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Can somebody please tell me why silver cars are invariably driven slowly? Why, without regard to other road users, obdurate Yaris, Civic, Rover 25 and Corolla drivers insist on maintaining a rolling roadblock that is more effective than Trafpol’s finest V70’s?
It is an offence to drive unreasonably slowly yet I wouldn’t mind betting that no one has ever been prosecuted for doing so.
I took my Lotus out for the weekend, along some of the quietest roads in southern England, many of which are subject to the national speed limit. Yet despite the openness of the roads, the general absence of traffic, and large signs adverting the legal right to drive at 60 mph, time and again I came up behind cars travelling at 40 mph or less, and all but one of them was silver.
And if you find yourself at the back of a slow-moving queue on a single carriageway road, at the head of the queue will be either a JCB or a silver Yaris. Regardless of the prevailing pace for that stretch of road, the Yaris will be off it. (Any other horrible, small, spotless, middle-class, holier-than-thou, CSMA-stickered, Britannia-rescued, dog-smelling, fifth-gear-locked, silver car may at this point be substituted). And worse still, all the cars behind it will be so bunched up that not even a clockwork-mouse overtaking strategy will work.
That evening, Silver Car Man will tell his neighbour what a lovely drive they had. “There wasn’t another car on the road,” he will say.
Is it really an issue with silver cars or is it merely that silver has been the most popular colour of the past few years?
Gerry Pollard | 19 Apr 07 - 1:41How very true Graham. I call it the Rover 45 effect. These vehicles are invariably driven by men in hats at 45mph regardless of the prevailing speed limits and road conditions. They are very dangerous customers. Open country road, 60 limit? They plod along at 45 and frustrate people into risky overtaking manoeuvres. 30 limit? They sail serenely on at 45mph scattering pedestrians in their wake. Most of these jokers are elderly and I think this will become an increasing issue as all the baby boomers retire…
Inconveniently True | 19 Apr 07 - 21:37It’s to do with the hats that Rover 45 drivers wear. It restricts the blood flow to the brain. Same with baseball caps.
Charis Whitcombe | 23 Apr 07 - 13:49