Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!ut-sally!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: List of Drivers to Avoid (WARNING - long) Message-ID: <508@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 10:17:29 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.508 Posted: Thu Feb 6 10:17:29 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 07:16:28 EST References: <730@cylixd.UUCP> <400@drutx.UUCP> <114@mp-dixie.UUCP> <385@watmum.UUCP> <206@druhi.UUCP> <673@ttidcb.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 74 In article <673@ttidcb.UUCP> bellas@ttidcb.UUCP (Pete Bellas) writes: >BMWs - This is the easiest to spot and best to avoid. These are > people that for most part could not afford BMWs so they put > off buying a house. Because of this driving is the only thing > they can do... Ah, but you see, out in Santa Monica you've managed to draw away all the weirder types from us Out East. And all the mellow BMW drivers you've left behind in their 6's and 7's turn out to be...senators, power brokers, and general Beltway Bandits. And they all brake early, because when they were little kids in their 318 and 325's, they discovered just how much BMW brakes fade. If they don't first migrate out your way. >Porshes - If ever there was a stereotype for obnoxious drivers, this > is it. They feel that onramps and emergency parking lanes are > made for passing. They take pride in the fact that there cars > need to be tuned bi-weekly and do not run well below 4,000 rpms Only true here for 944 and rusted-to-hell 914's. All but a handful of the 911 and 928 owners here are mid-50's business types, on their way to the supermarket. >Yuppie-mobiles - You know these, Saabs, Volvos and Puegoets (plus many >Land-Yachts - Sedan deVilles, Chrysler Imperials, Buick Electras, etc. ^^^These are the same all around the world. Except, maybe, in West Va. >Exotics - Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Turbo Carreras, etc. You can't miss > these ones, they won't let you... For the most part, the neighborhood Ferraris restrict themselves to passing people between red lights. The rest of the time, they do their best to slow down traffic on the beltway. Same with the Lotus owners. 'fraid I haven't seen a Countach on the street yet, maybe never will. >Pseudo Sports Cars - 300zx, RX7, Supra, etc. These are people that > have really fooled themselves. They have a lot in common with the > yuppie-mobiles, yet they rarely display the antics usually > associated with sports cars. They think of their cars as "awesome" > and "incredible" driving machines (and often tell you so), but in > reallity they prefer to park them (always taking two spaces) and > let juviniles drool over them. Have you considered the fact that the ones that do are almost exclusively college and high-school students? I can gauge my distance from school by watching the density change...first a gradual decrease as I leave school, then a sudden leap as I go past my old HS. The police know this too; their density matches this pattern between 2:00 and 3:30. >Muscle Cars - Late 60's, early 70's Cameros, Mustangs, Chargers, etc. How dare you impinge on muscle cars :-! The next time you see rust flying, you'd better remember that they guy inside has twice your displacement. > [more classifications here] >Disclaimer: I have tried to insult all cars here seperately but equally, >but as in every endeavor, total equality does not always, in the end, result. >If you feel that I have failed to insult a particular vehicle or type of >driver feel free to mail me you additions. > > Pete Bellas co: /dev/null You left out fiberglass-bodied Beetles :-) -dave -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu "They were the elite, the vanguard of progress. They would take mankind to the heights...and perhaps beyond." -Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End