Primrose Hill wrote:In the UK the boy racer kaisu attitude tend to be the VW GTIs and the used to be Vauxaul Cavalier drivers, here its the BMW 3 & 5 series. They drive like twats. Seriously.
Last weekend, as we were started off from the traffic lights on Grange Rd, some idiot on the right lane, did not notice us on the middle lane and drifted across. If husband had put his foot down we would be collided.
'Boy-racers' in their 'hot hatchbacks' is an accurate stereotype. It's usually immature drivers aspiring to drive something with image and performance. A 2nd-hand GTI or Vauxhall Astra in the UK isn't that expensive, though for a youngster the insurance will be very high. I'm familiar with driving a GTI and it's a wolf in sheep's clothing, if you put your foot down the performance is breath-taking.
There seems to be something of a 'hot saloon' thing here, the end-point of which might be something like a M-series BMW; Nissan GTR's being a bit 'Bengy'
Again put something like them in the hands of an immature driver...
We've witnessed lane-drift as you describe, it's simply a result of the other driver not looking. I used to joke that on any taxi journey there'd be one incident that would almost give me a heart attack. Since then my wife bought a car and I get to travel in the front. She's a very conservative driver and let's the occasional idiot driver just 'wash over her'... and good for her. But still when we encounter one I tend to be grabbing onto the seat/door-handle/dashboard. In a compact I feel so much more exposed vs my old Malibu which at 17.5' long, had a 6' bonnet/hood, allowing you to always feel rather set back from the action in front