serious question...for 240 owners esp

Alright I was drivng my spec v a few days ago and I pull up behind this pontiac. He keeps eyeing the truck beside him like he wants to race it even though the guy in it is old and his truck looks like it's going to fall apart. The light turns green and the pontiac tromps on it and the truck doesn't even try. There's a merge a little ways up the road so I figure if I get a little close to the pontiac I can squeeze by the truck in the left lane and pass the pontiac before the merge. Well the merge comes and I could only get around the truck :banghead:...Since I'm on the pontiacs tail his passenger puts down the vanity mirror and keeps talking about me to the driver...so I wave, smile and proceed to flip him off. He locks his brakes up in the middle of the road, hops out of his car with smoke still coming out of the wheel wells and comes at my car. I just drive around him in the breakdown lane and spin my tires as I flip him off out of my sunroof. I pass a few cars in no passing zones to add some space between me and him. I pull up to a light and I'm behind 5-8 cars and I'm waiting for the guy to come around the corner...he doesn't...and I think it's over with...then I see his shitty silver car pass a few cars and he's coming at me quick. I drive into the right "lane" (actually parking spaces) and take a right. I get to a stop sign and a cars stopped at it...I go around the car on the left and take a left onto a small sidestreet....It's a dead end...So I try to pull a U-turn and the guy locks his brakes up again right in front of my car...so I reverse and he is standing in the way of me leaving...I rev my engines and side step...hoping to run his ass over...He gets out of the way and kicks my car (no dent :p )...I blow through a few more stop signs and I haven't seen him since.

Alright...this similar situation happens every few weeks (sometimes more)...and since it only happened once while driving the cavalier....I think it's my driving style coupled with the car that makes people so angry.

So in a nutshell:
Have you (240 owners) experienced this a lot with you cars?

and

What cars do you think will cause drivers to flip out at me less, while still being fun to drive?

The second question I can already partially answer...like no hondas/acuras. I am wondering though whether a 240sx, lexus sc300/400, and several other fairly plain looking cars will piss people off. I am getting closer and closer to being able to afford an mr2 and I'm really wondering whether that's a good idea to use as a daily driver since I already make so many people mad with a car like the sentra.

Answers would be greatly appreciated...and please don't flame me too much for driving like an asshole. lol

Really...

Just stop Driving like an Asshole.

It's never the car that gets negative reaction (except for the occasional ford versus Chevy hillbilly) it's the Driving style.

I've driven everything from Civics to 3000gts and vettes around and have NEVER gotten a reaction like the one you describe.

So unless you can change the way you drive, be a little bit less aggressive and finger happy, then it will not matter what kinda car you drive... People are gonna react negative.


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Sounds like NYC. I agree with Hunter about it. It's just about the way you drive not what you drive. I've driven a 240 for about a year and a half now. I'm not the quickest to obey posted signs and I've never gotten a response like that.

hmmm..maybe I'll stop tailgating so much and stop giving the one-fingered wave so much. Quite often I don't even flip people off either....most of this shit happens in somersworth/rochester which aren't really bad areas, but I was right near Lafyette (sp?) street...so...I guess I should be a lot more careful around that area.

I do think it is the car also...like so many people try to race me now it's not even funny...All I do is pull up to a light and I'll see a maxima, accord or some other family car with a group of 16 year olds that keep eyeing me and creeping at the light. I definitely didn't get any reactions like that with the cavalier...except when I showed them I wanted to race.

I guess I'll slow down and try to be a more cautious driver...going double the posted speed limit frequently will definitely come around to bite me in the ass I know, but it's so hard not to get caught up in all the racing and street games people like to play.

I've heard from a few places that once you bring your car to the track you drive a lot better on the street because you have a place to be competitive with your car...

That's for sure.

Driving on a track is a blast. and it really gets alot of the need for speed out of your system.

I only needed to get pulled over for going 115 in a 65 once to stop being to silly on the opens.

Mind you it's still fun to "Blow the Gunk out" and shut down some punk down who thinks he owns the road... but it's also ok to wave off some Manker who wants to race you in a family car...

Honestly smoking some Oldsmobuick Family-mobile gives me no pleasure at all. Doing the same to some 40 year old jag off in a vette :evillol:

Racing in general will get alot more good publicity when the racers start to get a little more courteous to the norms on the roads. It's hard but it's gotta be done.

i hope you get shot by him oneday.... i really do.

the guy deserverd it but you handled it wrong...

Race Him...
Beat Him...
Hazards on...
Slow Down...

then
Race Him...
Pace Him...
Row Boat Impression...

Ownzer.

Come to atlanta and flip ppl off and act stupid on the road please.
In ATL I think we have the dumbest drivers, some of the worst traffic and the worst f*****g cops, ppl are so frastrated.
1-some girl did something stupid on the road, and when the guy in the truck got out pissed off, she becam smart, dude pulled out a bat and put some dents on her car.
2-some idiot so frustrated about life is rushing home, drives like a maniac and cuts some guy off, guy #2 flips him and yells some friendly words, stresses and frustrated driver stops, pulls out a gun and puts 3 bullets in his windshield and drives off,
so klohiq, welcome to ATL, and I encourage you to flip everyone that looks at you.

atl is nothin compared to nyc...

i think maybe you just witnessed some bad inccidents...i mean, no matter how many rappers come from atl...its still georgia....the home of ...the peach

well all i know is STL lead the country in crime and murder last year. And im sorry to say i just found out im friends with some uhhh real gutta type cats from the hood that have um done some things in there day. So plz dont let NELLY fool you!!!!!!!!!

if you guys thinkyou got bad drivers,come down to miami. all these stupid hispanics dont know how to drive.

and talking about people challanging you at lights...
i love blowing civics, and other ppl with crappy cars, away with my van and looking at their faces at the next light.


and klohiq your whole post was hilarious. :lol2:

So plz dont let NELLY fool you!!!!!!!!!


hahaha



"derty, its ya derty nelly dert derty"

wtf is that? lol do all you guys from stl talk like that?

Sounds like a sore loser to me. I beat the shit out of some punk-ass kid in a riced out civic and now he revs his engine every time I see him. Its normal, they don't realize that thier thoughts on the performance of thier cars don't translate to actual horsepower. Fuck all the ricers and wannabes.

hahaha



"derty, its ya derty nelly dert derty"

wtf is that? lol do all you guys from stl talk like that?


HELL NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! we dont talk like that at all. cept SOME gangstas in the hood.....but more than half the people dont talk like that. Its more of a ghetto thing and then wigga wanabes too.

Like said plz dont let NELLY fool you!!!!!! hes a soft ass bitch that raps for the girls and middle schoolers he wants to make a quick buck.

atl is nothin compared to nyc...

i think maybe you just witnessed some bad inccidents...i mean, no matter how many rappers come from atl...its still georgia....the home of ...the peach


actually New York is kind of pussy compared to the south lol. Not to mention the most murders are in Miami.

you have to live in the south and understand its history to really know why its like it is. Southern Black people ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT then up north people lol. COMPLETELY DIFFERENT backgrounds and culture, the north was always a more refined place while the south was filled with slave whipped swamp wading dirty africans, t hey have compltely different attitudes and ways of life, I think its so funny when New Yorkers talk about how badass they are. They do that shit down here and we beat on them and kill them for the hell of it. Like I said I been to New York, its not really that bad, there are MUCH worse places in america, get out and travel,,, stop watching the godfather and New Jack City.

actually New York is kind of pussy compared to the south lol. Not to mention the most murders are in Miami.




oh shit guys, watch out for miami....the gangsta senior citizens might jack your dentures

lol MIAMI whahahahahahah.....only thing im watching out for is my ass cuz they lead the world in HOMOSEXUALS!!!!!!!! Miami aint shit man plzzzzz. Id be more affraid in Brooklyn than Miami. When you say you need to travel more.....do you actually travel to these cities? And if so do you visit there hoods at all? Granted im a white boy and only go to the "hood" with my boys that grew up there. A white boy alone in the hood that looks outta place is a potential new outfit for the brotha. As in they'll kill you(or severly whip your ass) for your damn shoes!!!!!!!

i mean after all you have will smith singing about miami....real gangsta gangsta! lol jk Truth is there all rough places where you have to watch your back if your in that part of town.

all of us cant say that where we live is worse than another persons place until we have lives in both areas for a certain period of time. ya we can all say that where we live is the worst but we realy dont know it. all i know is that we got really dumbass drivers in miami.

i hope you get shot by him oneday.... i really do.

I'm so glad you shared your thoughts here...

Honestly I don't care if I get shot...or killed...shit happens. I'm not going to let it rule my life, I'm not searching for it exactly either, but fearing death is pretty stupid since you can't just leave the lights on to stop your fear of the dark.

I'm pretty sure I could take him...I just really see no point to fight him since he didn't do anything to piss me off. If he keyed my car...then he would definitely regret what he did.

As for getting shot...a concieled weapons permit and a sig sauer p226 should solve that problem...I'm probably getting one in the next week with the permit coming soon after...in maine its supposedly fairly easy...plus my back seats fold down very easily so even without the permit I can legally have that gun in the trunk while still being able to reach it sitting in the drivers seat...

let the shoot out begin ahahahaha

im just playing...but I do plan to get a gun soon...I just dont really want to drive around with it...but hey...it could be fun lol

as for all of you saying come to our town and flip people off...i do it anywhere i am..be it boston or lynn...hell ill do it in lawrence if i get the chance....i try to do it less, but if im pissed off...it comes up...whether your black or a woman...you deserve it if i give it to you...so fuck off haha

anywhere you go there are dumb people willing to throw away their life to take anothers...but a decent driver with a relatively fast car can usually out-power and out-drive their welfare wagons...

:2cents:

...shit happens

LOL :rofl:

but a decent driver with a relatively fast car can usually out-power and out-drive their welfare wagons

Add :2cents: to that.

lol welfare wagon thats a new one for me.

i'm surprised that the guy didn't kick your ass.....must've been fun running away though. Sounds like East L.A.

ya i agree its all the way you drive that pisses ppl off

here something that really pisses these ricers b1tches in my area off my boy got this sticker made its in a TAG style but you can still read it
it says in some pretty big lettering "I'M FASTER THAN YOU"

its great to see how many of these retarded civics try to race him and get smoked, he has an EVO, and just got a 240sx thanks to me letting him drive my car

and road rage my friend chased a car to daytona from jacksonville almost 2hour drive......

oh ya i also wanted to post one of my experiences up here
this b1tch in this old A$$ ford POS is across from me at a four way stop and there a guys behind me in a F150, i got there first did my little 4sec wait thing and am about to go well she f***ing goes too and almost rams me i had to turn to the right, fergot to mention i was going straight she going left, welll she stops her car in the intersection and gets out and is all lik F you this, wtf is your prob, blah blah blah,

my amp/sub sits in my trunk no space really so my tools are in my back seat TIRE IRON, i grab it and like look b1tch my right of way blah blah, she start screaming bout caliing the cops or something and the guy in the truck gets out and is like look b1tch he had the right of way and you didnt even have a signal on soo call the damn cops, I'm just like who in the hell are you, she's says i did have the signal on and who the F*&k are you, it seems her lights don't work, and i guess thats enough to make her not want a ticket from the cops she's going to calll, drives off pissed, barely missing my carwith her turn

As for getting shot...a concieled weapons permit and a sig sauer p226 should solve that problem...I'm probably getting one in the next week with the permit coming soon after...in maine its supposedly fairly easy...

im just playing...but I do plan to get a gun soon...I just dont really want to drive around with it...but hey...it could be fun lol



That's why the US are so screwed up.

can a sr20det beat a honda prelude

LOL :rofl:
can a sr20det beat a honda prelude

yes a car with an sr20det will spank a prelude in my opinion. but it all depends on the mods. stop posting this in different threads.

another post about a sr20 beating a prelude.... dejavu??? or someone asking a retarded question twice...

ive had a similar thing happen ove i was driving home at like 40 in the morning one time(completly sober ) i got on the mid bay bridge which is a 4 mile bridge no passing zone i might add. the speed limit is 55mph i came up on some asshole goin lik 25 or 30 about a mile over the bridge. i kept flashing my7 lights at him to encourage him to pull over to the shoulder so i could legaly pass and he wouldnt. then after we go through the toll booth he stops and i cant go around him and he gets and and starts hitting my window and flicked his cig at my car the he went back to his car. i was pissed so i passed him after he got in his car then he followed me into my neighbor hood. i pulled over and we exchanged words. i was being somewhat polite to him i think we would have fought if i would have been my normal smartass self to him

oh yea well i live in a town called niceville, florida now thats gangster hahah seriously that is the name of my town let me tell you there are some hard mo fo's here haha

this is gay the guy obviously has some kind of disease

quick runaway it might be contagious

i hope you get shot by him oneday.... i really do.


warning there is something wrong with this guy too

Come to atlanta and flip ppl off and act stupid on the road please.
In ATL I think we have the dumbest drivers, some of the worst traffic and the worst f*****g cops, ppl are so frastrated.
1-some girl did something stupid on the road, and when the guy in the truck got out pissed off, she becam smart, dude pulled out a bat and put some dents on her car.
2-some idiot so frustrated about life is rushing home, drives like a maniac and cuts some guy off, guy #2 flips him and yells some friendly words, stresses and frustrated driver stops, pulls out a gun and puts 3 bullets in his windshield and drives off,
so klohiq, welcome to ATL, and I encourage you to flip everyone that looks at you.


quick get the move away from that place.
the same thing happened to my dad and now he he he he he he he

if you guys thinkyou got bad drivers,come down to miami. all these stupid hispanics dont know how to drive.

and talking about people challanging you at lights...
i love blowing civics, and other ppl with crappy cars, away with my van and looking at their faces at the next light.


and klohiq your whole post was hilarious. :lol2:



doh


i hate hondas,accords and all those other crappy cars these so called street racers use

Sounds like a sore loser to me. I beat the shit out of some punk-ass kid in a riced out civic and now he revs his engine every time I see him. Its normal, they don't realize that thier thoughts on the performance of thier cars don't translate to actual horsepower. Fuck all the ricers and wannabes.


i agree