Modern VW owners and the sense of entitlement?

theraymondguy

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OK, I don't like to generalize but I can't help but notice that there seems to be be a common element (douchebaggery) in modern VW owners when it comes to road manners.

I do about 50K KM per year with my work, see much of Ontario and there is an undeniable sense of entitlement (flash to pass from behind, lane weaving, texting) amongst modern VW owners.

Am I missing another common element? Is it that they really are hipsters and I'm mislead and only seeing them as VW owners? I really don't want VW's to be the root cause, I've often thought a VW wagon would be a good second car for the family and don't want to eliminate them as a possibility.
 
theraymondguy said:
OK, I don't like to generalize but I can't help but notice that there seems to be be a common element (douchebaggery) in modern VW owners when it comes to road manners.

I do about 50K KM per year with my work, see much of Ontario and there is an undeniable sense of entitlement (flash to pass from behind, lane weaving, texting) amongst modern VW owners.

Am I missing another common element? Is it that they really are hipsters and I'm mislead and only seeing them as VW owners? I really don't want VW's to be the root cause, I've often thought a VW wagon would be a good second car for the family and don't want to eliminate them as a possibility.
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Dunno about vw, but I can guarentee you as an Audi owner I am waaay douchier :p

Dunno, it might have to do with an european background. Traffic here seems so klutzy to us.
 
I'm Hans and I drive the autobahn in Volkswagen. I drive my fine German precision automobile anyway I like.
 
I haven't noticed. But I did have a guy on my last site that thought his new GTI was the Bomb and he let everyone know it. I usually drive my Tundra to work, but one day I parked beside him with my wife's new 335i, then the next day as he was parking I pulled up beside him with my 911.
I can't stand that sense of entitlement thing and I always recognize that no matter what you drive, someone always has a nicer car than you.
 
I have never ever noticed this but next VW driver I see is going to get an earful, of that you can be assured!
 
TO Bandit said:
I haven't noticed. But I did have a guy on my last site that thought his new GTI was the Bomb and he let everyone know it. I usually drive my Tundra to work, but one day I parked beside him with my wife's new 335i, then the next day as he was parking I pulled up beside him with my 911.
I can't stand that sense of entitlement thing and I always recognize that no matter what you drive, someone always has a nicer car than you.
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Damn those entitled bas***ds! You made me chuckle.

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Disclaimer, my two cars prior to the current one were both VW.

I haven't noticed VW drivers being any better, or any worse, than anyone else.

Some drivers of high-end vehicles (no matter the brand) seem to act like they own the road - but the worst offenders IMO are drivers of oversized pickup trucks and 4x4s. The bigger or higher they are, the worse they are driven.

My current daily driver is an econobox that no driver of such a truck wants to be overtaken by. That's when you really notice it ...
 
for whatever reason, majority of punks these days moved on from civics and other jap cars to VW's, older Bimmers, and Merc's.

I don't think it has anything to do with the type of vehicle, it just more young punks driving them and needing beatings for their driving style......
 
Been running a Vee Dub wagon for just over two years.

Haven't changed the way I drive and I've driven a lot of different machines during my employment. Not sure if others think I drive like a douch or not but, I will confess to cruising in a clear as I can see right lane at GPS indicated 119 kph and passing all the traffic in the middle or left lane.

But I've done that with my Matrix, Escape, Rogue, Fusion, Accord, G6, Grand Am,

What I do observe is a lot of left lane bandits that like to pace with traffic in the middle lane.

The machine is equipped for an accelerator and can overtake a vehicle and then move over after the pass.

I've even been known to do this when the right lane has traffic. Lol.






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SunnY S said:
for whatever reason, majority of punks these days moved on from civics and other jap cars to VW's, older Bimmers, and Merc's.

I don't think it has anything to do with the type of vehicle, it just more young punks driving them and needing beatings for their driving style......
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It's because look at any of those cars compared to a civic. You don't need an appointment to get through an intersection.

Douchebaggery knows no bounds. They drive everything and you're in their way. It's no better or worse than any brand.
 
Roomie said:
Douchebaggery knows no bounds.
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I wonder if we're getting a little sensitive like rats in a cage. Today I was sitting on a cement block by the bike drinking coffee (Timmies). Buddy pulls right next to me in Big Tonka. If it had been sunny he would have blocked it. Strike one. Then he sits there idling the monster, windows down while making LWVIPPC (long winded very important person phone call). Strike two. He probably doesn't even know he's a ********. Strike three.
 
This is an untrue stereotype that has existed for all makes of European cars for years, it's not a "modern" thing.

Heck, I know a guy that has only owned VWs his whole life and he drives like a grandma.

Then there's me, I drive like an ******* in any vehicle, they just happen to be mostly VAG cars.
 
Don't drive like a ********* but I do drive a TDi Wagon. It's equipped with the DSG and loves to cruise in the left lane above the regular speed. Not too sure why but it does.
 
OP I agree. If I was to generalize d-bag drivers based on manufacturer, I would say VW tops my list. People tend to point fingers at the luxury brands being the biggest d-bags but that's just not the case anymore...
 
******* are *******, when I'm in my Audi I get eftards trying to race me in their R/T Chargers ffs. But, I'm only a ****** when it's snowing like crazy out and I have the winter tires on...

Edit: Hmmm, can't say the proper d-word it seems without being censored.
 
Chhai said:
OP I agree. If I was to generalize d-bag drivers based on manufacturer, I would say VW tops my list. People tend to point fingers at the luxury brands being the biggest d-bags but that's just not the case anymore...
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Well VW owns a whole pile of luxury brands (Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bugatti, etc) so you can lump them all together.
 
theraymondguy said:
OK, I don't like to generalize
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Clearly you do.

You are missing the most common element - the human factor. People drive the cars, not the other way around. Don't blame the badge, that's just dumb.

But if you must generalize, go buy that wagon and be part of the solution.
 
Maybe it's just that people that want to drive aggressively want a car that handles half decent, like most German cars do?

IMO there is a difference between driving like an *******/dangerously and driving aggressively but most of the population disagrees with me.
 
SunnY S said:
for whatever reason, majority of punks these days moved on from civics and other jap cars to VW's, older Bimmers, and Merc's.

I don't think it has anything to do with the type of vehicle, it just more young punks driving them and needing beatings for their driving style......
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I can confirm that - although I don't flash to pass (shouldn't not moving over be considered "entitled" driving?), I'm sure people witnessing me on my jap bike, OR in my old jap car would consider my style as "lane weaving".

As the driver of a recently acquired (new to me) VW GTI, I drive the same in it as I did my Honda. I'm a *tad* more careful, cuz I care about this car, now.

The only consistent trait of Ontario drivers is that they will be either 1 of 2 major stereotypes:

1) They will complain about other people being aggressive, lane weaving, etc. However they are the left-lane blockers, typically hesitant, non-confident, slow-reacting/distracted people that impede traffic flow and frustrate others, OR

2) They will complain about left-lane bandits, people impeding traffic, cell-phone using, non-confident, hesitant, attention-lacking drivers. However they are aggressive, lane weaving, flashing-to-pass and commonly tailgating other drivers.

So ask yourself; which one of these are you?
 
Roomie said:
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Douchebaggery knows no bounds. They drive everything and you're in their way. It's no better or worse than any brand.
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I saw some great examples of this on the weekend. Went to the African Lion Safari, Have npotbeen in many years. So the animals inthe “Safari” area roam, so sometimes they are on the right sometimes on theleft.
There was a line up to the left of maybe 10 cars to see thelions, everyone waiting their turn, the d-bag in his BMW goes up the right ofthe cars and forces his was into the front few cars cutting them off so he cansee the animals, not sure if it was his car that he felt entitled him to jumpthe line or just his simple d-baggery. I wish he has tried to get in front ofme, I’m not very attached to my car J
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