Moms reaction to the Z4 M R......lol!

[Z4-VILLA]

So Im 28 and Ive had this car for 2 years now....mom NEVER rode in it till last night when I picked her up at JFK....as soon as we left the terminal I ripped it into 3rd gear on the expressway.....Moms 45 yrs old mind you....I scared the shit out of her and the windy curves on the merging highway lanes were eve worse.....especially after what I learned at the Bear mountain run....hahahahahah.

After we got home she admited she a tiny bit of fun.

"Barney, if scaring the living shit out of me brings a smile to your face, then it puts one on mine too I guess." Gotta love moms....

Single mom all these years gets respect on fathers day too btw!!!

[007MCoupe]

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My mom is flying into town mid-July and I plan on doing what I can when she rides in it. LOL

[Z4-VILLA]

I strongly suggest this!!!!!

[Nikki]

I took my dad in my 3.0si coupe once and that was enough for him. He won't ride with me at all. And I was going super slow.

I also took out an ex-coworker on Mulholland in my 3.0si and he started screaming "please, please slow down, please!" and I laughed and then looked over and saw his face, he looked like he was going to shit himself so I slowed down a little.

A couple weeks ago I had a guy in my M actually start praying, I thought he was kidding but afterward when I asked him I realized he was serious.

Honestly though I don't drive that fast, I think all my friends are just lame. It's funny because one of my girlfriends always prods me to go faster when she rides with me, maybe guys just don't trust me? I guess it's a control thing.

[M_Six]

Took my Dad out in my 633CSi on the autobahn back in the 80's. I asked him to tell me when he thought we were doing 60MPH. We were passing 100 when he said something. I took him to the limit (about 145MPH). He wasn't real happy about it, but that was my Dad. Mr Conservative Driver himself. Still, I think he got a kick out it, God rest his soul.

Mom is 80 and wouldn't even try to get into my Z.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by Nikki

I guess it's a control thing.

This.

I HATE being in the passenger seat. My foot will be going for the brake or the gas when I feel like it should and when the driver doesn't do the same, it freaks me out.

[mikeinsf]

Love the mom story.

Originally Posted by Nikki

I guess it's a control thing.

It's totally a control thing. Some of my friends get freaked out by my driving, others grin almost as widely as I do when I'm driving. Most of the "freakers" admit they probably wouldn't be so freaked if they were the ones driving. When the wheel and pedals aren't in your control everything the car does feels like a surprise.

I have one friend I really don't even like to drive with anymore though. He's one of those super defensive types who shits his pants over the slightest things. When I'm driving he's gone as far as to scream my name and grab anything he can hold onto. When he drives I sit there and bite my tongue because he drives like a high school driving instructor. We're incompatible in vehicles.

Another friend went with me through the hills around Palo Alto recently, admitted he was kinda freaked out but said he loved it. That's a good passenger.

[Nikki]

Yeah like last week we were headed down to a baseball game in Anaheim and we were running late (because he took 2 hours to get ready and do his hair ) so he's like "Let's take your car, it's faster" and I give him a look and tell him "UHm...are you sure? Last time I drove you got nauseous and had a headache the rest of the day" and he was like yeah don't worry I'll be fine.

So we get on the freeway and I'm doing my best to navigate traffic on the 10 and then he starts pointing out holes and I'm like "It's OK, I got it" and then when I go a different way he's like "Oh you should have gotten in front of that Altima and then cut in front of the minivan"....ugh.. and I even suggested he drive but he said "You know your car better than I do"...well then don't to tell me how to drive!

[arggg45]

Originally Posted by Nikki

Yeah like last week we were headed down to a baseball game in Anaheim and we were running late (because he took 2 hours to get ready and do his hair ) so he's like "Let's take your car, it's faster" and I give him a look and tell him "UHm...are you sure? Last time I drove you got nauseous and had a headache the rest of the day" and he was like yeah don't worry I'll be fine.

So we get on the freeway and I'm doing my best to navigate traffic on the 10 and then he starts pointing out holes and I'm like "It's OK, I got it" and then when I go a different way he's like "Oh you should have gotten in front of that Altima and then cut in front of the minivan"....ugh.. and I even suggested he drive but he said "You know your car better than I do"...well then don't to tell me how to drive!

Backseat drivers are the worst...

[mikeinsf]

Originally Posted by Nikki

(because he took 2 hours to get ready and do his hair )

lol ... How metro.

Originally Posted by Nikki

So we get on the freeway and I'm doing my best to navigate traffic on the 10 and then he starts pointing out holes and I'm like "It's OK, I got it" and then when I go a different way he's like "Oh you should have gotten in front of that Altima and then cut in front of the minivan"....ugh.. and I even suggested he drive but he said "You know your car better than I do"...well then don't to tell me how to drive!

Oh man I'd have to tune him out.

I've told the aforementioned friend before to just sit there and "stfu"... that is over-reactions, if anything, cause danger because they make an otherwise composed driver deal with their drama. It's just better he and I are not in the same car, and I avoid doing things with him sometimes that involve the two of us in a vehicle.

[Nikki]

yeah and then afterward he had the audacity to tell me i have a shitty blow dryer.

[mikeinsf]

Originally Posted by Nikki

yeah and then afterward he had the audacity to tell me i have a shitty blow dryer.

seriously the funniest thing I've read on these boards yet.

[Finnegan]

Skelekitty and I took my folks out (dad is 89 mom is 84) for a drive last fall on one of our favorite back roads. 'Kitty was driving her Z4M and I had that Cayman S at the time.

We both scared the hell out of my mom (in both cars) and she insisted we were both crazy drivers. My dad told her to pipe down, and that we weren't even close to pushing the car's capabilities. 'Kitty blew by me at one point on the way back and my dad, unfazed, made some remarks on how it "must be nice to have a wife that knows how to drive". (Apparently the more my mom griped the faster 'Kitty went--until my mom finally stopped. I guess that's how you keep the mother in law quiet. )

My dad was total unfazed by the whole thing and thought we could have been going a lot faster...

I came to find out later that evening that he'd been to Bonneville in his Chevy sometime in the 50s and had destroyed a set of tires seeing "how fast it could go" (which was apparently somewhere around 140). My mom had never heard the story until that evening (apparently it happened before they met) and proclaimed that all of us were crazy drivers.

[Finnegan]

Originally Posted by Nikki

yeah and then afterward he had the audacity to tell me i have a shitty blow dryer.

Seriously? And that much time on hair? Please. It is damn funny though!

My good friend (and prior girlfriend), who was a really good and fast driver, was the shower and out of the house in 5 minutes type. When she has to (track days, drives, etc.) 'Kitty can be ready pretty quick as well.

Mr. Hairdo Blowdry Backseat Driver Guy--can he actually drive? I wonder if there's a correlation between getting ready quickly and driving style/ability? (Probably not, but who knows?)

[mikeinsf]

Originally Posted by Finnegan

I wonder if there's a correlation?

You might just be onto something. I can't think of any over-primpers I've known that are good drivers by my standards.

[Nikki]

Originally Posted by Finnegan

Mr. Hairdo Blowdry Backseat Driver Guy--can he actually drive? I wonder if there's a correlation between getting ready quickly and driving style/ability? (Probably not, but who knows?)

No idea, he drove my car a few times around the streets but that's it.

[Finnegan]

Originally Posted by Nikki

No idea, he drove my car a few times around the streets but that's it.

Hmmm...perhaps his thing was more along the lines of a two bucket wash, compressed air blow dry, clay, a nice paint correction, and then two layers of wax. Did he ever help you clean the car?

[Little C]

Originally Posted by Z4-Villalona

So Im 28 and Ive had this car for 2 years now....mom NEVER rode in it till last night when I picked her up at JFK....as soon as we left the terminal I ripped it into 3rd gear on the expressway.....Moms 45 yrs old mind you....I scared the shit out of her and the windy curves on the merging highway lanes were eve worse.....especially after what I learned at the Bear mountain run....hahahahahah.

After we got home she admited she a tiny bit of fun.

"Barney, if scaring the living shit out of me brings a smile to your face, then it puts one on mine too I guess." Gotta love moms....

Single mom all these years gets respect on fathers day too btw!!!

Thats funny. I've had my car over a year and my parents have never been in it. I was visiting my parents this past weekend and my mom needed to go to the store, so I threw her my keys and told her to take my car. She gets back 20 mins later with a smile and said how fun it was.

5 mins later she kind of looks around and says, "I think I forgot something at the store", she grabs my keys and is gone for 45 mins. She said she took the long way to the store, via I-90. The store is 1/2 mile away, the closest I-90 on ramp is 2 miles away.

And she didn't come back with a supermarket bag!

[007MCoupe]

I watch this video rather often. I'm looking to get this sort of reaction (minus language) out of my mom

Originally Posted by arggg45

Backseat drivers are the worst...

Good thing we don't have to worry about these! lol j/k

[ZStig]

what stage HPF is that? stage 1? damn...

[007MCoupe]

2 w/ 110. L O V E that sound

[arggg45]

Originally Posted by 007MCoupe

I watch this video rather often. I'm looking to get this sort of reaction (minus language) out of my mom

"Do you want me to piss my pants?"
"Yes..."

lol