Call me paranoid if you like, but in the two years I've had my octy I feel like every other motorist is aiming for me!!!

Pulling across lanes in front of me, causing me to practice my emergency stops for the first time since my test. Pulling out of side streets trying to broadside me! The list just goes on and on :eek:

Never had this before I got my octy

Maybe it's just the drivers of Hertfordshire, but does anyone else getting that hunted feeling?

Jealosy is such an ugly thing...

Joel

Maybe it's just the drivers of Hertfordshire, but does anyone else getting that hunted feeling?

It's the same in most cars - unless it's got serious road presence (ie. Hummer, etc) then most people won't be "scared" of it.

Try driving a smart...people don't seem to be able to compensate for the perspective (ie. it's small rather than far away), and I don't think I've as yet managed to get round a roundabout in it without having to brake because someone's pulled out in front of me...

Rob.

Try driving a smart...people don't seem to be able to compensate for the perspective (ie. it's small rather than far away)' date=' and I don't think I've as yet managed to get round a roundabout in it without having to brake because someone's pulled out in front of me...

Rob.[/quote']

I had exactly the same with my smartie.

There are some really narrow-minded (and visioned) people out there, they don't look where they are going half the time, and the other half they don't think about what they are doing or what others are doing. I have alomost been hit a few times now by people changing lanes, or worse by people who are so indecisive about overtaking they end up swerving all over the road, 'ooh will I go, yeah I'll go, ooh no, better not, oh maybe I could squeeze in, No, best not' its like a flippin moving chicane getting past them. Everyone seems to be in their own world where the abiding rule is 'Don't let anyone pass you'. Nowhere is this better shown than coming back from work the other day, no-one on the inside lane of the carriageway for a good 3miles of straight dual-carriageway, and yet still there was a mile-long queue in the outside lane, passing the invisible traffic obviously...

I think it's just the generally poor level of most people's driving these days. For instance, they must have changed the Highway Code to state that drivers must completely ignore the inside lane at all times, except when the other two lanes are congested, when it can be used for undertaking. Either that, or I'm missing something. The other day, I went from the inside lane where I should have been, over to the outside lane to pass some to55er sitting at 60 in the middle lane, and back to the inside lane (which was clear as far as the eye could see), at which point he started flashing his lights and chasing me! Fortunately was able to whizz away unscathed after laying a distracting smoke screen , but it might have been worse if his car had been a bit faster! :thumbdwn:

Another thing that riles me is complete d*cks in their rep-mobiles coming up behind me while I'm in the outside lane (us poor Ulster drivers only have the two lanes on our motorway) and flashing their lights as if they are a bloomin emergency vehicle. Prey tell, what kind of emergency requires the immediate attention of a sweaty, balding middle-aged man in a sh*tty vectra/mondeo/406?

Another thing that riles me is complete d*cks in their rep-mobiles coming up behind me while I'm in the outside lane (us poor Ulster drivers only have the two lanes on our motorway) and flashing their lights as if they are a bloomin emergency vehicle. Prey tell, what kind of emergency requires the immediate attention of a sweaty, balding middle-aged man in a sh*tty vectra/mondeo/406?

Sounds more like Italy than Ulster mate

Another thing that riles me is complete d*cks in their rep-mobiles coming up behind me while I'm in the outside lane (us poor Ulster drivers only have the two lanes on our motorway) and flashing their lights as if they are a bloomin emergency vehicle. Prey tell, what kind of emergency requires the immediate attention of a sweaty, balding middle-aged man in a sh*tty vectra/mondeo/406?

We get that here too. The way I see it is the limit is 70mph and so I'll drive 70mph, if I'm overtaking at a fair pace, I'll stay in the right-hand lane too. They can flash as many lights as they want at me. Unless they are blue lights of course, then I'll move over.

Unless they are blue lights of course, then I'll move over.

Speaking of which, and I know this is a bit off topic, but does anyone have any idea what was happening emergency-wise somewhere around J22-ish of the M62 at tea-time on Saturday. SWMBO and I were driving from Manchester to Leeds, and we passed two fire engines heading east that joined the M62 around Rochdale. Then as we got further east, we saw 1 paramedic's Mondeo estate, two ambulances, and a fire brigade liveried V70 estate heading West on the other carriageway. Must have been pretty big, whatever it was! :eek:

about 3 grand of damage was caused to my lovely New Octavia less than a month after I got it... I hadn't even made the first payment on the loan!

Since then, on a daily basis, I have people almost run into me on roundabouts. Why is it people think that they should drive straight over roundabouts instead of around them??

Speaking of which, and I know this is a bit off topic, but does anyone have any idea what was happening emergency-wise somewhere around J22-ish of the M62 at tea-time on Saturday. SWMBO and I were driving from Manchester to Leeds, and we passed two fire engines heading east that joined the M62 around Rochdale.

Not sure about round there, but I know the M60 was closed from J5-8 that evening, and there was an accident near Stockport on the M60 early Sunday morning...

Seems to have been a weekend for it. :(

Rob.

And X5's are obviously FAR more important and therefore can go far faster than any other car on the motorway, granted I did see a Cayenne going just as fast, maybe there's a bit in small-print in the Highway Code "Thou shalt drive as fast you want in your 'Off-Road' luxury vehicle". Off-road my ****, probably too scared to take it off road for fear of getting one's car stuck in those ghastly muddy fields. Fookin K-nobs...