I don't think of them as "bullies"; I rather like thinking of them as "road clowns". "Road clowns" such as the fart pipe equipped Honda Civics who pull up beside me and rev their tiny engines, or the clapped out Toyota pickup low-rider who pulled up next to me and started hopping up and down on his hydraulics, with a smug "I'm so much cooler than you" look on his face. I also get revved on by Dodge Rams a lot for some odd reason.

 

Yeah, Blame the lugnut behind the wheel not the car. Careful with those too, I'm on elcaminocentral.com too and some of those have 502's and 6 speeds.


As for bullies, I ran into one a couple of weeks ago. In of all things a jacked up Ford F350! He must have had 40K in the suspension alone considering how shiny his control arms and front Diff was.

We have some bad freeway on-ramps where I live that start out at 2 lanes and merge into one before you hit the freeway. Unfortunately they're a bit too short and it's always a drag race. Anyway this moron decides he wants to race just about the time the lanes merge.

I have all of about 600 miles on my GT at this point and all I want to do is get to work so I can pay for it!

He starts this drag race and I just shut it down and dropped back. I'm not screwing up my car because some ape's male genitalia is too small. He continued to race down the freeway then dropped back to screw with me some more. I ignored him but he paced me for a mile. I pulled a bit ahead and he dropped back for awhile then sped up to pace me again. This guy must have really wanted a race but I knew better. I dropped back just enough so he could see my windshield then picked up my cell phone and stared intently at his back bumper. Then I acted like I was talking to someone while still looking intently at his truck.

Trick worked, he took off and I never saw him again. See in AZ the DUI laws are really strict and you can get someone pulled over just by calling Highway patrol and telling them they were driving erratically. Gets them an instant DUI test and lots of embarrassment. So just the threat is usually enough.

Like I said, I'm not screwing up my new car for some backwards A-hole..

 

Sorry about the El camino jabs.

I really do not race them at all. It's more of a subtle mind-game. To be honest, sometimes it's fun.

It really just amazes me:
how people do not see day after day, on the same commute, that driving that way yeilds nothing.

& the down-right angst that some drivers (mainly Chevy....cough, cough) drivers feel toward the Mustangs. I get blow-by's all the time from p/u drivers to 6 cylinder Camaro's, Z28's,.....hell even Cobalts! They just seem to hate us here. Oh well. It could be that my car is VERY black, tinted....and well just plain BAD AZZ. It does NOT exude friendliness. I, however, am friendly, and more prone to give a thumbs-up than most. It's a shame that everyone seems to want to race my car. BMW guys too.......all the time.

 

This story is hilarious! I think most people have similar experiences.
I see the same cars every day going to and from work. I drive a little Mercury Mariner with a V-6 as my daily driver. I always have the same over-aggressive drivers cutting me off etc on my 28 mile drive to work. No way to prevent it in the Mariner.
Occasionally I take the Stang and nobody seems to be able to cut me off in the Mustang for some reason. I get a kick that these people even try...

 

I'll race up to the speed limit with most people and them let them go most of the time. If some one is tailgating me I usally hose them down with some washer fluid a few times. If that doesn't work I use the left turn signal a few times. Its fun. I run in to more people not doing the speed limit than people trying to break the sound barrier.

 

When I drive the 4runner, I just move over partially onto the shoulder and shower their car with dirt and grit

 

Hahahahahahahahah!!!!! I never thought of doing that!!! Did you do anything special to your squirters to hit the tailgaters?

<--- looking forward to trying that out!

 

One of my friends used to have an old Jeep Cherokee. It was missing the rear wiper, but the squirter still worked. He modified it to shoot a stream backwards that would shoot about 10 feet straight back when the Jeep was not moving. If he was being tailgated, he would just hit the squirter button for a few seconds and give the car behind him a bath!! It was amazing how quickly that solved the problem!!

 

This is my biggest pet peeve, they cut you off to go about a block and turn, next would be women trying to drive and talk on the phone and drive 10mph under the speed limit or just sit there at a green light. When they sit at the green light I am usually two or three cars behind her otherwise I would lay on the horn until she got the message.

 

You all should try to live and Drive in the Phoenix Area...Valley of the Sun?

Valley of the Bums!!!

 

Wow, seems like there are quite a few here who contribute to the problem. Racing, throwing rocks, squirt guns, name calling... jeesh, sounds like a childs version of NASCAR.

 

At least you're not in Mesa, I had some old lady with Missouri plates on a Taurus shoot out of a driveway in front of me today without even looking. Then she drove 15 in a 35, waited for 5 minutes before making a left turn and contined to drive 15 in a 35 hitting her brakes every 15 feet to let the "ghost pedestrians" cross the street. I would've passed her but it was a more residential street and didn't want to risk spooking her into running into a wall or something.

If I didn't have to live in Mesa I'd be outta here so fast!

 

That is the funniest post I've read in a while.

 

Yea, no doubt this post made me laugh out loud several times. Nice one!

 

There are more of these morons you guys speak of in New Jersey than I care to speak of. We have them in HUGE quantity and I've noticed that vehicle buying habits seem to follow their inability to operate a vehicle fairly closely.

For one, I've noticed that in general, as a group people who drive Toyotas have no F'in clue how to drive. They do it all. 35 in a 50, the pull out and die, the main street stop before a turn...ALL OF IT. Camrys are the biggest offender. They're not always old either. I have it happen plenty of times with regular middle aged people who are supposed to be on their game.

The second group are the minivan people. These people generally feel that pressing the accellerator on their car is against the law. They're generally unpredictable and often operate in a way I would consider a hazard to the regular driving public.

Other offenders are the "the light is green and I wait 30 seconds before I realize it or pay enough attention to actually do something" people. The "I'm on the cell phone and don't bug me with your driving" people. Then you have the "I'm in motion but aren't paying one lick of attention to the fact that I'm driving" people. These are the most dangerous because they're literally doing sometimes several different things and have no clue what's happening around them as far as driving goes.

 

You said it! Toyotas and minivans are definately the most annoying cars on the road!

 

Yeah, I know what the problem is at least around here. Just about everybody is caught up in their own little world and that's all that's important.

The soccer mom's are worried about stuff I don't even remotely care about. All I know is that they congregate around my house with their minvans and huge SUV's around 3:30PM. There's no parking signs everywhere but they don't care. One of them actually got in a fight with the mailman because he was taking up space with his mail truck.

Geez how did I ever survive, I can count on one hand the number of times I ever got a ride to or from school that didn't involve a school bus.

I'm not going into the whole walk 100 miles in 30 foot snowdrifts barefoot carrying my brother on my back thing, I'm not that old....

The snowbird set is fun too. They're afraid of their own cars, have no idea where they're going and don't care when they get there. From October till April you take your life in your hands around my neighborhood.

I understand how they've earned the right to do as they please because they've managed to stay on the planet for so long. But really, they're a rolling hazard and I'm all for giving them their own road with big inflatable things on the sides like they do for kids at the bowling alley. They can have an exclusive path that goes from the senior center to the grocery store with exits for the House of pancakes and Lubys and of course the bank.

Then we have the young turks with something to prove. Whatever claptrap bungee corded mess they cold pull out of their dad's backyard will do. The cars are usually missing major parts, belching oil smoke and have to be restarted in the middle of the intersection while I'm behind them.

Ahh! but the radio sounds great. If you don't mind the cheapy Kraco door speakers and 36 inch subwoofer crackling out some kind of indecipherable noise. It usually involves a drum machine at some point and some angry person yelling something about automatic weapons from what I've gathered.

Then there's the overgrown adolescents with more money than sense like the micro-moron in the F350 I described earler.

These yo-yos are actually a subset of the turks group except they're older and someone gave them a job for a month (transporting drugs) or a relative died and left them money. It's either some huge truck that you could drive under if it weren't for the super-mudder tires (great choice for the freeway by the way) Or the car of your dreams that they neither deserve nor can operate (Z06, Shelby Gt, Viper, Z3, you pick)

These are likely the impromptu races we've all run in to. They're just like the others even though it seems like they're paying attention to you it's still all about them. You're in the way and need to be conquered and the heck with safety or common sense for that matter.

That's the common thread, None of them care much about anyone but themselves. I guess it's human nature but when you have so many people in one place you can't go too long with that attitude before you plow into someone

Just life I guess...

 

9/10 road bullies in South East Michigan drive a pickup truck or SUV. The Dodge Ram owners in particular think they own the road and that they are driving Autobahn-prepped Porsche 911 GT2's. Even MOTORCYCLE operators complain about the pickup trucks!

I'd say the best drivers on the road around here are the ones driving new sports cars.

 

I saw a guy in a minivan about three cars in front of me in the left lane on the highway "bullying" a car in front of him that was going ner 80 in a 65 in heavy morning traffic, jerk his wheel to the right zipping all the way across to the extreme outside lane (3 lane highway) gun it taking his van up to well over 100 then jerked it back to the left to get back i front of the driver he was bullying before and slammed on his brakes. Forcing the car off the road and nearly causing several other cars to crash. Several cars had to go into the center divider to avoid crashing. Including myself. The guy kept applying his brakes until he was satisfied that the other driver was fully stopped. I thought he was going to get out of his car. I have a CCW Permit and prepared myself to use deadly force against this guy who had just used his car as a weapon. Lucky for him he continued on his way and did not exit his car. I think he realized the situation he created with about a half a dozen cars and all the angry drivers he was now forced to deal with. This lunatic had he persisted with his road rage could have lost his life and could have killed someone. For what? To be 2 minutes earlier to his destination? Driving in Tulsa nets you the same problems everone else has described with inconsiderate crazy drivers. I guess it happens everywhere. Oh and don't get me started on the potholes you have to look out for on top of the crazies. They can swallow your car!

 

what do i get out of beating them? nothing really, its just fun to see them ****ed off.
i drive fast because..well i just like to.