Have you noticed?
 

That some people hate on you because you have a Z? I was driving to work today and this lady (I will withhold race ) in a beater buick came flying into a traffic circle only to glare at my car when she drove by and did 10mph for as long as I couldn't pass her. I didn't tailgate her as to avoid chips. I guess some people just have to make everyone else's life shitty because theirs is too. :shakes head:

I turned onto a traffic free city street yesterday and gave her some throttle as I accelerated from 5 up to 35mph. The exhaust must have reverberated off the buildings because a lady j-walking across the street in front of me glared at me and started waving her hands downward while yelling 'slow down'. Pretty annoying when I wasn't even speeding. Actually considered just hitting her for a minute.

When people do crap like that I have a tendency to give them the finger

i personally hate when people behind me beep at me while i turn onto aprons...have to go slow to avoid scraping the bumper ya know....they don;t care though, i just slowed their day by 4 seconds...

It may just be in NC but a lot of pickup trucks like to tailgate me as well... WTF?

I've also had the experience where people is beaters (cars, not undershirts) give me dirty looks. That always makes me laugh, since the Z is not all that expensive.

On the other hand, elementary school age kids give me the thumbs up all the time!

That's what kills me. A lot of people that have a problem with the z spent almost as much on their car.

:iagree: People tend to think that anything other than your run-of-the-mill 4 door sedan costs way more than it really does.

i think it's more to the rarity of the car rather than how many doors it has. i know in NOVA you will see a Z every 5 seconds but that's not true for most other places, people think the Z is expensive because they never see one.

I remember talking to some lady who was driving an Armada about my car. She was convinced the Z cost more than her car:rofl2:. She could buy two sees for the cost of the tank.

I think people are just dumb. I had a V6 Mustang back in high school and if you told a girl it cost $70k she'd believe you.

I get the feeling you tried this.

there is a lot of people sippin' hateraid in this "down" economy

:icon18::bowrofl:

:iagree:

I had some frickin' "sign guy" (don't know if he was a cop or not) pointed at his "slow" sign when I went through some road construction. He didn't see me speeding because he had his back to me, but he whipped around and pointed to the sign.
I was doing 25. Jacka**.

It took like 6 months before you figured out I wasn't rich. :icon17:

You're not rich?

Crap like this happens to me in my neighborhood all the time. I live in a neighborhood made up of "villages" with lots of walking paths, parks and lakes and a little town center.

The neighborhood has elementary, middle and high schools so lots of kids are walking here and there.

On my street there is the entrance to a boardwalk designed to allow the little brats who live on the street to walk through the woods to the school. Of course, fat, lazy housewives all drop off and pick up there kids here instead of actually going to the school itself. Because of that I can barely get to and from my house in the hours this is happening (keep in mind it should not be happening at all)

The speed limit is 25 in the entire neighborhood. I rarely ever exceed it. I usually putt through the neighborhood going about 20.

Even so, I cannot count the number of times some self-important housewife spots my car and comes out in the road (next a row of street-blocking SUV's) and gives me the hand motions while mouthing "slow down" when I am not even speeding. I usually just give them the finger and keep my speed constant. occasionally i turn the music up too.

Jealousy is a bad emotion. I do not care how nice a car somebody has as long as they are polite.

don't worry, be happy
 

drivers like that get to see the beautiful rear end of my Z soon enough

generally I drive alone, staying clear of other traffic:driving:

Yup, get it too.

Actually, one of my good friends, we used to both idolize the Z.

I just got married a few months ago, Honeymooned in Hawaii, came back and some how I managed to get the Z which doesn't make sense lol. He was kinda happy for me but I sensed a "WTF" in his voice, now I haven't heard or seen him in 2 months....

You don't see that many here in MTL, so some people may think it costs way more than it does, I'm ok with them thinking that lol

well depending on where you live, having a Z one would also assume that is ur second car. so the fact u have a second car means ur rich i guess. but yeah, i find people don't realize how reasonably priced they are and just assume they cost as much as a viper or Porsche.

since when is people overvaluing your possensions a bad thing?


if my house cost me 750,000, but you think it cost me 2mm...well thanks.

I always funny that people give me grief about buying my Z, and I just have to shake my head. My town is over run with 2500HDs and Ford 2-350's. Have they not priced those lately? I mean I paid more for my Z71 in 1999 than I did for my car.

As for the tailgating, I get that a lot. Im sorry Im not scraping my front just so you dont have to put on the breaks. I get more issues with people pulling about 6 inches from me in traffic. After the first time I roll back a little you should realize Im driving a stick. SO BACK OFF....

You just need to hang around the Old Port area & around Quebec City :p but I agree with you, they are pretty hard to see in MTL.

Mensonges...jk; I will be like WTF too :tup:

Perspective is a funny thing. Considering the average median income of the US population is around $28k a year, a $40k sports car isexpensive. It's affordable for those making over $50k a year like most of us here, but try rationalizing that to someone making $15k a year.

I guess what I'm trying to say is most of us are fortunate and we shouldn't take that for granted. Some people just don't realize most us worked hard to get to where we are.... and some people are just a**holes.

Most of us live in areas with much higher average incomes though.

i am poor because i drive a HondaFit to work. :D

Prius owners piss me off all the time, they are EVERYWHERE in Boston. They try and race me all the time ( no way jose) , or speed up next to me and then cut me off and slow down, cause accidents, or just in general drive with no regard. I hate them, all of them, every single Prius owner sucks at driving. Whenever I am on the highway I always stay far away from them, i dont know what it is but they always try and show off by accelerating really fast in one lane, like they are proving that just because their car is green doesnt mean its not fast. Get a life Prius owners, go stick ur head in mud............ok done ranting

I know I thought he was too. Apparently you are baller making loads of cash if you own a Z, or just what everyone thinks.

i get stares, and the cops who lurk somewhere by my rear quarter panel waiting for me to start speeding. too bad i just putter along all the time, with judicious use of cruise control :tup:

it was really, REALLY funny though one time, off a stop light, i put the Z into 1st and started real slowly, the prius next to me just LURCHES forward and starts 'hauling ***' as fast as a hybrid can possible go. next light was red, and less than three blocks away, i looked over and the driver was nodding 'yeaaaaa' or something. i just laughed.

you mean cossie1600? :tup:

jk cossie. :D

lol thats so cal

So his prius could go twice the speed of slow!? That's amazing! I'd be proud too.:bowrofl:

Honestly.. This is it.. close the thread.. People in general just suck.. Its sad actually.

can't close it, no one has chimed in on miata drivers :icon18:

I've had this "perception of speed" thing before too. Was in the (indoor, multi-story) parking lot of an apartment complex I used to live in. The speed limit in that thing is 10 mph. Most idiots lap it at 20-25 while yapping on cellphones, which has led to a few fender-benders but luckily no human contact that I've heard of. I always roll through there at 5-10 mph.

There were two older women walking through there one day and I had my windows down, and they decided to start yelling at me through my window about slowing down in the parking lot, because someone could get killed. I didn't know what to do but give them a WTF face and keep rolling. I guess sleek car + loud exhaust = must be moving fast in their tiny brains.

Yeah ever since I got my Z, douche bag people around me critize my car because of jealousy. They cant get over the fact that they drive a 96 civic while I drive a Z

whats wrong witha civic?