Thanks Blue BMW M3 owner on I71 today, you reinforced the stereotype that BMW drivers are D-Bags...

So Im driving the turbobrick south in the left most lane. Dude in a M3 shows up behind me and starts tailgating. Genius sees the 4 or 5 cars in front of me and so after awhile he actually backs off. There was nowhere for either of us to go.

We drive a little further, the traffic in front of me moves over and at the same time another lane opens up on the left. I stay in the same lane. Now there is room to my left, there is room to my right. There's room to go around me. This is true for about 5 minutes. BMW guy stays behind me, in fact pretty far behind me For a guy who was tailgating not long ago, I assumed he was in a hurry. Maybe not. I had hoped he would have blown by me as I can always use a guy to attract the cops.

I come upon a slower vehicle. I look behind me, I signal, and I start to move out and who comes flying around me exactly at the same time I was pulling around the vehicle in front? Yup, douche bag bmw guy.

Then he starts jockeying back and forth and tailgating other people only for all of us to pass him as he was getting off at the next exit.

Stay classy guy.

ugh. BMW drivers are the worst.

Wanna bet I have NOTHING in common with that guy?!

he was probably too busy playing on his smartphone to notice that he finally had a clear path around you.

X5 driver this morning merges onto I-65 south. Traffic (myself and most of the cars around me) is runninf 75mph (70mph speed limit), she's merging going 50. Two lanes over directly in front of me. I stand on the brakes, and flip the brights once thinking she just didn't look. Nope. She flips me off. amazing. You almost cause a multi-car accident then flip those around you off.

How stupid do you have to be?

plance1 wrote: So Im driving the turbobrick south in the left most lane. Dude in a M3 shows up behind me and starts tailgating. Genius sees the 4 or 5 cars in front of me and so after awhile he actually backs off. There was nowhere for either of us to go. We drive a little further, the traffic in front of me moves over and at the same time another lane opens up on the left. I stay in the same lane. Now there is room to my left, there is room to my right. There's room to go around me. This is true for about 5 minutes. BMW guy stays behind me, in fact pretty far behind me For a guy who was tailgating not long ago, I assumed he was in a hurry. Maybe not. I had hoped he would have blown by me as I can always use a guy to attract the cops. I come upon a slower vehicle. I look behind me, I signal, and I start to move out and who comes flying around me exactly at the same time I was pulling around the vehicle in front? Yup, douche bag bmw guy. Then he starts jockeying back and forth and tailgating other people only for all of us to pass him as he was getting off at the next exit. Stay classy guy.

I own a BMW. I don't drive like that. And coincidentally, I had the EXACT same thing happen to me by the driver of a Gran Prix this very morning. Your stereotype is what it is because that's what you want it to be.

Haters are going to hate.

I had an encounter with an M3 today myself...I was waiting in the drivethrough lane at lunch, and there was a woman behind me in a yellow M3 convertible. She got out of her car, walked up, and asked what year my BMW was.

If acting like you're in a hurry, actually have some mileage to cover.

I get cut off like mad by people during the first 10 minutes of my commute, but I pass most everyone on my 35 mile commute, and this afford me some freedom to push the pace a bit.

Meh, minivan drivers are worse IMO, those people are nuts.

bravenrace wrote:

plance1 wrote: So Im driving the turbobrick south in the left most lane. Dude in a M3 shows up behind me and starts tailgating. Genius sees the 4 or 5 cars in front of me and so after awhile he actually backs off. There was nowhere for either of us to go. We drive a little further, the traffic in front of me moves over and at the same time another lane opens up on the left. I stay in the same lane. Now there is room to my left, there is room to my right. There's room to go around me. This is true for about 5 minutes. BMW guy stays behind me, in fact pretty far behind me For a guy who was tailgating not long ago, I assumed he was in a hurry. Maybe not. I had hoped he would have blown by me as I can always use a guy to attract the cops. I come upon a slower vehicle. I look behind me, I signal, and I start to move out and who comes flying around me exactly at the same time I was pulling around the vehicle in front? Yup, douche bag bmw guy. Then he starts jockeying back and forth and tailgating other people only for all of us to pass him as he was getting off at the next exit. Stay classy guy.

I own a BMW. I don't drive like that. And coincidentally, I had the EXACT same thing happen to me by the driver of a Gran Prix this very morning. Your stereotype is what it is because that's what you want it to be.

He didn't say it was his stereotype (He didn't create it, after all)... he's saying that driver reinforced THE stereotype.

I don't think the majority of the people on this forum are really short-sighted enough to think that it matters what sort of car you drive.

Where I am if I am getting tailgated, there is a 90% chance it is one of three vehicles, Dodge Charger, Dodge Ram 1500 or Dodge Avenger. Not saying everyone who owns one does that but it just seems that I have noticed those vehicles a lot tailgating.

In reply to Datsun1500:

I really want a dash cam.

No one here created the stereotype that's for sure.

The truth is I can't see a single trend in either make, model or driver. What I DO know is that I have NEVER been bothered by an "enthusiast" car.

It's always some bland truck/SUV or vanilla passenger car.

Seems the butthead drivers I encounter are mostly in a battered late 90s-2000s Monte Carlo, Impala, or Grand Prix. Usually with questionable cheap appearance modifications. How's that for a stereotype...

There are generally three types of drivers with these cars (Audi, BMW, Porsche, etc.)

1. The kind that buy the car as a "status" item to make themselves look good. 2. The kind that have mommy and daddy buy it so that they can hoon around on the street and burn rubber to impress their friends, and then 3. The kind that buy the car to use its performance capabilities responsibly at a track or likewise.

I fall into the last category, and I feel like it is mostly drivers in the first two categories that exhibit this behavior.

I have it in for Mini Drivers. There new add complain is not helping things either.

Datsun1500 wrote: I had a guy come up to me at cars and coffee a few weeks ago ranting about me speeding down his street. He said "all of you shiny happy people that drive those cars should not have a license" I asked where he lived and it was about 2 miles away. I pulled out the dash cam, rewound it, and showed him I was doing 42 in a 50MPH zone. He said "berkeley you" and walked away..

If he actually said berkeley that would be pretty sweet.

I live on a really busy three lane street that is a glorified offramp. Shiny happy people across the street own two BMWs parked in tandem. When they need to swap cars they block a lane of traffic leaving the unoccupied car so they can get second car. If there is an open parking spot they will still block the lane. There is a fire hydrant on a corner 20 feet away, could park there for 3 minutes, but no block traffic. Could make friends with neighbor and park in front of neighbors driveway, but that would require being nice and driving around the corner in order to be courteous to the 20 or 30 drivers they inconvenience (and have caused minor accidents.) Yes it is the people not the car, but when both cars are BMWs they just really earn that stereotype.

That sounds essentially like every Audi I encounter on my everyday commute. BMW drivers around here are too busy on their cell phones to worry about aggressive driving.

I used to think the same thing about BMW drivers (even after I had my e30), but I think Audi drivers (especially those in "S" cars) are far, far worse. But the Audi drivers (unlike the bimmer douches), also think they can drive douchey in the rain and winter weather as well. Because quattro, yo.

V-dub drivers (primarily in GTIs) just want to race constantly, even though I show no interest.

Biggest douches I encounter 2 of daily in my commute are both in Roush Mustangs. Even in heavy traffic they feel the constant need to back off the car in front of them so they can zoom back up fast, then repeat. Yes....we know you have a V8 and a loud exhaust. Hooray for you. Plus one of them has his mustang badge replaced with a Transformers logo, which just annoys me in general. The other one just has every vent/louver available in the mustang catalog on his.

plance1 wrote: So Im driving the turbobrick south in the left most lane. Dude in a M3 shows up behind me and starts tailgating. Stay classy guy.

Ohh that was you.. I was tailgating cause I thought you were cute.

The d-bag or douche bag reference still makes me laugh like a kid in junior high.

Swank Force One wrote:

bravenrace wrote:

plance1 wrote: So Im driving the turbobrick south in the left most lane. Dude in a M3 shows up behind me and starts tailgating. Genius sees the 4 or 5 cars in front of me and so after awhile he actually backs off. There was nowhere for either of us to go. We drive a little further, the traffic in front of me moves over and at the same time another lane opens up on the left. I stay in the same lane. Now there is room to my left, there is room to my right. There's room to go around me. This is true for about 5 minutes. BMW guy stays behind me, in fact pretty far behind me For a guy who was tailgating not long ago, I assumed he was in a hurry. Maybe not. I had hoped he would have blown by me as I can always use a guy to attract the cops. I come upon a slower vehicle. I look behind me, I signal, and I start to move out and who comes flying around me exactly at the same time I was pulling around the vehicle in front? Yup, douche bag bmw guy. Then he starts jockeying back and forth and tailgating other people only for all of us to pass him as he was getting off at the next exit. Stay classy guy.

I own a BMW. I don't drive like that. And coincidentally, I had the EXACT same thing happen to me by the driver of a Gran Prix this very morning. Your stereotype is what it is because that's what you want it to be.

He didn't say it was his stereotype (He didn't create it, after all)... he's saying that driver reinforced THE stereotype. I don't think the majority of the people on this forum are really short-sighted enough to think that it matters what sort of car you drive.

Thanks for pointing that out. I thought he came up with that all by himself! I guess you've never heard anyone use the word "your" in reference to a person that believes or subscribes to a line of thinking. You know, part of a group of like minded people. Anyway, most of the posts in this thread support my point.

There is a reason I do not own a BMW.. and I would not mind having another 318ti

I love my bmw but don't really associate with most bmw owners... I bought my car because its an awesome platform and I wanted something with 4 doors. I'm also too low to drive like a d-bag in most parts of Norfolk lol