Huh -- just like LA or SF. Guess there's plenty of a-holes to go around . . .

I hate tailgaters... I take it as an insult that they respect my property so little that they don't care if they crash into the back of it or not.

I had one azzwipe tailgating me down a residential street near my old house last summer in a pathetic CR-V and as we both entered a left-turn lane, he drove right into the back of my Jeep when I slowed down to yield to a Dakota going through the intersection we were turning into. Man I was pissed off! Luckily his sport-cute got all the damage as he'd driven into my trailer hitch but I tore a strip off of him anyway. I was doubly pissed as he had two young kids in child-seats in the back of his P.O.S. yet he tailgated me anyway.

So what's worse? After we pulled away onto the cross street, the moron continued driving inches from my rear bumper! How brain-dead can a person be to continue tailgating another vehicle immediately after driving into the back of it? I was so tempted to brake-check him but knowing that he had kids on board, I kept my cool.

Driving tests are FAR too lenient.

Interesting to see my past posts over the years. Over time I have learned that I am not responsible for educating a-holes behind me and that a-holes will continue to be such regardless of my one time effort. being a bigger one never seems to make much of an impression on their little pea brains. Knowing that some people are packing and some are unhinged, I just move over and get out of their way and pace them a respectable distance back. I have found that jerks love to mess with the 911 but not the 914. Guess they either don't know what a 914 is or think it is so gutless it is a waste of time or maybe jerks drive 911s and deserve it. Don't know and don't care. Now I let them go by and be the bait and relax. still have a problem with left lane campers, and just wait now for an opportunity to get around them without going up their tale pipe. I am slowly learning.

One day I'm driving my wife's car and some kid in an Xterra is really tailgating us. My wife (7 mos pregnant) rolls down the window and flicks him off. So now he follows me and stops behind us in the lot at the restaurant we're going to. Rolls down his window and starts yelling the usual tough guy stuff, and she gets out, waddling towards him, yelling now too about safety and respect and whatnot. Looks absurd w/ the big belly. He looks at me, I shrug, he says "sorry" and drives off. Angry pregnant ladies.... I gave her the usual "could've had a gun" etc. But had a good laugh later.

I can deal with tailgaters with my Rt. foot, I however cannot stand people that drive in the left lane like it was made for them..... LEFT LANE IS FOR PASSING!

Not impossible, but some of the roads in san francisco make parallel parking very scary with our 911, especially when people park inches from you.

My sister-in law took care of a tailgater in her neighborhood about 20 years ago while driving her 914 in a residential areain Albuquerque.

Car behind her tries to pass and almost hit a young child on a bicycle so she decided to slow down and let the other driver pass. She than slammed into the other car with her 914; got out and punched the other driver in the nose and called the cops.

The other lady decided not to press charges.

914 only had minor damage to the door and fender but she felt it was worth it.

I usually ignore most tailgaters, not worth my time or aggravation.

What a funny thread! I can't stop laughing at the references to Fat People in minivans who are angry and jealous towards folks of normal weight.