FUN : Whats the most dangerous car you have seen?

[pbrettle]

Just trawled around the M25 this morning and saw something so stunningly dangerous that I couldnt believe!

A BMW 318i (I believe that this was a E36 model - not the current but the previous one). The rear shocks were so shot that the rear wheels werent even touching the road! A big problem, if it wasnt for the fact that it is a rear wheel driven car!!!! So stunningly stupid that this is utterly amazing...

The really daft thing is that the car would have been like this for some time. So someone has been driving around with an utterly shot car - and putting all other road users at risk.

That got me thinking - what about everyone else - whats the most dangerous car that you have seen?

Cheers,

Paul

[PetrolTed]

Huge 4x4's driven by numpties

[r-bin]

any car that doesnt drives the speed limits or exeeds it. (most of them you can blame the owner and not the car though)

any car that gets too close to me (i.e. distances less then 2 inches)

and... ow wait a minute! i have to give a car name... citroen BX because the "health" of these cars arent that good anymore...

[PetrolTed]

The knob in the Astra van sitting 3 feet from my bumper on the M25 yesterday. I don't like brake testing people in lane 4

[thom]

any car which requires no driving license (small boxy piece of sh*t)

[Fatboy]

Anything containing loose children bouncing about (we all know small children should be transported in soundproofed boxes in the boot) - saw one yesterday with five kids in a very battered espace bouncing all over the place!

[jaydee]

Girlf used to be a cub pack leader. One of the parents had 5 kids who travelled round in the back of a 15 year old Maestro van. The f***ing thing was dangerous enough in its own right (bald tyres, permanent smoke screen, massive crack in the windscreen) without letting the kids sit on cushions in the back. Some people just have no imagination !!!
Most inherently dangerous car has got to be the 2CV. I went in a mates once that caught fire as we were driving along!! Thankfully he later totalled it (without injury) and bought a Punto with the insurance...

[McReis]

Hi PetrolTed!!!

I'm sorry to bug you, because I know you are a usual presence here and I'm brand new in the forum. But sometimes I've read the things you write and not rarely I get myself thinking that you are easily irritated.

I don't think being attached to someone's bumper is clever, but you spoke about brake testing. That is surely the most dangerous and unconscient manouevre someone can do.
So, that's not very Pistonhead like!
Unless that unaware gentleman pushed you with it's bumper to get you out of is way, I don't see a single reason in the world to such a dangerous move.
And sometimes, when you want to pass someone you really have to show yourself to the slow blind driver, if you know what I mean.
I presume it wasn't what happened, thought. However, why get so nervous about a "close friend"?

Greeting from Portugal!!!

[PetrolTed]

me, easily irritated?

Well, a quick flash of the brake lights soon warned him off but I agree it's a silly thing to do. When the road is so busy that there's no point in me pulling over it does irritate me to have some numpty distracting me.

The sensible thing to do would have been to squeeze into the inside lane and let him hassle the next in line but my stressful side got the better of me

[JoePhandango]

Dozy feckers in big 4x4s blasting round twisting country roads (which form the backbone of the Irish road network).
They always seem to round bends in the middle of the road. I nearly rolled my first car (a Beautiful Sierra) swerving onto a bank to avoid one of them !!! bast**d did'nt even stop to see if I was alive, maimed, minced or pureéd. bast**ds
These same feckers also seem to think they're above having to use turn signals !!

Fecking Bas*ards !!!! Arse !!!

[kevinday]

About 25% of the cars on the road here in Hungary are dangerous, from 2-stroke Trabbies and Wartburg to Fiat 126 including Lada and Skoda relics. Most have no brakes, suspension or legal tyres.

[pbrettle]

Finnish taxi drivers are nightmare too - especially in the snow & ice.... wheelspins, sliding round the corners, handbrake turns, 160kmh down the motorway....

Then again they are kind of used to this - alarming for non-Fins though.

Cheers,

Paul

[McReis]

Ok! At least you admit it is not a very gentleman driver act! So for your fairplay, you are forgiven!

And I have to agree that sometimes there's people that can't understand that it's not possible to jump over over traffic.

I have to leave a note here! Everyone is talking about dangerous dirvers, but not about dangerous cars!
So, I'll leave my contribute to give back the forum to it's topic!
What about a Lancia Y10 turbo almost whithout suspension and with an inconstant turbo pressure? Is that dangerous enough? I have experienced it! And I lived!



Edited by McReis on Tuesday 18th December 14:42

[McReis]

quote:
Finnish taxi drivers are nightmare too - especially in the snow & ice.... wheelspins, sliding round the corners, handbrake turns, 160kmh down the motorway....

Does someone know what was Tommi Makinen's job before being a rally driver?
You never get to know a rally driver until he gets stickers around the car!

[Spiderman]

The guy tailgating me in the blue 5 sreies touring with personalised plates on the M3 near Fleet last Friday!

Cuore Sportivo

[JSG]

quote:
Dozy feckers in big 4x4s blasting round twisting country roads (which form the backbone of the Irish road network).
They always seem to round bends in the middle of the road. I nearly rolled my first car (a Beautiful Sierra) swerving onto a bank to avoid one of them !!!

Or boy racers in their Ford Oxymorons blasting round blind bends in country roads too fast to account for oncoming traffic.

[WalterU]

quote:
Most inherently dangerous car has got to be the 2CV.

I have to disagree with that. I used to repair them for a living

The problem is that they are bought as cheap runarounds, hence get no maintenance AT ALL. Being a 50-odd year old design, they need much more TLC than a EuroBox. If you give it to them, they'll run fine. One of my former customers got 150K out of one.

Rgds, WalterU

[smeagol]

Reliant Robin. Wrong number of wheels, is more stable in reverse and engineered by chimps.

I had the "pleasure" of driving one of these on a track day (no not on the track). The only saving grace was that it was one of the funniest driving experiences I've had because it was such an awful car. I would never have taken it on a road though.

[prelude4ws]

never get a taxi in malaysia!! one tried to sell me his daughter, lost count of how many tried to sell me girls (through that in itself does not mean you should not get in one!!) changed my mind on one when i noticed the large (and dodgy) weld that went from one rear wheel over the roof and down to the other wheel. no filler or sanding just brushed on paint over the top!! one nearly made me sick it shook so much. sat in a traffic jam one day on way to work and noticed that there was four cars to the right of us....on a dual carrigeway and the same on the other side of the central reservation!. most days found my stress levels greatly reduced by taking hotel s-class limo to work. £3 by taxi in chaos death wish car or £4 by quiet relaxed limo!!

Edited by prelude4ws on Tuesday 18th December 19:16

[race]

metro 6R4 in the wrong hands can be very scary when your in the passenger seat praying to get out,