The Z is an a-hole magnet!
 

A bit of info about myself before I start ranting:

My driving style can best be described as "polite". I don't hot rod around where I live to draw attention to myself, I don't tailgate, and I will always motion someone to go ahead if they look hesitant about pulling out in front of me or if we are at a four way stop. I like to drive fast on the highway, but I will never come up behind someone quickly and act like I'm going to run them off the road if they don't get out of my way NOW. In short, just because I drive a nice car, I don't want to be thought of as a jerk.:driving:

Meanwhile, the car seems to be attracting a lot of jerks. Just last night I was making a right onto a road to go to the post office. This guy in an old Porsche came out of nowhere and made the turn with me -he was so close that I swear he was going to drive into my hatch. I put on my turn signal and drove into the post office parking lot and he came in still close on my tail. While I was getting out of my car, he pulled up to the drive up mailboxes near where I was parked to mail a letter. I guess that was his big hurry. I just stood there giving him stink eye till he looked over, then I put my hands up still looking at him like "WTF, buddy?!" His response to this was to loudly rev his engine then screech out of the parking lot. Ooh, your Porsche is better than my Z. Thanks for putting me in my place.

I don't often get tailgated because I'm usually a bit above the speed limit, but every once in a while I get some jackwagon who thinks I should be going faster and wants to push me along. I always just pull over and let them go by, it's not worth the confrontation.

Then there was the guy in the Mustang ahead of me the other day who had to loudly rev his car 60 times at each stop light, while looking in the rear view mirror at me to see if I noticed.

I also get tons of people trying to race me at lights.. whatever! I'm not Danica Patrick, people!

And don't get me started on the junkers that insist on parking next to me even if I park wayyyy far out of the way where no one else is.

Of course, I'm in the Philly area, and there are tons of d-bags here so I have to take that into account. I just wanted to know if anyone else experiences this kind of thing? I swear I didn't have these problems in my old car. :confused:

I feel for you. I drive a Civic Si and get that kind of treatment from young (mostly) Asian drivers. And I only have the Si as a daily commuter car.

Yeah those are some of the things that come naturally with a nice car :/

That's why I enjoy driving my beat up SUV, if someone wants to get in a fender bender IDGAF and if they want to piss me off I can drive like a troll and run them off the road

LMFAO - what was going through his mind, "...yeah you BETTER stay in your place...peasant."

:rofl2: His thoughts, "...American Muscle. All day. Every day. And yes, I do have gigantic nuts. Thank you very much you Jap-wagon, import ricer!"

Welcome to the Frat friend! I rant about this one all the time on this forum. I think people get a good feel of how :mad: it makes me, but someone did a cool post about some fish in a white dish with a black stripe that made perfect sense.

So angry!

has happened to the best of us, simply shows the immaturity they have.

I love the human race. Not really.

Texas has a lot of road rage :icon17:

^ seriously. I got more douche-baggery in my mustang. Don't really get messed with in the Z

Saddly, d-bags are everywhere....no matter what kind of car you drive. It doesn't matter if you drive a Prius or a Lambo....there is always some a-hole who's gonna hate on it. Chalk it up to the human condition.

I ran into similar situation where a Mex. kid rev at me with his stock RSX as well...stupid :-(...

sounds like a bimmer douche got himself a new porsche.

I haven't ran into too many d bags that actually do dangerous stuff, just the daily tailgater, but that's pretty standard in Massachusetts. Trucks love to ride my *** also.

My guess is that people envy the fact you were able to afford what they perceive is a nice brand new car. Does it still have the 30-day tag?

I want to get a large LCD mounted on the back of my car so I can put up goatse pics when people tailgate me

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

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

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.

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. :icon17:

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.

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...

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.

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.

Hey now, that sounds like except for the mini van part...

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

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

I learned a new word today... Jackwagon. I love it and will be using it liberally!

So much hate :inoutroflpuke:

:rolleyes::tup:

:icon17: 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) :D

I just hit 1000 posts! Forum n00bs stand up!!!
....okay now sit down before we get kicked out :icon17:

:icon18: :tup:

Congrats! Now :gtfo2:

:p :bowrofl:

*rolls up sleeves and crosses arms*

whose the new kid












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anyways. A-holes are always out there somewhere around the corner. if someone wants something they can have, and they see you have it? boom. keyed.

Jealousy is brutal.

The weird thing is I get that kind of unwanted attention in the Z but not in the Porsche. Everyone wants to race the Z, but so far I have only had one person try to race the Porsche. I drive pretty civil in my cars. I am in my late 40's so I am fairly mellow. Its not like I drive around acting like I want to race.

It comes with the territory.

Im 21 and I drive it like its a civic more than half the time, ill just say the z hasn't seen past 5k rpm..

On the way to the body shop some guy tailgates while I'm making a right turn and sticks to my rear for a few blocks. I gave it a little gas, and he kept his distance for a bit and then sped up and stuck to my rear again. :shakes head:

I don't mind people getting close to breath my exhaust fumes haha.

:bowrofl: blahahaha!