Under a Gibbous Moon

I commute a bit over two hundred miles a week to work. While I know that is not a lot compared to some people, it does put me on the highway for five or six hours each week.

In that time I have noticed a that how rude or reckless a driver’s behavior is is roughly correlated to the car that they drive. While this listing is unscientific and based solely upon my own personal experiences, I believe that these observations can be borne out upon whatever highway you happen to frequent.

In approximate order of offensiveness:

1. BMW
2. Audi
3. Honda
4. Volkswagen
5. Toyota
6. Chevy
7. Jeep
8. Dodge
9. Cadillac
10. Ford

There is some wiggle room as to placement, particularly near the bottom of the list. The top of the list is pretty set with BMW being ahead by a mile. While most vehicle makes, the model makes a huge difference but almost every BMW driver I have interacted with on the road can be classified as a dick.

I think Ford hits the bottom of the list simply because there are not many of them sold out here and so there are fewer opportunities to be dicks.

Honda, Volkswagen, and Toyota are split evenly between their large SUVs (or only in Volkswagen’s case) and their compact cars (with all the teenagers who drive them thinking they are Vin Deisel from The Fast and the Furious).

Of course, within any given make, the more expensive the vehicle, the more likely they are to be a dick, i.e. the driver’s of the Corvette are more apt to being dicks than driver’s of the Malibu.

And finally, it seems that in order to qualify for purchasing an Escalade, you must be a dick.

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