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TCinLA's avatar

Yes indeed. When I am driving, and I am around an SUV or a suburban van, I always expect something stupid on the part of the driver and drive defensively, and too often I am not mistaken. (that and expecting Beemer drivers to be moronic entitled assholes)

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

I have found that first Audi's and now Tesla's are the biggest douchebag drivers these days

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TCinLA's avatar

Yes. In California if the Beem,er driver is under 40, he (it's always "he") is still highly competitive, but the Tesla wins for either men or women.

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David Holzman's avatar

Teslas are also wicked ugly.

TC, "Beemer" refers to the motorcycles, "Bimmer" to the cars.

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TCinLA's avatar

Shows how much I know or care about them.

Tesla's are the Official Car of White Progressive Southern Californians, you can throw a stick down any street in Encino Park (where I live) and hit ten of the damn things. Elmo's Tinny toy.

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David Holzman's avatar

Incidentally, go down to the last Car-toon, which demonstrates the proper use of "Beemer"

https://motorlegends.com/cartoons.php

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David Levine's avatar

I don't think this was always so. and, like Tom, the idea of offending owners of vehicles made by this wretched company is, if anything, an attractive proposition for me.

and yeah, Teslas are ugly. but my saying this doesn't mean I have any real knowledge of what's out there because I just can't bring myself to CARE. but then again, I've never bought more than one car. all the rest were hand-me-downs and I can't drive any more, so I REALLY don't care about them, except to the extent that I think those tank-like things are a menace. if a car gets me to where I'm going, that's all I can bring myself to care about. and it was ever thus.

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Susan Troy's avatar

Someone once referred to those huge and ugly beasts as "urban assault vehicles." That is an image that stuck in my head.

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TCinLA's avatar

Definitely accurate.

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David Levine's avatar

yup. and the driving I see doesn't give me a good feeling at all.

remember when we learned to drive DEFENSIVELY? what happened to that?

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TCinLA's avatar

As i say, Los Angeles is the home of "Third World driving" in the USA.

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David Levine's avatar

it IS scary (I never got on a freeway without worrying), but the Bronx is also full of cowboys.

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Camilla B. (GA)'s avatar

I hear you, David. I could never afford to care about anything beyond тАЬWhatтАЩs the monthly payment?тАЭ Although, the last time I bought a car, my son introduced me to another important criterion: Do you want to climb into it, or fall into it? I happily chose the latter. ЁЯШЙЁЯШВ

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David Levine's avatar

with a bad right knee, I have real trouble getting into the little trucks everybody seems to want (based on the cars I see parked). so for me, falling in is the only option.

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Camilla B. (GA)'s avatar

Bad left knee and lumbar disc compression here. Falling in is what I do. ЁЯСНЁЯП╗

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Susan Troy's avatar

For me, it's all about start, run, and don't break down. This is why I love my Honda and will look for a Honda hybrid should my 2006 CRV ever need to be replaced.

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Camilla B. (GA)'s avatar

Susan, if I used your criteria, I would still be looking for a Chevy Silverado C1500. I had one that was 26 model years old when she finally died. They donтАЩt make them like that anymore. I was the last of her drivers, after two families and two teenage boys.

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David Levine's avatar

when I was working as a chauffeur for private people's cars in '83, I got to drive a whole variety of expensive cars. for NYC driving, a Lincoln has every other car beat, at least in terms of giving a less bumpy ride. the cars I hated the most were those fucking Beemers. they might be great on the Autobahn, but they're bumpy as hell. my sister, whom I despise, would be VERY unhappy if she couldn't lease those two fully-loaded 5 Series Beemers every two years. she uses hers to drive to lunch and (maybe) the gym. her husband (a sick fuck) is retired in Boca, so they can be near my useless nephew, who spent seven years in college to become a packager of funerals (as opposed to an actual funeral director, who has actual TASKS to perform). my nephew is a middleman. seven years of college, changing majors from, say Leisure to Resort Management to god knows what else.

with my various infirmities, just getting into one of those fucking tanks is a significant ordeal. I hate them.

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