Your bad driving encounters

keef247 said:
Does anyone else seem to find that the Vauxhall Moka, is THE car to fear when driven by anyone?
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I've not really seen it with Mokas the cars I see causing the most issues one way or another:

-Honda Jazz (usually silver) - confused older drivers who'll go the wrong way around a roundabout, etc.
-Older model Vauxhall Corsas almost always red for some reason - often but not always older drivers who'll do 40MPH everywhere and leave their high beams on at night.
-Almost any of the newer style Range Rovers in white - extremely ignorant of the highway code, extremely self-entitled.
-A high percentage of BMW and Audi drivers - quite a hit and miss one actually as I also find some of the best drivers on the road driving these cars but also popular with people who'll tailgate, use turning lanes to overtake, etc. etc.

EDIT: One I've seen a little bit lately as well is people in white Toyota Hilux who are massive throbbing nobs - which I just find pitiful.
 
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Rroff said:
I've not really seen it with Mokas the cars I see causing the most issues one way or another:

-Honda Jazz (usually silver) - confused older drivers who'll go the wrong way around a roundabout, etc.
-Older model Vauxhall Corsas almost always red for some reason - often but not always older drivers who'll do 40MPH everywhere and leave their high beams on at night.
-Almost any of the newer style Range Rovers in white - extremely ignorant of the highway code, extremely self-entitled.
-A high percentage of BMW and Audi drivers - quite a hit and miss one actually as I also find some of the best drivers on the road driving these cars but also popular with people who'll tailgate, use turning lanes to overtake, etc. etc.

EDIT: One I've seen a little bit lately as well is people in white Toyota Hilux who are massive throbbing nobs - which I just find pitiful.
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Moka's are everywhere I go, they haunt me mate :cry:

Haha it's ALWAYS a silver jazz! Or a horrible colour pastel colour car no-one wants if not!

Yeah the whole I'll ride your ass when it's already a 40 does my nut in but they wont try an overtake... Or the opposite, do 30 in 40's then do 40 in 30's - I remember years ago hearing an RAC or AA survey stating that was a VERY common cause for most accidents!

Yep any financed chelsea tractor or financed in general seem to be helmets!
 
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Resident said:
Cheap car, mostly seen on council estates and seemingly the car of choice for Motability clients because it's cheap.
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Yep, the 'i've just got knocked up again, the fathers done a runner/idk who it is, and already have 4 kids from different fathers and a massive free new build house' type girls barely 20 LOVE them, but then they're free so...
 
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Rroff said:
I don't think Mokas are popular around where I live - aside from one colleague who owns one I never see them on the road until I get well outside the region I live in.
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If the people I've seen driving them are anything to go by, they've probably all been written off already where you live mate and the production line isn't keeping up with the demand haha!
 
Rroff said:
I don't think Mokas are popular around where I live - aside from one colleague who owns one I never see them on the road until I get well outside the region I live in.
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I find Vauxhalls and Fords to be very working class cars. 90% of the time I see one on the roads it's got some neck-tattoed, white trainer, footy supporting, COME-ON-EILEEN type driving it. The type of person you only hang out with behind closed doors as you wouldn't want to be seen dead with them in public.

Asda seems to attract this type of person rather disproportionately too for some reason.
 
Diddums said:
I find Vauxhalls and Fords to be very working class cars. 90% of the time I see one on the roads it's got some neck-tattoed, white trainer, footy supporting, COME-ON-EILEEN type driving it. The type of person you only hang out with behind closed doors as you wouldn't want to be seen dead with them in public.

Asda seems to attract this type of person rather disproportionately too for some reason.
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What about LIDL/Pound shops/Trading estates haha!
 
Diddums said:
I find Vauxhalls and Fords to be very working class cars. 90% of the time I see one on the roads it's got some neck-tattoed, white trainer, footy supporting, COME-ON-EILEEN type driving it. The type of person you only hang out with behind closed doors as you wouldn't want to be seen dead with them in public.

Asda seems to attract this type of person rather disproportionately too for some reason.
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Shock in that mass produced lower to mid priced cars are financed by the working class :p
 
keef247 said:
Does anyone else seem to find that the Vauxhall Moka, is THE car to fear when driven by anyone? Usually drivwn by very young mum's with a full cars worth of kids?

I had one jump a 5-10second gone red light at a 5 lane motorway roundabout junction (I was at the back of the que) - so by the time I finally crossed (still green) she then flew blindly across all 5 lanes, to which we had to slam our brakes on and nearly hit the cars behind us, all whilst she swore and threw something out of the window, whilst smoking out the car with the kids in with her window having to be wound down :rolleyes:

Ever since this has happened, those car's have become jinxed wherever I go, and I see the maddest behaviour, and it as cliche as it sounds does seem to be all from very young mums with packed with kids.

I genuinely haha, cannot think of a single one i've seen since that motorway incident 5+ years ago, that hasn't done something strange/dangerous/speeding.

This definitely tops the old people that indicate right and drive straight forward, or brake for people on the other side of a road miles away when going up or down a hill!
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Just like to say, that I drive a black Mokka and none of the above applies to me.
 
69 plate Griffin. Only got it as it was just the right height to get in and out of easily and it had 18 miles on the clock.
The reduced height of the new one looks like it's been squashed( like the Range Rover)
 
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