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Old 06-06-2021, 08:39 AM
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Always best to let idiot drivers in front of you, that way you're more in control.
 
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Old 06-06-2021, 08:49 AM
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Normal people don't consider this : possibly these are on drugs or alcohol, or both.
So expect the most irrational beheavior from other road users..
 
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Old 06-06-2021, 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by SonofGaladriel
Yesterday afternoon on my way home from work, I had a guy in a VW Golf pull up next to me at a stop light and revved his engine. It sounded just like you'd think. I looked at him and smiled then ignored him as he continued to rev. At the green light, he floored it for at least a hundred yards. I drove as normal, smiling to myself at this guy's foolishness as he drove away. What was this guy's thinking?
I have noticed that people tend to follow me more closely in the Jag then any other car I've owned and I don't care for that. I don't react but do try to change lanes if possible to give me more space.
Same here, then I'll get the swerve around pass LOL
A couple of weeks ago on I-57 south just past Chicago city limits a guy in a M8 with Mississippi plates gave me the thumbs up and I reciprocated, then it was the head nod and we both planted it, sometimes you just have to go
 
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Old 06-06-2021, 03:42 PM
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When you drive a fast looking high performance car people assume you got it to go fast and drive sporty. Else youd get the slow car. So get used to it. Whyd you get it if not to go fast and look sporty? if youre gonna drive like grandpa in a fast car you gotta wonder why
 
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Old 06-06-2021, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Aarcuda
When you drive a fast looking high performance car people assume you got it to go fast and drive sporty. Else youd get the slow car. So get used to it. Whyd you get it if not to go fast and look sporty? if youre gonna drive like grandpa in a fast car you gotta wonder why
Well, not only like a grandpa all the time. But certainly not like a nitwit speeding everywhere.

Fast cars are to be driven fast at the right time at the right place. Otherwise you loose your license and probably the car too !
 
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I think it has to do with the number of higher end sports cars in the area.
 
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Old 06-08-2021, 10:53 AM
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I see a lot of that when I am out and about; maybe because they are rare and people want to catch up to see what it is.

I get this a LOT in the Testarossa though, cameras come out too... scary if we are moving.. I try to stay away...
 
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The idiot driver is one aspect of the same branch of petty foolishness that goes with having anything nice nowadays, or indeed being confident or successful as a person. The idiots are are reacting to their own insecurities and misplaced assumptions. Pity the fool.
 

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Not much different than when I drive the C7 Corvette. The pickup drivers seem to be the worst.. merging from an on-ramp, even though that PU driver could move over, won't and does what s/he can to make my entry difficult. Then there are the drivers who hang on the left rear corner, checking the car out???, so I just downshift and floor it to get away from them. Don't seem to get much attitude like that when I drive the E-type.
 
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Good point on the E-Type, with mine folks, wave as they pass but no one tries to race me, they treat me with respect, and they seem to be having nearly as much fun watching the car as I am driving it (and when I was having issues, maybe more fun). The F-Type I have folks that want to race me and even in the I-Pace and they aren't Tesla drivers, but the E-Type just seems to bring the best out of people. Go figure...
 
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