Pottering along the M1 to work this morning I nearly got flattened by and idiot in a 3-series BMW who passed me at well over a tonne and then dived across four lanes to undertake some cars and then dive back across into the fast lane.
He missed my front wheel by about a yard! He missed the Vecta in lane 2 by even less!
So Mr. Need For Speed has it pegged when suddenly an interesting thing happened to the Vectra. All these lights came on and off it went like a stabbed rat.
Next time I saw Mr. BMW Driver (he who clearly has visual imparement due to the massive floppy pink appendage growing out of his forehead blocking his eyes) he was on the hard shoulder in the pouring rain having a nice chat with two very burly and unhappy looking plod.
Sometimes there truly are rewards for paying lots of tax

Quick translation;
D*ckheadd in BMW nearly kills me whilst driving above the instant ban speed. Nearly hits unmarked cop car whilst undertaking on a motorway (mega-illegal).
Gets busted and makes my morning a VERY happy one
Oh and I considered the driver a total d*ckhead, hence the comment about the massive floppy pink appendage growing out of his forehead and getting in his eyes to obstruct his vision!

patchz wrote on Jan 13^th, 2011 at 6:22pm:


I do have my slow days, I call them senior moments, brain cramps, brain farts and just plain ole duh moments...  

As the great American Curly Howard liked to say, "I'm trying to think but nothing happens" 

God I loved Curly, he was a comedic genius.

I had to Google Vectra to see what you were talking about.  Looks like a Saturn sedan.  :yawn:

machineman9 wrote on Jan 13^th, 2011 at 8:10pm:

Well you americans have 'keep your lane' which makes it less annoying than europe.

And yes, the vauxhall cavalier / opel vectra is a boring car, but you need a lot of balls to keep a tuned VXR (v6 sports version, most likely candidate for police pursuit vehicle) on the road at high speeds as the suspension wasnt made for the kind of speed these things can do

Felix/FFDS wrote on Jan 31^st, 2011 at 10:00pm:


I guess I expected more with a name like Vectra, it sounded cooler than it is.

The Vectra only gets exciting when you try to go round corners in it at any speed above a crawl......... it's a bit like most American cars, in that it only likes going in straight lines.

I thought I'd get tugged the other day on the M1 but was saved by a twit in a Beemer. I went past the unmarked fed wagon at a "reasonable" lick, not instant ban but err making progress Realised too late as I passed the feds that it was an unmarked, pulled over to the middle lane ready for having my collar felt when a 3-series pillock came past at well over the instant ban speed and saved my bacon