I'm driving home from work tonight and end up behind a new M3. We end up going the same place for several miles / turns. I got to watch this A$$hat run 10 stop signs at probably 25-30 mph and he took 7 turns without signaling. All the "king of the road" behavior got him well, nowhere really. We were on back roads and within seconds of running every stop sign he was up somebody's rear end with no place to go. And I remained the next car in line without running any stop signs or doing any illegal turns. So we get to this one section of road...there's a V with a sweeper to the right. Immediately as you come out of the right hand sweeper, there's a sharp (very sharp) left turn you can use to take a short cut over a hill. The left is probably about 120 degrees and to complicate matters there's a sharp change in pitch where the two roads meet as you start up the steep hill. I'm praying..."please don't let boy wonder try and make that turn".

Well, you know how this story ends. Ultimate driving boy tries to take the sharp uphill left. He doesn't line up properly and gets cold feet, worrying about scraping his front end on the sharp grade change (which is a real concern there). So, ultimate driving boy ends up stalling the M3 halfway into initiating the turn. He's now crossways in the intersection with front wheels on the upslope and rear wheels on the flat. I didn't have much choice of open pavement with traffic coming through behind me. So I ended up next to him (on the proper line) door to door so that other people could continue through the turn.

At that point I noticed our hero had a little girl in the passenger seat, maybe 12 years old. He was probably taking her home from school. Rather than act like a total jerk, I just laid on the horn to get daddy moving from the middle of the road. "Daddy" is in a panic and disappears from my view as he rolls the stalled car backwards down the hill into the intersection. He finally restarts the car and lurches forward, breaking traction no less than three times in an effort to finally negotiate the steep uphill turn. The look on the little girl's face was.....priceless. Daddy was a dork. I didn't move the SRT-6 so as not to add to Bimmer boy's panic.

After making it through the steep sharp turn A$$hat runs the next stop sign. He also runs the stop sign at a one lane bridge. Then at the turn just past the bridge....for the first and only time.....he uses a signal to make a left turn. Why? He then makes another left onto a major road without signaling. About a mile later, he makes another left without signaling into a residential area.

This guy upheld the high standards of A$$hats who drive BMW's everywhere. God, no wonder everyone automatically classifies anyone who drives a BMW as a loser. This guy should have his keys and his man card revoked. Sadly, it will probably be the kid or another driver who pays the price for his a$$hole behavior.

Oh, forgot to mention...it was raining here today...ultimate driving boy was doing this on wet roads.

 

You should meet some of the moderators here, they have BMW's, I'm sure you'll get along just fine.

 

I rest my case on the evidence I see every day. If the foo $hits, wear it. This guy should have been in charge of a scooter rather than a powerful sports car. And he's not alone. I saw another a$$ in an M3 passing slowing traffic on I95 using the left hand breakdown lane a few months ago. He was doing 70 mph between the Jersey barrier and traffic going half his speed. Sorry, but BMW has a real stigma around here. The car of choice for the financially over-extended lease crowd with hair gel.

 

Thank you for sharing.

 

This is the most ignorant statement I have read on here in a long time. I could even let it slide if you said 'around your area' but you said everywhere.

Seeing green maybe?

 

There are jerkweed drivers in every marque. It seems he was doing everything wrong,given. But there was a guy in a Mustang doing the same thing 2 blocks behind the two of you.

 

Let's just say a "sports car a driver it does not make" and leave it at that....I only have a few BMW's I like, and the M3 isn't one of them....lol.....where's a damn cop when you need him.....lol. I could have wasted a whole citation book on him....then told the mother, who probably has custody what he did, so he would get ragged on the rest of the evening...lol

 

Never liked the BMW's I had. Sold em and got a Moto Guzzi. Italian looks and handling. never beaten by a beemer two or four wheels. gary

 

The only italian I liked had two beautiful long legs......olive skin.....oh my....to hell with the cars, it's the women....

 

It's not the BMW, it's the driver. Want proof? Come to California and try commuting on the freeways here. Everybody drives like that, whether their hood has a blue and white roundel, a three pointed star, a bowtie, or a blue oval. Whether it's a sports car, an SUV, pickup truck or luxury sedan.

Well, OK, not everybody, but plenty of people.

Now, I will agree that in many cases the car has way more talent than the driver, yet the driver believes he/she is just awesome because of their car. Which is why we see so many "slow cars" running better lap times or 1/4 mile times than "fast cars". Fast drivers in slow cars tend to get better results than slow drivers in fast cars. And this particular "slow driver" has obvious issues if he can't get a new BMW M3 rolling from a dead stop on a steep incline; our COO, who happens to be a truly outstanding gentleman, has an M3 that I've had the great pleasure to posses for a full 24 hour period and the thing has hill assist. Meaning, if you stop on a steep incline you can take your foot off the brake to smoothly apply the gas while letting off the clutch pedal to commence smooth forward motion. If someone still can't get moving on a hill when the car provides that much help, he should stick to automatics.

 

Well, oddly enough there are a lot of really nice cars around Fairfield County, CT. It's really not uncommon to see Ferrari's, Aston's, new model Jags, or Bentley's on my way to work if I'm using the back roads through New Canaan, Wilton, and Easton as I did the other day. Lotus are common as dirt as there's a dealer not far from my office. Likewise, Porsche of every flavor and vintage are regular companions on the roads around here as well as Vette's. Mustangs are ubiquitous.

I can't remember the drivers of any of these premium cars (or Mustangs) driving like jerks. Certainly not at the ultimate a$$hole level of the BMW drivers I see. No, the other people I see driving like that are usually young (early 20's), male, and driving VW's, Nissan Altima's, or some other car valued in the mid-$20K range. That makes sense since most guys in their early 20's can't afford a nice car but really wish they were driving a Ferrari. I suppose BMW's are the aspirational cars for ricer's and idiots. But the guy in the BMW looked to be mid 30's, in a suit, with a 10-12 year old kid in the car. Apparently time has not done much for this guy and stupid really is forever. I'm sorry but BMW has a real stigma for me. When I see one I immediately assume the driver is a jerk and start driving defensively in anticipation of some stupid move from the "ultimate driving machine".

If it makes you BMW owners feel any better, I watched a guy in an orange Dodge Caliber change lanes 23 times yesterday morning (yeah I was counting) without signaling. It was raining heavily and traffic was heavy stop n go. This idiot was determined to get ahead of all the losers in front of him. After an hour and 23 lane changes, they guy was still near me when I exited I95 in Stamford. Meanwhile, I hadn't changed lanes once until I reached my exit and there were cars of every make and model obeying the rules of the road.

 

OMG, I didn't realize they have hill assist. That makes my boy a super under achiever. He rolled it back about six feet. How do you do that? It is really steep, but still, I've taken that turn/hill many times in the S2000 and never once entered the turn incorrectly or stalled the car or broke traction. All without hill assist. Oh, and I've never run the stop sign at the top of the hill either.