Cars that make your heart sink..

[TW]Fox

[TW]Fox

[TW]Fox

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Right. Lets see if you guys can do this properly without saying things to wind up other people rather than read the thread in hand. That means no, Mondeo isn't an acceptable answer, and neither is 'any Rover'.

Picture the scene. You are about to negotiate a regular A road, with very few overtaking spots. Which type of car makes YOUR heart sink of you suddenly find it in front of you. You know the type, the sort of car you know, with 100% certainty, will drive at approximately 30mph the whole way, and hold everyone up.

I'm going to nominate the Toyota Yaris Verso and the Honda Jazz. Becuase they are NEVER, EVER, driven in a competent fashion on such roads.

Any more? And remember, it doesn't count if its a car you can often see actually doing the speed limit on an NSL road. Sometimes, just sometimes, a Volvo will do the speed limit guys :p
 
Sorry to break the rule, but 50% of the time I'm stuck behind something slow on the one road I can't overtake on, on my way to work, it's a Mondeo.

Micras are also terrible. And Corsas (lol irony).
 
Nozzer said:
Sorry to break the rule, but 50% of the time I'm stuck behind something slow on the one road I can't overtake on, on my way to work, it's a Mondeo.
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But the other 50% of the time, it's not. I'm talking about cars you know will hold you up. Some Mondeo's have 230bhp. No Yaris Verso's have more than about 80 :p

Micras are also terrible.
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But are sometimes driven by talentless 17 year olds who think they are the next Colin. Keep up lads, it isn't that difficult a concept really is it :p

Iim talking about a range of cars so tedious, they are bought only by people who dont even know you CAN do more than 30 :p
 
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[TW]Fox said:
Keep up lads, it isn't that difficult a concept really is it :p
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You may as well close the thread now, you can't ask us to name a car that nobody has ever seen being driven at or above the NSL.

Except perhaps a City Rover.
 
as stupid as it sounds i got stuck behind a boxter the other day... bendy road doing 25mph... get to a straight booted it far faster than i could overtake in my V5... next set of bends i catch up and have to crawl round them with the boxter.... it was like this for 25 miles... i was pulling my hair out by the end of it!
 
Anything with Daihatsu or Daewoo written on the back.

Almost feel like clipping them and spinning them off GP2/3 style.
 
Daewoo Matiz, Austin Allegro, Hyundai Amica I don't think I have ever been sat behind one of them doing a decent speed on a NSL road.
 
Funnily enough, it's usually Rover drivers that irritate me and for some odd reaon, they are almost always driving 400 bubbles?!

Next in line is the HGV that I inevitably get stuck behind for approx 6 miles before I join the motorway on the way home.
 
Taxi drivers, they always seem to drive at a speed that makes you feel guilty about overtaking them but mind numbingly bored sat behind them.
 
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******* things
 
daewoo, sorry.. chevrolets.

and any honda that isn't a type r because you know the owner has bought a car simply to move around without getting tired or wet.
 
Usually its the old Toyota Celicas, i get stuck behind one and think...**** I just know its going to be a 30mph speeder that when it changes from 60 will gradually (i mean gradually) accelerate to 40, and sit there. then you overtake and they stick their full beams on and are beeping their horn :p

maybe it's just Brentwood drivers?
 
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