Dad racers......

Dogbreath · 15 Jun 2009 at 08:09

I drive just the same without my daughter in the car, but slow down quite a bit with her on board, though not to the point of the annoying sods doing 40mph everywhere with their cretinous "Little princess on board" tags. However, even at (nearly)4 she's a acceleration junkie and is always egging me on ("Daddy, you car is much faster than mummy's"

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MikeHunt79 · 15 Jun 2009 at 19:10

'i don't drive as fast as I used to, unless I'm late and then the road becomes a race track

I don't have any offspring tho, or at least none that I know of!

Berger · 15 Jun 2009 at 19:19

brendy said:
The amount of tossers that think their picasso can out run anything on the road is getting silly. We have three children and decided to stay away from mpvs and went for an x5 (large rear bench accomodates 3 car seats), quite a high powered 340bhp variant and before that had a cupra which was a fair bit quicker than standard.
The amount of mpvs that felt it necessary to go blasting past seemed more than just a coincidence and it always seemed to be 30 and 40 something men.

I tried to overtake a SEAT Altea once and he put his foot down, just some bloke on his way home from work.

The thing was a missile, from being behind him at 30ish, it took until almost 3 figures before I passed him when I was in my Rover (224bhp). I looked it up and they do a 197bhp version!

Fido McNasty · 15 Jun 2009 at 19:29

R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
Yes, I stopped driving like a moron up the street I lived at

No you didn't.

Porkford · 15 Jun 2009 at 19:51

I had a Picasso in my boot as I was overtaking a car this morning on my way to work. As soon as I passed the car I moved over and he went screaming past I noticed he had 2 kids in the back of the car and I watched him hammer it down the hill (mustve been doing well over 70) I was doing 50 (the limit) :rolleyes:

Fr0dders · 15 Jun 2009 at 20:19

dont think kids changed the way i drive.

Getting older and wiser did though.

brendy · 15 Jun 2009 at 20:41

Berger said:
I tried to overtake a SEAT Altea once and he put his foot down, just some bloke on his way home from work.

The thing was a missile, from being behind him at 30ish, it took until almost 3 figures before I passed him when I was in my Rover (224bhp). I looked it up and they do a 197bhp version!

Its practically the law to get your SEAT mapped these days, they respond great to a little fettling. the new leon is a bit of a weapon too for the money. I prefer the v8 growl that I have now though