Wyseman

Having 10 people round to your car for a game of pool and a BBQ sucks tho. I guess you can get a towbar on the 'line and get a caravan...

I work in the city, 242 Exhibition st...

Funny thing is that in the UK, if you need to change lanes, or pull out of a side street, someone will ALWAYS make room for you. Put your indicator on and a gap opens for you to pull in to. Everyone does it without thinking about it. Not like Aus. Put your indicator on, the gap you were looking at closes. Pull out of a side street into traffic? Usually 15-50 cars before someone lets you in. Room to overtake? Not if they speed up to stop you getting past. It's not just some bad drivers.. All aussies are sh*t because they think they've got more right to be on the road than everyone else. Learn some courtesy and commonsense, or get off my planet.

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If you hold it in for 5 seconds, it makes you drive like Snowman..

That looks sweet!

It doesn't matter if you're doing the speed limit or not, however the law only applies to roads where the limit is over 80km/h. Still, sitting in the right lane on any road is just likely to make another driver mad and make them do something stupid.. (like pulling around in front of you and slamming on the brakes). People are impatient. People like to exceed the speed limit. It's much better to let them past as soon as you can, less stress for them, less stress for you and much less likely that they'll get worked up and do something stupid, or overtake you in an unsafe place because they're frustrated.

No offence taken.. The law as i can find it on the Vicroads website is as follows: Where there is a sign, or on multi lane roads where the speed limit is over 80 km/h you MUST not drive in the right lane unless overtaking another vehicle, turning right, making a U-turn, avoiding an obstruction, or when the traffic is congested. So you're correct, there was no legal obligation for you to keep left.. I'm just suggesting that with the attitude of "I was doing the speed limit, therefore I have every right to be in that lane" will make you into one big road-rage target. Rather than make yourself a target, drive safe and curteous and you'll have a much better driving experience.

I know this accident most likely had a lot to do with being over the limit, but you should consider the fact that you were in the right lane of a multi lane raod, sitting beside another car so that this guy could not overtake. When he indicated his desire to pass (with a flash of high beam), you braked in front of him. The accident would most likely not have happened if you had been keeping left and the guy had just been able to speed past in the right lane. I know that if i come up behind someone who's sitting directly beside another car on a 2 lane road, and i'm not able to overtake, I may flash my high beams to indicate a desire to pass. Often the car in the right lane will complete their overtaking manouver and pull back in, or will drop back and let me past. Occasionally they'll put on the brakes, just as you did.. I would usually think they're trying to be a smart-ass and drop back until a siutable overtaking oppoutunity presents itself.. When it does, i'll pass and just think "what an idiot". If this guy had done the same, you'd have been ok, however the beer has obviously made the outcome quite different in your case. Police should forget all about other offences for a few weeks and concentrate on enforcing the keep left laws. If you drove around europe in the overtaking lane, you'd be run off the road within a day.

Yep Every time i see a commodore pull up beside a Skyline, they try and race.. I've figured it out, Commodore drivers only do this because the skyline driver always takes the bait.. Followed a 33 down the Nepean Hwy the other night, and every set of lights, he tried his hardest to race whatever was beside him (few commos, a falcon, a z4 etc). Always beat them, even when they did try. When i pulled up beside him, he turned up his stereo to prove how cool he was, then drove like a grandma. Beating stock commodores from the lights doesn't make your car tuff.

I just switched from Shannons to LSV ( http://www.lsvinsurance.com.au/ ) for the GTR... I has my last car (VT Calais, 5.0l) insured with Shannons and phoned them just before I brought the GTR to get a quote for the new car. I told them nothing is changing, just the car. I live in a building with a shared underground security carpark, they knew this from when i purchased the calais. Shannons gave me a quote for the Skyline and I brought the car.. Now a few months later, I was looking at moving to another building with similar security parking, so I phoned Shannons for a quote at the new address, they said that for a GTR, it has to be individually secure lock up parking, not shared access, so they could not offer insurance at the new address. When I said that's not what I have now, they informed me I had 14 days to find a new insurer as they would no longer cover me. D'oh! Had they told me of that requirement, I never would have purchased the car at the time. Luckily a friend put me on to LSV and they've turned out to be cheaper, and they've got no problems with shared access security parking! The only down side I can see is that you have to pay either 6 months or 12 months up front. Still my premium was $976 for 12 months..

I work for a Major Telco in their CTI Engineering team. (I design and build call centres and call routing for our customers).

White 33 turning into the docklands side of Bourke St @ about 5:15pm. Doof-Doof Stereo going fully sik. More RMS Watts than Kilowatts.

A small group of people who can't handle their drink and cause trouble have now ruined it for people who just want a good night out. This won't bother me a bit, but then i don't get so trolleyed that i'm likely to be considered too drunk to let back in. Big thumbs up to the Government.

Damn.. All it's missing now is the $1 coin slot and the small chain to join it to the other Trolleys..

Diary of a BMW 318 driver.... The other day I was cruising along as usual coming onto one of my motorways, which was very busy with inferior cars. First off, I couldn't believe that the volume of traffic DIDN'T slow down for me AT ALL as I came off the slip road! I had to squeeze into a barely big enough gap between two cars in order to get onto my motorway! (The driver of the car behind me did realise his mistake though and honked an apology to me with a long blast of his horn.) Unbelievably, I had to do the same again before I could get to the BMW lane. (Why do underlings use this lane? Surely everyone knows it is for BMW drivers only?) Anyway, once I was in the BMW lane and posing along at 110km/h enjoying the adulation that the inferior car drivers were giving me, I noticed an inferior car ahead of me which was not only in the BMW lane of my motorway, but was driving at a ridiculous 100 km/h! Naturally, I got to within a foot or so of his rear bumper and flashed my headlights to remind him he shouldn't be in the BMW lane of my motorway and to get out of my way. Of course, once he realised it was a BMW behind him, he did just that, but I could hardly believe it when he pulled straight back out behind me! He also tried to keep up with me and when he realised I would out-run him, he put on some blue lights in his front grill and urged me to get onto the hard shoulder so that he could congratulate me on my excellent car. Needless to say, I was eager to oblige and when we had stopped, the man gave me a piece of paper confirming what I already knew - that my car goes fast! Apparently he wants everyone to know what a superior car I have, so I had to take my driver's licence to a Police Station to be sent away to have some points put on! (They're not free points either - they're $60 each and I was only allowed 3). But the man at the Police Station said that because I drive a BMW, it won't be much longer before I earn the full 12 points, and then I won't even NEED a driving licence, so they will take it off me! See, now that's the sort of respect you get when you buy and drive a BMW!"

110% not there. San Francisco for me!

+1 for Skylines / Other Imports with loud exhausts. All Gay.

Damn my wheels look hot

Oh, I remember the days.. Eagerly waiting beside the letter box, hoping that the postman would bring me the latest bunch of letters from "The Wasteland". +1

Time to dig up an old thread... How about one of these? Looks nice.

lol - Tell people you thought it was a ghost costume..

Easy costume to make...... I think you have to remove your brain to get the hat on tho.

The PM is usually driven around in a car with C * 1 in black and red (ComCar Plates). I'd love to be a Comcar driver. Anti-terrorist driver training sounds like a lot of fun.