Things that annoy me driving my Nismo

Originally Posted by pearlmt

cars that give me trouble: older toyota camrys, older nissan altimas, toyota sienna vans, old beater small trucks and late model civics. not to sound arrogant, but its always the beater cars or the soccer mom vans giving me trouble! when I drive I mind my own business doing speed limit in the right lane. I get brake checked by people on the daily even if I am going slower than everyone else. I never tailgate and always leave a 3 car length distance.

Originally Posted by Spooler

Wait til you have them pass you on the right, merge back in front of you, and THEN, brake check you. LOL, Never a dull moment. I just have to laugh.

Originally Posted by Rusty

Hell, I get that almost everytime I drive my motorhome.

Originally Posted by 370zHawaii

I feel your pain, I fear that this may be my reaction one day, maybe PTSD might kick in or something I don't know, but I have zero tolerance for idiots and unsafe drivers on the road. I am too old for road rage and petty ignorance.

Usually I stay humble and slow down, especially since ten times out of nine, the vehicle they are driving is well...not anything to boast about..They way I look at it, no matter how much money someone puts into a car to make it fast....at the end of the day it is still only worth as much as its title ex. 500 HP Civic is still a Honda Civic IMHO.

After studying at the campus I come out to my car and apparently there was no where else in the entire campus parking lot to park so this person decided that parking next to me was their best option.......notice the Gunmetal Z to the far left of the pic had no problem finding a parking LOL


All in all I enjoy every minute of the Nismo, and honestly the 17 PW I am in now gets ten times more attention than the 09 SR Nizzy did, plenty of compliments and people mistaking it for a Porsche. For me its never a dull moment when driving my car, and that is one of the many great features of driving a 370Z period.

Originally Posted by BehindSpace

you chose to drive a a 'look at me, too cool for school' car.
the negative attention is not justified but should be expected.

i learned the hard way and sold my 2014 nismo for this reason.
the decision maker for me was having someone in an old pickup truck staring at me in his rearview mirror for over a mile on a 1 way highway. I wasnt tailgating by any means and knew he was staring because of the looks of the car (i was used to the attention by this point and had already been keyed). Then he slowed down about 20mph until i did close to him so he could empty his ashtray full of cigarrette butts and ash out his window directly onto my car.
I pulled off the road and realized it wasn't worth it, it was a no win situation taking the abuse or reacting to it.
car sold for a 14 thousand dollar loss after owning it for about 5 months.

a few hours before that i was waiting in line at a starbucks drivethru and had some guy glaring at me from the outside seating area, next thing i know he's gotten up walking directly behind my car to look to see what kind it is I guess then walks back and sits down while still meanmugging me.

a few days before that have some young kid trying to look hard in his mid 90's civic fly by and cut in front me almost clipping my front bumper pebbling my car with rocks and dust. we get to the light, i see him trying to say something to me and motioning to me so i roll down my window to hear "you feel my dust bitch?"

Originally Posted by BehindSpace

you chose to drive a a 'look at me, too cool for school' car.
the negative attention is not justified but should be expected.

i learned the hard way and sold my 2014 nismo for this reason.
the decision maker for me was having someone in an old pickup truck staring at me in his rearview mirror for over a mile on a 1 way highway. I wasnt tailgating by any means and knew he was staring because of the looks of the car (i was used to the attention by this point and had already been keyed). Then he slowed down about 20mph until i did close to him so he could empty his ashtray full of cigarrette butts and ash out his window directly onto my car.
I pulled off the road and realized it wasn't worth it, it was a no win situation taking the abuse or reacting to it.
car sold for a 14 thousand dollar loss after owning it for about 5 months.

a few hours before that i was waiting in line at a starbucks drivethru and had some guy glaring at me from the outside seating area, next thing i know he's gotten up walking directly behind my car to look to see what kind it is I guess then walks back and sits down while still meanmugging me.

a few days before that have some young kid trying to look hard in his mid 90's civic fly by and cut in front me almost clipping my front bumper pebbling my car with rocks and dust. we get to the light, i see him trying to say something to me and motioning to me so i roll down my window to hear "you feel my dust bitch?"

Originally Posted by Nithmo

I had to meet with a resident today, as part of my job. First thing the 60 year old guy says to me is "how do you like that thing?"

Me: "Love it. It's a joy to drive"

Him: "They must be paying you too much over there"

Me: "Nah, I just don't have kids"

Him: "Oh yeah, I hear you. What kind of Porsche is that?"

Me:

Me: It's a Nissan 370z

Him: