The Z is an a-hole magnet!

JungleZ

Welcome to my world, where Toyota camrys leave me in the dust because i don't wanna floor it every red light..

jcosta79

I drive the way I want to. If anyone else has a problem with that, they can suck it.

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metalmynx

Or "stop glaring at me b!tch and make me a sandwich!"

Perhaps he has a small something else...

No, I just switched the tags off the old Z.

This, exactly. I don't have to prove anything. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has this happen, I was starting to think I had a target on the back of the car.

RegPei

You are dealing with the fact that you:

1. are a person of the female persuasion
2. drive a brand new car
3. drive a bradn new car that is a Z
4. drive a brand new car that is a Z that looks fast just standing still
5. drive a brand new RED car that is a Z that looks fast standing still

The compound effect of those five must be the reason that is drawing all the a-holes out of the wood works. Given the amount of doushiness already I experience while only "suffering" from two of those five, I can only imagine what you must be dealing with every day.

On the other hand, you are a female driving a brand new red Z that looks fast just standing still.......I think that's a pretty fair trade for having to deal with all the a-holes.

MX52Z

Exactly. It's nice to watch them floor it to the next light while I casually cruise by them just as the light turns green. Then they're furiously flooring it to get ahead of me only to end up at the next light again.

I know I could spank 'em with a twitch of my right foot and they know it too but then I'd be the fool waiting at the next red instead of them.

ElVee

Yup!

Besides, maybe they actually DO have an emergency or something that is causing them to floor it, and not a contest.

Of course, not many Camry's leave me in the dust in normal driving anyway...

I honestly just drive how I wish everyone would drive. A balanced low risk, ultimately. Yeah, I rev it up and sometimes go fast, but it's not around other people or in risky situations.

As such, I don't think I've attracted any a-holes in the Z that I wouldn't encounter with any vehicle anyway. You know, the ones who get just absolutely livid because you don't turn right at a red when you have no visibility around or over the Tahoe to your left, or aren't going 20mph over the limit, or are going slow when there are kids/animals/objects near the road, etc.

The one set of exceptions though is anyone I see already driving like an a-hole. I'll passive-aggressively make sure I'm just slightly in their way or inconveniencing them; basically just give back a little what they give to the world. A little bit of empathy and patience and relaxation could change so many people's attitudes/personalities...

Mt Tam I am

Sorry to the OP for all the jerks.

I do wonder about all these incidents of cars trying to race the Z, as this has almost never happened to me. When it does happen it is never a BMW, 911, GTR or Mustang, but most likely a Honda STI or Accura Integra.

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kenchan

for me it's usually minivans that race me. and they win each time. good for them. now go back to being a boring middle aged, overweight, bald loser-dad, and let me enjoy my drive.

metalmynx

It is always the minivans with the dads for me too!

onzedge

Are you sure this does not happen when you are in your Honda Fit?

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GaleForce

So much hate

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kenchan

haha, yah, there should be an iggylist, but since there isn't one, i just ignore these folks. that's why they keep winning races. they have glory, i have peace. now gtfo, kinda (not you mr.gale)

fonzo179

I just hit 1000 posts! Forum n00bs stand up!!!
....okay now sit down before we get kicked out

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Winn

Up here in MN it's an endless parade of Dbags in pickup trucks. If it's not tailgating they play speed games.

Example, coming home the other day not even in my Z but my Altima
speed limit was 45 and going to change to 55 in like 1/2 mile. I was behind
a guy in a pickup not close just normal distance and he slams on his brakes
so I then slam on mine.

This coming up to an intersection with a turn lane
both left and right. I'm like humm whats with the brakes and I peek around him and nothing there. About then he starts giving me the finger for who knows why and just kept his arm out the window the next 1/2 mile. I'm like wtf did I do????

If I would have been in the Z I would have taken 500ms and blew past him in the turn lane

Up here, guy in pickup with ball cap assume the worst..