XmisterIS Posted May 18, 2015 Posted May 18, 2015 Was out yesterday in my Ford Ka (aka "the rollerskate", according to XmrsIS), driving back from a weekend conference.Got behind a queue of two cars - car at the front was also a Ka, me at the back, car in the middle was an 2014 (?) plate Audi R8 Spyder. We came to a good clear straight and I was saying, "Come on, open it up, show me what that bad boy can do!" I fully expected him to floor it and go booting off into the distance - the Spyder is as fast as a bike in that regard.But ... he didn't. He just sat there, pootling along behind the Ka, about 1 foot from it's rear bumper. Then we reached the motorway junction, and the Spyder driver entered the roundabout slowly, in the wrong lane, then badly cut up another driver on the roundabout, then proceeded down the motorway slip road at about 35-40mph, in the outside lane. I undertook him on the inside lane of the sliproad, so as to get up to the speed of the traffic and avoid getting squashed by an HGV.Yes. That is correct. I, in my Ford Ka, was entering the motorway faster than an Audi R8 Spyder.As I undertook, I had a good look at the driver ... he was ancient and looked senile, or brain dead, or both!"Why?" I asked myself. "Why would you spend near as dammit £100,000 on a car whose sole purpose in life is going fast ... and then drive it (badly) like Reliant Robin? Why not just buy a Reliant Robin and give the spare cash to charity, if you've got that much spare cash floating around and no idea what to do with it???!!"I wasn't jealous - for me it's all about bikes; cars are just a tool to get me from A to B (hence why I drive a Ford Ka - and get jealous when I see people on shiny new litre bikes, which put my SV to shame!). I just thought it slightly odd that you would pay that much for a sportscar, then drive it so badly ... Quote
Whitey1984 Posted May 18, 2015 Posted May 18, 2015 Come to Bournemouth, lots of coffin dodgers with more money then sense round here. This is a fairly regular occurrence round here.Brand new Bentley continental GT holding up traffic by doing 30 in a 40 Quote
Bonniebird Posted May 18, 2015 Posted May 18, 2015 "Why would you spend near as dammit £100,000 on a car whose sole purpose in life is going fast ......... spare cash floating around and no idea what to do with it???!!" ...Probably answered your own question or maybe he just borrowed it to get a pint of milk Quote
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