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Does anyone else find that drivers of certain cars fit certain personality types? For example, i find Audi and BMW drivers particularly aggressive and twatty, Volvo drivers either super-safe or super-fast, and Ford drivers mostly 'meh'... that's about all i can think of right now.

how about you?

I love my '68 Mustang-so call me meh

I find anybody who puts neon lights on their car to be complete idiots.

Classic car owners are usually quite down to earth and likeable.

I love my '68 Mustang-so call me meh

not sure we get so many of them round here... i'm talking Mondeo's, etc

Does anyone else find that drivers of certain cars fit certain personality types? For example, i find Audi and BMW drivers particularly aggressive and twatty, Volvo drivers either super-safe or super-fast, and Ford drivers mostly 'meh'... that's about all i can think of right now.

how about you?
I find a lot of the BMWs delivered in Atlanta have faulty turn signals. I rarely see them working when the drivers change lanes or turn corners. No wonder they don't get ranked as highly as Honda in the new car reliability category.

I'm a BMW driver, and I am neither aggressive nor twatty. I'm "meh" like a Ford driver.

I find a lot of the BMWs delivered in Atlanta have faulty turn signals. I rarely see them working when the drivers change lanes or turn corners. No wonder they don't get ranked as highly as Honda in the new car reliability category. That's called the driver being lazy. :p

not really....but I did notice today that me and 3 of my very close friends all have cars the same color.....which is weird.

I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like.

Does anyone else find that drivers of certain cars fit certain personality types? For example, i find Audi and BMW drivers particularly aggressive and twatty, Volvo drivers either super-safe or super-fast, and Ford drivers mostly 'meh'... that's about all i can think of right now.

how about you?I'd say these assumptions are all quite reasonable. It also shows the power of advertising.

I'd probably drive some clapped out banger that only had a few years left to live.

I'd say these assumptions are all quite reasonable. It also shows the power of advertising.

I'd probably drive some clapped out banger that only had a few years left to live.

i drive one of those! i loves it. it has been christened 'The Fud-Mobile' by my friends.

Yay for stereotypes!

Sportcar drivers are small and fast. Sorry, it had to be said.

I typically find that people with Hummers disregard most traffic laws and are terrible parkers.

I'm a BMW driver, and I am neither aggressive nor twatty. I'm "meh" like a Ford driver.

That's called the driver being lazy. :p

No kidding. It just seems to affect the BMW drivers more than those of other sports/luxury cars. Maybe the handle is just hard to work...

I'd say these assumptions are all quite reasonable. It also shows the power of advertising.

I'd probably drive some clapped out banger that only had a few years left to live.
That's about what I do... I bought a 1995 Mercedes, with about 180,000 miles and bad shocks, for a song. I fixed the shocks and it's still running well at 250,000 miles. The nice thing about the older Benz's is that they hold up very well as far as paint and interior go.

Yay for stereotypes!

oh yeah, i'm aware they're stereotypes, but things so often seem to fit my schema i was just wondering if anyone else felt the same

Around here, drivers of any make of SUV are the most likely to think that the laws of physics do not pertain to them.

Except at the start of morning rush (traffic jam) hour, just before the traffic is ultra-clogged. That's the time that all the idiots going off to work, regardless of what they drive, delude that the laws of physics will bow to their precious "hurry" :headbang:

I'm usually not out then, thankfully, but some of the closest calls I've had is when some darned wage-slave gets the idea that he/she can just barge out of a sidestreet and meld through the side of my car because of what time of day it is.

Land Rover = BNP
new Mini (male) = man with few friends
new Mini (female) = worn out backseat with tat all over the interior
Honda = guy with brown shoes and/or guy who does his hair in little spikes
Punto = danger to the road
brand new sports car = wife recently left
Escort = I drive this car pissed at night
Audi = I could of had a much better car for how much I paid

I could go on and on

Does anyone else find that drivers of certain cars fit certain personality types? For example, i find Audi and BMW drivers particularly aggressive and twatty, Volvo drivers either super-safe or super-fast, and Ford drivers mostly 'meh'... that's about all i can think of right now.

how about you?
I don't know. Never noticed that except for the chavvy tuning cars, obv.

new Mini (male) = man with few friends

Where does that come from?

VWB - Old wrinkled lady who is desperately trying to be young.

Where does that come from?

I've met many mini drivers (they had a craze 2005-2006-ish time) none of which I would say had any real friends

the fact that its a girls car also confirms this

I've met many mini drivers (they had a craze 2005-2006-ish time) none of which I would say had any real friends

the fact that its a girls car also confirms this

I've only met one Mini driver (myself, I had one from 2002 until 2004) because I live in Michigan, where driving a foreign (and to a slightly lesser extent non-Michigan car, like Saturn) is akin to flying a sickle and hammer above your house.

For lots of fun, try to stuff five people into a Mini, or four people wearing body armor (I was in the Army when I had it).

I suppose it is a girl's car, but I drive a Miata now, which is also a girl's car. When I go to drill for my Guard unit I'm the only one not driving an SUV or large pickup truck.

No kidding. It just seems to affect the BMW drivers more than those of other sports/luxury cars. Maybe the handle is just hard to work... Well, I do tend to turn on the windshield wipers when I mean to press the turn signal... maybe it IS hard. :eek:

I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like.

I've got a mouse. He hasn't got a house. I don't know why. I call him Gerald.




I'm a pot smoking slacker and I drive VW Vans.

So no, I don't think that cars reflect personalities.










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Wait...

I drive a lifted Chev 2500 HD diesel
Almost like this but black

http://www.hotboatpics.com/pics/data/500/5495progress2-med.JPG
What does that say about me?

I drive a lifted Chev 2500 HD diesel
Almost like this but black

http://www.hotboatpics.com/pics/data/500/5495progress2-med.JPG
What does that say about me?

You're compensating for something? ;) :p

Just kidding of course.

You're compensating for something? ;) :p

Just kidding of course.

I know :)
But it is both the vehicle I need and the vehicle I want ... lucky that way I suppose lol

drivers of personal motor vehicules who do so out of neither neccessity nor gratification fit the personality type of "idiot".

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And what if you have a BMW, a Ford and a neon-lighted raped car?

And what if you have a BMW, a Ford and a neon-lighted raped car?

A raped car?

A raped car?

Putting neon-light on your car IS rape, no?

And what if you have a BMW, a Ford and a neon-lighted raped car?

i'm a tiney bit curious as to what this is even TRYING to say. but if it means three times an idiot, because one person can only USEFULLY drive one car at a time, (even if he/she somehow has the other two rigged up to run by remote control while driving the third, which, even if it were legal, which seems somehow rather dubious that anyplace would ever want it to be) well yes, i can sort of see that.

now three IDENTICAL vehicules, so that one could be a source of parts to keep the other two running, or at least one of them, that would almost make sense, provided there was a real reason, or desire, to drive in the first place.

and if you really are out in the REAL boonies, THEN i can see that too.

some make of little old beat up pickup truck or panal van or similar, that takes a licking and keeps on ticking.

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Dodge Dakota drivers are the biggest assholes on the road. That said, I want one.

A raped car?

Didn't you ever see the "Far Side" cartoon where the dog's doing just that?

i'm a tiney bit curious as to what this is even TRYING to say. but if it means three times an idiot, because one person can only USEFULLY drive one car at a time, (even if he/she somehow has the other two rigged up to run by remote control while driving the third, which, even if it were legal, which seems somehow rather dubious that anyplace would ever want it to be) well yes, i can sort of see that.

now three IDENTICAL vehicules, so that one could be a source of parts to keep the other two running, or at least one of them, that would almost make sense, provided there was a real reason, or desire, to drive in the first place.

and if you really are out in the REAL boonies, THEN i can see that too.

some make of little old beat up pickup truck or panal van or similar, that takes a licking and keeps on ticking.

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My father had 20 cars, sometimes 30.

He was a collector.

But not one was pimped with neon-lights. :)

What's the difference between a hedgehog and a BMW?

The hedgehog has the pricks on the outside

Dodge Dakota drivers are the biggest assholes on the road. That said, I want one.

you DO realize what that MIGHT be interpreted as you're saying you want?

What's the difference between a hedgehog and a BMW?

neon lights?

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you DO realize what that MIGHT be interpreted as you're saying you want?

and those who do are assholes.