After 9 months and 12k miles of daily commuting North Texas in my R coupe, I finally came across a friendly face on the road. As I enthusiastically pull next to the gold convertible to share an appreciative wave, the driver of the vert totally ignores me. Dude....

 

hate when that happens, but seems to be frequent!!!

 

I'll usually be greeted nicely by folks in XK8s & XKRs. A bit less so for the XJ6s & XJ8s. But never by anyone driving a Tata-mobile.

 

That kind of friendliness on the road now seems to belong to a byegone era.

Graham

 

A lot of friendly things seem bygone these days.

 

I can only feel pity for that gold cabrio driver who has totally missed the ethos of comradery meant to be savored through ownership of such an automobile...

 

Mhminnich,

The problem is that there is a bunch of "Big Shots" up in the Dallas area that sometimes wear silk "Underwear"! You must have run across one of them! Don't give up, I drive up there occasionally and I will wave back......All is not lost....Look for Billy Clyde in the Ebony XKR Coupe.......I got a UNT Plate.....on the back of course..............

Have fun! Billy Clyde in Houston

 

Well, you'll see me wearing an Aggies cap, but we can still trade waves Billy. 😉

 

I get waves and honks from other Jaguar drivers. But it's different here in Ca. He was probably bitter you had a coupe!

 

But are those waves and honks really for the Jag...?

 

Rodger...B, I would vote "NO"! Wouldn't you?

Billy Clyde

 

I don't get the ignoring either. As a kid riding around in my father's XK120 we waved at all sports cars, regardless of the make and model. It was the same story when I bought my first Triumph. Those days are sadly gone. Now it not just brand specific, it's model specific.

Don't even think about going on a cruise with the F-type guys.

 

Why would I want to do that?

Cruising the countryside enveloped in the smell of hair product and distorted sounds of boy band music is not appealing to me at all.

 

Pennsylvania weighing in here. Had an F-Type behind me at a light. He passed me very soon afterward, eyes straight ahead, slight lift of the nose. A real d-ck! I'm 75, and have been fortunate to have had a lot of terrific cars throughout my life. I also remember when sports/touring car owners used to flash their lights and wave. Just another piece of civility gone forever.

 

It's not unique to us either. BMW motorcyclists differentiate between the Boxer Twins (Rs) and the Inline 3s & 4s (Ks). The Ks are not "real" BMWs and thus deserve no recognition. I owned an R, but always thought the snobbery to be a bit over-the-top (quite laughable though).

 

We're not long back from a trip across Europe on the bikes, got loads of nods and sticky out legs whilst out there. The nod and wave culture isn't quite dead yet, at least not on the bikes.
Maybe you just had an owner who thought they should be the only one with a luxury car, or he was a white collar owner who thought you looked like a blue collar worker who shouldn't be allowed to own such a vehicle.
I had a boss like that years ago. Snobbery.

 

And, from back in my Corvette days......

History of the Corvette Wave - CorvetteActionCenter.com

I wave at all Jags... The new younger drivers are less likely to wave back but the "older" folks wave back.

 

The XK8 guys need to wave to each other because at some point one of us will suffer an electrical fault that parks us on the side of the road in need of assistance. The wave is an acknowledgment of mutual suffering and shared sacrifice. A Jag owner who doesn't wave does not truly understand or appreciate his automobile.

 

Amen brother!

 

Hell, we shouldn't even wave then, .... We should APPLAUD each other whenever two "running" cars pass each other!