Got a "Thumbs Up" from an E92

"Tom McParland" (tommcparland)
11/20/2013 at 10:14 • Filed to: BMW

As I was approaching one of my favorite exit ramps I look in my rear-view to see an M3 tight on my tail. I push my corner speed a little more than normal, and he is still right there. I'm thinking he is pissed for slowing him down. When we get onto the highway he pulls beside me, gives me a thumbs up and a nod and blasts away.

DISCUSSION (35)

offroadkarter > Tom McParland
11/20/2013 at 10:15

so you're saying he wasn't a cock?

oldirtybootz > Tom McParland
11/20/2013 at 10:17

What do you drive? You've probably tolf me at some point buy it's a challenge to remember everyone's cars.

Jagvar > Tom McParland
11/20/2013 at 10:17

I've too have had many an M3 driver gesture at me with their finger. Just usually not their thumb.

PatBateman > offroadkarter
11/20/2013 at 10:17

Impossible.

He was driving a BMW.

Tom McParland > oldirtybootz
11/20/2013 at 10:20

2010 Mazda 3 hatch

Tom McParland > offroadkarter
11/20/2013 at 10:22

I guess not

Milky > Tom McParland
11/20/2013 at 10:24

I love those random car enthusiast encounters. Its like yea I see you and what you're doing.

Party-vi > Jagvar
11/20/2013 at 10:28

Kinja'd!!!

Ah. You must mean this one, because dat Phaeton is teh secks.

ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper > Tom McParland
11/20/2013 at 10:28

he lives above the influence. What were you driving, cant remember if you said it somewhere..An Avant of some sort I trust?

Party-vi > Tom McParland
11/20/2013 at 10:29

It's always nice to get a nod or approving gesture from other car guys.

Tom McParland > ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper
11/20/2013 at 10:30

No Avant :( Just a modest '10 Mazda 3

Tom McParland > Party-vi
11/20/2013 at 10:30

Yeah especially when you were expecting the opposite.

offroadkarter > PatBateman
11/20/2013 at 10:34

thats what I figured

Jagvar > Party-vi
11/20/2013 at 10:36

That's the one!

Actually, of the (maybe three?) times anyone has ever commented on the Phaeton in traffic, one was a guy in a silver E92 M3. He was actually super-nice, asked if I had the V8 or the W12, and said the car was beautiful. So they're not all cocks.

BKRM3 > Tom McParland
11/20/2013 at 10:42

Of course he wasn't mad that you were slowing him down! He was thrilled that you took the exit ramp at a speed that allowed you both to have some fun. Sane/responsible M3 owners aren't trying to drive at the limit on exit ramps. We normally just experience extreme exit ramp excitement followed by crushing disappointment.

I can't tell you how much I look forward to certain exit ramps around here and 99% of the time there is one car getting off right in front of me and that car slows to (or below) the speed posted on those jackass "suggested turn speed" caution signs. Devastating.

My biggest complaint about the M is that you can't really have fun on the street with it. Exit ramps are the exception, and you absolutely made that guy's day.

I'd always give a thumbs up in that situation. Bonus points if I could hear your tires. A screaming tire is a happy tire! =)

CKeffer > Tom McParland
11/20/2013 at 10:43

S or I?

oldirtybootz > Tom McParland
11/20/2013 at 10:43

He must have recognized that your car is Jalop. I love getting the nod of approval from nicer cars than mine.

Tom McParland > oldirtybootz
11/20/2013 at 10:45

I don't think it was the car, more so that I did almost 80 on that ramp (it is a fairly gentle right) so he can keep a good pace.

Tom McParland > CKeffer
11/20/2013 at 10:45

S 6-speed

CKeffer > Tom McParland
11/20/2013 at 10:47

Very nice, we got my fiancee a 2013 I hatch this year. I tried to talk her into a speed, but she was absolutely opposed to getting a stick, so it was the i with auto for us. With tech package and leather interior it's still a really nice car, I just wish it had more umph under the hood. Her car though, and she's happy with it, so I suppose that's what matters.

Tom McParland > CKeffer
11/20/2013 at 10:49

I wanted the Speed but I needed to trade my car ASAP, and they only had one stick on the lot. So I took it and ran.

ddavidn > Tom McParland
11/20/2013 at 10:51

Of all the thumbs-ups I've given, I don't think I've ever gotten one. There was this one guy in a 318i that used to give me a small wave as we passed each other on my way to work. But then again, I'm not in a body style that gets a lot of love. That's just fine with me.