I've had fast cars in the past. The issue these days is that the quiet roads are full of potholes, and the half decent roads are full of traffic. It's no fun sat in a fast car not going anywhere, unless you want it for posing in.
My neighbour has just bought an old RS5, it's had some work done on it as the exhaust sounds like a nuclear bomb detonating. He sits on the driveway for 10mins revving it before going back indoors
He's mid 30s which makes it a bit sad.
Too many cars, too many idiots (I'm convinced a lot of people in my town are on medication).
Were lucky where we are, still plenty of roads very quiet to enjoy been so close to Peak district helps, but you do generally need a smaller call to enjoy them, hence buying a Caterham for some fun.
Driving standards seem to be dropping massively, this morning there is a horse rider, first car decides to sit right behind them not over taking on a straight road with no cars coming, then as they come to the bend they decide to overtake whilst literally driving into the hedge opposite. Signs of a driver with zero confidence but then proceeding to be dangerous. If a car had been coming opposite way it would have ended very badly and all down to lack of confidence and poor judgement, no excessive speed involved. Watching it all unfold I literally sat several car lengths back and far away expecting a major accident.
Then the next car behind them then proceeds to overtake so close and drive alongside the horse instead of accelerating pass, causing distress to the horse. Again driving so slow and poorly potentially causing another accident.
Then my turn comes, I await for the cars who performed their terrible overtakes to accelerate away so when I go pass I do so totally on the opposite side of road as if overtaking a lorry and do so in a high gear to get pass swiftly without causing noise and further distress to the horse. I was in the 600 LT so not the easiest car to keep quiet and a wide car at that.
The problem I am seeing is people seem so nervous, so slow on the roads they are actually causing accidents, I truly felt sorry for the horse and rider as it was clear the horse was so alarmed by the car which sat riding alongside them for so long and the first car no doubt did not help by driving into the verge.
Driving standards and pot holes seem out the window.
Excessive speed I feel though an issue is far less an issue than bad driving or people been distracted by mobile phones or cars full of stupid touch screen buttons, it is always excessive speed been blamed but I feel there are far greater issues and accidents been caused simply due to bad driving, poor driving or drivers been distracted either by themselves with mobiles/infotainment or passengers.
To give you an idea of truly alarming driving, I was with a friend in his bright yellow Ferrari (not mine), were in the fast lane coming down a dual carriage way (70 limit) doing around 75mph, I spot a car wanting to join the dual carriage-way and instantly spot their road position seems weird, so I warn him they might do something stupid so he stays in the fast lane instead of moving over left. There is no other cars, we are easy to see as visibility is excellent and the road is straight with a roundabout about a further 1/2 mile down the road.
The driver in the red car proceeds to pull out as we are on top of them, were now doing circa 60mph as he heeded my warnings, even worse the driver then moves into our lane (the fast lane) my friend has to emergency brake and use the gears to get the speed off to the point I literally believe we hit them, his car had new tyres and brakes a month ago, the best tyres, we only just stopped short of hitting them by literally an inch or two at best.
The driver then moves over to left lane as they are turning left at the roundabout, I was so mad I was literally hanging out the passenger window calling this driver every name under the sun, to which the women flipped me the bird, so she got fully abused as she essentially was so close to causing a pile up, then the car that was behind us pulls between us both, an older gentlemen and wife who then proceed to hurl abuse at the women driver who pulled out on us and checked we were ok as they also firmly believed we hit them and they were so close to crashing into the back of us.
This is driving standards today, pulling out on a dual carriage way and then moving into the fast lane causing a very near miss to then just pull back to the left to turn left, I felt bad after as I went bat crazy mental at the old couple in the car but feel if that is their driving standards it won't be long until they kill someone.
