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Old Dec 3rd, 2019, 16:24   #21
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I've been driving my S40 for 10 years and tend to get left alone by road ragers but if I drive the little Twingo I get horribly picked on, it's bizarre, whoever comes up behind you just has to get past.
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I noticed that aswell! the smaller car - the bigger ugre to overtake, but for me it works for myself :P seeing Yaris or Swift in front of me ttriggers the unexplainable and unecessary "MUST...OVERTAKE..." mode, dunno why.
"Power away" feature you mentioned about is put to use in that case aswell.. sorry :>
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I noticed that aswell! the smaller car - the bigger ugre to overtake, but for me it works for myself :P seeing Yaris or Swift in front of me ttriggers the unexplainable and unecessary "MUST...OVERTAKE..." mode, dunno why.
"Power away" feature you mentioned about is put to use in that case aswell.. sorry :>
You sound like you'd be better off in a beemer
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my sitation is a bit different with my S40's, if I am passing somone with my old golden s40 and pull into the overtaking lane and overtake them gradually ... I will always get some clown flying right up to the back bumper, so I just stay there till they back off cause I just couldnt care less really.

Now with the black S40 its a completly different story, I can pull out slowly and no one tail gates me at all (and I drive slower in that!) my guess would be the big popping and banging from the exhaust.

HAHAHA Lizard, you are just picking on easy prey
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Probably jealous that she was having to drive a Fiat and you weren’t!
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Someone I work with has pink hair and drives a fiat 500....

Was it a grey 500 abarth? Similar to this?

https://www.reezocar.com/en/voiture-...302313821.html
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Someone I work with has pink hair and drives a fiat 500....

Was it a grey 500 abarth? Similar to this?

https://www.reezocar.com/en/voiture-...302313821.html
non abarth and white/cream haha
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non abarth and white/cream haha
That's a shame, I was going to go show her this thread as she shares a building with us and her role is teaching disabled people how to drive.....Oh how I would have laughed!

Most 500 owners are spoilt 'daddys little girls' so no wonder she had a stinking attitude!
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That's a shame, I was going to go show her this thread as she shares a building with us and her role is teaching disabled people how to drive.....Oh how I would have laughed!

Most 500 owners are spoilt 'daddys little girls' so no wonder she had a stinking attitude!
it was so violent, aggressive and dangerous I think something else must have been going on. I guess you don't know what's happening in someones life but this is seriously messed up. Or just some uninsured bellend. could have been a stolen car I guess..,.
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had this many times over the years when i drove the wifes mgf , always some one wanting to race you at the lights , or wanting to get passed you just for the hell of it , over time you see them coming and ignore them just let then pass , they can say how big they are to there mates , you are safe and not in an accident caused by them
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it was a 60mph road and the right lane was moving at speed, left lane was slower so was passing cars anyway.
Fair enough. Sometimes it's just not possible to avoid the idiots
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