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Ronin
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That road is in Switzerland ??♂
Were you one of these bikers who corners with your wheels on the white line and your head where my oncoming car is?
Italians mostly drive pretty slowly. The fast cars in Italy are Swiss enjoying the liberation….
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Try Vietnam, direction of travel on dual carriagway, optional , lights on at night, optional. Majority of families travelling on a moped whilst huge american style trucks drive at them. Loved it.
Nothing though beats the French overtaking in most likely a diesel 80s hatch up a blind hill, ironically slowing down the person they overtook just after as the car can't actually pull itself up the hill
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Like Palermo then.
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Try Agrigento. Ex-wife's family.
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more less sums it up!
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You had traction control when you were 17??? ?
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No sorry that story was when I was 23, 5 years ago in a Clio 1.5 dci
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Ah so you probably did have traction control when you were 17 then
I honestly I would never have developed a particular interest in cars or driving if I'd grown up ten years later. Cool you survived the boring cars and emerged with a GRY!
Add to i10 and Micra and you have the devil's trifecta
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Really? Never see either of those here. Or maybe I do and don't really know what they look like (small generic Asian box?).
honestly it's more determined by canton of the plate here than the car. Some cantons just seem to be full of people who can't drive!
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No my cars were / are too old for TC/SM so I didn't grow up with it either. Lift off oversteer and understeer were very real. I remember seeing someone with TC and being perplexed by it "why don't they just lift off a bit" ??Ah so you probably did have traction control when you were 17 then
I honestly I would never have developed a particular interest in cars or driving if I'd grown up ten years later. Cool you survived the boring cars and emerged with a GRY!
Others my age maybe just had it, but I was driving around in basic spec late nineties cars (clock instead of Rev Counter) My 07 Fiesta ST only has ABS, TC was an option but wasn't fitted to my car
Not my idea!
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Your thread. Merci.
Many years ago before I'd passed my driving test I was the front seat passenger with a friend driving his mothers almost new Peugeot 205. It was about 10pm on a dark, wet miserable winter night and he was telling me how the car drove far better having just been serviced, and that the brakes were brilliant. We were doing the 40mph limit on an urban dual carriageway and as he blathered on I noticed the pelican crossing lights ahead go red, and a car rolling to a stop at them. My chum continued extolling the virtues of the 205 but didn't start to slow down. "Ahh, he's showing me how good the brakes are", I thought to myself. Still he carried on. "He's leaving this rather late", I thought, "the brakes must be really good". Still no reaction. "Oh shit!", thinks I closing my eyes. BANG! Finally he stopped talking. I opened my eyes to see one of the most surreal things I have ever seen. We had stopped pretty much dead on the crossing (he must have braked last minute) but directly ahead of me was the chassis of what turned out to have been a Reliant Robin van, gently rolling down the road. The seats were still intact with the two occupants sat in them. The road was littered with small fragments of fibreglass bodywork, clothes, a kettle, pans, knives, forks, spoons, battered cardboard boxes and the disembowelled remains of a cuddly toy. We had struck the rear of a vehicle belonging to a pair of hippies who were eloping together, causing the car to disintegrate into fragments and scatter their worldly possessions across the roadway. Remarkably, although the hippies were deeply traumatised, there were no injuries and with hindsight it was all very amusing (for me at least!). Strangely, I have never considered any car made of fibreglass......
People that tow caravans/trailers etc above the legal limit. I don't care if you're in a rush, look behind you that thing you're towing is completely out of control...
Casual observances over the years of friends/family/acquaintances that treat their cars as a giant rubbish bin, really winds me up. It's disgusting! That and having odd tyre brands fitted, mixing all season, summer, winter at the same time and not realising.
The whole 'just add fuel' ethos certain manufacturers promote annoys me too. It plays to that deep ignorance most Brits have towards cars.
Casual observances over the years of friends/family/acquaintances that treat their cars as a giant rubbish bin, really winds me up. It's disgusting! That and having odd tyre brands fitted, mixing all season, summer, winter at the same time and not realising.
The whole 'just add fuel' ethos certain manufacturers promote annoys me too. It plays to that deep ignorance most Brits have towards cars.
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People that tow caravans. (You could just stop there)
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