Huh. I went from a bmw 3 series, to a motorcycle, to a nissan maxima with unrepaired body damage to a minivan, and just recently got a motorcycle again. I hav

Huh. I went from a bmw 3 series, to a motorcycle, to a nissan maxima with unrepaired body damage to a minivan, and just recently got a motorcycle again. I haven't gotten a ticket in anything but the 3 series... but I don't think that is entirely perception. I drove a lot faster in the 3 series than I did in any other vehicle; The thing feels as stable at 90 as the maxima or the minivan feels at 70. (Now, I don't know how much "feel" has to do with safety, if anything. But my gut was comfortable going a lot faster in the 3-series than in anything else.) But... yeah, my experience was that people expected a lot more aggression out of me in the 3 series. Wait a microsecond after the light turns green? that's a honk and the finger. In the minivan, from what I've seen, the expectation is that you are a slow driver that is distracted by kids. People go around, but they aren't angry at you like they are when you are in a bmw. Then I had a Suzuki SV650. Now, sometimes people didn't see me, and once someone practically ran it over when I parked too close to a car, but the overall experience was reasonable. People were even mostly tolerant of, you know, going too slow in turns and stuff. I probably got the widest berth in the maxima. It was like that old Saturday night live commercial where they were selling a luxury car that looked like garbage on the outside so that it wouldn't get stolen. The inside was all leather and heated seats. But on the outside, the paint was degraded, and the rear passenger door was caved in. It also had a bunch of smaller scars from my brothers learning how to drive, and because I'm terrible at parking. But yeah, the car was big and said "watch out, I might not have very good insurance" so people kind of got out of my way. Really, the most aggression I have ever experienced was on the motorcycle. I recently got myself another motorcycle (after being minivan-only for several years. This one is an older oilhead; a '96 R850R) - and the other day? An old lady actually got out of her car and started yelling at me because she felt that I took a parking spot she was waiting for. I was... speechless. It was one of those 'what the fuck' moments where you literally have no words. She ended up dumping a soda all over my bike and me.