I actually am talking about Brea in Orange County where Nixon is from. It seems like driving is getting worse, so my perception is different too. I sometimes think I am turning into old man yells at cloud 😂

 

Got a notice in the mail from BMW notifying me that they've extended warranty coverage for the passenger seatbelt sensor pad to 10 years and 120k miles. This is good news because I've actually been experiencing this issue. What happens is that the sensor pad in the seat that detects weight and tells the car that that seatbelt should be buckled fails and becomes significantly more sensitive. If I toss my iPad on the passenger seat and drive off, there's a good chance it'll start telling me to buckle up and will not stop until I remove the iPad.

Definitely going to try and get it in for replacement in the next month.

 

Just try leaving the passenger-belt buckled all the time with an empty seat....particularly when driving alone. That should fool the over-active sensor and shut the light off until you can get it replaced.

 

get a lighter iPad


 

I know what you mean we have a lot of them here in Memphis. Outback, Ascent, Crosstrek. They all drive like a-holes. Which is ironic because Subaru’s marketing is all about love and safety! Lol

Jackrabbiting away from green lights, they also like the tailgate me while I’m driving over the speed limit and pass me aggressively as I’m coasting for a red light.

 

YES!!!! I'm really not trying to generalize but it absolutely is something I've noticed. Subuaru drivers can drive like A-holes. And the buzzing of the 4cyl and CVT doesn't exactly make me want to run down to the dealer and pick one up lol. But hey, whatever people like more power to them. They probably think I'm a lunatic for driving something that gets 12MPG.

 

I certainly felt the same way after I had a horrible '08 (Gen 2) as a rental. Highway driving sounded and felt like rolling down the highway in the bottom of a tin bucket with wheels.

But then my wife got a much better condition, high-trim '10 (first year of Gen 3). It got pressed into service when my fancy car failed, and I was shocked at how adequate it was. A tall driver's view out the rear view mirror gives you a panoramic view of the ground, and the driver's seat bottom was too short for said tall person. Make no mistake, it didn't accelerate like a dynamo, and the breeze from passing semis moved it around a little. But overall, it was far from the worst thing I've been in. I'd describe it as "shockingly adequate," and I mean that as a compliment given that it's a car engineered nearly two decades ago that still gets an unfailing 45 mpg, holds 4 adults or 2 and a pile of stuff, and never breaks. You can't ask much more from a reasonably priced transit capsule.

 

You could start a pretty long thread just by listing all the makes and models of cars that have had their drivers described in this way. Just off the top of my head:
•Altima
•BMW
•Charger/Challenger
•Mustang
•Riced-out Civic
•Hummer (old H2)
•Cybertruck

I'm sure you could name more.

But yeah, it is amusing to hear Subaru classified this way since they've built their entire image on being the whole-grain safety successor to Volvo.

 

Agree with all except the Tesla. Tesla drivers are always prudent, the vast vast majority of the time.

Lol....Altimas, you're 100% correct there too.

 

Not Teslas in general. Specifically Cybertrucks.

 

No difference than other Teslas in my area, at least that I see.

Old G35s and Zs are also on the list.

 

vintage

 

I haven't really noticed any issues with Subaru drivers, outside of maybe the occasional annoying exhaust on a WRX or STI.

Altima/Sentra/Maxima drivers are almost universally awful though. Their credit score is lower than their tire pressure.

Teslas are mixed. Seems like 50/50 they're either perfectly normal drivers or they're overly inconsiderate.

Entry level luxury cars also seem to bestow a weird entitlement on some people as well. I got cut off 3 separate times by the same GLA on the freeway this morning.

 

If you have personally seen Nissan sedan-jockeys drive like idiots, I won't doubt your word on that...you are saavy enough about cars to know what you are looking at. I personally haven't seen much of that from Nissan drivers....the only one I can distinctly remember was not a sedan, but a new 90s-vintage 300ZX sports-car, when an over-confident young driver and his friend hit a large graded-bump going much too fast, spun out, and hit a curb, causing a lot of damage, very close to where I and one of my own friends were walking on the sidewalk. Since we were right there anyway (Thank God he didn't hit us), we both ran up to help...but the young driver and his friend did not appear to be physially hurt...more in a state of shock and disbelief than anything else.

In my area, although there are (admittedly) many good and careful Mustang and BMW 3-series drivers, those two vehicles, particularly V8-powered Mustang Cobras, SVTs, and GTs, seem to lead the pack when it comes to idiot-driving.

Why would Nissan drivers necessarily have very low credit scores...more so than buyers of a number of other low-priced vehicles? I would guess that, from vehicle-prices alone, Mitsubishi customers, overall, would have the lowest credit scores.....most of their American-market vehicles are bargain-basement-specials. ​​​​

 

Because Nissan has a long history of very lax credit standards for their financing. Its well known that if you have bad credit you're more likely to get financed by Nissan than other companies. Mitsubishi is also that way.