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I don't think the situation where drivers of other vehicles speed up when being overtaken by a Defender is necessarily intentional. I just think when a driver zones out or relaxes their speed often goes "off the boil". The sheer size and shape of a Defender overtaking usually makes them sit up and take notice that "oh crap, I've dropped off the pace a bit" and they then speed up. Perhaps they see being overtaken by A Defender as a heads-up that they've slowed down.
Nice bit of apologetics for drivers but can't agree with it, it has everything to do with size. Car drivers and particularly the ones with testosterone fuelled egos can't cope with being overtaken by something larger than themselves, be it Defender or truck.Quote:
Originally Posted by solmanic
When I used to drive for the family business I had a regular runs up and down the South Coast. On the return to Nowra I was usually empty and the ACCO could get up a little speed although it still died on hills. You would come up behind cars and so your ambient speed was greater than theirs, but every time you went around them they'd race around you and slow back to their previous less than the speed limit rate. You could almost guarantee that you'd get at least one of these idiots every trip.
I've always thought that about the 4WD badges.. if you need a badge...there's not really any point having the badge.
As for being overtaken. TOYOTAS.
Mainly cruisers and lux's. I can't tell you how many times I've been travelling to Sydney and come up on one of the above doing 90, they've been doing 90 for miles. I go past them and the sky must fall in on them, Oh My God I've been overtaken by a Land Rover. Must overtake... After a few K's I'm catching up to them doing 90 again.
It can happen 4 times between Bathurst and Lithgow.
On one occasion it was a red P plater (90k limit) in a triton, he was doing his 90, over many k's I caught him and went past on an overtaking lane "Land Rover - must overtake" so he got in front again and slowed to 90...next overtaking lane I came up beside him and he accelerated and I just let him come with me...as we went over the crest I blew my horn to get his attention and gave him the (no one thinks big of you) little finger thereby distracting him from the fact that his lane was just about to end..:twisted::twisted:
He didn't overtake me again..
Middle aged blokes in Clubsport V8s seem to be particularly prone to the "No way a Land Rover is going to overtake me" syndrome. I guess if you']ve spent that much money stroking your ego it must be a bit demoralising to be overtaken by an old Pommie 4WD.
I find its the more expensive the car is the worse a driver they are,i had some tosser in a Porsche Cayenne doing less than 90 on the ring rd and he was swerving all over the shop, see the same in Merc's / BMW's and most so called luxury cars. I love it when they try and pull out to overtake you and then scream past to get in front, tdi's might not be the fastest on the rd but they have plenty of useable torque to stop these ******* from cutting you off.
I think you're right. I get this happening a lot, regardless of what I'm drivingQuote:
Originally Posted by solmanic
That would be Heaven, only one of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies
Drivers' IQs seem to be inversely proportional to the dollar value of the vehicle driven, particularly when you get into the upmarket marques.:(Quote:
Originally Posted by loanrangie
cant speak for overtaking people in a landrover, but i know it really ****ed off a VE Clubsport R8 driver back in april when i overtook him going to work one morning..... he couldnt get close enough to overtake me till i backed off 15 minutes and 40-odd km later.....
as soon as i backed off (helps knowing where the cops patrol regularly lol) he blasted straight past me :-D
i think he didnt like his $60k or so HSV getting shown up by a dirty old falcon lol
I overtook a (recent model) red ferrari one day in my old corolla :D
A 10k stretch of twisty one lane each way, only places to overtake were at some roundabouts and I knew the road well. Local traffic tended to do 20k over the limit, and this bloke was doing 10k under for some reason. Passed him at the first roundabout just as it went to one lane each way and he couldn't overtake for a good 10 minutes until the next roundabout, when he opened the throttle wide and I never saw him again :p