stupid SUV driver tricks

Justin wrote in alt.autos.gm

Years ago, before the term SUV was invented, you had only a few of what are now SUV's, and the drivers were just like everyone else. Then came the SUV craze, and suddenly the bullies on the road have decided that these are the vehicles to drive. I was driving on a 2 lane freeway following the proper distance, when an SUV came right up on my tail and sat there until I moved over, and then did the same for the car in front of me. I have seen similar behavior time after time. And when the driver gets out of their bully machine, they are invariably rather short and skinny. I guess the use their car to make up for their own perceived lack.

Yeah but when the driver's in a car that gets 12 mpg it makes it worse. Plus the Navigator was slightly fishtailing when it made that stupid manuever to get in front of me, a car wouldn't have done that as much, lower center of gravity.

IF I felt the way you do about SUV's I would never buy one, if I were you. That is what's nice about the free market we have in the US. One can buy whatever they want, need and can afford no mater what someone else believes they may want, need and can afford. ;)

mike hunt

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Eugene wrote in alt.autos.gm

WTF does the mileage of a vehicle have to do with the acceptability of getting cut off? so if you're driving an Insight or a Prius is perfectly ok to cut people off? sh*t, my 3/4 ton 4wd truck gets better mileage (15) than my sister's AWD minivan (12 with a tail wind).

-Bret

Justin,

A similar thing happened to me last Thursday as I was doing some last minute running around before flying out the Texas. Mz Thang was behind me in her new foreign crapper, wiped out around me, cut in front of me ( no signals ) and twenty feet jumped on the brake & turned in the mall driveway without signaling.

Not to smart.

Mz. Thang got 8 seconds of a three note horn blown at her. Next driveway I turned into the mall, drove around toward where she turned in & waited for her to park & go in the mall.

I wrote out a little note & stuck it on her driver window.

Hey you F____'__ " racially incorrect word added " , your lucky I'm in a good mood today or you could of wound up with a slashed tire, a 9 ' long scratch, or perhaps a dented door. Cutting someone like me off & going into a mall where your car is going to parked for a long period of time ain't to bright bitch. Next time you might have to have it towed.

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Eugene wrote in alt.autos.gm

Strangely enough, I have never had a bus tail gate me, or try to bully me. I have seen that behavior in truck drivers. And, strangely enough, I never said a word about banning the suv's either. Do you always go around putting words in people's mouths? Or is this just some poor behavior adopted for the usenet?

So replace banning with complaining. Enough complaining leads to banning eventually anyway. I have been tailgated and cutoff by a school bus before. Try driving the speed limit in a school zone and a bus will tailgate you.

Eugene wrote in alt.autos.gm

First of all, complaining in a news group does not lead to banning. Hell, complaining here doesn't even lead to a decent recall. It takes a hell of a lot more than just bitching to get something banned. As far as school buses tailgating? Let the school district know, talk to the media. Do something. That is our children we are talking about. I have never heard of that in Washington. I am sure that if some driver tailgated, or sped (especially in a school zone) they would be fired in very short order.

There are ways to "deal" with tailgaters: (outside of the proper way, which is to allow them to pass and ignore them and allows you to keep your blood pressure down...)

1-go. get a faster car. if you're doing 30+ over the limit you don't usually have a tailgating problem. 2-stop. brake check'em. works best if you have a fancy car and actually whoa it up (but follow it by #1 or you might get rear ended...)

;)

Stop listening to Madison Avenue. SUV's are not performance vehicles and they don't handle like sports cars. What you see on the commercials are blatant lies.

You cannot pass a Porsche on a winding mountain road while pulling an airstream trailer unless the driver in the Porsche is asleep.

Drag racing 4wd pickups while pulling trailers is for morons.

The Mazda SUV does not out handle thier MX-6 sports car.

Driving off a paved rode at 80 mph is just plain stupid.

Unfortunately, the average american consumer is pretty much a moron and damn stupid these days.

GJ

I never said an SUV was a performance vehicle ??

George Jetson wrote in alt.autos.gm

And is often the result of trying to make the SUV do the above things. :-)

Nothing wrong with two 4 wheel drive trucks towing trailers doing a little racing.

We used to race the old 90 F-Super Duty roll back tow truck (460 FI/ 5 Speed/ 5.13 rear gears) anagist a buddy's 89 F-350 Roll Back (7.3 TD/ Speed/4.88 rear gears). Both trucks had 19 foot Holmes roll back beds. We would get a 2 cars on each, one on the bed, one on the stinger, and see which truck could win.

Got to love the games us RedNecks play. Charles

jriegle wrote in alt.autos.gm