Nissan qashqai and Nissan juke drivers :(

padma

They seem to be the new slow coaches on the road, the new Micra of the teenies. Countless times now being stuck behind them doing 50 in a 60 zone, just as bad as the ford Galaxy crew, what is it? Former Micra drivers who've moved up in the world?

Who or what out there is your car you don't want to be behind?

timmy_mallet

padma wrote: »

They seem to be the new slow coaches on the road, the new Micra of the teenies. Countless times now being stuck behind them doing 50 in a 60 zone, just as bad as the ford Galaxy crew, what is it? Former Micra drivers who've moved up in the world?

Who or what out there is your car you don't want to be behind?

Nowt wrong with 50 in a 60, Clarkson.

Leonard Hofstadter

timmy_mallet wrote: »

Everything wrong with doing 50 in a 60

Fixed your post. Slow drivers are if anything more dangerous than boy racers. If they weren't driving so slowly, people who have lives which aren't so boring that they have time to waste by driving ridiculously slowly on the roads wouldn't have to overtake the slow coaches and risk their own lives by driving on the wrong side of the road.

If everyone drove at the speed limit then the number of times the rest of us have to overtake would be massively reduced, thereby improving road safety.

If your life is so boring and you want to deliberately endanger the lives of others, pull into the hard shoulder and let the rest of us get by. After all you're not in a rush, so you can afford to waste a few more seconds of your time by not holding the rest of us up.

Jimdagym

timmy_mallet wrote: »

Nowt wrong with 50 in a 60, Clarkson.

+1. You would swear they were doing 50kmph on the motorway.

padma

well said captain

Jimdagym

captainspeed wrote: »

Fixed your post. Slow drivers are if anything more dangerous than boy racers. If they weren't driving so slowly, people who have lives which aren't so boring that they have time to waste by driving ridiculously slowly on the roads wouldn't have to overtake the slow coaches and risk their own lives by driving on the wrong side of the road.

If everyone drove at the speed limit then the number of times the rest of us have to overtake would be massively reduced, thereby improving road safety.

If your life is so boring and you want to deliberately endanger the lives of others, pull into the hard shoulder and let the rest of us get by. After all you're not in a rush, so you can afford to waste a few more seconds of your time by not holding the rest of us up.

You are talking about 10 kilometres under the limit.

padma

Jimdagym wrote: »

You are talking about 10 kilometres under the limit.[/QUOT

actually 25% under the limit, its called failure to progress and you would fail your test for it too

Chris_Heilong

well in Fairness, 50kmh is painfully slow to drive anywhere and it is tragic that its the national speed limit:(

Voodoomelon

These kind of threads tend to spiral downwards quite fast, but I do find the demographic of Juke drivers interesting. In my area, the 5 or 6 I see about are all 50 years plus, quite unusual considering the styling of the car.

The Qashqai is incredibly popular, all that fills my local Nissan dealers forecourt are these yokes. Typically 30-50 something female drivers.

dgt

padma wrote: »

They seem to be the new slow coaches on the road, the new Micra of the teenies. Countless times now being stuck behind them doing 50 in a 60 zone, just as bad as the ford Galaxy crew, what is it? Former Micra drivers who've moved up in the world?

Who or what out there is your car you don't want to be behind?

I think you may have started a flame war with that statement...

Anyways, I'll agree with you, may a time I've been behind a rolling roadblock/ snake and whats up the front? Cashcow. Idiot causing a jam in some sidestreet trying to park? Cashcow. Creeping up a country road? Cashcow...

The worst I have ever seen was a Puke on the M3 in the outside lane. For no reason whatsoever, jammed on the brakes from 110kms to stop. Even from a great distance away that nearly caused me to run into them, as there was a car I was overtaking at the time. Thankfully that car saw what had happened, braked to let me in and past that shíte. Looked in my rearview mirror and another car had started to spin trying to avoid them. What did they do? Drive off :mad: when they eventually went past, I really let them know how mad that made me :mad::mad::mad:

padma

I'm generally finding them very unpredictable,at lights, roundabouts, shopping centres. What is it?

bazz26

Yummy Mummies doing the crech/school run, me thinks.

padma

Certainly out by castletroy it is

dr.fuzzenstein

50 km/h in a 60 km/h zone?
Annoying, but not the end of the world.
What does grate on me is people overtaking a truck on the motorway going exactly 0.0015 km/h faster than the truck.
If you're not in a hurry, what's the point?

I think a lot of Micra drivers have moved to the Yaris, these always seem to be crawling and swerving all over the road because the occupant is an octogenarian.
This is actually confusing, since a lot of the old Micras are being driven by young blokes at high speed.
And the new breed of slow drivers are actually young-ish blokes driving any kind of car (well, chaep aul' banger), they don't have money, so they're driving on the motorway at 80 km/h to save fuel.
50 in a 60? Pah! Methinks someone doesn't have any real problems in life.
It's by far not the worst thing Nissan drivers do on the road.

Zubeneschamali

Qashqai/juke are being bought by the people who used to buy Micras and Almeras, and they drive the same way they always did, so you can expect one of these at the front of any queue of traffic.

padma

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

Qashqai/juke are being bought by the people who used to buy Micras and Almeras, and they drive the same way they always did, so you can expect one of these at the front of any queue of traffic.

So, I was right, the former Micra owners who've moved up in the world. !!

Nissan doctor

Jesus, complaining about doing 50-60kp/h on a 100kp/h national road is an arguement I would agree with from a danger point of view.

But posts like the above about 50 in a 60 zone ffs

Simple fact though, unless you have blue flashing lights on your roof, its not your place to decide that your journey is more important then someone elses.

I am not, by any means a slow driver, often quite the opposite in fact, and I do get fraustrated by slow drivers, but common sense dictates that if the driver in front is too nervous/inexperienced or whatever to go faster, then some muppet sitting on their bumper trying to force them out of the way is only going to make an accident more likely.

Bigus

They drive them Jukes fast in Dubai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OayXXRtdk4

padma

Never said I was sitting on the bumper, on the contrary I find I have to sit a bit further back from them if overtaking is not a possibility due to the unpredictability of said driver. still doing 25% under the limit is causing unnecessary frustration. the 50 in a 60 zone is only one example of Nissan drivers I mean juke drivers that can be frustrating.

creedp

dgt wrote: »

The worst I have ever seen was a Puke on the M3 in the outside lane. For no reason whatsoever, jammed on the brakes from 110kms to stop.

They were probably temporarily dazzled from the sun reflecting off all the crazy angles and bulges on the bonnet!

desertcircus

If you're stuck behind a car doing fifty in a sixty zone for a full ten kilometres, you're losing a grand total of two minutes. And that's not taking into account how rare it'll be that there'll be a 10k stretch without a safe overtaking spot. Nobody is forcing anyone to risk their lives overtaking, except the overtaker's deranged set of priorities.

dgt

creedp wrote: »

They were probably temporarily dazzled from the sun reflecting off all the crazy angles and bulges on the bonnet!

I heard a traffic announcement later that day "a traffic jam on the M3 inbound cause is unknown as of yet" :rolleyes:

padma

desertcircus wrote: »

If you're stuck behind a car doing fifty in a sixty zone for a full ten kilometres, you're losing a grand total of two minutes. And that's not taking into account how rare it'll be that there'll be a 10k stretch without a safe overtaking spot. Nobody is forcing anyone to risk their lives overtaking, except the overtaker's deranged set of priorities.

So overtaking is now because you've a deranged set of priorities.

desertcircus

padma wrote: »

desertcircus wrote: »

If you're stuck behind a car doing fifty in a sixty zone for a full ten kilometres, you're losing a grand total of two minutes. And that's not taking into account how rare it'll be that there'll be a 10k stretch without a safe overtaking spot. Nobody is forcing anyone to risk their lives overtaking, except the overtaker's deranged set of priorities.

So overtaking is now because you've a deranged set of priorities.

Anyone who does so in a way which "risks their own lives" (to quote an earlier poster) in order to save less than two minutes is very much in possession of a deranged set of priorities. A car doing fifty in a sixty zone is simply not an issue unless you're driving dangerously in overtaking.

lau1247

desertcircus wrote: »

If you're stuck behind a car doing fifty in a sixty zone for a full ten kilometres, you're losing a grand total of two minutes. And that's not taking into account how rare it'll be that there'll be a 10k stretch without a safe overtaking spot. Nobody is forcing anyone to risk their lives overtaking, except the overtaker's deranged set of priorities.

I'm all for safe driving but I cannot stand slow driver.. that's just me I guess.. if they move to the side then I'll thank them as I go by.. the problem is the ones that don't let people go past them..


Just a potential scenario, one of these slow driver up front, you have 10 cars in between you and the very first car all trying to get by the slow driver.. there's not much opportunity to overtake..

if it takes one car 10Km or as your example put it, 2 mins to pass.. by the time it gets to you, you've probably spent about 15 mins waiting.. that's only one stretch of road and only one car holding people up..

Imagine you're driving a 3-4 hour journey and you come across three of these scenario within that time.. that's about 45 mins..

One would understand why people aren't happy about slow driver..

Just my two cents

timmy_mallet

1. It's not 25% below. It's ~17%.
2. For the amount of times it happens in your life, just wait, don't endanger my life by being impatient, for the sake of 10kph.

creedp

timmy_mallet wrote: »

1. It's not 25% below. It's ~17%.
2. For the amount of times it happens in your life, just wait, don't endanger my life by being impatient, for the sake of 10kph.

I'm glad your relaxed lifetstyle takes precedence over everybody elses rush! You go on and take it easy now:)

Eric Cartman

the juke and quashqai just seem to be the go to cars for people who are afraid of motor tax but love to convince themselves that they drive an SUV. Think of them as the range rover sport for penny-wise, pound foolish people who see a car as simply something to go from A-B and impress the neighbours with the highest possible first digits on the reg plate

Nissan doctor

creedp wrote: »

I'm glad your relaxed lifetstyle takes precedence over everybody elses rush! You go on and take it easy now:)

But why should 'everyone elses rush' take precedence over his relaxed lifestyle?


If I am in a hurry to get somehwere and am getting held up by someone choosing to drive slower then I want to....is it fraustrating? Yes, is it their fault I'm late? No, its my fault for not leaving on time!

tuxy

How could anyone think 25% of 60 is 10? This means they either do not know 25% = 1/4 or 10x4 does not equal 60 :eek:
I'm more worried that people that moronic are allowed to drive on public roads.

creedp

Nissan doctor wrote: »

But why should 'everyone elses rush' take precedence over his relaxed lifestyle?


If I am in a hurry to get somehwere and am getting held up by someone choosing to drive slower then I want to....is it fraustrating? Yes, is it their fault I'm late? No, its my fault for not leaving on time!

Hold on I didn't say those ina rush took precedence over those more relaxed persons .. what I was commenting on was that a more relaxed persons was telling everybody else to slow down to his speed becasue he didn't want his life to be put in danger. There's no 'I' in Team boy!!