Has anyone else come across the phoenomena of a certain type of driver who see your MX5 as a challenge?
On way to work this morning I had an utter moron attempt to undertake on the inside lane of a roundabout nearly hit the car in that lane, then cut back across to behind me a few inches off my bumper.
To be clear I didn’t even know he was there until he turned up in my mirrors, no “racing” going on or anything like that on my part. I had obviously wounded his pride by overtaking him at some point on the dual carriageway and he took this as an invite to drive like a d*ck.
I’m sure the fact I was in a “hairdressers car” had something to do with it. Not sure what that makes his late model, low trim Fiesta though!
^ a lot. Also some van drivers who drive up your a*se as they seem to think they have a sports van and want to challenge. Until I point at the rear facing camera and all of a sudden I get a gap behind me.
Mine is lowered on BR Racing coilovers with bigger wheels, uprated discs etc …still working up the cash for the induction and exhaust upgrades, especially as my motorbike needs £1k of work this month
My favorite recent one was a Golf R who was clearly going for an undertake coming up to a roundabout (again in the wrong lane) - I saw him coming but my braking point was about 200 yards after his - never saw him again.
Not worried about what happens behind me… The front facing camera is another matter
Your camera memory card cannot be taken from you by the police without a warrant (I’ve been told) so if they ask for it, you can, apparently, say “no” but offer to send them images etc if you want to.
Of course, you can set the camera to not show/record speed data etc. if you are concerned. However, in the event of an accident your car does record certain data in its system which can be retrieved by investigators.
My rear camera, mounted on the wind jammer, is bright blue so easily visible.
And 2015/16 was a nightmare as lots of ppl wanted to see what the car was as they didn’t recognise it and they were clearly short sighted so had to drive up close to see the marque!
Sometimes when I get the boy racer in his Fiesta or similar trying the racing thing and getting up alongside, I prattle along in 5th gear, then just drop it a gear, sometimes two and floor it and laugh at them trying to catch up.
I only ever got my car called an “hairdresser car” once, that was a workmate. I then sold him an Vauxhall Omega auto saloon. I ribbed him forever about it, telling him it was an old mans car. He ended up letting his wife drive it and came to work on his motorbike to get his street cred back.
Never had anyone ever challenge me in the MX5, but in previous cars if it was at the lights I would just pull away really slowly to show I wasn’t playing that game.
Took my ND to France, the water from the channel was still running off the boot when we reach our first roundabout. I had the audacity to delay pulling away for a few extra seconds whilst getting my bearings and got a lovely long toot and and a 1 fingered welcome from a generous Frenchman
The worst car we had to be fair for ‘harassment’ was my wife’s Tangerine Scream Focus ST, now that attracted the attention of every bottom dweller in a 20 mile radius
i wonder if the person who threw the firework was a highly trained Astrophysicist, or maybe a medial researcher on the brink of ground breaking medical advancements, or a mathematician, thinking of applying the Fourier series as the Taylor series isn’t suitable for his current problem?
The driver could have been seriously injured. Its an Infiniti on temporary plates, so probably not hard to track down. Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon according to local law, ie jail time.
It happens here as well, people lobbing fireworks at cars.
