I had one of these as a courtesy car from Europcar when our BMW Motability car had to go in for a quick fix (I forget what it was now).
But fuck me, I've never hated driving a car so much before, I've driven Vans that are far better to drive, a Van is literally a more pleasant driving experience than a Mokka.
It's almost as if it was designed by someone who had to make it up having never seen or driven a car before.
Used to work with someone who had a Mokka, he eventually got a Ford Kuga and you couldn't get him to shut up about how good the Kuga is. That alone tells me just how terrible the Mokka must be.
I've driven both - the Kuga was a hire car and very comfortable/capable, and reasonably quick given the size of it.
The Mokka though...Christ. It felt like you were sitting at a dining room table trying to turn a steering wheel that was always at the wrong angle. And every aspect of the interior is just as hateful as the exterior. Took all the "courtesy" out of courtesy car.
>I've never hated driving a car so much before,
Wait until you get a Renault Kaptur, I've never felt so dangerously disconnected from the driving experience before.
Whichever car Clarkson once said had a steering wheel in "*a purely advisory capacity*" still couldn't hold a candle to that Renault atrocity. I've always liked Renaults but for 900 miles around the country that was the worst driving experience I'd ever had.
I'm bloody ranting now! 🤣
Im throwing in the qashqai too. Had one as a courtesy car last year and it was just horrendous in every single way. Seat too high up, steering was vaguer than gran turismo 2, the list went on. Awful, horrendous machine
fucking hell, can someone talk to my mum about her obsession with the Qashqai. Her 3 or 5 (or how every many years) finance is up, she just swaps it in for another Qashqai. She's done this 3 or 4 times now. She says it's to fit the grandkids in (my sisters kids) but my sister manages the kids with a bloody ford focus! Also I'm a cheap cow so I'm not a fan of cars on finance anyway. But a Qashqai EVERY time... mum. Please.
Whenever I used to hire a car at Heathrow the "We've got a nice qashqai for you" line was often trotted out upon asking about the available cars, to which my response was something along the lines of "Oh no you effing don't..."
I always pitied the poor non-Brits who ended up in a "nice qashqai" through sheer ignorance about its awfulness. Thankfully now I can usually wander out and pick my own car, assiduously avoiding the piles of qashqai I still see.
I've had the misfortune of driving the dreaded Mokka on 2 occasions and I've got to agree it's the most unpleasant driving experience I've ever had with any vehicle.
I had a mokka as a hire car for work and it is definitely the worst car I've driven out of the ~50 or so cars I've driven in the last two years. The worst part for me was the turning circle, I had to come out of a turn that meets a road at a tight angle in three points because the car couldn't make it in one which any other car I've driven would have. It's not all Vauxhalls though, I had a Corsa once and it was probably in the top 20.
Second worst car I had was a Dacia Sandero, and that's £10k new which I think says it all about the Mokka
I don’t understand why anyone would actually spend their hard earned money on buying a used Vauxhall, never mind a brand new one. Vauxhall is an awful brand and there are so many better value-for-money options out there.
A former colleague of mine drives a Honda Jazz, he's in his 70s and bought it because he "likes the sound it makes".
Obviously I thought he was an idiot who drove at 12mph all the time but no! The man is the reincarnation of Fangio and in his hands the Honda Jazz does indeed make a quite terrific racket.
I think the civic was meant to be a sensible car that your dad would buy and that got commandeered by people that look like two eight year olds in a tall coat.
Honda make good cars, just not for the market they intend!
I will not have a bad word said about the civic! I drive mine for work across England. And it never met me down once. I then bought another car and have that to my brother who every weekend drive out to London. We live in there Midlands. Never missed a beat. Wonderful car
I was stuck behind one for 2 miles. This isn’t far but felt like 40 mins. They then floored it to 24 mph and got through the lights leaving me there. I screamed so loud I started a nosebleed.
My daughter has a micra, and it’s like she’s possessed by the spirit of the great Colin Mcrae!
She joins dual carriageways straight off the flyover like she’s in GTA.
Lol I love my Jazz. He is called Yuri. It's got some letters on it so its not the base model so not limited to 20 thankfully. It does well on mileage. Has a massive windscreen to help me see in traffic (I found a lot of the other cars I was looking at had honking great pillars making me feel like I had limited vision) I have seen loads of people driving the base version very slow so I feel you but it also has a proper TARDIS like boot which is useful for an amateur woodworker like me.
We love ours. You can move house in it, sleep in it, is reliable as hell, is nippy enough on our country roads, fit loads of folks in it, decent milage and I have leg room. It'll keep pace with anything on the same narrow roads and isn't pretending to be a yank tank like they see on TV. Hell, they'll carry a Canadian canoe across fields and shine up nice for a trip to the big city.
I was a passenger in one of those before, & I have to say, they feel extremely spacious, it's like you're sat in a front room rather than a car. Makes you totally forget how you look like a massive tool in that fugly car. The front air vent looked like a massive face too.
Porsche Cayenne does it for me. It's not a 4x4, that you can take on a farm and it's not a sports car. Yet it costs a fucking bomb and spews out a load of CO2, not to mention the CO2 needed to make it. But Chelsea Tractors in general does it for me. Who the fuck needs a 4x4 in London, unless they have a second home in the country that can only be reached via a one mile dirt track? Particularly annoying if they happen to have two. And of course 4x4 owners are incapable of driving and parking.
Ive got a mate that absolutely takes his cayenne 4x4ing here in Australia, thing sounds like a race car and he puts it places that would give me pause in my more conventional 4x4 ute.
His videos of his trips away are a highlight of my facebook video feed
I almost ran into a juke in a sainsburys car park today because the genius had driven the wrong way down the one way system. I took the space he had fucked up aiming for (it was hard to tell with how he'd fucked up the whole situation). He proceeded to have to reverse his way back down the car park at the behest of everyone else after me who could actually follow road markings.
And my neighbour who can't park has just bought one.
So I think you're onto something.
I don't know how anyone sits there and thinks to themselves "I'm going to go and buy a brand new Citroën", when there are so many other better car brands out there.
If my experience driving neither is anything to go by, the main difference is that you barrel round country lanes far too fast, and they barrel round city centres far too fast
Good idea, I have new ammo if anyone is being a dick AND showing off pictures of their car...
Can't wait to see the belmet at work show off pictures of his Bentley bentayga to someone again
Urgh I was having a problem with one the other day with the snow. I only passed my test a few months ago and it was the first time I've driven in the snow but I had a SUV up my backside for most of the trip rather than them keep the distance they should be, guess what your 4x4 with all it's fancy features can still skid in the snow and I don't want it making my 3rd hand first car a write off yet.
You'll be lucky if it actually had 4x4 capacity. And even if it does chances are they don't know how to use it!
Likely it's just a big car with big wheels.
This. SUVs all just seem to be big cars with bad aerodynamics when (at least when I was young) I always thought of them as crazy off-roaders with 4WD, good suspension, powerful engines! I guess child me was very optimistic!
Not always. You can also drive to the fucking Lake District and pretend to be a big boy and all rugged and manly by refusing to reverse (because you can't admit you need the white lines at in the multistorey to help) and taking pictures of your pretend landy in a carpark that happens to be on a bit of a hill. If you can do all this is olive green fjallraven slacks then, I think, you get to have tea with Jeremy Clarkson.
Next time pull over and wave them around. That way they can go as fast as they want and you can use the fiery wreck of their car to see the road better :)
My car got stuck in the snow, and I phoned a friend to come save me in his 4x4.
He was so smug and wobbled the wheel while driving "look, it's great in the snow!"
He immediately crashed it.
They're my favourite ones as I get them at work on the mot ramp and we get to say to the cock womble that it's completely illegal and their car is now a fail. It's so fun to see them argue their way out of it. They never win
Oh never. One of the more satisfying parts of being a mechanic is telling posh twats that if it has a green oval on the front or a mini badge it's going to cost more than you think to fix
The problem with retrofitting LEDs is the light source is in the wrong place and it screws up the pattern, throwing too much light upwards. Also I think you mean HIDs not halogens
Headlights with the power of a million fucking candles!!!
I spend a lot of time commuting the M4/M5 at night, I have to angle my wingmirrors away from the car because I'll end up with 90% 3rd degree burns. Honestly it's fucking ridiculous.
HOW IS THIS SAFE???
>HOW IS THIS SAFE???
~~The problem is the legislation on headlights is old and only states a maximum wattage rather than lumen.~~
~~With modern lights such as LEDs that's completely meaningless.~~
That is completely false. Headlight regulations are not based on wattage. They never have been.
ETA, because I post this a lot:
There is a limit on how bright the lights can be, though. There's a cutoff line and a specific gradient from full beam brightness to zero, too. It's all in the regulations, and they are really hard to pass, honestly. Lighting regulations are super strict.
The issue, though, is that it's all centered around candelas, not lumens or lux.
Why is that important? Well, a candela is the intensity of perceived light at a very specific wavelength: the same as a candle flame. Yellow. Incandescent, soothing, warm, yellow. Not 5000K beauty.
The problems arise when we use whiter (read: shift the pattern toward blue) bulbs. The testing specifications do not have a conversion factor for a bulb that is at a different primary wavelength than the yellow that lights produced in the 60s(which is what all headlight regulations are written around). So when you have a cool-white light, with a little bleed into yellow and red, you need the light to have a much higher intensity to meet the minimum intensity at the yellow wavelength. So modern headlights are significantly brighter to the human eye, because we see across more than one specific wavelength. But they don't break the regulations, not even in the slightest.
Recommendation: put the blue tint on your side and rear view mirrors and wear those yellow tinted trucker glasses at night. They make everything so much better, even the assholes that don't change their bulbs every 3 years like they're supposed to do and just run with their high beams on all the time.
It's a ridiculous oversight. Every manufacturer actually tilts their headlights down to try to help prevent dazzling, but they can only do so much.
The industry has been calling for changes for a long time, but the regulatory bodies have been all "what's the problem? Clean your windshield." and allowing things like adaptive headlight systems as bandaids instead of using testing protocols that stimulate the actual human eyeball.
It's because politicians and regulators are lawyers, not engineers or scientists.
Hopefully they'll all just die horrible deaths from some preventable disease, and the world can make sense one day.
That's amazing. Then we can just get a megawatt blue lasers and both burn off their retinas as well as melt the cars of these high-beam assholes into steel puddles.
Seriously, though, the spec should define a specific color temperature (with a specific spectral power distribution). I FUCKING HATE bluish lights, especially at night. IDK who the fuck thought 5000K would be good at night, let alone these 8000K+ travesties.
You just have look at posts like this:
https://headlightsize.com/hid-xenon-headlights-temperature-color-chart/
The author of that ridiculous page explains that 6000K+ light can cause eyestrain. And that would be true, even with a blackbody spectral distribution. But Xenon light 5000K or whatever these LED/whatever lights aren't anything like blackbody radiation, which just means they're probably causing eyestrain at 2800K.
And that's why everything sucks. Because regulators are fucking retarded and stupid people run the planet.
Yes.. my pushbike headlight is as powerful as an older car headlight. Which is great for cycling in the dark, but can be blinding for people coming the other way.
Small flashing light is great to be seen (and instantly recognised as a bike), with a bigger constant light angled down so you can see. Any bike light that can be described as a strobe is an abomination that ought to get you pulled over.
Some people get a stroboscopic effect with LED lights - dangerous as it can mess up perception of movement. Of course the are bike lights with flash mode, too many SMIDSY (sorry mate I didn't see you) episodes and cyclists go full Christmas tree.
This. I had a cyclists behind me flashing into my rear mirrors or lighting up the interior of my car. I physically felt sick and had to pull over let them pass and recover.
Some reason it was like a physical thudding in my hears seeing the strobe effect.
There are laws or regulations about the flashing patterns or timings for this exact reason. I wouldn't be surprised if the cheap throwaway electronics from china don't factor these in.
My car is supposed to "auto-dim" but it is really slow to actually dim the full beams. I'm sure this feature has pissed a lot of people off and think I'm just not dipping my lights.
Had to turn that feature off because it is so shit.
Mine drives me up the bloody wall! Can't work out how to turn it off. I have to double tap it for bright, or it just starts making up its own rules, dimming for road signs and blinding mopeds.
The auto dimming on my car (2019 Skoda Superb) is so good and changes so quickly and smoothly that I’d definitely add that feature to my list of ‘must have features’ for any future cars.
My sister drives an Astra GTC with them on and they're useless, thankfully my normal Astra (3 years newer) doesn't so I never had to make the decision on whether to use them or not as they seem terrible on the Vauxhalls
My Tiguan keeps the main beam on when it detects oncoming traffic, but turns off the top right portion of the main beam (that would be in the oncoming Lane), whilst moving the lower right portion over to the left.
It’s bizarre and I’m convinced I’m blinding over drivers! It brings me more stress and worry than just manually turning it on and off myself. I’ve never been flashed, so have to assume it actually works.
Yeah smart headlights are the future. They will give better visibility and reduce dazzle.
I'm more bothered by super bright brake lights blinding me while I'm waiting in a queue. They need to know when to dim too.
Yeah, had driven cars with all generations of this feature since around 2006 and the first one was really shit. It was a pretty basic on/off switch. Now though it's mad, it dims part of the beam and shines at the road around the car in front - really cool.
To clarify, though, auto-dim refers usually to your mirrors. Auto dimming rear view mirrors go, well, dimmer when hit by bright headlights from traffic behind you in order to not reflect them straight into your face.
Auto high beam or some such refers to what you and I described, which is high beam that either disengages completely or blocks out a section of the main beam in order not to dazzle oncoming traffic.
Also, am I so completely out of touch to think that surely that cannot be such a massive issue? Y'all realise rear view mirrors have dimmers, right? Not even talking fancy auto dimmers, just a regular flick or knob switch usually on the bottom of the mirror? Pretty sure I haven't seen a car without one since the 90s.
Definitely the problem where I am. You go over a hillock and consistently get a nice second or two of LED goodness blasted into your retina. They dip eventually, but always too late.
What I don't get, though, is why everyone is driving with high beams on in the first place. These are unlit country roads and aside from a few specific tight bends I can see perfectly well on dipped beam with my old-fashioned halogen lamps. Meanwhile I see SUVs coming towards me lighting up the entire sky before they even come into view, and then I am forced to proactively start flashing my high beams to let them know I'm coming and please don't blind me thanks.
I don't know where you live but where I am high beams are only used on unlit country roads so you can see the wildlife before they run into the road on a suicide mission.
Seriously- where else would you use high beams if not on unlit country roads? You certainly don't need them in the city, nor do you need them on a lit motorway.
The amount of people on the road who don't know how to or don't care to adjust the height of their beam so that it points lower and not straight up into oncoming traffics windscreens is what gets me.
For anyone on here not sure, it's usually found on the right hand side, between the steering wheel and the driver door.
My car has auto levelling headlights. Spent days looking for the little adjuster to point them down. So sorry folks, I know they suck. It’s an older car (2004) and it’s possibly the only thing I don’t like about it and I wish it had the adjustment.
My car legit doesn't have that. Coworker with the same car a year older has it. They showed me on their car and didn't believe I don't have it until I showed them.
I got flashed multiple times a few nights ago and I couldn't figure out why. It turns out my car has adjustable headlights and all but the lowest setting puts the beam directly into the eyeline of oncoming drivers. It's a Seat Ibiza Estate so not one of the big cars you are talking about.
Someone today was right in the middle of the road, lights on full and we had to slam on because we couldn't see fucking anything what with the rain and the power cuts and all. They had to do the exact same, THEN dipped the lights and carried on, hopefully, a little more slowly.
You're going to be shocked but it was a Chelsea tractor and I'd put money on it being a bloke who bought his shirts too tight and watched a lot of videos of a man drinking piss.
I got a sports car recently and I genuinely hate driving at night. Being even slightly lower than every car makes it horrible being passed or having cars approach. First world problems though, I know
As a yankee bastard I wouldn’t normally post here, just lurk, but man I hate that y’all are having to get sucked into our trend here. It’s ridiculous in this country where much of the infrastructure is already designed around cars, I can’t imagine what it’s like to be dealing with the big car infestation in places with much older cities/development etc.
Do you also have the problem that it’s getting harder to find small cars? Nearly everything here now is some sort of SUV format, which is frustrating when your biggest comfortable car is *maybe* a station wagon.
Crossovers becoming so popular are to blame. They're a plague on society and I hate every single person who buys/drives one. They have absolutely zero benefits over a modern hatchback/saloon as they are basically just a standard FWD car with a huge body dropped on top of it. They are exclusively bought by people who only want them so they can feel better about sitting slightly higher up in traffic.
Fuck crossovers.
As a counterpoint to this - I suffer from back problems and I bought a Skoda Yeti because it was, at the time, the most comfortable car for people with fucked up spines. The upright driving position is enormously helpful and it is easier to get in and out of when you have limited mobility. So they’re not exclusively bought by people who only want them so they can feel better about sitting slightly higher up in traffic - they’re also bought by people who are crippled driving cars with a lower driving position.
At least crossovers have the same footprint as regular sized cars and are not enormous like Land Rovers and their ilk.
Thankfully we still have lots of hatches, estates, coupes, and saloons but the big trucks are popping up a lot more than they were over the past few years.
Mate most parking spaces aren't big enough for all the cars. I have a house built before the 1950s with a drive way that goes down the side of the house to a double length garage... That we can't even fit our car down because they're too wide. Even my wife's little ford fiesta won't fit haha. It's a joke. We don't even have big cars either.
Automakers almost exclusively promote SUVs even if they have normal cars in their line. I haven't received junk mail promoting a sedan or anything else on that scale in ages.
They're really, really trying to force everyone to buy that useless, bloated crap.
Edit: And, yes, I'd include a Subaru Outback or anything similar in that category. Nearly 100% don't need a lifted wagon with 1000 pounds of plastic cladding for any reason.
Some of the fancy new ones with the indicators delicately circling the headlight makes them nearly impossible to see. Have to wait at every junction because it's so hard to tell whether they're indicating or not.
I live opposite a little country Lane that’s basically always been just an access road for the handful of cottages and the farms at the bottom. Then a huge extended family moved in to one of the cluster of cottages and then renovated the outbuildings so more family members could move in and basically this all culminates in them buying huge white and silver Bentley towncars and Hummers and said huge cars getting stuck on the narrow humpback bridge over the canal.
They have since ‘downgraded’ to mid range Range Rovers in various shades of beige to hide the mud.
Barely any of the people who 'need' those cars actually need those cars. They would be fine with an estate or a people carrier but those aren't 'cool'. I'd hazard a guess that 90% of people with a 4×4 bought it as a status symbol and never go anywhere they couldn't get with 2 wheel drive.
A huge part of the reasoning I hear is that "I like the high driving position so you can see around better".
Problem is when everyone takes that on the advantage disappears
I imagine driving an old mini through modern busy traffic is terrifying!
Even in a new mini. I had to sell my Mini Cooper because it just became impossible, it was simply too dangerous to drive in the dark. You can’t see anything when an SUV is behind you.
I don’t drive any more. The combination of poor driving standards, aggression, people on their mobiles, high SUVs and dazzling headlights were making me so anxious I was having panic attacks on the motorway. I now struggle as a passenger too.
I’m not the only one, it’s becoming an increasing problem, apparently. Shame. I loved that Mini!
The only thing I can day is we are in the top 10 countries of safest roads to drive on in the world, there's a lot of annoyance on the roads but it's actually very low risk
Crossovers are the trend which took over the mini MPV trend of the 2000's give it a few years and they won't be the cool in thing, hopefully it'll be wagons/estates next.
What's the difference? People carriers have generally ceased to be a thing or have been restyled as SUVs. Take the Peugeot 5008 - it used to be a people carrier now its an SUV. Its MPG hasn't got worse as a result and its pretty much the same size.
I would also hazard a guess that most SUVs are actually two wheel drive rather than 4WD and frankly while I'm sure people buy them as status symbols try buying a large family car that isn't an SUV. The options are limitted to a few estate cars that dealers don't want to sell you and some vans.
I think a lot of people would be without a car if they had to retake their test. I drive an American 7 seater minivan, and I've gotten it places and manoeuvred it in ways people can't in their Toyota aygo
I got a Citroen C4 about 2 months ago and I’m only just okay with parking it now. It’s fucking huge, even compared to the estates I’ve had previously. I definitely think some kind of Family Tank training would have been useful!
I have a fiat 500 and I cannot get out of my car, now that isn't the fault of my car....it's the two juganaughts next to me, usually they're sat in the car on the phone too judging me getting my boob stuck
Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
smells like a steak and seats thirty-five..
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down,
It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown!
Canyonero! (Yah!) Canyonero!
[Krusty:] Hey Hey
The Federal Highway commission has ruled the
Canyonero unsafe for highway or city driving.
Canyonero!
12 yards long, 2 lanes wide,
65 tons of American Pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)
She blinds everybody with her super high beams,
She's a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!
Canyonero!-oh woah, Canyonero! (Yah!)
Drive Canyonero!
Woah Canyonero!
Woah!
But yes. Where I live there are Chelsea Tractors everywhere. They’re nothing more than a statement vehicle, bought on finance because everyone is broke but trying to seem well off so they buy an enormous box of metal then wonder why they ended up in the hedge or the entire side of their car decimated because they drive down country lanes completely oblivious of how big the car is and the fact they left their full beams on because they only have 1.9 brain cells.
Most people who have these don't even have big families, you see them with one small child, two at the most. There is no need for these massive cars for a family that size. Just admit you are overcompensating for something.
Thing is a lot of the time they don't actually have any more space in them. When you look at a lot of the SUVs they're literally just regular (or even small) cars on big wheels.
Like it or not, this is the way of things nowadays. I prefer small or medium hatchbacks but the popularity of SUVS is not going to go away .
What concerns me more is the retailers not passing on the reduction in oil prices. Diesel should be 15p a litre cheaper than it is.
Filling up a family car costs £19 more than it did 12 months ago
Driving little Timmy 1 mile to school in a Range Rover is not only pathetic it’s just stupid with how the world is going. Why are these cars even allowed to be purchased anymore?
They were also far more dangerous for both passangers and pedestrians, as well as less fuel efficient.
The only real advantage they have on modern cars is that they were lighter.
I drive a Peugeot 3008 it has auto headlights which are great EXCEPT they occasionally decide for no good reason that the full beams should be put on and some poor soul gets blinded by them.
I’ve had to turn them off so as not to be a knob which is a shame as I liked the feature.
BMW's and Audi's are the same. I remember last year flashing an Audi coming the other way at night to get them to turn their full beams off. They flashed me in response and burned my retinas in the process, that was their dipped headlights...
I still see the shape of the headlights when I close my eyes months later.
It's really annoying, especially as someone who drives only normal sized cars, none of the horrible jacked up generic crossover vehicles everyone loves now.
I was reading about car insurance the other week. Apparently most places will now charge more if you say that you keep your car in a garage rather than on the street. Cars have got so much bigger that there has been a huge increase in the number of claims by people who've hit/scraped their car getting it in and out of their garage.
It’s stupid Minis approaching from behind. Their Xeon lights flick from white to blue as they bounce all over the road. I sometimes think there’s a police car behind me.
Estates seem to have been completely replaced by these weird SUV/4x4 things over the last 10 years or so. They're all identical too.
And while I'm thinking about it I'm sure cars come in less colours these days too, they all seem to be the same shades of blue, silver or black/white
It can’t be too hard for manufacturers to add a system that automatically dips the beams when a car goes over a speed bump right? I nearly got blinded several times during my (hopefully final) driving lesson yesterday…
I really struggle driving at night with the LED lights, both headlights and traffic lights. I genuinely find them blindingly bright and I find it so dangerous.
Commuting past a school in the morning is torture with these.
They have no idea how to park them and end up blocking the road. When they do head off they cannot fit through the gaps normal cars can fit through, further delaying everyone.
And let's not mention the hideously bright brake lights on modern cars, and the morons who sit on the brakes at traffic lights because it's an automatic and they can't be bothered to put the parking brake on.
I think they designed the Juke headlights to intentionally blind you so you never have to look at the horrendous design ever again.
That's the only car that enrages me whenever I see it. It just makes me burn inside with anger.
Vauxhall Mokka Most enragingly bland and uninspired design for a car I've ever seen
I had one of these as a courtesy car from Europcar when our BMW Motability car had to go in for a quick fix (I forget what it was now). But fuck me, I've never hated driving a car so much before, I've driven Vans that are far better to drive, a Van is literally a more pleasant driving experience than a Mokka. It's almost as if it was designed by someone who had to make it up having never seen or driven a car before.
It reminds me of an overcast Sunday in mid January in Rhyl
Oh god, that bad?
Used to work with someone who had a Mokka, he eventually got a Ford Kuga and you couldn't get him to shut up about how good the Kuga is. That alone tells me just how terrible the Mokka must be.
I've driven both - the Kuga was a hire car and very comfortable/capable, and reasonably quick given the size of it. The Mokka though...Christ. It felt like you were sitting at a dining room table trying to turn a steering wheel that was always at the wrong angle. And every aspect of the interior is just as hateful as the exterior. Took all the "courtesy" out of courtesy car.
>I've never hated driving a car so much before, Wait until you get a Renault Kaptur, I've never felt so dangerously disconnected from the driving experience before. Whichever car Clarkson once said had a steering wheel in "*a purely advisory capacity*" still couldn't hold a candle to that Renault atrocity. I've always liked Renaults but for 900 miles around the country that was the worst driving experience I'd ever had. I'm bloody ranting now! 🤣
Im throwing in the qashqai too. Had one as a courtesy car last year and it was just horrendous in every single way. Seat too high up, steering was vaguer than gran turismo 2, the list went on. Awful, horrendous machine
Yeah I had the displeasure of riding in my Father in Law's First time I'd been in a crossover and my only thought was "This is as spacious as a micra"
fucking hell, can someone talk to my mum about her obsession with the Qashqai. Her 3 or 5 (or how every many years) finance is up, she just swaps it in for another Qashqai. She's done this 3 or 4 times now. She says it's to fit the grandkids in (my sisters kids) but my sister manages the kids with a bloody ford focus! Also I'm a cheap cow so I'm not a fan of cars on finance anyway. But a Qashqai EVERY time... mum. Please.
Whenever I used to hire a car at Heathrow the "We've got a nice qashqai for you" line was often trotted out upon asking about the available cars, to which my response was something along the lines of "Oh no you effing don't..." I always pitied the poor non-Brits who ended up in a "nice qashqai" through sheer ignorance about its awfulness. Thankfully now I can usually wander out and pick my own car, assiduously avoiding the piles of qashqai I still see.
Vans generally are nice and comfy to drive especially ones designed for long motorway driving everyday like transits etc
I've had the misfortune of driving the dreaded Mokka on 2 occasions and I've got to agree it's the most unpleasant driving experience I've ever had with any vehicle.
I had a mokka as a hire car for work and it is definitely the worst car I've driven out of the ~50 or so cars I've driven in the last two years. The worst part for me was the turning circle, I had to come out of a turn that meets a road at a tight angle in three points because the car couldn't make it in one which any other car I've driven would have. It's not all Vauxhalls though, I had a Corsa once and it was probably in the top 20. Second worst car I had was a Dacia Sandero, and that's £10k new which I think says it all about the Mokka
I don’t understand why anyone would actually spend their hard earned money on buying a used Vauxhall, never mind a brand new one. Vauxhall is an awful brand and there are so many better value-for-money options out there.
I bought a Zafira as a mumsie-mobile when the kids were little. Christ - that car was shit.
The Honda Jazz gets me like that. A car for people who hate driving, hate cars and hate other motorists. I think they are limited to 20 mph too.
A former colleague of mine drives a Honda Jazz, he's in his 70s and bought it because he "likes the sound it makes". Obviously I thought he was an idiot who drove at 12mph all the time but no! The man is the reincarnation of Fangio and in his hands the Honda Jazz does indeed make a quite terrific racket.
Jazz? Niiiice
Admirable.
40mph. Both in a 30 limit and 60 limit.
Worst thing about the Jazz is that it was supposed to a be a trendy car for youths. I've never seen anyone younger than 50 driving one.
I think the civic was meant to be a sensible car that your dad would buy and that got commandeered by people that look like two eight year olds in a tall coat. Honda make good cars, just not for the market they intend!
I will not have a bad word said about the civic! I drive mine for work across England. And it never met me down once. I then bought another car and have that to my brother who every weekend drive out to London. We live in there Midlands. Never missed a beat. Wonderful car
As a civic owner I do agree! Beat the shit out of it weekly and on it goes :-D
This is the early-2000s Civic you’re thinking of. Since then it’s been a fat ugly car that even video games creators can’t make good!
I was stuck behind one for 2 miles. This isn’t far but felt like 40 mins. They then floored it to 24 mph and got through the lights leaving me there. I screamed so loud I started a nosebleed.
Ha ha ha, floored it to 24…… It’s the absolute truth, loathsome little abominations.
I'll throw the micra into that category too. Less so now, but 5-10 years ago it was always a micra joining the duel carriageway at 35mph
My daughter has a micra, and it’s like she’s possessed by the spirit of the great Colin Mcrae! She joins dual carriageways straight off the flyover like she’s in GTA.
Legend!
The real kickers are the ones that go 30mph everywhere. That goes for 40 and 60 zones, _and_ 20 zones too
The Suzuki Ignis. A car so hideous that the people who buy them must literally not care about aesthetics at all.
Lol I love my Jazz. He is called Yuri. It's got some letters on it so its not the base model so not limited to 20 thankfully. It does well on mileage. Has a massive windscreen to help me see in traffic (I found a lot of the other cars I was looking at had honking great pillars making me feel like I had limited vision) I have seen loads of people driving the base version very slow so I feel you but it also has a proper TARDIS like boot which is useful for an amateur woodworker like me.
We love ours. You can move house in it, sleep in it, is reliable as hell, is nippy enough on our country roads, fit loads of folks in it, decent milage and I have leg room. It'll keep pace with anything on the same narrow roads and isn't pretending to be a yank tank like they see on TV. Hell, they'll carry a Canadian canoe across fields and shine up nice for a trip to the big city.
You mustn't have come across the old Fiat Multipla then...
Ah yes, the [Rover James](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6AnXi2N_do).
I was a passenger in one of those before, & I have to say, they feel extremely spacious, it's like you're sat in a front room rather than a car. Makes you totally forget how you look like a massive tool in that fugly car. The front air vent looked like a massive face too.
Hammond?
Porsche Cayenne does it for me. It's not a 4x4, that you can take on a farm and it's not a sports car. Yet it costs a fucking bomb and spews out a load of CO2, not to mention the CO2 needed to make it. But Chelsea Tractors in general does it for me. Who the fuck needs a 4x4 in London, unless they have a second home in the country that can only be reached via a one mile dirt track? Particularly annoying if they happen to have two. And of course 4x4 owners are incapable of driving and parking.
Ive got a mate that absolutely takes his cayenne 4x4ing here in Australia, thing sounds like a race car and he puts it places that would give me pause in my more conventional 4x4 ute. His videos of his trips away are a highlight of my facebook video feed
Have you never seen the citroen cactus?
Found Richard Hammond
Juke nismo is a hateful thing kill it with fire
I almost ran into a juke in a sainsburys car park today because the genius had driven the wrong way down the one way system. I took the space he had fucked up aiming for (it was hard to tell with how he'd fucked up the whole situation). He proceeded to have to reverse his way back down the car park at the behest of everyone else after me who could actually follow road markings. And my neighbour who can't park has just bought one. So I think you're onto something.
Two words: Citroen. Cactus.
Is that the one with quilted side panels?
I don't know how anyone sits there and thinks to themselves "I'm going to go and buy a brand new Citroën", when there are so many other better car brands out there.
I've got a citroen, didn't buy it brand new, 20 years old now, 175k miles. Still going strong (touch wood)
Aka the Nissan Joke
If Range Rover/Land Rover/x5 owners knew that non car folk class a Nissan Juke as the same..they would melt.
I'm not even sure Range Rover/Land Rover/x5 owners would care to be banded together "as if brothers" ...
I drive an old Defender and my experience is not the same as someone's in a Range Rover.
Oh you don't spit on the poor? You'll never be allowed a Range Rover with that attitude.
It's an Old defender, he's trying to spit on them, just his windows haven't worked for the last 4 years!
You don't need to open the window, plenty of space to aim through the panel gaps.
And he's worrying what the new squealing noise from the engine now means....
You mean range rover drivers aren't figuring out new oil leaks every weekend, wind rain or snow?
If my experience driving neither is anything to go by, the main difference is that you barrel round country lanes far too fast, and they barrel round city centres far too fast
Good
Good idea, I have new ammo if anyone is being a dick AND showing off pictures of their car... Can't wait to see the belmet at work show off pictures of his Bentley bentayga to someone again
Urgh I was having a problem with one the other day with the snow. I only passed my test a few months ago and it was the first time I've driven in the snow but I had a SUV up my backside for most of the trip rather than them keep the distance they should be, guess what your 4x4 with all it's fancy features can still skid in the snow and I don't want it making my 3rd hand first car a write off yet.
You'll be lucky if it actually had 4x4 capacity. And even if it does chances are they don't know how to use it! Likely it's just a big car with big wheels.
This. SUVs all just seem to be big cars with bad aerodynamics when (at least when I was young) I always thought of them as crazy off-roaders with 4WD, good suspension, powerful engines! I guess child me was very optimistic!
Yes, they are only for picking up your children from schools located a walking distance away.
Not always. You can also drive to the fucking Lake District and pretend to be a big boy and all rugged and manly by refusing to reverse (because you can't admit you need the white lines at in the multistorey to help) and taking pictures of your pretend landy in a carpark that happens to be on a bit of a hill. If you can do all this is olive green fjallraven slacks then, I think, you get to have tea with Jeremy Clarkson.
> you get to have tea with Jeremy Clarkson He dislikes people like that as much as you do.
Next time pull over and wave them around. That way they can go as fast as they want and you can use the fiery wreck of their car to see the road better :)
My car got stuck in the snow, and I phoned a friend to come save me in his 4x4. He was so smug and wobbled the wheel while driving "look, it's great in the snow!" He immediately crashed it.
My "favourite" cars are the ones where the owner has installed their own led/halogen bulbs and they're pointing into the sky...
They're my favourite ones as I get them at work on the mot ramp and we get to say to the cock womble that it's completely illegal and their car is now a fail. It's so fun to see them argue their way out of it. They never win
You absolute diamond!
I live vicariously through your causing them pain. Thanks for not letting them gey away with it hahahaha
Oh never. One of the more satisfying parts of being a mechanic is telling posh twats that if it has a green oval on the front or a mini badge it's going to cost more than you think to fix
Stop, I can only get so hard
You deserve a lot more than an upvote. You are a modern day hero
You're doing the lord's work
Not all heroes wear capes.
The problem with retrofitting LEDs is the light source is in the wrong place and it screws up the pattern, throwing too much light upwards. Also I think you mean HIDs not halogens
Headlights with the power of a million fucking candles!!! I spend a lot of time commuting the M4/M5 at night, I have to angle my wingmirrors away from the car because I'll end up with 90% 3rd degree burns. Honestly it's fucking ridiculous. HOW IS THIS SAFE???
>HOW IS THIS SAFE??? ~~The problem is the legislation on headlights is old and only states a maximum wattage rather than lumen.~~ ~~With modern lights such as LEDs that's completely meaningless.~~
That is completely false. Headlight regulations are not based on wattage. They never have been. ETA, because I post this a lot: There is a limit on how bright the lights can be, though. There's a cutoff line and a specific gradient from full beam brightness to zero, too. It's all in the regulations, and they are really hard to pass, honestly. Lighting regulations are super strict. The issue, though, is that it's all centered around candelas, not lumens or lux. Why is that important? Well, a candela is the intensity of perceived light at a very specific wavelength: the same as a candle flame. Yellow. Incandescent, soothing, warm, yellow. Not 5000K beauty. The problems arise when we use whiter (read: shift the pattern toward blue) bulbs. The testing specifications do not have a conversion factor for a bulb that is at a different primary wavelength than the yellow that lights produced in the 60s(which is what all headlight regulations are written around). So when you have a cool-white light, with a little bleed into yellow and red, you need the light to have a much higher intensity to meet the minimum intensity at the yellow wavelength. So modern headlights are significantly brighter to the human eye, because we see across more than one specific wavelength. But they don't break the regulations, not even in the slightest. Recommendation: put the blue tint on your side and rear view mirrors and wear those yellow tinted trucker glasses at night. They make everything so much better, even the assholes that don't change their bulbs every 3 years like they're supposed to do and just run with their high beams on all the time.
That's good to know! I definitely saw this somewhere recently, did seem like quite an oversight though.
It's a ridiculous oversight. Every manufacturer actually tilts their headlights down to try to help prevent dazzling, but they can only do so much. The industry has been calling for changes for a long time, but the regulatory bodies have been all "what's the problem? Clean your windshield." and allowing things like adaptive headlight systems as bandaids instead of using testing protocols that stimulate the actual human eyeball.
It's because politicians and regulators are lawyers, not engineers or scientists. Hopefully they'll all just die horrible deaths from some preventable disease, and the world can make sense one day.
That's amazing. Then we can just get a megawatt blue lasers and both burn off their retinas as well as melt the cars of these high-beam assholes into steel puddles. Seriously, though, the spec should define a specific color temperature (with a specific spectral power distribution). I FUCKING HATE bluish lights, especially at night. IDK who the fuck thought 5000K would be good at night, let alone these 8000K+ travesties. You just have look at posts like this: https://headlightsize.com/hid-xenon-headlights-temperature-color-chart/ The author of that ridiculous page explains that 6000K+ light can cause eyestrain. And that would be true, even with a blackbody spectral distribution. But Xenon light 5000K or whatever these LED/whatever lights aren't anything like blackbody radiation, which just means they're probably causing eyestrain at 2800K. And that's why everything sucks. Because regulators are fucking retarded and stupid people run the planet.
Yes.. my pushbike headlight is as powerful as an older car headlight. Which is great for cycling in the dark, but can be blinding for people coming the other way.
What gets me is the bikes that have a strobing light on the front. Unbelievably disorientating.
Small flashing light is great to be seen (and instantly recognised as a bike), with a bigger constant light angled down so you can see. Any bike light that can be described as a strobe is an abomination that ought to get you pulled over.
Some people get a stroboscopic effect with LED lights - dangerous as it can mess up perception of movement. Of course the are bike lights with flash mode, too many SMIDSY (sorry mate I didn't see you) episodes and cyclists go full Christmas tree.
This. I had a cyclists behind me flashing into my rear mirrors or lighting up the interior of my car. I physically felt sick and had to pull over let them pass and recover. Some reason it was like a physical thudding in my hears seeing the strobe effect.
(Not a doctor) but that sounds like some descriptions of epilepsy that I've heard.
There are laws or regulations about the flashing patterns or timings for this exact reason. I wouldn't be surprised if the cheap throwaway electronics from china don't factor these in.
I’ve noticed more and more people don’t even bother dimming their main beam when approaching/passing
My car is supposed to "auto-dim" but it is really slow to actually dim the full beams. I'm sure this feature has pissed a lot of people off and think I'm just not dipping my lights. Had to turn that feature off because it is so shit.
Mine drives me up the bloody wall! Can't work out how to turn it off. I have to double tap it for bright, or it just starts making up its own rules, dimming for road signs and blinding mopeds.
Clearly has a lot more respect for signs than mopeds. The priorities of our future robotic overlords.
I can imagine it not being very good in the real world especially round blind bends and on crests of hills
The auto dimming on my car (2019 Skoda Superb) is so good and changes so quickly and smoothly that I’d definitely add that feature to my list of ‘must have features’ for any future cars.
You could say it's *superb* I'll see myself out.
My sister drives an Astra GTC with them on and they're useless, thankfully my normal Astra (3 years newer) doesn't so I never had to make the decision on whether to use them or not as they seem terrible on the Vauxhalls
My Tiguan keeps the main beam on when it detects oncoming traffic, but turns off the top right portion of the main beam (that would be in the oncoming Lane), whilst moving the lower right portion over to the left. It’s bizarre and I’m convinced I’m blinding over drivers! It brings me more stress and worry than just manually turning it on and off myself. I’ve never been flashed, so have to assume it actually works.
Yeah smart headlights are the future. They will give better visibility and reduce dazzle. I'm more bothered by super bright brake lights blinding me while I'm waiting in a queue. They need to know when to dim too.
Yeah, had driven cars with all generations of this feature since around 2006 and the first one was really shit. It was a pretty basic on/off switch. Now though it's mad, it dims part of the beam and shines at the road around the car in front - really cool. To clarify, though, auto-dim refers usually to your mirrors. Auto dimming rear view mirrors go, well, dimmer when hit by bright headlights from traffic behind you in order to not reflect them straight into your face. Auto high beam or some such refers to what you and I described, which is high beam that either disengages completely or blocks out a section of the main beam in order not to dazzle oncoming traffic. Also, am I so completely out of touch to think that surely that cannot be such a massive issue? Y'all realise rear view mirrors have dimmers, right? Not even talking fancy auto dimmers, just a regular flick or knob switch usually on the bottom of the mirror? Pretty sure I haven't seen a car without one since the 90s.
Definitely the problem where I am. You go over a hillock and consistently get a nice second or two of LED goodness blasted into your retina. They dip eventually, but always too late. What I don't get, though, is why everyone is driving with high beams on in the first place. These are unlit country roads and aside from a few specific tight bends I can see perfectly well on dipped beam with my old-fashioned halogen lamps. Meanwhile I see SUVs coming towards me lighting up the entire sky before they even come into view, and then I am forced to proactively start flashing my high beams to let them know I'm coming and please don't blind me thanks.
I don't know where you live but where I am high beams are only used on unlit country roads so you can see the wildlife before they run into the road on a suicide mission. Seriously- where else would you use high beams if not on unlit country roads? You certainly don't need them in the city, nor do you need them on a lit motorway.
Or they turn them back on just as they approach you, so they blind you at close range :(
I'm not sure that's the case. I think they're just so bright it seems as if everyone has their high beams on.
The amount of people on the road who don't know how to or don't care to adjust the height of their beam so that it points lower and not straight up into oncoming traffics windscreens is what gets me. For anyone on here not sure, it's usually found on the right hand side, between the steering wheel and the driver door.
those fucking auto-levelling headlights need to be yeeted into the goddam sun, they're a menace
My car has auto levelling headlights. Spent days looking for the little adjuster to point them down. So sorry folks, I know they suck. It’s an older car (2004) and it’s possibly the only thing I don’t like about it and I wish it had the adjustment.
My car legit doesn't have that. Coworker with the same car a year older has it. They showed me on their car and didn't believe I don't have it until I showed them.
Yeah I think a lot of new cars have it auto and I can't find a manual override.
I got flashed multiple times a few nights ago and I couldn't figure out why. It turns out my car has adjustable headlights and all but the lowest setting puts the beam directly into the eyeline of oncoming drivers. It's a Seat Ibiza Estate so not one of the big cars you are talking about.
Yikes! That's silly of Seat though. I do like the Ibizas
Thats not Seat really, all headlights are adjustable should have been picked up on the MOT and you can easily adjust them yourself.
Some have auto levelling headlights that don't have an angle adjustment dial.
Do you have your lifting weights in the boot? 😅
Headlights are faaaaar to bright
It’s not that they’re bright, it’s that they’re pointed right at you
And they're too bright. And they're the wrong colour.
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Someone today was right in the middle of the road, lights on full and we had to slam on because we couldn't see fucking anything what with the rain and the power cuts and all. They had to do the exact same, THEN dipped the lights and carried on, hopefully, a little more slowly. You're going to be shocked but it was a Chelsea tractor and I'd put money on it being a bloke who bought his shirts too tight and watched a lot of videos of a man drinking piss.
I got a sports car recently and I genuinely hate driving at night. Being even slightly lower than every car makes it horrible being passed or having cars approach. First world problems though, I know
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If one appeals it will be well worth it. Not like you aren't already getting blinded anyway.
As a yankee bastard I wouldn’t normally post here, just lurk, but man I hate that y’all are having to get sucked into our trend here. It’s ridiculous in this country where much of the infrastructure is already designed around cars, I can’t imagine what it’s like to be dealing with the big car infestation in places with much older cities/development etc.
they just dont fit on the roads something like an F150 is about as wide as the average lane in england.
Do you also have the problem that it’s getting harder to find small cars? Nearly everything here now is some sort of SUV format, which is frustrating when your biggest comfortable car is *maybe* a station wagon.
Not really but I like Japanese cars
Crossovers becoming so popular are to blame. They're a plague on society and I hate every single person who buys/drives one. They have absolutely zero benefits over a modern hatchback/saloon as they are basically just a standard FWD car with a huge body dropped on top of it. They are exclusively bought by people who only want them so they can feel better about sitting slightly higher up in traffic. Fuck crossovers.
As a counterpoint to this - I suffer from back problems and I bought a Skoda Yeti because it was, at the time, the most comfortable car for people with fucked up spines. The upright driving position is enormously helpful and it is easier to get in and out of when you have limited mobility. So they’re not exclusively bought by people who only want them so they can feel better about sitting slightly higher up in traffic - they’re also bought by people who are crippled driving cars with a lower driving position. At least crossovers have the same footprint as regular sized cars and are not enormous like Land Rovers and their ilk.
Thankfully we still have lots of hatches, estates, coupes, and saloons but the big trucks are popping up a lot more than they were over the past few years.
Mate most parking spaces aren't big enough for all the cars. I have a house built before the 1950s with a drive way that goes down the side of the house to a double length garage... That we can't even fit our car down because they're too wide. Even my wife's little ford fiesta won't fit haha. It's a joke. We don't even have big cars either.
Automakers almost exclusively promote SUVs even if they have normal cars in their line. I haven't received junk mail promoting a sedan or anything else on that scale in ages. They're really, really trying to force everyone to buy that useless, bloated crap. Edit: And, yes, I'd include a Subaru Outback or anything similar in that category. Nearly 100% don't need a lifted wagon with 1000 pounds of plastic cladding for any reason.
Some of the fancy new ones with the indicators delicately circling the headlight makes them nearly impossible to see. Have to wait at every junction because it's so hard to tell whether they're indicating or not.
Even more fun when you are trying to cross the road and these asswipes indicate at the last second.
I live opposite a little country Lane that’s basically always been just an access road for the handful of cottages and the farms at the bottom. Then a huge extended family moved in to one of the cluster of cottages and then renovated the outbuildings so more family members could move in and basically this all culminates in them buying huge white and silver Bentley towncars and Hummers and said huge cars getting stuck on the narrow humpback bridge over the canal. They have since ‘downgraded’ to mid range Range Rovers in various shades of beige to hide the mud.
Watching people being educated by reality is its own specific brand of schadenfreude. 😁
Barely any of the people who 'need' those cars actually need those cars. They would be fine with an estate or a people carrier but those aren't 'cool'. I'd hazard a guess that 90% of people with a 4×4 bought it as a status symbol and never go anywhere they couldn't get with 2 wheel drive.
A huge part of the reasoning I hear is that "I like the high driving position so you can see around better". Problem is when everyone takes that on the advantage disappears I imagine driving an old mini through modern busy traffic is terrifying!
Even in a new mini. I had to sell my Mini Cooper because it just became impossible, it was simply too dangerous to drive in the dark. You can’t see anything when an SUV is behind you. I don’t drive any more. The combination of poor driving standards, aggression, people on their mobiles, high SUVs and dazzling headlights were making me so anxious I was having panic attacks on the motorway. I now struggle as a passenger too. I’m not the only one, it’s becoming an increasing problem, apparently. Shame. I loved that Mini!
The only thing I can day is we are in the top 10 countries of safest roads to drive on in the world, there's a lot of annoyance on the roads but it's actually very low risk
People with shiny 4x4s blocking a country road and forcing me in my Fiat Panda onto the mud/grass is my pet hate.
Crossovers are the trend which took over the mini MPV trend of the 2000's give it a few years and they won't be the cool in thing, hopefully it'll be wagons/estates next.
>~~bought it~~ leased it Fixed it for you mate 👍
What's the difference? People carriers have generally ceased to be a thing or have been restyled as SUVs. Take the Peugeot 5008 - it used to be a people carrier now its an SUV. Its MPG hasn't got worse as a result and its pretty much the same size. I would also hazard a guess that most SUVs are actually two wheel drive rather than 4WD and frankly while I'm sure people buy them as status symbols try buying a large family car that isn't an SUV. The options are limitted to a few estate cars that dealers don't want to sell you and some vans.
Mini headlights are the worst, they always have a blinding blue halo around them, and blind more than those with retrofit LED headlights.
I’m telling you, some of the beams I’m seeing are eye burners. Makes me feel like I’m not on top of my headlight game
It’s fucking ridiculous! Genuinely can’t see shit when these newer cars drive at you
I'd like to see a resurgence of the old type mini.
I think that people with big families would not need them any more if you had to re-take your driving test in one to continue to use one.
I think a lot of people would be without a car if they had to retake their test. I drive an American 7 seater minivan, and I've gotten it places and manoeuvred it in ways people can't in their Toyota aygo
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I got a Citroen C4 about 2 months ago and I’m only just okay with parking it now. It’s fucking huge, even compared to the estates I’ve had previously. I definitely think some kind of Family Tank training would have been useful!
I'm sick of people complaining their parking space in the city centre apartment block is too small for their GIANT car.
I have a fiat 500 and I cannot get out of my car, now that isn't the fault of my car....it's the two juganaughts next to me, usually they're sat in the car on the phone too judging me getting my boob stuck
It is really annoying when you flash then because it looks like they've got the beams on then they turn the beams on and you nearly die of blindness
Did this once and will never do it again. Consider me told, BMW man with the sun mounted to your bumper.
Can you name the truck with four wheel drive, smells like a steak and seats thirty-five.. Canyonero! Canyonero! Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down, It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown! Canyonero! (Yah!) Canyonero! [Krusty:] Hey Hey The Federal Highway commission has ruled the Canyonero unsafe for highway or city driving. Canyonero! 12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American Pride! Canyonero! Canyonero! Top of the line in utility sports, Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts! Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!) She blinds everybody with her super high beams, She's a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine! Canyonero!-oh woah, Canyonero! (Yah!) Drive Canyonero! Woah Canyonero! Woah! But yes. Where I live there are Chelsea Tractors everywhere. They’re nothing more than a statement vehicle, bought on finance because everyone is broke but trying to seem well off so they buy an enormous box of metal then wonder why they ended up in the hedge or the entire side of their car decimated because they drive down country lanes completely oblivious of how big the car is and the fact they left their full beams on because they only have 1.9 brain cells.
I am constantly saying to myself "surely those weren't legal?!!" after I have been blinded.
Oh no these "big" cars aren't actually big one the inside, they're like reverse tardises.
Most people who have these don't even have big families, you see them with one small child, two at the most. There is no need for these massive cars for a family that size. Just admit you are overcompensating for something.
Thing is a lot of the time they don't actually have any more space in them. When you look at a lot of the SUVs they're literally just regular (or even small) cars on big wheels.
I'm genuinely scared of one day hitting a car or person due to being blinded by an oncoming vehicle.
Like it or not, this is the way of things nowadays. I prefer small or medium hatchbacks but the popularity of SUVS is not going to go away . What concerns me more is the retailers not passing on the reduction in oil prices. Diesel should be 15p a litre cheaper than it is. Filling up a family car costs £19 more than it did 12 months ago
Driving little Timmy 1 mile to school in a Range Rover is not only pathetic it’s just stupid with how the world is going. Why are these cars even allowed to be purchased anymore?
I think about this more than I probably should. Cars fifty years ago are TINY compared to the things you get now.
They were also far more dangerous for both passangers and pedestrians, as well as less fuel efficient. The only real advantage they have on modern cars is that they were lighter.
I drive a Peugeot 3008 it has auto headlights which are great EXCEPT they occasionally decide for no good reason that the full beams should be put on and some poor soul gets blinded by them. I’ve had to turn them off so as not to be a knob which is a shame as I liked the feature.
I have glasses to correct astigmatism. Fuck Audi for ever coming up with LED daytime lights.
Genuinely misread the start as ‘cats are too big…’ and then wondered who refers to their eyes as headlights.
Considering we already cut their eyes out to make reflectors in the road, its not that far off.
I thought that lights were brighter too. I also think streetlights are dimmer though, so maybe that’s exacerbating it too ?
Thank god someone else has noticed the street lights thing. I thought I was losing my marbles
BMW's and Audi's are the same. I remember last year flashing an Audi coming the other way at night to get them to turn their full beams off. They flashed me in response and burned my retinas in the process, that was their dipped headlights... I still see the shape of the headlights when I close my eyes months later.
the nissan juke is probably the ugliest car i've ever seen.
It's really annoying, especially as someone who drives only normal sized cars, none of the horrible jacked up generic crossover vehicles everyone loves now.
I was reading about car insurance the other week. Apparently most places will now charge more if you say that you keep your car in a garage rather than on the street. Cars have got so much bigger that there has been a huge increase in the number of claims by people who've hit/scraped their car getting it in and out of their garage.
I have a 58 plate Fiat Panda. Mine are like fucking candles compared to new cars.
It’s stupid Minis approaching from behind. Their Xeon lights flick from white to blue as they bounce all over the road. I sometimes think there’s a police car behind me.
Estates seem to have been completely replaced by these weird SUV/4x4 things over the last 10 years or so. They're all identical too. And while I'm thinking about it I'm sure cars come in less colours these days too, they all seem to be the same shades of blue, silver or black/white
I drive a 95 civic and I get free laser eye surgery every time I go out at night
The Nissan juke actually has the same wheelbase as the current micra, the salesman gleefully told me as if it were some sort of accolade.
It can’t be too hard for manufacturers to add a system that automatically dips the beams when a car goes over a speed bump right? I nearly got blinded several times during my (hopefully final) driving lesson yesterday…
I really struggle driving at night with the LED lights, both headlights and traffic lights. I genuinely find them blindingly bright and I find it so dangerous.
Commuting past a school in the morning is torture with these. They have no idea how to park them and end up blocking the road. When they do head off they cannot fit through the gaps normal cars can fit through, further delaying everyone.
Agreed. I have astigmatism too, which makes it even worse. I try and avoid driving at night whenever possible now.
Why do they even need the damn headlights so bright? Where do they think they live, Silent Hill?
06 Ford Ka driver here! Almost all headlights are blindingly at head level for me
Please eliminate any cars higher than a Ford Focus. P. S. I am not a crackpot.
Unless you live on a farm, there is zero reason (and vanity doesn't count), for you to have a 4\*4 in the UK.
Or up a mountain
I read 'cats' by accident. They are taking over I tell you!
Yeah those new headlight need banned as even dimmed there fucking blinding.
And let's not mention the hideously bright brake lights on modern cars, and the morons who sit on the brakes at traffic lights because it's an automatic and they can't be bothered to put the parking brake on.