Having just read through ALL the pages of this thread it seems to have meandered a little.... but I have a rant too!
Motorways... I have spent quite a few years trundling my way around the lower half of the UK for work and have noticed that the Motorway Thrush has a new brand of car.
Back along it was the BMW E36, usually it was a 318 or 320, shirts hanging in the window, shades on and sat on your ass when you were a safe distance from the car in front, who was behind 20 others doing the same speed. No hope of going faster, just watching for brake lights 7 cars up that will cause a mass stamping of pedals and potential misery.
Some of these Thrush used to even flash headlights in a vain attempt to move 100m up the road and repeat the above.
Very annoying.
These days they seem to all drive Audi's. Same sh*t, shirts on hanger, shades on and a total disregard for all other road users as they have to sell some Pot Noodles to a petrol station somewhere.
A friend of mine used to have his brake lights on a switch to surprise the Thrush and another had a spotlight on the roof of his old van, facing backwards. I believe it was a RayDot fireball and made everything go green if you were following and it was switched on.. Those were the days