Thread: Who most hates being overtaken by a Landy?

I usually find Toyos and patrols, infact anything that has 4x4 badges, notice that Landies do not have any badges saying 4x4, after all we know we drive a 4x4, we don't nned to remind others or prove anything

Originally Posted by It'sNotWorthComplaining!

I usually find Toyos and patrols, infact anything that has 4x4 badges, notice that Landies do not have any badges saying 4x4, after all we know we drive a 4x4, we don't nned to remind others or prove anything

Poor fellows,, Maybe they'll be lucky enough one day to ignore the ribbing from their fellow 4x4 badgee's,,,and get themselves a real vehicle ,,

I guess I've avoided the problem by never being able to over taken anyone

Before selling my last Defender I was overtaken by a Paj/Prado thing obviously out to show me how it was done, about 20kays over the 70 limit...... and a couple of hundred metres down the road a revenue raiser stepped out of the bushes and pulled him.
HAHAHA but I gave him a pleasant wave as I went past.
I now drive a Prado myself and couldn't give 2 hoots who overtakes me in what, never have done, but as others have said the annoying barstewards who go past and then slow down are the ones I hate especially the Asian chap who did it in his REXTON of all things, on the freeway recently.
Happy motoring.
Alan.

Even when over taking, in ones Land Rover, the urge by the other driver to speed up, and over take is alittle strange, as a few k's down the road you will over take them anyway, as many Oz drivers cant seem to antisipate the road conditions in the first place...

doesnt seem to matter what breed it is.....midday todayon the M1, had an audi q7 with 4.2 v8 turbo up my arse merging from smith st, with a porsche cayenne in front of me, the cayenne sped up to 120 and whizzed across all lanes towing my disco td5 , with the audi frantically trying to pass at the same time. by the time we hit the rh lane the audi had got past me and he was trying to reel in the cayenne we went over 140 for some distance and somewhere in the rear a prado decided he was coming too.....must have looked a sight, the audi driver must have been spewing seeing the landrover still there with him, but discretion got the better and I backed down to a vigilant 130 and let the prado catch up a little.....just a little.....he was chicken

What about when they just dont overtake or wont go near ya??

Im not real keen on city driving if I can avoid it... before I sold the defender (:sob: :sob: ) I was living in the central north of our fine state and needed to go to Melbourne for my sisters wedding....MMM not good, then they changed the date of the GP (the one they stole from us ) and now it was melb on the gP weekend...

sis lives in brighton,.... so we left my home town in low 4 as it had een raining and at that time the streets (after 4 days heavy rain) were a quagmire or worse of red sticky clay and mud that basically covered the car in the distanceuntil I hit the bitumin, then it was a straight trip thru to melb...

arriving on friday morning in melb is no fun, the street signs are more of a "you just passed XX st" instead of XX st 400M... so that was fun, coming from a town where the nearest traffic light is 300kms away (and that was not far from our "local" mcdonalds!)

I found though that as the car was dripping with mud (occasional "clump" as some fell off the explode on the roadway!) and only visability was where the wipers front and back and we had cleaned the side windows and mirrors.. (it was a 110) ... that unike almost any other time Ive been in Melb instead of crowding up people seemed to actively move away to sit back or to park a long way off!!... was it the UHF CB/HF aerials? ... maybe the bullbar & spots?... could it have been the RFDS stickers (nah.. covered in mud)
the swag on the roof rack?? nup I just couldnt work it out.....

maybe it was the very muddy defender, an SA plate, and an obvious navigator reading a map book that combined to do it....

but next time I go to the big smoke.... Im going to a mud bowl somewhere first.... even if I have to shovel it on!!


cheers
digger

Originally Posted by It'sNotWorthComplaining!

I usually find Toyos and patrols, infact anything that has 4x4 badges, notice that Landies do not have any badges saying 4x4, after all we know we drive a 4x4, we don't nned to remind others or prove anything

I have mentioned this before on here about the landys being pretty much the only 4 wheel drive that doesn't have to say it is one