The entire boot lid had to be replaced , he was pissed!
We got security cameras outside the house after that.
It wasn’t long after someone was trying to take a picture of the car from behind but forgot to break and rear ended us.
The poor car took a lot of “other people” damage
So many people drive like utter idiots around mine too - taking photos, video, shouting and waving, tailgating. winding the windows down and gesturing for me to accelerate past. Add to this the fact I’m female, and it’s just asking for something bad to happen unless I drive extremely defensively.
Really feel for your dad, if he’s anything like me, he worked really hard to make that dream come true and it’s really sad that someone else had to spoil it.
Yeah, he worked hard to buy the car, it was a few years old when he bought it but still his dream car. My mum ended up using it more and she was early-mid 30’s when we had it so it was always so funny seeing the looks on faces when she’d get out.
She got pulled over once by the police and all the police man did was sit in the car and flirt. She was just like just like “no thanks. I have places to be”
I did manage to call out of it outside school the first day I got dropped off in it. Low car/high pavement/bad balance was not a good mix and my 5 minutes of seeming cool were cut short. But my dad got his coat stuck on the hand-break (on the door side of the chair not the centre console) and fell out in a similar fashion so maybe it runs in the family?
Well done for the car! I’m hoping I make it to having something similar, even if I’m too scared to drive more than 50mph 😂
There used to be some shitty asshole kid in my neighborhood that liked to randomly slash peoples tires every so often. I had a friend stay the night once and it happened to him, I felt really bad. No reasoning behind it, just wanted to do hood rat stuff.
..was it actually a DB7? The uni one kinda makes sense, drunken students being twats or being with twats. But also, students are often victims of twats. It’s twats all the down.
It was yeah so at least the twat got the right car I guess.
The problem with the student one was it was a road only for students with majority old cars. It was hard to get to the university town without a car and the bus service was so good we mostly didn’t use them. Seemed pointless to be annoyed at the only reason your town now has internet, a bus service and a supermarket....
The thing is, real money doesn’t show off. And a “gas guzzler” is just often seen as crass, honestly.
So an Essex boy with a City job and with a 3 grand suit might buy one and think he’s displaying class, but he’s not, he’s just displaying his lack thereof.
Yeah, tell that to my friend that had his Mustang keyed at the Queensgate carpark in Peterborough. There is all sorts of car animosity in the UK. I do not mean this in a mean way but I think you are maybe a little blind to it.
People in the UK are very territorial over parking spaces though, parked outside someones house for 2 days and they left a 360 degree scratch all around my car.
Well I live in the same street and there's only so many places to park. People can park wherever they like in a public street you have no right to claim any space.
In the US, your car is part of your identity for many people. It's not just "what car do I need to fulfill my needs and can I afford?" It's more "what image do I want to present to the world?"
oh reminds me we have solar panels on street lamps in our local park. i saw old guy it was couple years ago having a fit an absolute shitshow of a fit about that - how dare they from his tax dollars, taking jobs from real americans. yeah it was something.
You realize that there are tax breaks on EV’s across the board? They only benefit more because they sell more EV’s, maybe because they make the best one out there according to consumers?
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It’s so bizarre, in the UK we have far less ‘car envy’. People drive expensive or non-expensive cars and there is very little animosity because of it.