Damn you Helmut!
Seriously, why do people in “rich” cars have no manners?
Why do people in jacked up pick ups “crawl” over speed bumps?
Why do people in Vettes limit themselves to “30 mph”?
I just wave and smile.
It goes both ways. Psych studies have shown that wealthy people tend to be more calloused about social graces, due to the lesser need for them, because they are more self-sufficient.
But people who see BMW or other expensive cars will tend to show the drivers of these cars less courtesy, in terms of other drivers letting them into their lane or slowing down so BMW drivers can turn onto the street from parking lots and such.
How about the idiots who use turn signals when there is no need for one. Such as they are in a place where they have to make a turn. My observation is that same people fail to put on their headlights when it rains. Plus they don’t signal when they should at least as a courtesy/heads up to others
What I can’t figure is why people pry themselves in and out of such a small passenger cabin of the BMW. Except for the 720 they all seem like compact cars to me.
Must be the driving experience.
Why did the Mexican Army have only 500 men at the Alamo?
Answer: They only had two cars
And not to “toot my own horn”, but it would be interesting to see how the driving record of antique and classic car owners stack up against the rest of the driving public, even truckers, bus and limo drivers and other professionals. Even with a 4-wheel disc brake conversion and a set of gas shocks my 64 Chevy handles like an overweight cement truck compared to my Cobalt. It never ceases to amaze me that in spite of all the nanny state does for us to make sure the cars we drive are as safe and schmuckproof as possible, there are more accidents than ever.
LOL. Couldn’t resist sending the link to my son with the two BMW’s.
:)
Not the only ones. So are big fancy car drivers; especially big fancy black cars. I think they think they own the road for some reason.
You know the difference between a porcupine and a BMW don’t you?
A BMW has the pricks on the inside!
(and thats a really old joke, LOL)
You can’t strap a buck to the hood so what good are they?
I drove cross country several times at a good clip. BMW drivers saved me from a lot of speeding tickets. Get in front of the Beemer, drop your speed about 1 mile an hour, and the Beemer driver will shoot out and pass you. Let him get a few hundred yards ahead of you and follow him. He’ll get pulled over before you do! God bless beemer drivers!
Gee, they seem like pretty nice cars to me. Wish I could afford one...
Mercedes drivers are worse.
God knows anytime I want to read something fair and balanced, of uncompromising literary quality, full of new thoughts and ideas, I always turn to something with the word “asshat” in the title!
Just sayin.
Whatever...
Another thing. I was taught that if you want to turn left at a green traffic light you are supposed to pull into the intersection a bit short of the center and wait for oncoming traffic to pass. Then you turn. This way, at least one or two cars can make the turn.
Lately, I’ve been behind a lot of people who wait behind the crosswalk and don’t get to turn. I’ve been behind people who have gone through two lights before they could turn. Happened just the other day.
Don’t they teach this in drivers ed? Did they change the rules and not tell me?
I don't know how many times I've been stuck behind Granny Gums tootling down the road at 25mph in a 40 or 50 mph zone. And when they turn, you might as well put it in park and whip out a magazine, cause you're gonna be there for a while.
Anytime I see a car up ahead that has a handicap sticker hanging from the rearview mirror or that familiar wheelchair on the license plate, I put any ideas about getting to where I'm going on time completely out of my mind.
Well, the BMW driver who ran into the rear of the F250 near downtown FW at 2:30 yesterday will be whining to the repair man for a while! Plastic grill meet immovable object!
What is funny though, is watching BMW's in snow storms. It's like a cat to water, they can't keep traction and spin out of control. I remember seeing about a half dozen on a drive a few years ago.