67? Bit of a kid, Iām a 78 year old boy racerā¦ with a spotless licence.
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I would be so temptedā¦ 
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My conscious mind thinks Iām in my twenties 
My brain and body however sezā¦ āWho you kidding pal ā¦think againā 
Also spotless licenceā¦so far ā¦ 
But why do I get the occassional blast of the horn from other drivers if I go out in rush hour trafficā¦is it me going too slow or them going too fast 
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Yes ā¦
Too slow for them, too fast for us.
Perceptions of what constitutes āsafe drivingā improve with age, and compensate for slower reaction times.
Or so Iām toldā¦
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Where to startā¦ why when there are so many free ā3ā spaces in a car park does someone decide to park next to you? Seriously!
Not in my MX5, but Iāve literally sat in my car with the windows open waiting for the better half, someone pulled up and opened their door onto my car!
Bomb went offā¦ I went full Norman Bates. It was my company car but it doesnāt matter, cars mean something to us all!
So now confession timeā¦ Iām also a BMW driver, however I know where my indicators are and thanks to a few defensive driving courses, Iād like to think Iām considerate (with the exception of helping Private Hire carsā¦. I draw the line as in Brum they are terrible!).
My good lady drives into town everyday for work, her average speed is 11mphā¦. Donāt know how she does it!
Good luck everyone, remember that feeling when we wave at each other.
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Unbeliveable, didnāt even try to park it somewhat decent.
Returned to my Audi Q2 yesterday to find passenger door dented and paint missing.
Windy day , some plum obviously let their red car door strike my white car door.
A polite note left on my windscreen with their detailsā¦
Yeah right
One of those things I suppose, however ā¦cat of nine tails springs to mind 
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Totally agree with you. Vehicles have grown much bigger in the last twenty years. There are many people driving SUVās who are frankly are a bit clueless and totally ignorant of other road users. Where I live in Cumbria they will drive down the middle of the road. Itās got to the stage where I drive straight at them like a game of chicken. The problem is many of these idiots are on their phones not paying attention to the the road let alone other people. When parking at the supermarket I park well away from everyone else. You see these people are also lazy they donāt care about their own property let alone other peopleās vehicles but they like to be close to the shopā¦ thatās my rant overā¦ have a good day.
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I so agree with everything thatās been commented on in this thread. 
Iām lucky in that the 2 supermarkets I use, have several end spaces with cross hatched lines next to them, enabling me to park inside the bay, away from the next door car and able to open my 5 door sufficiently.
I often wonder if SUV drivers even see me - so much so that I frequently drive with the headlights on.
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That is why I added DRLs!
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Yes with the punishment administered in Trafalgar square, their name written in big letters, and the event broadcast on national news. A bit Draconian maybe, but iām pretty sure that if it became the standard punishment, there would be much less carelessness/vandalism etc!
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The truth isnāt a rant
Short answer - perhaps, but unlikely.
I have been forced to user my horn as a āhi, I am hereā messages. Most often it is in stationary traffic, where I am besides an SUV. Since I am invisible they see this as empty space to try and merge. This has happened a number of times already and more annoying is the fact that often times drivers donāt even realise what the situation was. And youād think a bright red car would be quite visibleā¦
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How can an āSUVā which typically is a hatch back jacked up a few inches not see other cars. I used to have a Nissan Elgrand, which would eat many an SUV for āSUVnessā, which had no difficulty āseeingā other cars. As well as previously owning a few conventional āSUVsā. Itās not hard to see another car if one is not checking out facebook on a phone or faffing with the āinfoā system. Iām baffled to be honest where the SUV = canāt see me comes from.
I get your point and it is valid but it requires effort on the SUV driverās side too. My default mindset is that if I cannot see the other driver then the other driver cannot see me (my car by extension). You would be shocked how few drivers (as in the actual person) you would see if you follow this logic. All I see is the interior light, and in some cases not even that (new Defender comes to mind).
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Itās not just with MX5.
Coming back from sunny Hythe (Kent) on Friday on the 50mph section of M25 I was doing exactly 50 (satnavs and dashcam displays) in the left lane along with everyone else, but the HGV to my right was doing 51 and decided to come into my lane.
Fortunately the enhanced horn on the Mazda3 is good and loud, and seeing how quickly that front wheel coming across the lane line turned away from me his reaction was one of obvious surprise.
Maybe I need a long whippy CB aerial with a GB flag on the top?
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Few year back I had a Porsche (996) 911.
Now I would park at the far end of beyond and go shopping.
On my return is be boxed in with work vans and old scrapper cars
Leaving very little room to get inā¦good job I was slim at the time 
I consider a carpark logic, that a good number of drivers require something to āaim forā when parking.
In my opinion, itās why you often have cars next to you when you have parked far out of the way. Also at the far end of larger retail carparks, are those drivers parking there for other reasons? To visit another shop nearby perhaps.
Essentially for me itās a combination of the average driver not thinking and/or caring, mixed with cars getting wider and the UK design spec for carpark spaces not being altered with that in mind. For example, I parked the ND in a station carpark on Monday, with cars parked properly either side within white lines etc - I couldnāt get the door open very far at all. And the ND must be one of the narrowest cars currently on sale!
I used to drive a long wheel - base Merc Sprinter Van. The visibility for seeing and being aware of other vehicles was brilliant, being high up. Youād think that in the higher up SUVs this would be the same - I agree with YoanH - its an awareness thing and not considering that there may be vehicles out of oneās sightline!
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āFor example, I parked the ND in a station carpark on Monday, with cars parked properly either side within white lines etc - I couldnāt get the door open very far at all. And the ND must be one of the narrowest cars currently on sale!ā
love my ND - but it has wide doors - hence my parking strategy is end spaces!
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