I have also asked, why!? Apparently they learned to park in between or next to another car and this makes it easy to line their car up!
Yes. the local driving instructors use the Tesco carpark as their training ground and the customerâs vehicles as their targets/markers! 
Other supermarket car parks are availableâŚ! 
Rob
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Ah! But not for miles, this is an out of town one and to get to any others Iâd have to drive over to the other side of town! If I travel to the town in the other direction it has 2 smaller supermarkets, both which rely on tiny carparks and on-street parking! 
I think Iâll end up with home delivery! 
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Home delivery is great for scrambled eggs from a lot of the driving I have seen of those mini vans
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New member here.
Very interesting! I didnât know what to expect when I bought my NC a few weeks ago. Believe it or not the first comment was from someone I vaguely knew who said â posh car, but a hairdresserâsâ At that time I hadnât formulated a reply, which would now be â thanks, yes I am also creative and believe in styleâ
As for unwanted attention from others - I had a 289 cobra with a V8 in it - and it didnât look that fast from the back - very few could out accelerate it - but coming to a corner was a different matter - well if only it had the NCâs handling which as you all know is brilliant.
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Iâd have said " Iâm so glad we met, youâre obviously in need of a new hairdresser"
My sonâs NB often sees off supposedly far quicker cars. But he did turbocharge it. Here it is showing a Supra the wayâŚ
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I do notice a lot of tailgating in the MX-5 but I just put it down to bad driving and the fact that they can see over the MX-5. They drive too close to everything, but they feel safe getting even closer to a car they can see past. I just increase the gap ahead. I try to present them with passing opportunities but some arenât interested, itâs just they way they drive. If I get really fed up I just lift off and let the car come to a halt if they donât drop back or pass. Of course you canât educate people like that but it does get rid of them.
Lots of drivers are basically rubbish at controlling their speed properly and maintaining separation -
when following, watch them catch the car ahead and then brake when they get there. This has always been the case, itâs not a new phenomenon.
Letting such people make you angry just means they are controlling how you feel, probably without even being conscious of what they are doing.
Iâve never had the hairdresser comment. If I did, Iâd just agree and laugh it off. I have nothing I need to prove.
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I often slow down and indicate left on straights to allow/encourage tailgaters to pass
I am amazed at how often they just seem to be confused by this and stubbornly refuse the opportunity.
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That. Not only that but it doesnât stop them tailgating - as I said, you canât educate people who are thick enough to drive that way in the first place.
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Not a new phenomenon. Back in 1971 I bought my first sports car, a 1967 Honda S800, before anyone had heard of a âhairdressers carâ. You would not believe the stupid things people would do just to pass the sports car. Then, as now, I just let them go, after all Iâm not the one with something to prove.
I have to say I wasnât challenged either on the way, or the way back after getting my No1 cut at the hairdresser (Barbers) this morningâŚ! 
Rob
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Well, I cut my own hair (no2 all over, hair and beard) so, technically I suppose I must be a hairdresser 
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I would have thought that the MX-5 was totally unsuitable as a hairdresserâs car, or is âsticky-up wind blownâ or âsquashed down after woolly hat removalâ a look nowadays?
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Thatâs the punchline to the old joke about the barberâs shop where one of the two has immaculate hair and the other is a mess.
Your hair should be cut by the one who produces the best result, ie the MX5 driver with the bad hair.
I do wonder whether the perception of tailgating in the MX-5, especially for those of us who also drive 4/5-seat cars, might be because we are used to having a longer physical distance between ourselves and the vehicle behind.
The vehicle behind might be driving at the same distance from our rear bumper as they would for any other car, but because we donât have a row of rear seats between us and them, it feels as if they are closer to us.
Personally, tailgating doesnât bother me in the least. I tend to drive in such a manner that I am rarely tailgated 
but on the rare occasions that it happens, I will try to open a gap in front of me for them to overtake into, or pull over (if itâs appropriate) to let them past, or just ignore them. Equally, Iâll drive as close to the car in front of me as I feel comfortable - if they donât like it, then thatâs their problem, not mine (and Iâve never run into the back of another car).
When I was at Uni one of my acquaintances was a farmerâs son. His dad could not abide tailgaters, even when he was driving the muddy Mk1 LWB Landy featuring instead of rear bumper a bit of 2" x 2" steel angle with tow ball, all painted day-glo orange.
He became so paranoid about it he arranged a large hopper with a solenoid release so he could drop a thin stream of pea-gravel or sharp sand in front of the off-side rear wheel to pepper the tailgater, or more officially grit the track leading to the farm.
Both he and the son have since passed on to greener fields so no harm in mentioning them now, but as a late teenager I was impressed by the quality of the home-engineering.
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Watching the traffic that goes past my place during the rush hours youâd be lucky to see a gap big enough to get another SUV between the vehicles, they all drive at the limit, 60 mph country road (ârat runâ), on their brakes, the brake lights are going on and off constantly, really frightening!
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Sounds normal then for the majority of the country.
Here too school run time we had to go out to an hospital appointment. We always leave plenty of time for our journey so take it easy if early. We couldnât do anything about the L driver in front of us, couldnât pass had to sit there crawling along, so did the tailgater behind us, loving it, not! 
I was disappointed when the L driver then turned left after about 1 mile, we didnât speed up much either.