How to make a salesman look silly

Just coming back from selling some bit's off the scoobie and I am on a single carriageway A road coming out of Birchwood towards Warrington. 3 or 4 cars back see a blue cooper (Later spotted the scoop to confirm an S) swing out and overtake the cars behind me, sticks it in about 6" from the rear bumper on my Furby.

I am still behaving at around 40-50 MPH when on comes his indicator foot down swings out and plants it, I am in 3rd just on my big lump of torque and floor it. I just start edging away from him and hit 4th, big truck coming towards and his passenger (customer) is white and quite alarmed blokey pulls in a good 5 /6 car lengths behind and backs right off.

The thing was on trade plates, driver in a suit, passenger in turmoil. I know I was a bit of a toerag and should have let him go, but he was being a total "wayne kerr" with his driving, and besides the truck was miles away

I actually felt like going round to Haliwell Hones and seeing if they had any comment on their Staff's driving practise's but needed to get home to take over looking after the twins so the mrs could get out........

I bet the passenger goes to Gorners now having seen his potential buy's performance eroded by a :eek: :eek: "Skoda"

Oh well, thats the days exitement over

Fluff'

40 and refusing to grow up

what an absolutely stupid and irresponsable thing to do, that could have been really dangerous with the on coming truck. not surprised the passenger looked worried

U have a standard vrs?? ive driven a cooper s - and by christ they are quicker than a standard vrs.... u must have caught him offguard!

i think a mini cooper s is 163bhp (standard)

163bhp, 155lbft and 1140Kg

if he was on the move already i doubt a fabia could then pull away from him

163bhp' date=' 155lbft and 1140Kg

if he was on the move already i doubt a fabia could then pull away from him[/quote']

He was running out of gear, I was in the right gear so yep, he was off guard as such.

As for irresponsible, the truck was well away but hey, he was the one that was bobbing out of traffic to snipe off car's one by one. He was surprised that he did not obliterate me, maybe he backed off? maybe he missed a gear? all I know was he ended up behind and after what looked like a bit of a *******ing from his passenger, backed off.

As for irresponsible again, good job I was not out on the VOR or the Speed triple or I would have been on the back wheel pulling away from him .

Facts where ... it was a cooper S, he was driving like a complete twonk, he made a mistake ... I just exagerated that mistake. You would have had to be there to appreciate it so to speak....

Fluff

Old, Irresponsible.

U have a standard vrs?? ive driven a cooper s - and by christ they are quicker than a standard vrs.... u must have caught him offguard!

i think a mini cooper s is 163bhp (standard)

Quote from a certain Mr Clarkson on his opinion of a vRS

"Study the performance characteristics of this car carefully and you will arrive at an extraordinary conclusion. It may only be a 1.9 litre diesel hatchback, but round a track it will blow a supercharged Mini Cooper into the weeds. It is astonishingly fast."

I like it, presumably lost him the sale too

I like it, presumably lost him the sale too

Who knows The sales guy (if it was a salesguy, just an assumption from the suit and tie + trade plates) may rethink his tactics though

Fluff

he was just making ground and obviously waiting for a safe point to pass, that time came when it was safe so went for it and you went and made the situation dangerous by accelerating.

what you be saying if you went to overtake an S4 or something when you had enough room but still had on coming traffic then he did the same and booted it leaving you stranded out on the wrong side of the road with a lorry coming towards you??

he was just making ground and obviously waiting for a safe point to pass' date=' that time came when it was safe so went for it and you went and made the situation dangerous by accelerating.

what you be saying if you went to overtake an S4 or something when you had enough room but still had on coming traffic then he did the same and booted it leaving you stranded out on the wrong side of the road with a lorry coming towards you??[/quote']

Bengie ... you had to be there, the whole point was for the best part of a mile he was making what would be regarded by most as unsafe overtaking manouvres. Do you think for one minute that if he was NOT going to drop it then I would have run him into a truck?? of course I would not FFS, I would have let him in, then at the lights a mile or so ahead would have got out and punched his teeth out (joking BTW ... Just in case)

For what it's worth, unless I was out on one of the bikes then I would not overtake with oncoming traffic that could lead to a dangerous situation.

The part of the road he was making progress on has a steady even right hand bend in it, so Mr Safety, making progress, overtakes when he can't fully see what is coming. Anybody who lives in or around Warrington will know the road that leads from Birchwood, just after the island at Cinnamon Brow where it drops to single carriageway leading up to Padgate. It is pretty notorious for head on's, and mr Mini had already "done" maybe 3 cars with the curve just starting to tighten up

Maybe we should drop it as it will end up getting out of order and having only recently joined don't want to become a Briskoda lepper, and go upsetting the locals.

My next post will be about sticking to the posted limit everywhere and the new slippers I got from M&S today (I really did get new slippers BTW)

Quote from a certain Mr Clarkson on his opinion of a vRS

"Study the performance characteristics of this car carefully and you will arrive at an extraordinary conclusion. It may only be a 1.9 litre diesel hatchback' date=' but round a track it will blow a supercharged Mini Cooper into the weeds. It is astonishingly fast."[/quote']

didn't they race a Mini Cooper against a Fabia vRS, and the Fabia won by a smallish margin? And couldn't really keep up round the bends etc

and from your description of the events, you're the one that was driving like a "twonk" :thumbdwn:

he was just making ground and obviously waiting for a safe point to pass' date=' that time came when it was safe so went for it and you went and made the situation dangerous by accelerating.

what you be saying if you went to overtake an S4 or something when you had enough room but still had on coming traffic then he did the same and booted it leaving you stranded out on the wrong side of the road with a lorry coming towards you??[/quote']

back off the mic bengie..... stop being so up tight!

didn't they race a Mini Cooper against a Fabia vRS' date=' and the Fabia won by a small[i']ish[/i] margin? And couldn't really keep up round the bends etc

and from your description of the events, you're the one that was driving like a "twonk" :thumbdwn:

Nope, I was just tootling along and had just changed into 3rd, the other guy was playing dodgems ........ ohhhh ok ....I give up ......

PS is a standard cooper supercharged?

Nope' date=' I was just tootling along and had just changed into 3rd, the other guy was playing dodgems ........ ohhhh ok ....I give up ......

PS is a standard cooper supercharged?[/quote']

dude... i may upset people.. but what u did to the tw4t driver in the mini was not wrong (maybe a little risky) but if he was driving like a fool, you gave him a scare... so what!!!! If the van was dangerously close then i would agree with bengie! but from what i can gather, the van was a while away - correct?

The mini driver probably thought "sh7t i cant pass this car, i better pull in" - END OF STORY!

Nope' date=' I was just tootling along and had just changed into 3rd, the other guy was playing dodgems ........ ohhhh ok ....I give up ......

[/quote']

matching the speed of an overtaking vehicle for no other reason than to make a point isn't sensible...

PS is a standard cooper supercharged?

nope

dude... i may upset people.. but what u did to the tw4t driver in the mini was not wrong (maybe a little risky) but if he was driving like a fool' date=' you gave him a scare... so what!!!! If the van was dangerously close then i would agree with bengie! but from what i can gather, the van was a while away - correct?

The mini driver probably thought "sh7t i cant pass this car, i better pull in" - END OF STORY![/quote']

Correct..... around 800M - 900m away just coming off padgate island heading towards birchwood (for the locals), I suppose I could have worded my post better as it appears to have become a catalyst for people wanting to leave the forum.

Correct..... around 800M - 900m away just coming off padgate island heading towards birchwood (for the locals), I suppose I could have worded my post better as it appears to have become a catalyst for people wanting to leave the forum.

youve opened a can of worms........ ive been on this forum nearly a year, the "i beat this car" threads are taken with pinch of salt these days.....

As a new driver to a vRS (octy or fabia) we have all had a bit of fun! n e one says otherwise is fibbing!

matching the speed of an overtaking vehicle for no other reason than to make a point isn't sensible...

nope

I never said it was sensible, but can you HONESTLY put your hand on your heart and say that everything you have ever done is sensible and beyond reproach?

He landed literally inches from my rear bumper with his first batch of overtaking blah blah blah, I was a bit "miffed"..

if the distance was 800m ish, and you were both doing 50mph then that is only about 15 seconds apart. bit close i think

youve opened a can of worms........ ive been on this forum nearly a year' date=' the "i beat this car" threads are taken with pinch of salt these days.....

As a new driver to a vRS (octy or fabia) we have all had a bit of fun! n e one says otherwise is fibbing![/quote']

Thats the thing, this is the smallest, lowest powered car I have driven in the last 10 years or so as I was lucky to be living in a tax free environment and have had a string of cars ranging from an SLK through to the last impreza. What happened with the cooper happened, it was not conjured up.

The fabia is a fun little car, maybe I should have been more discreet in my post, but then again, why go through life worrying about the possibility you may tread on a few toes..... hohum.

Its amazing how people become all high and mighty when posts like these come up, why o why do people chip/remap cars? Just for the track? I think not.

As long as we drive with a little sense then who really cares?

The fabia is a fun little car, maybe I should have been more discreet in my post, but then again, why go through life worrying about the possibility you may tread on a few toes..... hohum.

you go girlfriend!

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Though there are some fabulous and helpful characters on this forum, it seems like we have a few 'max powerheads' too, and it's getting worse week by week. Now, if the Cooper driver had written here with his perspective, who would we be slagging off?

Dave.