

Anything with a name that sounds fast. Suzuki Swift, Skoda Rapid... it was wrong of the Austin Allegro and it's still wrong today.

BMW SUVs seem to be regularly piloted by the blatantly self unaware. I was turning right at a set of lights on the bike and the driver of an X3 or somesuch decides they wish to overtake me as I'm halfway through the turn and then failed when they realised there was a traffic island where they were aiming for. Being told "learn to give way you stupid *****" didn't seem to sit too well with them for some reason.

I'm surprised the VW Scirocco has not had a mention. New shape not the old boxy one. I'm yet to come across one driven well. The best (worst) was a young lad who came straight out of a blind junction to my left about 1s before he would have just T-boned me, straight onto the wrong side of the road causing a 3rd road user to emergency stop.. spectacular lack of sense/judgement/skill/anything really. Also Nissan Jukes.. I live in the North East and I think a lot are on employee/friends/family discount from the factory in Sunderland.. they're almost always driven at wholly inappropriate speeds for almost any circumstance, especially speed bumps. The 2nd owners will no doubt pay the price on a "2 year old, 1 owner, 16K miles car" with wrecked shockers.

Yours, M135i driver..

Last one! Honest Guv.

We have recently had an influx of “new money” into the village, from where it came no-one knows (nor cares) so, having had the decent 1930’s 7bed houses on the river knocked down in favour of  3 separate building constructions of 4 glass greenhouse boxes attached to each other by some granite corridors, separate mezzanine floors etc. (You can see directly inside from the river, I doubt they thought of that 🤷‍♂️🥴😱) We now have a handful of the latest Ferrari WhatsitCamv36/4exhausts/in Red (obvz) that blat past the local school gates in first (obvz) and get all hufty when the crossing lady steps out.. sitting there tapping the go-pedal...

Thats not my main point..

So, obvz is obvz, those FerrariWhatsitCamv36 are accompanied by those Bentley BentWonger’s.. of the three that are from each property, all 3 are Black with Murder Glass, all 3 have private reg-plates (IIRC one is SE7ven, all mashed together to make someone’s bad impression of a name... at least that’s what I think it says) Anyway, driving, yeah.. flat chat past the local school (as you’d expect) to the top roundabout and just pushes out into oncoming traffic and floors it 200mtrs to the next roundabout and so-on, and so-on until they hit the motorway junction.

Its hard to see whose driving, but I doubt it’s the male of the species in this instance purely for the fact that it’s driven very irregular like they’re texting at the same time. Now Bentley must have spent billions developing such a gopping vehicle, but I’m pretty sure it should be able to go slowly and not be all jerky and wobbly...

🤷‍♂️🥳👎

Its hard to see whose driving, but I doubt it’s the male of the species in this instance purely for the fact that it’s driven very irregular like they’re texting at the same time

sounds fair. Men never drive erratically

sounds fair. Men never drive erratically

I think the whole post was composed while driving tbf.

I drive a white BMW m140i and and range rover. Maybe I'm stw most hated driver.😂

I drive an X3, downsized from an X6. And mrs Tuboflard drives a Range Rover Evoque. In grey. With a private plate. I’ll get my coat.

The old stereotypes still exist - on the way to a shop ride on Saturday morning I see an Angel eye'd BMW 3 series behind me, which then proceeds to tailgate a L driver about 12" behind their bumper, then does the same to another car, then another - when he finally passes me on a DC, it's a 320d, 20's male driver.

I also steer clear of base level Micras (pensioner who will be driving at 25mph everywhere) and 10-15 year old jaguars which look like new, with a panama hat on the rear shelf... 😀

As a biker, you learn to read drivers and their car types pretty quickly 😀

After owning a relatively fast hothatch, and it has a rather striking colour, I have all manner of idiots who either try to race me, cut me up, or won't let me merge onto the carriageway.

Today I had a driver instructor in a 2.0 litre diesel Astra try to race me. I say try, as he was flooring it everywhere, but it's not exactly a pokey car.

I drive quick when the roads are quiet and I give people loads of room - if you tailgate someone you either can't see if the roads clear to overtake, or they try to drive faster than they'd like to, and you can't overtake.

If I was going to stereotype, the most stupid things I've seen are by people with a car that is a bit quick, but actually not that fast.

It's a real spread round here. All marques, taxi and school-runners. Urban 4x4's and granny wagons are all terrible. Between the sense of entitlement, disregard for signalling and looking, then the willful risk-taking and punishment driving....

stay safe out there and keep your wits about you.

Hmm, I drive a black VW Amarok and Mrsbits drives a white Q5.
We’re currently on holiday and have a rental Nissan Juke.
I think I can compete for hated status!

Driving is definitely getting worse and worse; congestion makes people impatient and there are so many high performance cars on the road that people treat the Queen's highway like a giant game of Grand Theft Auto. We had the misfortune to arrive at Beaconsfield Services on the M40 at the same time as an informal gathering of car tuners and it was a horrible experience.

I don't know where it will all end; a glance at any car dealership will tell you there are far too many cars out there looking for drivers so something has to implode soon. We live just outside a Lancashire mill town and the noise at night of racing German sports saloons is irritating and sometimes wakes us up especially when one shortcuts down our street and shakes the building with the blast of noise. I'm sure most of the drivers haven't informed their insurers about the mods so are effectively un-insured.

Not all disability is visible, eg Crohns and Asthma

Yes but.............

One 19 plate range rover in a disabled bay might be a 40 something person with severe autism which makes dealing with crowds difficult, but has channeled that focus into something good, created and sold a silicon valley unicorn and bought a £150k range rover.

The other nine hundred and ninety nine are just self entitled pricks who don't want to park their shiny car with the proles and the drop off bay was already full with a Bently Bentayga. The only disability they have is affluenza.

Mini (anything) driven by women with no idea as to the size of it

That's because men have been telling them that this (holds thumb and middle finger four and a half inches apart) is seven inches.

houses on the river knocked down in favour of 3 separate building constructions of 4 glass greenhouse boxes attached to each other by some granite corridors, separate mezzanine floors etc. (You can see directly inside from the river, I doubt they thought of that

You may remember when they knocked down the Square Rigger at Port Hamble and built those offices with the flats above, with nice big balconies overlooking the marina. I was down there early one morning to-ing and fro-ing from some boat in preparation for some event when a couple emerged in matching bright red dressing gowns to take their morning tea. After half an hour of everybody passing looking up at them they retreated indoors and I don't think I've ever seen anybody on those balconies since. Don't know what car they had though.

It's getting more and more difficult to stereotype these days. Poor driving can come from anywhere at any time, it's not just German rep wagons and white vans you need to watch out for. I simply assume that everyone is a clueless nimrod.

You may remember when they knocked down the Square Rigger at Port Hamble and built those offices with the flats above

I do!

My mate bought one. I thought £270k for a flat was outrageous back then... Seen the price of them now 😳🤯

Those "boxes" are on my side of the river.. you don't have to squint hard to see then tucked under Holly Hill Woods.. and the BentWongas parked outside.

I did see a rather lovely Bentley Convertible about an hour ago.. Painted in a very subtle sage green and olive green hood.. Driven by a young bloke in shades, top down, cruising up Brook Lane...

Looked lovely...

Old BMWs belching smoke and tailgating, Audi RS3 and Focus ST anything thinking its ok to drive 2 inches behind.

Latest trend.... convoy's of Lambo's, Porsches, GTR's etc flying round blind corners at warp speed through the villages on the way to and up Hartside Pass with go-pros stuck all over to record the event. Ultimately it will spoil the fun for all when average speed cameras get stuck up all over.

A pox on all SUV and aspirational Audi owners*

* I drive an A4, wife drives a CRV, son has just had chickenpox.

Anyway...

I was particularly pleased to be tailgated by a Honda Jazz this morning.

I had to double check the rear view to confirm that the lady driving it was using a mirror clipped to the steering wheel to allow the use of both hands to apply make up. Double bubble, whilst driving through the town centre.

I did two circuits round the next available roundabout.

On this morning's commute it was a Vauxhall Insignia driver showing their frustration at having the shittest company car in the car park by driving like a total numpty.

Ok not a car but Stagecoach coaches are driven pretty aggressively through town round here.

Driving home from work yesterday I stopped to wait for line of cars to drive under a narrow arched bridge. The Hilux driver flashed his lights and waved, the X5 driver flashed his lights, the focus driver looked straight ahead and the Land cruiser driver waved. Knobs are knobs. Around here a lot of them seem to drive MK 4 golfs with rusty rear arches/ kerbed alloy(s)/ lamp post dented boot/ combination of the 3.

I nominate me in my Kia Stonic 1ltr petrol. I may be old with silver hair but I do like to give it some beans which can p**** some people off😹