370z's Bring Out the Crazies

Rusty

I'm 61. I get the blow-bys, the rev until the limiter kicks in idiots. I just laugh at them. But every once in awhile. I won't brake for a turn and see if these idiots can hang.

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MacCool

LOL. I've done that...it's my guilty pleasure. There's a tight sweeping highway exit around here that the Z can handle at 70 MPH. It's especially amusing to hit that with a 35 year old driving a jacked 4x4 riding my ***. I can accelerate out of that and be a mile down the highway before he exits the turn. He'd need to hit ridiculous speeds to catch me.

Magic Bus

Just a thought, but are you guys having the correct perception of the situation? I had a brother in law who had the 6 cylinder Mustang, he thought half the guys pulling up next to him wanted to race him. Especially those 60+ year old guys that would pull up next to him in a Z.

Joking about the 60+ year old guys but serious about my brother in laws perception. I disliked riding with him.

Spooler

If you have something sharp looking and nice the crazies come out of the woodwork. Just do your thing and they will go away.

MB370Z

This is what I wished would happened to those immature dumbasses

Leadfoot

omg Thank you! i thought it was just in NY and paranoya. Whats crazy is people driving mustangs and camaros and vets driving in my area dont get bothered. I drive in the right lane doing 45mph and clowns flock to me like flys on dodo. Every day is a challege for me to not to socome to roadrage

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370zHawaii

Love it, I can attest to this as well. I also enjoy the occasional mini van moms in their joyous attempts to "take me" at the light.

axmea?

Sadly it frequently happens to me.

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JARblue

I've found that driving about 15 mph over the speed limit seems to avoid a lot of encounters. Most people don't want to go more than 5-10 mph over the speed limit, so they generally don't try to keep up with me. And the ones that do keep up often want to go faster than 15 mph over, so I let them pass me.

Or just find some turns, like Rusty says. It's amazing how many Porsche drivers I've seen fly past me on the highway only to get stuck behind them going agonizingly slow on the curved exit ramp (and I'm in my wife's Accord!)

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Cyber370

It doesn't happen to me often with the Z. When I had a C5 Corvette, it was unbearable. I got rid of that car in part because of it.
I've found that I get a lot of respect with the Z. I've only had one situation where a BRZ driver wanted to race me on a Highway. I just ignored him. It isn't worth losing my license or getting my car impounded. That is what they do to anyone caught in the 100 mile/hr range in my area. It takes a lot of maturity to drive these cars without getting in trouble.


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mults

It happens almost every time I drive the Z and I'm 62...It's not the age of the Z driver, but the low IQ of the people around you. I used to "play the game" as in speed up to get some distance between us, but then that just gets these idiots more involved. So now, I do exactly the speed limit (maybe 2 MPH less) and give a turn signal or two and it finally gives the message to back-off. If not,oh well. They can pass me if they want to, but I don't risk a ticket or even worse; some kind of road rage. As you "mature" you finally realize it's not worth the trouble to entertain these morons...

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Rusty

You what to see people shatter and run in other directions. Stick this out the window with the 30 rounder in it. But this is something that I will never do, but thought about it.

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DeliriousClam

I've never had this problem...

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Ventruck

Hardly happens, although the last time was notable. Some loser in his S4 was trying to come at me for two lights only to get left behind. He wasn't attempting to blow-by, but to try to act like he's able to keep up. For me, I do react to these things because I want nothing to do with being near someone who surely doesn't act like they can drive maturely. The whole "let them by" thing doesn't always work. People are that stupid.

Anyway, I was coming up to the next (third) light, but it was already turning red. I come up to a stop because duh. Note he was car lengths behind me, and I see him seconds later — literally seconds after it was red — blow right through it, luckily without any cross traffic.

I don't want to make assumptions, but I can't make out any other reason why he'd do something so blatantly stupid apart from trying to act like he "got the last word".

Save for an over investment in mods, that S4 had no business to be put through it's paces against a Z. That guy had no business driving period.

cloudofevil

My pet peeve are the ones who ride my *** like they want to go, I'll leave them way behind on the interstate on-ramp, then a few minutes later, after I've been at cruising speed for a while, they'll come flying up behind me they've accomplished something.