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Held up on the road

  • 17-03-2009 7:00pm
    #1
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭


    This is sad but i had to get it out. I was coming back down to Waterford this evening for work in the morning. There was a line of cars about 15 or twenty long cruising along at about 55 in a hundred limit. Was thinking its a micra or something holding the lot up. Some crazy passing later, my turn came up...only to be met by the backside of a 360 Modena...just not what i was expecting


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  • #2
    Bandara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,282 ✭✭✭Bandara


    EPM wrote: »
    This is sad but i had to get it out. I was coming back down to Waterford this evening for work in the morning. There was a line of cars about 15 or twenty long cruising along at about 55 in a hundred limit. Was thinking its a micra or something holding the lot up. Some crazy passing later, my turn came up...only to be met by the backside of a 360 Modena...just not what i was expecting

    I love it, he's driving a Modena, he can do whatever the fu*k he likes imo.

    :P


  • #3
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Was it driven by a valeter?

    SCNR :D


  • #4
    rebel.ranter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭rebel.ranter


    There's always a queue in the morning!

    http://www.meta-cortex.com/unicorn/modena.html


  • #5
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    peasant wrote: »
    Was it driven by a valeter?

    SCNR :D

    LOL! could well be the same dude now being super careful!


  • #6
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    can someone translate this into english ..? whats a mondea


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  • #7
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Its a Ferrari.


  • #8
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    x in the city wrote: »
    can someone translate this into english ..? whats a mondea

    Ferrari 360 Modena

    Ferrari%20360%20Modena%203.jpg

    :)


  • #9
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    x in the city wrote: »
    can someone translate this into english ..? whats a mondea

    Tut tut:-)


  • #10
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,364 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    x in the city wrote: »
    can someone translate this into english ..? whats a mondea

    And your on a motors forum.. :p:)


  • #11
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    maybe he got confused with the p1ss pot!


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  • #12
    Ham Sandwich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭Ham Sandwich


    Tis a sweet ride though!! But looks like it could do 55 several times over! :rolleyes:


  • #13
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 41,250 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    bazz26 wrote: »
    And your on a motors forum.. :p:)
    aah leave them alone, they're lost!
    try over here >>>


  • #14
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    EPM wrote: »
    This is sad but i had to get it out. I was coming back down to Waterford this evening for work in the morning. There was a line of cars about 15 or twenty long cruising along at about 55 in a hundred limit. Was thinking its a micra or something holding the lot up. Some crazy passing later, my turn came up...only to be met by the backside of a 360 Modena...just not what i was expecting

    Gearbox problem? Maybe he couldn't get it out of first!


  • #15
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    kbannon wrote: »
    aah leave them alone, they're lost!
    try over here >>>

    Lol.

    Wish i was there. It would have been the one and only time where a land rover over took a ferrari


  • #16
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    landyman wrote: »
    Lol.

    Wish i was there. It would have been the one and only time where a land rover over took a ferrari

    Ah sure the valetors driving Land Rovers haven't crashed yet

    *touches wood*


  • #17
    Honey-ec
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,844 ✭✭✭Honey-ec


    Considering we're forever being told this country suffers from a "speeding epidemic", I certainly haven't seen much evidence of it.

    I've overtaken Skylines, TTs, M3s and even an R8 in my 1.9 (diesel) Passat. I genuinely wonder why they bothered.


  • #18
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,364 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Thing is though just because someone drives a quick car doesn't mean they have to drive it quickly all the time.


  • #19
    Honey-ec
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,844 ✭✭✭Honey-ec


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Thing is though just because someone drives a quick car doesn't mean they have to drive it quickly all the time.

    True, but conditions allowing you'd assume they'd at least drive *somewhere* around the limit. Not 20 to 30 kmh below it.


  • #20
    pburns
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,423 ✭✭✭pburns


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Thing is though just because someone drives a quick car doesn't mean they have to drive it quickly all the time.

    That's as maybe but it sounds like this Ferrari driver was so slow he was an actual menace.


  • #21
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    pburns wrote: »
    That's as maybe but it sounds like this Ferrari driver was so slow he was an actual menace.

    Thats true. There was some madness trying to pass him alright as no way was he pulling in a bit


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  • #22
    robtri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭robtri


    EPM wrote: »
    Thats true. There was some madness trying to pass him alright as no way was he pulling in a bit
    pburns wrote: »
    That's as maybe but it sounds like this Ferrari driver was so slow he was an actual menace.
    Honey-ec wrote: »
    True, but conditions allowing you'd assume they'd at least drive *somewhere* around the limit. Not 20 to 30 kmh below it.
    Honey-ec wrote: »
    Considering we're forever being told this country suffers from a "speeding epidemic", I certainly haven't seen much evidence of it.

    we moan on this forum when people break the speed limit, and tell them they are in the wrong...
    then when they are driving legally under the speed limit, we are giving out, calling them a menace..
    me I would consider the idiot doing the dangerous overtaking the menace not the guy in the modena,....


    Honey-ec wrote: »
    I've overtaken Skylines, TTs, M3s and even an R8 in my 1.9 (diesel) Passat. I genuinely wonder why they bothered.

    by the sounds of that comment we do have a speeding issue, esp. with passat diesel drivers :D


  • #23
    Biro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,091 ✭✭✭Biro


    robtri wrote: »
    we moan on this forum when people break the speed limit, and tell them they are in the wrong...
    then when they are driving legally under the speed limit, we are giving out, calling them a menace..
    me I would consider the idiot doing the dangerous overtaking the menace not the guy in the modena,....

    Don't be a wally.


  • #24
    Zube
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,502 ✭✭✭Zube


    robtri wrote: »
    we moan on this forum when people break the speed limit, and tell them they are in the wrong...


    Not that I've noticed. I speed all the time, and never get any stick here for saying so.

    We do get a bit short with people who speed, get caught, and act surprised.


  • #25
    robtri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭robtri


    Biro wrote: »
    Don't be a wally.

    in what way???


  • #26
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    robtri wrote: »
    me I would consider the idiot doing the dangerous overtaking the menace

    Personally, I would consider both to be a menace. The guy in the Modena's failure to give (and failure to make progress is a test fail) way resulted in some Frankly stupid overtaking - often peoply doing it with no view in front of the other side of the road


  • #27
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,085 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    robtri wrote: »
    we moan on this forum when people break the speed limit, and tell them they are in the wrong...
    then when they are driving legally under the speed limit, we are giving out, calling them a menace..
    me I would consider the idiot doing the dangerous overtaking the menace not the guy in the modena,....

    Clearly too much to ask that someone drive at an appropriate speed that's not too fast and not too slow...


  • #28
    Doodee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭Doodee


    robtri wrote: »
    we moan on this forum when people break the speed limit, and tell them they are in the wrong...
    then when they are driving legally under the speed limit, we are giving out, calling them a menace..
    me I would consider the idiot doing the dangerous overtaking the menace not the guy in the modena,....

    Why can't the person driving slowly pull in and allow other cars to pass safely?

    This is something that boggles my mind when stuck behind trucks or busses etc. Just pull in a little and let people go ahead if they are so eager.

    You are equally at fault if you're just ignorant and force someone to overtake dangerously.


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