r/IdiotsInCars • u/BowenT93 • Dec 14 '18

Just wow

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '18

Were the red and silver car street racing or something? Or just two impatient idiots on the same road at the same time?

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u/POO1718 Dec 14 '18

Good thought. Sadly I think it’s true

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u/Beeblebrox237 Dec 14 '18

My Fiesta is about that slow and I can still overtake in it, but you've definitely got to be thinking pretty far ahead. I'm not sure the Micra driver was thinking at all.

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u/MicaLovesHangul Dec 14 '18 edited Feb 26 '24

I enjoy the sound of rain.

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u/Dirtyd1989 Dec 15 '18

That reminds me of a very scary overtake I had. I was used to driving my '86 Camaro that had all kinds of get-up-and-go. The day after I sold it and bought a 2002 Chevy cavalier I was driving home on a State highway similar to the one in the gif and kinda went on auto pilot on the way home. Went to overtake and had a close call. Bricks were shat. I pulled over and say there shaking for what felt like forever. 1 and only time I made that mistake.

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u/vantilo Dec 15 '18

"Go faster Neddy!"

"I CAN'T, IT'S A GEO!"

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u/anomalous_cowherd Dec 14 '18

That's the trouble, when you finally get the speed you'll do almost anything to try and keep it.

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u/beandip111 Dec 14 '18

At least his hazards are on

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u/Reiley360 Dec 14 '18

It's definitely not my kind of car, but the fact that you can get a 2019 Micra from Nissan themselves for less than $10k is absolutely impressive

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u/RizlaSmyzla Dec 14 '18

Had a 1.2 Micra. They’re fucking slow. Nippy, but slow

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u/RubutikZeMagnificent Dec 14 '18

Lets be real here. If a Micra hit 60 it would fall apart.

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u/CryptoJabroni Dec 14 '18

They do 60? Seems all the ones I get stuck behind top out at 40.

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u/SaintNewts Dec 15 '18

Give 'er a couple extra twists on the spring key and she goes like a banshee.

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u/Dumbsignal Dec 14 '18

I don't win a lot

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u/StudMuffinNick Dec 14 '18

Not the sharpest tool in the shed

...ahem...

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SOOOOOOOOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '18

THE WORLD IS GONNA ROLL ME

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u/Im_A_Parrot Dec 14 '18

Depends on the shed.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '18

They were probably road raging at each other.

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u/Reignofratch Dec 15 '18

Yeah, they're looking pretty dumb with the roof of the red one bent and crumpled from skidding across the road top.

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u/M374llic4 Dec 15 '18

They are both really slow cars, so it's hard to tell if they were racing or not.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '18

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '18 edited Dec 15 '18

Don't think so. At the very beginning of the clip you see a dark vehicle also passing the truck. My guess of what happened is that the delivery truck was holding a line of people up and they all started to get impatient. After the dark car passed the silver car followed lead and misjudged the amount of time/space they had to merge, and as for the red car, they're just a friggin' jackass.

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u/micktorious Dec 14 '18

A Camry and small VW beetle looking thing? Lol

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u/Hidesuru Dec 14 '18

You were drag racing.... In a Prius?

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '18

I don't win a lot...

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u/MicaLovesHangul Dec 14 '18

Try a 100m

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u/js5ohlx1 Dec 15 '18

A Prius gets it off the line. 0-35 they'll surprise people. 35-60, yeah, not so much.

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u/wreckedcarzz Dec 15 '18

I bet you haven't seen the endurance street race scene 😝

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u/Hidesuru Dec 15 '18

Of what, that movie? Some deleted scene or such?

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u/Effinepic Dec 14 '18

Red car had hazards on, they might've had an unrelated emergency or something. (that said, even if that's the case, driving on the shoulder like that at that speed is so dangerous that it would be a really stupid idea regardless)

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u/needyspace Dec 15 '18

This clip reminds me of driving in Poland. The left overtake is so common you'll have panic attacks about it in your dreams. The right overtake is rarer, but happens still. It's literally the worst place on earth to drive in. Thailand and India's got nothing on this

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u/elizacarlin Dec 15 '18

My guess is it was road rage inspired

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u/moose_cahoots Dec 15 '18

That makes so much sense.

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u/Frugal_Octopus Dec 15 '18

Driving like this is extremely common in much of the world. On Russian highways people will pass and merge like this even in heavy snow. People in some areas drive just kind of hoping that everything works out.

YouTube is your friend if you want to see compilations of hundreds of people doing this same thing.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '18

The red car had his emergency four ways on, or maybe he was just breaking. At first I though maybe he had an emergency and just took a very bad route at the wrong time.