People seldom drive at under 70 in the fast lane, in fact most do much more. I have never witnessed anyone driving at 50 in the fast lane (even in the Winchester area).
Maybe you don't understand how roundabouts work in the UK?
How do YOU drive a car through deep water without stalling? Pray, do tell.
As for the deep water it was only deep because of how they were driving and refusing to slow down to enter the water which is why they were stalling. You drive through deepish water by slowing down and taking some care.
Simply put the british are no better then others at driving
French drivers, together with southern Italians, Portuguese, Greeks, Polish and former Yugoslavs are among the worst drivers in Europe. British, Germans, Swiss, Scandinavians, Flemish, Dutch and Austrians are among the best drivers in Europe. Another very scary thing about the French drivers is that up to 15% of them have never held a valid driver's license or their license has been suspended or revoked for DUI. I noticed that in Geneva and many other parts of Romandy very often when there is news of police chasing a car, people's reactions are: c'est sûrement un Français - must be a French...
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To make a generalization based on that is quite a wonderful observation...
Also, about dents and scuffs i'm surprise that you notice them (are you driving too close? ) and that you are omitting other possible root causes: cost of repair, etc... Especially in crisis time.
And yes there's quite a bunch of d1cks on the road, bad drivers. I notice it's especially young "french" retards in their early 20's.
The good news is the french will have a new driving licence document in a few months... It will cost millions, it won't improve their driving skills, but it will be European compliant. Yes!! Long live the politicians!
So far 100% of the participant disagree with your statement*.
*survey made with 1 participant
1) It's little "hollande" now.
2) Pastis is only for people around Marseille. It's a major offense to call anyone else a pastis drinker!!
In Rhones-Alpes, it's "beaujolais" drinker or anything like Absinthe, etc...
Mind you it's always about horrible drinks...
Finally instead of groaning and making gross generalization, maybe you should do something about it (such as reporting them to the prosecutor or anything suitable).
My pet hate is Volvo drivers; had a few try to kill me in Oz in my motorcycling days. It doesn't mean all Volvo drivers suck, but they do seem to attract a high percentage of oblivious drivers.
And it's true, I've seen many drivers with Swiss plates acting like maniacs in Italy and then become little lambs gently rolling along at 126km/h as they cross over into Switzerland.
Riding in France always brings me to defcon 2, apart from the French belief that a French driver is totally alone on the road and all other vehicles are parasitic obstacles in the way, the drivers have one trait that puts the shits up me, they will cut right across my bow, inches away from the front tire, everybody else, even Italians, who in my opinion should never have been introduced to the internal combustion engine don't do this, only the French.
I don't ride very fast, no warp speed for Slammer, one quarter impulse only.
Sometimes I get the distinct feeling that drivers, Germans this time, have the need to punish me for slowing the buggers down.
The Swiss? Studies show that a European motorcarist will wait for 4.2 seconds before leaning on the horn, a Swiss motorcarist will wait for around one second, strangely the cheaper the car the faster the bugger is on the horn.
But the worst and most obnoxious and dangerous drivers are without a shadow of a doubt the eastern european truck drivers needing to make time.
No shxt, Sherlock!! You were in the UK for four days and I have been driving in the UK for many years. In my experience, in 99% of cases, drivers slow down when approaching deep (your initial reference) water.
Scuffs and damage on French cars isn't 100% to do with road accidents, and everyone know this, in France. There are ALOT of people un happy with what their neighbor has, and vandalism to parked cars is quite high. And simply after getting your Audi vandalized 5 times over 4 months, people just leave them in that condition.
I agree driving in France is a bit of a wild west experience. But I would like to note, that when there was a radar control where I used to live one afternoon near Lyon, they clocked 15o-ish drivers going well over the speed limits. Only 20 of them were French, the rest were predominantly Swedish, British, and Swiss. And a lot of controls end up this way.
I swear in my car a lot more when I am in a car in France, and pray while I am in Italy, but who is driving the car isn't always what the license plate says.
99%, were you paying that much attention?
Of course. It doesn't happen that frequently in the UK.
I was on the Côte d'Azur this summer, with the ol' jelooppy parked in the garage most of the time, so I was promenading along the harbour mixing with hoi-palois, when I wasn't posing in my mankini, à la Borat.
I got to notice many deuxcerrveuxs cruising around and parked up - including many on Monaco plates (which, let's face it, is just France for rich folks). Nearly all had modifications to the bodywork, including brand new expensive versions. Even those owners, who had a few bob, didn't seem arsed that their pride and joy was damaged; why? ..... once repaired, it would happen again - it's France.