Hi everyone I live in Northern Ireland and I’ve owned a panda now little over a year I just love it but since I’ve bought it I just get no road respect people pull out in front of me shout buy a proper car drive up my backside you name it it’s happened to me . I was just wondering if it’s just over here or have other people found the same I’ve noticed this since I bought it and even more today as I went to get it valeted the guy was all for it until he heard what the car was he just totally changed in front of my eyes .I promise that this is real as I also own a Volvo xc90 and I have no problems with any one is there car snobs
General Panda bullies
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No, all I usually get is ‘have you been rallying’ and ‘do you ever wash it’
Around here there is a steep hill with cars parked on the side nearest the cars coming down the hill, when driving my Iveco Daily no problem, but going up the hill in daughters Punto or my C3 Picasso I get fed up with the amount of females driving 4x4 Chelsea tractors who just plough down passing lots of places to pull in but with no intention of stopping, so if you hold your ground and not mount the pavement to let them past they get all arsey!
They clearly forgot the Highway Code bit about giving way to cars coming up the hill and if restriction is on your side, or is that no longer applicable.
I have told my daughters not to smash their alloy wheels mounting the pavement to git out of the way of these morons.
They clearly forgot the Highway Code bit about giving way to cars coming up the hill and if restriction is on your side, or is that no longer applicable.
I have told my daughters not to smash their alloy wheels mounting the pavement to git out of the way of these morons.
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Never had a problem, but this is a retirement area so every other car is a Panda of some description,
last time I had tires on it the fitter delivered it to the café were we were having a brew and admitted
he didn't normally do that but he wanted to drive it to see what it was like.
last time I had tires on it the fitter delivered it to the café were we were having a brew and admitted
he didn't normally do that but he wanted to drive it to see what it was like.
Would you believe it’s even hard to get someone to work on my panda
It’s the opposite here there is no pandas in the whole of Northern Ireland we only have one main dealer
The Panda Nut
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Its definitely a problem. There is now NO chance at all of me offering to help anyone driving a big car who might be stuck in a snow drift! I was barged off the road the other day ny some woman in an Audi thing. 6 foot wide road with big verges on both side that were flat mown and dry She screamed at me becasue I quite deliberately didnt get 100% out of her way and she had to move the steeing wheel to go past. This after she pulled out of a driveway as I was approaching in plain view about 30m up the road. Fortiunately my window was open so she got the full benefit of being told what exactly I thought of her antics at max volume. It seems to be a problem. The TA is capable of doing a hyperspace jump when poep are sniffing its bottom so when I slow down again they know its a deliberate act of insolence. My daighter has unprintable opinions of Audi and BMW drivers and says Tesla drivers fit in the same bracket. If they taxed these things according to their weight and lack of economy that would amke me very very happy,
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Can’t say that it’s something I have ever experienced. Infact most interactions are positive ones. I think being a bright yellow 4x4 Cross helps though?
The only negativity I’ve ever felt from driving it was while parking up at Cadwell BSB the other weekend.
I followed a top of the range Range Rover in and a Jag F Pace? (Is that the SUV one?) followed me in.
We all parked up and got out at the same time and the attendant lining everybody up shouted over to me ‘That Panda was my favourite car in the whole car park yesterday, and today too’
If looks could kill ….
Edit to correct the 2nd car type.
The only negativity I’ve ever felt from driving it was while parking up at Cadwell BSB the other weekend.
I followed a top of the range Range Rover in and a Jag F Pace? (Is that the SUV one?) followed me in.
We all parked up and got out at the same time and the attendant lining everybody up shouted over to me ‘That Panda was my favourite car in the whole car park yesterday, and today too’
If looks could kill ….
Edit to correct the 2nd car type.
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Nor me. Doesn't offend or annoy anyone as far as I can see. I have been known, when in mischievous mood on the narrow lanes around here, to command the road in the face of big 4x4s who ain't shifting, knowing I can zip round with 2 wheels on the verge in a cloud of dust. I know, not big, not clever, but bloody funny 
Brilliant
lunchbeers
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The only thing I noticed when driving mine was people wouldn't shift out of the way on the motorway... As mentioned in earlier replies I could normally put a bit of distance on those tailgating me.
I realy do miss mine
I realy do miss mine
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Having driven a lot of different cars over the decades and suffered their faults and failures I consider my 4 years of Panda ownership to be the best of the best by far. I can just smile at the detractors and think yeah mate I know more than you.
I'll never forget when, in 1988 or 1989, I was working on multiplexed wiring systems and we were working on a system for Range Rovers. Our business development manager mentioned to his wife about having a Range Rover in work: her reply "Is that a big Panda ?"
(This was many years before I owned a Fiat, and I never owned anything Rustin Over).
(This was many years before I owned a Fiat, and I never owned anything Rustin Over).
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That was a great answer is that a big panda brilliant
I can see her point of view, at that time the Range Rover did look a lot like a very big panda....
While you could argue that Range Rover had the design 10 years earlier. Pretty much all cars in the 80s were an arrangement of boxes on wheels.
I believe the original Range Rover went on sale shortly after I started my apprenticeship in 1969, I had a friend at the local Standard Triumph & Rover dealership Babbacombe Garage (which is now a supermarket)and they were delivering them to wealthy owners up on the moors. Later it was where I went for the Triumph Stag valve shims for an engine I was rebuilding for a customer.
My friend ( Fiat mechanic) had an older K reg... So predates the X reg first UK pandas by a decade
@1987.a guy at work said he wanted a Black Panda and add tinted windows.. So it looked like "a scale Range Rover"
Same guy didn't buy any form of RR
Bought a house... Decorated..Sold again in 3months... Doubled his money.
Flogged it and had a live in house for the next 20 years with very little mortgage
Those days are DEFINITELY a long time ago!
(just realised.. I drove that RR legally "off road". Before I'd Ever sat in a FIAT.. crikey that WAS long time ago)
@1987.a guy at work said he wanted a Black Panda and add tinted windows.. So it looked like "a scale Range Rover"
Same guy didn't buy any form of RR
Bought a house... Decorated..Sold again in 3months... Doubled his money.
Flogged it and had a live in house for the next 20 years with very little mortgage
Those days are DEFINITELY a long time ago!
(just realised.. I drove that RR legally "off road". Before I'd Ever sat in a FIAT.. crikey that WAS long time ago)
As a 16 year old apprentice I was learning to drive in the garage 1955 Land Rover (series one petrol?) and a Ford 100E van, I would go with one of the bosses to the Council tip, he would chat to the tip/bulldozer operator and I would drive like a lunatic up and down all the bumps and hills to where I was meant to unload, until the boss got fed up and called me back!
Happy days, "young free and single and my pockets did jingle" as the saying went, Council tip is now playing fields and a velodrome.
