Changes in speed limits

Silly you @anon92567933 for not knowing you are allowed to break the law if you don’t like vans, lorries or brake lights. Who’d have known… :wink:

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Is that so…?

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:spoon: :laughing:

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I think that the “approved” way is to gradually slow down until the distance between their vehicle and yours is appropriate for the road speed.

Or they overtake

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Thank you for your reasonable comment @Aquitaine, and I agree that there is likely to be a myriad reasons for overtaking a vehicle in front travelling at the legal limit, and it would not bother me in the least if it happened to me at 50 kph, 80kph or whatever. It strikes me as being a penis-envy phenomenon anyway.

To be honest, I think that getting overwrought about other people’s driving behaviour is bad for one’s health, and nothing is gained thereby other than an increased likelihood of a stroke or heart attack.

Personally, I haven’t noticed any difference in driver behaviour in Normandy from that in Essex, home of the Furry Dice hanging from the rear-view mirror of a Ford Escort XR3i if anyone remembers that marque. My wife had one but it was stolen from Tesco carpark in Pitsea by Travellers, but recovered quickly by the police, who don’t hang about when those folk pinch stuff, Bless 'em !

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:+1::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

hahaha my first ever car. hated it and sold it soon after and bought my dads Austin allegro which i loved.

I take it that you are not a petrolhead :slight_smile:

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I bought a secondhand (more like a tenth-hand) Metro in the early 1990s which, despite it being generally reviled as a rubbish car, and only cost me £50 with a year’s MOT, was a delight to drive, economical, light, lively, roomy, and with excellent all-round visibility. It eventually conked out, but I still miss it.

Bought my dads allegro too Harry…an automatic…good while it lasted.

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So, for about 5 minutes then? :slight_smile:

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My dad didn’t have an Allegro. He did have a Metro though and that was OK.

god no im an A to B Person.

I loved my Allegra, no word of a lie it actually got nicked!!!

had a few cars over the years but never been one for show boating. Not rich enough.

If I won the lottery id like a Toyota Tacoma or Tundra or a Mitsubishi Triton GLX Plus.

Can’t blame everyone for driving crap cars, that’s what Leyland churned out in those days. Thank heavens for the Japanese, rusty wrecks to start with but they soon overcame that and look at the nice things they included as standard like radios and heaters.

I’m an A-B person and a petrolhead. That’s why I buy cars that are as efficient for getting from A-B as possible. My preferred A-B routes involve hills and corners, not straight lines and multiple lanes.

It was actually very reliable until it started drinking oil for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It was a sort of mustard colour which made you feel rather bilious though…

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My experience of the Allegro , was not great Harry, bought one, only because my sister worked for Leyland and got a big discount. Took delivery, I was working for BNFL and had to go to Cambridge, from Whitehaven on a course.
The Allegro used almost more lub oil than petrol!
So I complained, they told me, “Oh it takes time to ‘run in’”, my response was unprintable, they fitted a new engine, that was the last British made car I’ve owned, catastrophe!

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i prefer fastest route possible myself. If I can get there on foot or pedal cycle all the better, bus was my next option car was last resort. Alas there is no possibility of the school bus stopping at our new house atm so the car is only option

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I walk and cycle a lot as well on short trips. I never use the car locally unless there is a good reason for doing so. For regular visits to family in the north of France I’ve found the TGV to be a good option, faster and cheaper than taking the car. After July 1st I think I will use it even more often.

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My next car was dads Talbot Horizon. Now that really was a piece of cr@p.