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Post by WDB on Apr 10, 2017 8:51:39 GMT
Had a Volvo S80 years ago. I swapped the plate for S80 XXX (where XXX = my initials). Only time I had a 'private plate' and the reason was to hide the identity of the car from the daughter of the previous owner who had died suddenly and didn't want to see her Dad's car driving around... Wouldn't any other plate have achieved that? There's a taxi round here (belongs to a rival to the firm I use) whose plate begins S80 - or it might be S60. Anyway, point is that the car is a W211 E220. I suppose plates beginning with that are getting hard to find. |
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Post by WDB on Apr 10, 2017 9:02:35 GMT
...the woman in the Merc who had been keeping pace behind me had really "gunned it" and was attempting to go past both of us in the nearside lane! I might have done something similar, although not trying to pass you as well. I've adopted a fairly loose interpretation of the provision that permits me to keep up with traffic in my own lane (with its stipulations about congested conditions and all lanes being in use - which they usually are somewhere 😊), but if I encounter a middle-laner like yours, I will execute the 'keep up' manoeuvre as briskly as I reasonably can. My reasoning is that this is likely to be a driver with minimal situational awareness, so it's best to be past and away as smartly as possible, in case they suddenly panic and do something stupid. Your Mercedes driver may have been thinking the same as me. |
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Post by Alanović on Apr 10, 2017 9:10:13 GMT
Yes, it is. Went to the showroom in West Drayton wanting to love it and came away disappointed. It ought to be perfect for a long family like mine but the front is no better than the (very good) Model S, while the space in the second and third rows is severely compromised by the clever-clever folding doors. And the seats don't even fold. The Model S doesn't really have enough rear passenger space either, so I'm holding on in the hope that the Model 3 will turn out to be the perfect commuting replacement for my BMW chariot instead. Yes. My initial reaction when I saw the gullwing doors was "I bet those are rubbish to live with". |
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Post by tyrednexited on Apr 10, 2017 9:16:19 GMT
...the woman in the Merc who had been keeping pace behind me had really "gunned it" and was attempting to go past both of us in the nearside lane! I might have done something similar, although not trying to pass you as well. I've adopted a fairly loose interpretation of the provision that permits me to keep up with traffic in my own lane (with its stipulations about congested conditions and all lanes being in use - which they usually are somewhere 😊), but if I encounter a middle-laner like yours, I will execute the 'keep up' manoeuvre as briskly as I reasonably can. My reasoning is that this is likely to be a driver with minimal situational awareness, so it's best to be past and away as smartly as possible, in case they suddenly panic and do something stupid. Your Mercedes driver may have been thinking the same as me. ...can't say I would go past a middle-laner on the inside on an otherwise clear (ahead) motorway, and certainly wouldn't if someone had just done the proper overtake in front of me, and was likely to return to the lane I was going to accelerate into. My own assessment is that she was so engrossed in talking to her passenger that, having kept pace with me for some time she suddenly realised the nearside lane in front of her was clear (I was now in the offside), and entirely unthinkingly gunned it. The timing was such that I could see her accelerate as I was completing the overtake - it was never on, and looked more "switched off" than deliberate. |
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