Do certain cars attract bad karma?

daz500 · Post by **daz500** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:51 pm

Case in point : I drive my Rover 600 for years and not a thing happens but I drive a:
1) peugeot 106 and everyone wants to pull out in front it
2) bubble and everyone seems to want to drive into it

BrackenFox · Post by **BrackenFox** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:54 pm

I have noticed that since driving a bubble, yes, people do seem to want to ram it.

Never had that problem with the 800s, for some reason....

mar-TI-n · Post by **mar-TI-n** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:57 pm

ive answered yes ..but im thinking more of riding my motorbike..from the day i took my test and every outing since im lucky to come home in one piece.

oh and im not one of those who don the leathers and think i get super powers..thrers already enough carl foggarty wannabies around here.

calibrax · Post by **calibrax** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:58 pm

It's all about road presence. Like if you're walking down the street and someone is walking down the street towards you with a spaniel on a lead, you don't think twice about it. But if its a rottweiler or a doberman, you might consider getting out of the way...

618ireland · Post by **618ireland** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:05 pm

I remember Autocar did a feature about something like this, apparently Volvo340 and the old Micras were the worst cars to drive around in as people automatically hated you as these cars were often driven by folks who drive around slowly and non progressively.

Am surprised the 200 bubble experiences aggression

BrackenFox · Post by **BrackenFox** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:09 pm

618ireland wrote: Am surprised the 200 bubble experiences aggression

It's not so much agression (I borrowed a Golf GTi for a while, now *that* brings out murderous agression in other drivers!

), more the fact that you seem to suddenly become completely invisible.

ryan_220 · Post by **ryan_220** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:40 pm

daz500 wrote:Case in point : I drive my Rover 600 for years and not a thing happens but I drive a:
1) peugeot 106 and everyone wants to pull out in front it
2) bubble and everyone seems to want to drive into it

thats life dude just the way it goes sometimes

empsburna · Post by **empsburna** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:00 pm

Coupe is a tit magnet. (and not of the female or flying type) Everyone thinks you want to race.

xr4x4 · Post by **xr4x4** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:22 pm

green cars... they are the devil..

its a common old wifes tale that green cars are unlucky...i agree..!!!!

ive had more problems with green cars than ive had with any others..other people ive spoken too as well.

you have been warned..!!!

victor3 · Post by **victor3** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:35 pm

My mate had a BMW 328. Nobody ever let him out in traffic, everybody tried to overtake him and he eventually got so pi55ed off that he sold it.

calibrax · Post by **calibrax** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:38 pm

xr4x4 wrote:green cars... they are the devil..

its a common old wifes tale that green cars are unlucky...i agree..!!!!

ive had more problems with green cars than ive had with any others..other people ive spoken too as well.

you have been warned..!!!

I guesss if you look at the statistics, certain manufacturers probably sell more cars in green (or BRG) than others.

Manufacturers like Jaguar, TVR, and makers of various K-series engined cars like Rover, Caterham, Lotus etc.

Is it any wonder green cars have a reputation for poor reliability?

chazjenkins · Post by **chazjenkins** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:40 pm

victor3 wrote:My mate had a BMW 328. Nobody ever let him out in traffic, everybody tried to overtake him and he eventually got so pi55ed off that he sold it.

Selling it was a drastic measure?!

Maybe if he indicated whilst waiting to pull out in traffic

xr4x4 · Post by **xr4x4** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:43 pm

chazjenkins wrote:Maybe if he indicated whilst waiting to pull out in traffic

do they have them? i had a 325.. and i cant remember ever seeing indicator stalks.

lol

Post by **Punx0r** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:03 pm

I've noticed a big difference in having an 800, much less likely to get tailgated than when I had the 200 coupe or the mondeo.

cocacola · Post by **cocacola** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:38 pm

the 600 seems invisible, but in a way that people just ignore you

no dodgy glances, no boy racers bothering me and nobody overtaking me (thats normally due to me though)

but i have noticed a tendency for old folk to let me out at junctions

rovex · Post by **rovex** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:47 pm

The 420 turbo seems fine. Most people are confused as to what it is so tend to leave me alone.

I get the odd chav trying it on, but they do that all the time to everyone, same for white vans which seem to think they can out drag anything.

I dont get tailgated because im usually going faster than everyone else anyway and the exhaust is so loud no one ever fails to notice me so i dont get pulled out on.

bjrespect · Post by **bjrespect** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:10 am

xr4x4 wrote:green cars... they are the devil..

its a common old wifes tale that green cars are unlucky...i agree..!!!!

ive had more problems with green cars than ive had with any others..other people ive spoken too as well.

you have been warned..!!!

same as you on the green cars

Bigfatbiffta · Post by **Bigfatbiffta** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:36 am

xr4x4 wrote:green cars... they are the devil..

its a common old wifes tale that green cars are unlucky...i agree..!!!!

ive had more problems with green cars than ive had with any others..other people ive spoken too as well.

you have been warned..!!!

I can vouch for that, ive had nothing but trouble with mine since day 1!

Edit: And yeh it is a K-series

Fluke · Post by **Fluke** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:30 am

calibrax wrote:It's all about road presence. Like if you're walking down the street and someone is walking down the street towards you with a spaniel on a lead, you don't think twice about it. But if its a rottweiler or a doberman, you might consider getting out of the way...

So the question is.....
Who is driving a Spaniel ???

Rich_1988 · Post by **Rich_1988** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 12:23 pm

when I had my 220 at least a few people wanted to race but now i have the 820 vitesse noone wants to race me

I feel so unloved

daibill · Post by **daibill** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 12:39 pm

Don't get any grief in the ti but do in the 216. I just don't drive that quickly in her. It's not that I can't it's that I just don't feel the need.

When I had my Cupra R i had everybody wanting to have a go which done my head in after a while especially when I had the wife and kid in the car..

I used to have a Skoda Favorit 1.3 to go back and forth to work for about a year and everybody wanted to be in front of that. Even though it was only 67 bhp it was geared for acceleration so was quite rapid up to 80 and used to surprise a hell of a lot of people including a choclate boy and his mrs in a new mini cooper but that's another story. Miss that car.

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:53 pm

the 800 is most respected i think, people always used to let me out at junctions...

600 isnt quite as good, but its middle of the road...

420 just blended into the background like it wasnt there, literally, some bloke just reversed into it one day...

Always used to have people trying to have little burn up in the metro GTi.

Sheaf · Post by **Sheaf** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:47 pm

I must admit, if I am coming up to a junction and there's a car waiting to pull out I'll usually let them go if I like the car, or if there's a lovely big busted blonde behind the wheel.... if they're ugly or the car is crap I generally dont let them out.

I really dont know why, it's kinda subconscious.

So yeah, different cars get different reactions.

When I first got the accord I noticed people would let me change lanes in slow moving traffic a lot easier, in the rover I'd be waiting much longer before anyone would let me in.

mach1rob · Post by **mach1rob** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:13 pm

It's true! I had to deliver a new 3 series this morning, place was on a busy main road, so I pulled the truck up in a side road and unloaded it there, necessitating me then having to get across main road to company I had to deliver it to, you know no one let me out! I sat there ages waiting for a gap! Yet, when I came out in the lorry I got let out virtually straight away...

200coupe · Post by **200coupe** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:30 pm

Yeah i used to have boy racers tailgating me all the time when i had my coupe, they don't really bother now with the vitty.
Probably just think its a slow grandads car

How little do they know!!! hahaha

I see some of the reactions on peoples faces when the dv goes off the usual expression is wtf!!

Steve220 · Post by **Steve220** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:23 am

rovex wrote:The 420 turbo seems fine. Most people are confused as to what it is so tend to leave me alone.

I get the odd chav trying it on, but they do that all the time to everyone, same for white vans which seem to think they can out drag anything.

I dont get tailgated because im usually going faster than everyone else anyway and the exhaust is so loud no one ever fails to notice me so i dont get pulled out on.

didn't your car get badly keyed though?

shen · Post by **shen** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:06 pm

not just car models imo...car makes sometimes.

Example...

you see any BMW newer than 10yrs on the motorway in front of you/behind you/anywhere

what is your initial feeling?

hehe

btw steve that evo on your sig looks so mint it's like a toy model or something

barber · Post by **barber** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:36 pm

Driving a noisy 1.8 L rover 100 really attracts the wrong kind of attention

... but i love it

I don't get many boy racer / modified cars trying to race me really, its usually the age 30+ boring car types, who feel the need to proove themselves by overtaking (or trying to) a modified rover 100... It seems to make other drivers become aggressive, not let you pull out, not let you change lane etc... i feel sorry for them when they get severely done over by the rover - and then tailgate to get their own back

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