Modern VW owners and the sense of entitlement?

[mxs]

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Do I read this right??

You are willing to choose brand/model of your future vehicle based on how other owners of the same brand/model drive?? Common, just live your life ....

 

[mxs]

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.

Well, I don't, but more than half of the population here cannot drive, so your guess is probably right. It's the slow Toyotas, Civics against the German brands ... LOL ... it's amusing to watch every day how batch or model (read van) usually fits the driver type. Not all the time, but most of the time ....

 

[mimico_polak]

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

Would be pretty damn funny if he got out of his car to yell at you right then and there....

 

[crankcall]

OP if you see any car flashing to pass GTF out of the way, this isn't a VW thing, this is a highway fundamental. I'm in an F150 these days and spent 20kms today trying to encourage a young girl with a Yaris to pull the F into the right lane. Maybe my headlamps are above her roofline and she couldn't see the flashing. I would have thought my front plate filling her back window was an indicator.

 

[DJM]

OP if you see any car flashing to pass GTF out of the way, this isn't a VW thing, this is a highway fundamental. I'm in an F150 these days and spent 20kms today trying to encourage a young girl with a Yaris to pull the F into the right lane. Maybe my headlamps are above her roofline and she couldn't see the flashing. I would have thought my front plate filling her back window was an indicator.

She saw you, she just didn't give a ****. She can't be so oblivious as to not realize there's a vehicle trying to get by.

 

[crankcall]

She saw you, she just didn't give a ****. She can't be so oblivious as to not realize there's a vehicle trying to get by.

well to be fair to her, it was the 401 and most of us are there for the fall colors

 

[theraymondguy]

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......

It's entirely possible that I'm just getting ...old... and I'm transitioning... entering into old age and debauchery and leaving youth and enthusiasm. I still like to go fast, but I'm more selective about the venue.

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 ...

I must concur, I've seen that reaction from large truck / suv's before. My assigned territory (Niagara / Hamilton / Brantford) tends to not have an abundance of wealth and we don't see many lifted / oversize trucks.

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.

You're right, I shouldn't let my observations obscure a logical choice. You'll forgive me if I'm caught ogling Volvo V50s and dreaming about Audi A3s.

OP if you see any car flashing to pass GTF out of the way, this isn't a VW thing, this is a highway fundamental. I'm in an F150 these days and spent 20kms today trying to encourage a young girl with a Yaris to pull the F into the right lane. Maybe my headlamps are above her roofline and she couldn't see the flashing. I would have thought my front plate filling her back window was an indicator.

I'm under big brother's watchful eye, anything more than 20Kph over the limit for 30 consecutive seconds in my company vehicle and an email is sent to my Manager without hesitation. I don't own the left lane on major highways, but I do use it to pass commercial trucks and whatnot. I bail out when I see I'm holding up traffic - but if you're rolling up on me and I don't see you (reckless speed, lane weaving etc), you'll be waiting (@119 GPS confirmed Kph) until traffic clears in the lane to the right so I can move over. I am a motorcyclist first, cager second - if I didn't see you coming up on me it's because you're operating in a fashion well out of the norm.

well to be fair to her, it was the 401 and most of us are there for the fall colors

That's just plain funny.

 

[RockerGuy]

Funny a vw just cut in front of me to go slower

 

[Roomie]

******* 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.

Biggest bunch of bag lickers out there. Almost every time I'm on a 400 series I get the midlife crowd in their 300 or charger rt or srt8 trying to get me to go on the bike.. you know like they have a fighting chance in hell.....

 

[DJM]

Biggest bunch of bag lickers out there. Almost every time I'm on a 400 series I get the midlife crowd in their 300 or charger rt or srt8 trying to get me to go on the bike.. you know like they have a fighting chance in hell.....

Lol, get the same responses when I'm on mine. Besides, how insecure do you need to be to feel all good about blowing past a 10 year old 4cyl sedan?

 

[RockerGuy]

Biggest bunch of bag lickers out there. Almost every time I'm on a 400 series I get the midlife crowd in their 300 or charger rt or srt8 trying to get me to go on the bike.. you know like they have a fighting chance in hell.....

If I get a penny for every race invitation I got, I'll be a billionaire by now. Sometimes I get so annoyed when I'm just cruising & a pos econobox want to race me. Then when you don't want to race they start cutting you off.

Sigh...

 

[inreb]

kvawlity kvetching

 

[raginduck]

OP if you see any car flashing to pass GTF out of the way, this isn't a VW thing, this is a highway fundamental. I'm in an F150 these days and spent 20kms today trying to encourage a young girl with a Yaris to pull the F into the right lane. Maybe my headlamps are above her roofline and she couldn't see the flashing. I would have thought my front plate filling her back window was an indicator.

Flashing your lights or 20kms... front plate filling the back window?
There no reason to do that to someone... possible you frightened the girl and she froze!?

 

[inreb]

Flashing your lights or 20kms... front plate filling the back window?
There no reason to do that to someone... possible you frightened the girl and she froze!?

I'm sure whatever cc did was just the right amount, the numbers presented and other histrionics described are just to drive the point home. The girl is wrong.

 

[unL33T]

While I agree that tailgating is dangerous, if you freak out over it and freeze you aren't fit to be on the highway. Same with the old people that are afraid to go over 60. Take side roads until you are more confident.

 

[crankcall]

Tailgating is very dangerous at high speed and should only be done by complete twats like me. If your on a 400 series highway and encounter a complete twat in an oversized inefficient vehicle with an on board computer posting the cubic meters of the ozone layer your killing by the kilometer, pull your sad little yaris out of the left lane. Most of us have IBS and the next shittter could be miles away.

 

[inreb]

Maybe she was trolling for ducks.

 

[unL33T]

Today I was behind a knob in a Porsche Macan Turbo. He used the right turn lane at Eglinton and Martin Grove to blow through the intersection (going straight). Then continued to weave, within a couple feet of other cars, rarely a single blink from his signals. Despite all this, and me driving a car with 1/4 the power without cutting people off and using my signals, I kept up with him all the way to Weston when I got off. His d-bag driving didn't get him any further ahead. He also almost sideswiped me right before Weston when he tried to lane change without a signal while I was beside him.

Does that vehicle count as a VW?

Then on Weston two ladies ran into traffic pushing strollers and then yelled at me when my tires squeaked slamming the brakes for them. I wasn't even speeding at the time. Why you would push a stroller into heavy rush hour traffic is beyond me but I don't have kids so I guess I can't judge.

 

[adv_round]

d-bags are drawn to vw for some reason... I really did notice it for many years now, and I did own one. There are morons in all sorts of cars/trucks/bikes and bicycles, no question about it, but turds are high-density vw owners.

Speaking of Lion Safari - few years ago I took relatives/kids there... Ignorance is high there, it seams

At the end, when elephants "go for a swim", this turd drives his family in biggest diesel SUV I've seen (don't remember now what it was exactly), parks right at the fence in the middle of the crowd, leaves the thing running the whole time with exhaust fumes visibly bothering everyone... Do you think he cared? Had a dealer plate too. Biggest poohead I've seen in a long time.

 

[Boots]

Tailgating is very dangerous at high speed and should only be done by complete twats like me. If your on a 400 series highway and encounter a complete twat in an oversized inefficient vehicle with an on board computer posting the cubic meters of the ozone layer your killing by the kilometer, pull your sad little yaris out of the left lane. Most of us have IBS and the next shittter could be miles away.

Fantastic read.

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