Do you do it

jamoor · 3 Jun 2009 at 13:51

Lum said:
Only works if you drive an Impreza, if you drive a Forester or a Legacy (even the nutty turbo and twin turbo versions) then Impreza drivers will just ignore you.

This is true, although a completely different type of demographic drives legacys/foresters than Imprezas.

This does happen in the MX5 to a worrying degree.

Lum · 3 Jun 2009 at 14:02

jamoor said:
This is true, although a completely different type of demographic drives legacys/foresters than Imprezas.

That's only true for the non-turbo Legacy.

Plenty of rally enthusiasts out there driving an old Series 1 Legacy Turbo or Legacy RS, plenty of performance car fans in twin-turbo Legacy B4s and GT/Bs and as for the Forester STI, you'd have to be a nut case (in a good way) to drive one of those.

Agree if it's an old codger in a Legacy wagon with an Alsation in the back though.

As a rule of thumb, if it's a got a scoop on the front (a real one) then it's worth a wave.

FWIW, there's plenty of old codgers driving around in non-turbo Imprezas too. I figure they're the ones who didn't want something as big as the Forester or Legacy but still wanted the AWD for getting around in the valleys. The non-turbo Impreza really does look awful.

Griffo · 3 Jun 2009 at 14:06

MrLOL said:
my mate discovered this when he got his bike

other bikers just started randomly chatting to him while waiting at the lights. Having spent all his driving life behind the wheel of a car, being anonymous

it came as quite a shock !

I love it, wherever you are you can chat to someone else on a bike.

I was waiting for the ferry at Dunkers and these two huge as hogs with equally huge blokes in black leather, bandanas, tattoos etc on parked up by me. Normally i'd be in my car thinking "crikey" but instead we just started talking about stuff (bikes). Super!

antijoke · 3 Jun 2009 at 14:31

I used to wave/flash lights at fellow Impreza drivers when I owned mine, and sometimes got a flash too.

d.chatten · 3 Jun 2009 at 14:34

Freefaller said:
I do it to other bike riders when on my bike, but other than that, no.

MrMatteh · 3 Jun 2009 at 15:03

I pretty much never see another Clio Williams or 16v, so don't get the opportunity to wave

Jonny69 · 3 Jun 2009 at 16:08

Classic Ford drivers usually wave at each other. Interesting response though, seems to be a 'class' thing. In the Anglia I get all classic Fords wave, but rarely get older style classics from other marques wave. In the Pop I'd get older classic cars but not modified classic boy racer style Fords like Mk1 Escorts or Anglias unless they were standard. I always honk and wave whatever, it's all part of the fun

Janesy B · 3 Jun 2009 at 16:10

Whenever we're in the Anglia/Cortina/MGB filling up with petrol we always get some plonker wombling over and waffling on about how they remember these

Lum · 3 Jun 2009 at 16:40

Better than being pulled over by the police, or ferry security, for a "random" spot check just because the officer wanted to know what your car was.

Has happened to me three times in the Legacy B4 and at least once to my dad in his 70s Nova kit car.

AHarvey · 3 Jun 2009 at 16:44

I do this when out in my Corrado, we are a friendly bunch.

I've even had one guy going down the opposite side of a dual carriageway go all the way around a roundabout and come down my side and flag me down for a chat

Pete19s · 3 Jun 2009 at 17:08

MrMatteh said:
I pretty much never see another Clio Williams or 16v, so don't get the opportunity to wave

Thats because King Stromba has bought and torn apart most of them. During my 19 ownership I never saw another on the road to wave at although I did have a chap who used to own one come over and have a chat with me. Not had anyone flash me in the Megane yet, im waiting for another member of the gay yellow car club to do so though. Occasionally get flashed/waved at by Tesco artic drivers while at work.

Westyfield2 · 3 Jun 2009 at 19:23

Bikers and other se7en drivers do it when we're out in the Westfield. Thinking about it lots of other open-top drivers do it to us too...

mr tommo · 3 Jun 2009 at 19:24

Never had it in my Z4.

They are always being driven by boring old farts

agw_01 · 3 Jun 2009 at 19:38

Used to happen to my flatmate when he had his yellow MG ZR. Other people driving yellow ZRs used to flash and wave. Was quite funny.

Simon · 3 Jun 2009 at 20:10

S2000 drivers seem to do it

Defcon5 · 3 Jun 2009 at 20:41

Do it to modded ones, or other GTIs, dont otherwise.

[FnG]magnolia · 3 Jun 2009 at 21:00

Ricochet J said:
I own a Ford Focus - the most common car on the road network. One time there were six Foci including mine parked behind each other. So based on that, no I don't do a friendly wave.

That's almost exactly the opposite of me. I drive a Pug 207 GTI and, as such, am the only person in Britain to drive one

I have no one else to wave to

dekez · 3 Jun 2009 at 21:09

Griffo said:
I love it, wherever you are you can chat to someone else on a bike.

I was waiting for the ferry at Dunkers and these two huge as hogs with equally huge blokes in black leather, bandanas, tattoos etc on parked up by me. Normally i'd be in my car thinking "crikey" but instead we just started talking about stuff (bikes). Super!

I agree, when I first bought my bike I pulled into the first garage I saw to fill up, a guy with a newer SV650 came over and started chatting, gave me some tips and recommended some bike clubs. Never had anything like that in a car.

RoboCod · 3 Jun 2009 at 21:28

I do it in my tatty prelude

It's more of an old mini/vw beetle thing though isn't it?

ChrisJSY · 3 Jun 2009 at 21:38

In my stang, pretty much any performance car or classic gives waves, you also get let out all the time and people get out of your way.
To be honest, anyone really, even pedestrians.

Haven't driven it for a long time now it's at the hospital ;p

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