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BMW Drivers

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  • #32
    jiltloop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    smash wrote: »
    But there's zero compensation for idiocy upon making stupid statements.

    I hit a nerve there! :pac:


  • #33
    ChippingSodbury
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭ChippingSodbury


    Two pages in and nobody has posted the joke??

    What's the difference between a BMW and a hedgehog?
    A hedgehog has the pricks on the outside


  • #34
    jiltloop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    eternal wrote: »
    How does this apply to women?

    It doesn't, I've only witnessed aggressive male BMW drivers to be honest.


  • #35
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Oafley Jones wrote: »
    I was only thinking today and how well behaved BMW drivers were in recent years. Audi seem to have inherited all the ****e drivers recently.

    Mmm. That'll be the young Hoorsprung Ditch Feltspek generation. :pac:


  • #36
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    jiltloop wrote: »
    I hit a nerve there! :pac:

    Na, I'm used to poor people begrudging what I drive :pac:


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  • #37
    Sheeps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭Sheeps


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    Bad driving takes on many forms...
    Yes but generally it's the form of one of these vehicles.


  • #38
    RustyNut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭RustyNut


    smash wrote: »
    Na, I'm used to poor people begrudging what I drive :pac:

    Nothing worse than jealous peasants.


  • #39
    byronbay2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭byronbay2


    Sheeps wrote: »
    People who drive Nissan Micras and the Toyota Yaris are always the worst road users.

    I don't think they're the worst road users, they just tend to be old! They drive slowly and take no chances whatsoever. This can be annoying if you're in a rush and stuck behind them but is not their fault/problem.


  • #40
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    RustyNut wrote: »
    Nothing worse than jealous peasants.
    In their little poverty spec hatchbacks!


  • #41
    Sheeps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭Sheeps


    byronbay2 wrote: »
    I don't think they're the worst road users, they just tend to be old! They drive slowly and take no chances whatsoever. This can be annoying if you're in a rush and stuck behind them but is not their fault/problem.

    What is it about these cars that appeals to old people?


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  • #42
    Tilikum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Tilikum


    What's the difference between a hedgehog & a BMW

    Hedgehog has pricks on the outside.


  • #43
    draiochtanois
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭draiochtanois


    This post has been deleted.


  • #44
    Summer wind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    I had a BMW F10 for 3 years and any time I was tailgated it was always by a Nissan quasqai. I drive an Audi A6 now and it doesn't happen as much.


  • #45
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Sheeps wrote: »
    What is it about these cars that appeals to old people?

    They're small, inexpensive, reliable, easy to drive, easy to park etc.


  • #46
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    RustyNut wrote: »
    Nothing worse than jealous peasants.

    Jealous pheasants are way worse. Just flocking around yer nest, clucking and what not. F*ckin' bastards. Leave my nest alone!


  • #47
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    This could be more to do with the overall standard of driving in Ireland. Which is appalling. The use of indicators on a roundabout is in danger of disappearing. The use of indicators turning corners seems to be an archaic concept to some of the knuckleheads behind the wheel of a car or van in Ireland. Overtaking on the inside lane of the motorway. Using the outside lane of the motorway for purposes other than those intended. Unbelievable examples of inconsiderate and poor driving. It doesn’t seem to confined to the drivers of any particular marque. If I was to catch judgement on any driver, it would be those driving underpowered tin cans like the Nissan Qashqai or the Kia “Sportage”.


    I always rent a car when I fly back to Ireland. It’s always a BMW. It mightn’t have the same standard of spec as the 5-Series I own here in Germany, but it’s still a premium piece of precision German engineering. My choice of car certainly doesn’t change my driving behaviour. In fact, I’ve been subjected to some comments for having the temerity to drive a BMW. I pulled into a filling station in my home town last summer and filled the car. Went in to the station to pay only to meet a chap I went to school with working behind the counter.

    “Jesus, look at the fancy Dan arriving in here in the rental Beamer. Home to buy up half the town are we?”

    I kept quiet, content in the knowledge that I can afford to buy a new 5-Series with a host of extra features and performance enhancements each year, as well as being able to rent a premium marque when I do come home. Meanwhile he drives a 2001 Toyota Avensis. I let him have his little comment.


  • #48
    Sheeps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭Sheeps


    Pac1Man wrote: »
    They're small, inexpensive, reliable, easy to drive, easy to park etc.

    No, it's something more than that. The micra to old people is like cat nip to cats.


  • #49
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Sheeps wrote: »
    No, it's something more than that. The micra to old people is like cat nip to cats.

    Oh yes I forgot to add, they come with a free TV Guide.


  • #50
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I kept quiet, content in the knowledge that I can afford to buy a new 5-Series with a host of extra features and performance enhancements each year, as well as being able to rent a premium marque when I do come home. Meanwhile he drives a 2001 Toyota Avensis. I let him have his little comment.

    Come on now Aongus. Your 5 series is a company car! ;)


  • #51
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I pulled into a filling station in my home town last summer and filled the car. Went in to the station to pay only to meet a chap I went to school with working behind the counter.

    “Jesus, look at the fancy Dan arriving in here in the rental Beamer. Home to buy up half the town are we?”

    I kept quiet, content in the knowledge that I can afford to buy a new 5-Series with a host of extra features and performance enhancements each year, as well as being able to rent a premium marque when I do come home. Meanwhile he drives a 2001 Toyota Avensis. I let him have his little comment.
    Very gracious of you to let the impertinent oik have his comment AVB...some people...pfft :rolleyes: :D


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  • #52
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    ...the 5-Series I own here in Germany, but it’s still a premium piece of precision German engineering...

    Well-wear, chief. Mind that timing chain! :D


  • #53
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    smash wrote: »
    Come on now Aongus. Your 5 series is a company car! ;)

    No it isn't.


  • #54
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    No it isn't.
    You said it was in a thread a few months back.


  • #55
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,936 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    No it isn't.
    smash wrote: »
    You said it was in a thread a few months back.

    I'm gettin out the popcorn for this one!


  • #56
    draiochtanois
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭draiochtanois


    This post has been deleted.


  • #57
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    draiochtanois wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.
    Or a link?

    Which actually states that he bought it himself... aw well.


  • #58
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    smash wrote: »
    You said it was in a thread a few months back.

    Why would I say so if it wasn't true? Even though I'm sure you try and remember all my posts, you seem to have had a brain burp with this one. I bought the 2015 BMW 5-Series myself. I'll be buying the 2016 BMW 5-Series in Jatoba Metallic.


  • #59
    KwackerJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,123 ✭✭✭KwackerJack


    In any high end car you will get tailgaters and people who seem to think that indicators are optional. Its the whole look what have have I'm better than you Irish attitude and the fact we cant bloody drive in this country!

    But its very easy to deal with z people. When one is being tail gated apply hard but quick taps on the brake pedal which in turn forces the driver to pull back and wipe the ****e off his seat!

    When entering a roundabout and you see a driver swooping round with no indicator just keep going, sure how are you to know he was going to turn :)


  • #60
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    Why would I say so if it wasn't true? Even though I'm sure you try and remember all my posts, you seem to have had a brain burp with this one. I bought the 2015 BMW 5-Series myself. I'll be buying the 2016 BMW 5-Series in Jatoba Metallic.
    Or you could buy a 6 or 7 series and step away from all the other diesel 5 series owners....


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  • #61
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,936 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    smash wrote: »
    Or a link?

    Which actually states that he bought it himself... aw well.

    And the first kernel hasn't even popped yet.:(


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