Just got back from a short 300 mile road trip. It seemed to me that when I passed cars on the freeway, many of those cars just shot around me and made sure I didn't pass them again. If they slowed down and I came up behind them, they would speed up. No way were they about to let this MINI pass em!

Anyone else had this happen?

 

Ha ha, I hate people like that. I will pass people in my moms old van and they speed up again like their cars are so great. I wont even pass them on purpose, just going 5 mph faster and they gotta get in front.

I havent got my MCS yet (october), but it's like this with any car.

 

Don't worry, most give up over 100mph.... :evil:

 

:smile: :smile: Hehe - Yes - it happens to us too...
donna@dcmetrominis.org

 

Hey come to think of it, many of the vehicles that I passed were SUV,s and PU,s. One of the SUV,s that passed was full of kids and they waved as they shot buy. I don't think the driver waved.

 

I was getting on the highway yesterday and there was a black Mercedes sedan behind me. He tried to gun it past me as we got on the highway. I wasn't having any of that. I left him standing and finally slowed down when I hit 95 - I'm still in the break in period.

I've noticed the same thing with a lot of other cars. Most of the time I just let them pass but sometimes you've just got to open it up!

 

I occasionally get that from SUV drivers as well. But what can they do about it? I can hear them gun their engines as I get by them but it's almost too easy passing them. Trouble it, they sometimes get all in a snit and ride my bumper. A little yo-yo of the speed usually steams them a bit more.

 

D.J.

I hate to admit this (because I live here too) but it's 'cause you live in freaking California. Sorry, but drivers here are the worst :evil:

Woody

 

What frustrates me more than the whole passing thing is how much more aggressively tailgated I am while driving my Mini. I mean seriously on my back bumper.

 

worse than that is when you go to pass and the other car just seems to magically creep over into your lane as you get up beside them, forcing you into another lane. That happened to me today, but it wasn't a car, it was a 53' truck, now mind you, I have may headlights on, so you can see me coming.

 

nobody passes me
i don't like bing passed
and get out of the left lane
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What?

 

Actually I've had quite the opposite experience.
Most people smile and Girls wave. Yeah!!!!
Most of the time I'm just going so fast that I can't see anyway.

Cheers

 

YES! This happens to me frequently in southern California, and they are mostly either SUVs or pickups. Sometimes I get the ricer or modern muscle car trying to challenge me. Everytime I go to work or when I'm out at night and I pass up some SUV or PU they always feel like they gotta be in front or they think they can just push there way through, thats when i kick it into gear twist around them and burn them in my rearview. All this is making me angry again so I'll stop here. :evil:

 

I know Maryland State trooper cars hate being passed and I got an expensive piece of paper to prove it.
He did like my roof.

Mona Cooper

 

This must be a guy thing or something because I have NEVER had anyone seem annoyed at being passed by my MINI (which happens often). I've also never been "challenged" at a red light.

 

It's not just in a MINI around here. No matter what you drive, be prepared to be passed at 60 by the guy you just went around at 40!

 

Dealing w/ the subject, I have an odd story:

Alright, I'm on an interstate highway and decide to move over in the left lane b/c people are getting on the highway. I'm already going 65 on a 55 road that I know cops petrol, and some guy in a red saturn is tailing me BAD! I can't move back over b/c all of the cars that just got on the highway were in the rt. lane and I already thought I was going fast for that road. When I finally get the chance to squeeze (and I mean squeeze) into the rt. lane that saturn nearly pushes me into the rt. lane. NOW, the odd part. As he (the ugly red saturn) zooms past, the passenger gives me an odd rowing motion out of his window :???: . I had no recourse but to lay on the horn. I was MAD yet confused!!! What did that rowing motion mean? What? Anyone know???

 

it happened with my modded Civic that I sold and it's happening with my MINI. My cute car happens to threaten big SUVs and sport cars everywhere I go. I just relax and let them pass.

I've had some close calls with tailgaiters and SUVs and vans cutting me off and that worries me more than anything. :evil:

 

Just tonight, I saw a Stanza with a huge coffee can exhaust and I thought that i would mess with him a little, because I love to mess with ricers. As I go by him, I rev the engine a little, just a little mind you. As he angrily pedals faster to catch me, his Folgers Special is whining like I have never heard a ricer before. He must have had the pedal to the floor as he crept by me. Oh man, I wish that I could let everyone hear how funny he sounded (think Jim Carrey's "most irritating sound in the world" in Dumb &Dumber). My sister and I laughed pretty much the whole way home. Well, thanks for letting me share.

 

That happens to me on the FW a lot...I just passe them and get in front of them to **** them off.

 

A few weeks ago I was driving the long and straight on the highway from Arizona to San Diego, and this big black ugly H2 going about 95 comes up behind me and passes me. We're in the desert and it's hot, but I'm staying cool, so I just let him pass w/o a problem. He slows down a bit, but remains in my sights up ahead. I think we passed each other a couple of times, no big deal. But he does seem to want to always get in front of me...

A little later I reach the foothills going into San Diego County, and I'm psyched to FINALLY have some twisties and interesting driving after hours of flat boring straight scrub landscape. I turn off my AC (to gain some power) and downshift to take those twisties as they were meant to be taken. There is some traffic, but having the nimble little beast that I do, I weave in and out fairly easily. I passed that Hummer and left him sitting in the dust. I proceed to take the fun roads at high speeds, and pass almost everyone out there. I'm having a blast! :evil: :evil: :evil:

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I'm already going 65 on a 55 road that I know cops petrol, and some guy in a red saturn is tailing me BAD! I can't move back over b/c all of the cars that just got on the highway were in the rt. lane and I already thought I was going fast for that road. When I finally get the chance to squeeze (and I mean squeeze) into the rt. lane that saturn nearly pushes me into the rt. lane. NOW, the odd part. As he (the ugly red saturn) zooms past, the passenger gives me an odd rowing motion out of his window :???: . I had no recourse but to lay on the horn. I was MAD yet confused!!! What did that rowing motion mean? What? Anyone know???

Yeah, it's just another demonstration of his ignorance. He thinks you pulled over because your 'little' car can't go any faster. I don't worry about that. Other drivers may feel like they've got to prove something, I don't. (Although, iIf I drove an ugly red Saturn, I might .) I know how much it is to drive a MINI, and they don't.

I just came back from a 2500+ trip. On the freeway, I pulled over for other cars and let them go. In know my MINI will can 'top end' a lot of them, but what's the point? The State Police radio is faster than any of us. I like to let other cars go ahead and trip the freeway speed traps. On the twisties, I'll risk a little fun, and my rear view is always empty.

 

i dont think people can accept the fact that this small car has just passed them.. so they do stupid things like ride your bumper and try to pass you....
i am guilty of tailgating tho.... hey i'm from ny...

 

Tailgating is a bad habit. If the lead car gets on the brakes and you hit it, the accident is YOUR fault and your MINI is trashed. After years of seeing people do asinine things like panic stop on US interstate highways for no reason, I was cured of any compulsion to stay on someone's bumper. Why would any one of us assume that the person in front of us is completely sane? Be safe and always assume that the car in front of you is driven by some self-absorbed, manic suicide case who might lock up the brakes at any time over a perceived lack of a mother's love.