How about the people who follow you playing grabass until there’s an opening to pass, then once they get in front of you they slow down. That makes me want to find something old and made of solid metal so I can strike down upon them with great vengeance and furious anger! (Namely following them for forty miles gently bumping into them constantly following up with a look that says “If you sue me I’ll carve you into tiny pieces and feed them to your children!”) I live in Michigan, where nearly every driver is an a**hole. Interesting side note, I once drove down I-275 with the cruise control set to 90 MPH. People were still passing me. And if you’re going slower than 80 on I_696, you’ll probably get shot.
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How 'bout the “road sheriffs”? (That’s what we call them in Poland, translated). Basically, you have this asshole who does not really understand the concept of a zipper merge, and would rather have everyone wait on one lane until they get to the merge point. This kind of person is so hellbent on maintaining their vision of “fair waiting”, they enforce their road justice by blocking everyone trying to use the other lane, like it’s supposed to be used.
Video exhibit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxspHOKgxKM
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What about those people who go incredibly slow and then they speed up right after you pass them.
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What about people that do 30mph in a national speed limit zone (UK thing), and people who ride bicycles side by side on the road, and people who sit at junctions for hours waiting for a gap and then don’t go when a good opportunity arises and finally people who creep closer and closer to you when you are waiting at traffic lights (mainly taxi drivers)
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On a related note, I have mixed feelings about the tailgating thing.
(I have seen this printed and pinned to the rear window of a car. At first I thought that was epic. Then I realised: wait, what do I then do about the idiots who use the overtaking lane and drive slower than the cars in the other lanes??? For the most part, at least in Australia, because flashing your lights is now simply illegal under just about every circumstance, and it is also not legal to horn a person for travelling too slowly unless they are in imminent danger, the unspoken rule is if you’re getting closer and closer to somebody to the point you’re about to run up their backside, then the other person should move out of the way. This generally works. But sometimes it doesn’t. And what do you do then?)
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In my F-150 I practically push people out of the lane using your tactic. If I put the nose of my truck about a foot off your Civic’s bumper, all you will see is a Ford emblem bearing down in your rear view. Most people move out of the way. Some people go for the brake check, which I’m always anticipating. Let’s just say that I create my own road karma and the brake checkers get a giant heap of it when I make it past them…
In the Mustang, people don’t fear the car because it doesn’t literally fill their rear view like the truck. And people are more inclined to just think I’m some ass in a Mustang. (Damn those idiots (IT’S CALLED THROTTLE CONTROL, MORONS, USE IT!) that wreck doing burnouts and the reputation they have left us with.) However, that puppy has the power and the handling to find and hit gaps in traffic I could never attempt in the Truck. So I just make my way around them one way or another.
Your car seems to have the worst of both of my vehicles. It’s too small to be imposing, yet a little too slow to make quick moves through traffic effectively.
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Yes to both, but the traffic climate in Australia is also too far in favour of letting things lie to allow for tailgating in a big truck. That’ll just get you booked, unless the car is deceding the speed limit by so much that it would be considered hazardous. As a result, I notice that passing in the slow lane is becoming more and more popular, which isn’t awfully helpful.
I’d like to think that my Civic does have a bit of go at the top end, but frankly, it’s the generation in which VTEC did NOT kick in, yo.
Yes, our culture is a little different, but if I am making it a point to push you, you are certainly moving slow enough that you are causing a jam behind us and there are plenty of folk that would support my actions as they gleefully follow me through the hole I created.
And don’t worry about the lack of VTEC. I think that detracts from your overall douche rating.
I wouldn’t mind picking up a few douche points for something with a little more go, to be honest.
It’s not like I’m a 0 douche guy 
i-CTDi swap
wait. does vtec engines even still being produced? i thought there’s only i-vtec now. the eco version of vtec.
or that^ maybe a K20 swap
Exactly my point. It’s not even that eco if it’s still better in the high end and you spend most of your time in urban conditions, in the low end.
Making any form of sexual reference on your vanity plate merits extra douche points.
Also the hood gauge clusters, awesome.
I wonder whether that intercooler’s appropriately sized…
Anything that looks like it’s out of F&F gets an automatic over 9000/10 from me.
Although that intercooler does fit really well. Props, Marty. You’re only slightly worse at buying used cars than Richard Hammond.
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Yeah, about that intercooler. It makes JDM look like all Japanese car enthusiasts look like they all watch hentai and attach sex toys and semi-nude anime girl decals to their cars. That entire turbo setup didn’t work, at all.
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I wonder if people just buy a generic trans cooler and zip tie it on there so it “looks” like an intercooler despite the car not even having a turbo.
I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if some people actually do that.
No, me neither. Considering the current culture of front-mount intercoolers and obsession with using zip-ties on everything, it must happen often. There are a lot of knobheads out there. Those who want to save money and still look “cool”.