I drive a '16 200 series and other 200 owners in my upscale neighborhood don't usually wave back

[El Skywalker]

In my city I can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a LC or variant, but probably 80% of 200s I see are bone stock. Modified/lightly modified 200 drivers don’t often wave, but do seem to acknowledge each other somehow. On my morning commute I sometimes ended up driving alongside a guy in a black 200 with an ARB bumper (if I remember right) but never really interacted until he pulled up to my campsite at Cruise Moab to check if I was the same one he had been seeing and we had a friendly chat.

Long story short, I think stock 200 owners aren’t likely to be interested in waving or nerding out about tech stuff. Modified 200s may or may not wave, but they probably see you and acknowledge you.

As a stock LC owner I will say that I wave at EVERY Land Cruiser I see.
There is a black 2013 I see every other day and guy pretends not to notice me.

I eventually gave up.

Wow man way to judge, check your modified 200 privilege!
/s

 

[desmocruiser]

In my 20's I started riding street bikes, Kawasaki and Hondas. I would catch crap from Harley owners everywhere we stopped. I wasn't the smartest back then, so I'd remind them that a good portion of their parts were not made in the US, and their tires were definitely not US made, how could they live with themselves? And after that had their attention, I'd ask them if they started out riding a Harley as a young child....... my friends were heading the other direction by this time, but I usually got a laugh out of the Harley guys girlfriends.
Flash forward about 10 years and I started buying Ducati's - ALL the Harley guys started waving, giving me the thumbs up and wanting me to ride along?????

When I'm in my 40, lots of waves and thumbs up, hardly any in my 200 and it's mildly built. I did have a guy in a new heritage 4Runner jockey on the freeway to tell me he hopes to graduate to a 200 like mine eventually. My wife and boys thought that was hilarious, and I asked my wife when was the last time someone said that about her Rubicon? (there's a gazillion jeeps, why are you waving at each other???? to me it would be like Prius owners waving at each other, just really weird)

I wave at Toyota LC owners if I notice them, it's a pretty great community we have!

The Harley folks were always fun to engage in conversation with, almost all of them respected the Italian motorcycles, I rode Ducatis and MV Augusta’s for many years and a buddy rode a Moto Guzzi Centauro, which they liked even better, the real motorcycle folks knew all about what you were riding, the posers had no idea.

Interestingly, I also owned an unusual Harley that was built for drag racing and it actually would get fewer comments than the Ducati‘s, now some of that would be the fact I was in my 20’s and early 30’s and didn’t dress the Lifestyle, was more typically in a road racing jacket and gloves, often with a full coverage helmet and the Harley riders were twice my age and dressed entirely differently and they just look at the bike and me weirdly!

But everyone did wave or more accurately, point out to the side with their left hand!

 

[effjay80]

Here in Colorado I even get cross breed waves in my 80 from 40s 60s 100s and 200s but as outsiders invade the area more and more blank stares.

 

[4gotalot]

Here in Colorado I even get cross breed waves in my 80 from 40s 60s 100s and 200s but as outsiders invade the area more and more blank stares.

She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train. Don Henley.

Bozeman MT...

 

[Pinestreet]

Pull up in a brand new Corolla - you're poor. Pull up in a 2008 LC - wow you're rich.

Its just science!

 

[Leelanau]

I’ve been in Boulder, CO for a week visiting my daughter. I was expecting this place to be a 200 series mecca with Slee just south of here. I’ve only seen a handful, including a white HE.

None of them will waive back at me. I don’t blame them; I’m in a white Expedition rental.

 

[Heckraiser]

My neighbors all wave at eachother. Has nothing to do with the car, just being friendly. Actually most nice neigbhorhoods I drive through, if I'm going below 20mph, which I generally do in a residential area, pedestrians and drivers alike will wave a good 50% of the time.

I've gotten the cruiser wave and "stop and chatters" a few times in my 60 and 80 series, never in the minivan. Even in the older cruisers, I usually didn't return the wave because it takes me a sec to process why I'm being waved at, and by the time I figure it out, we're too far past each other for me to wave back

 

[TheIcemanCometh]

When I was about nine years old, my grandpa taught me to drive in a 1940s GMC pick up in the middle of a pasture in rural North Dakota. After I got the truck to move forward and drive around in a couple circles in the pasture, he had me pull onto a dirt road. As I was driving down the dirt road we met an oncoming vehicle. With my hands at 10 and 2, my grandpa told me to raise my right index finger and wave at the oncoming driver. That’s just what you do in rural North Dakota.

My grandmother did the same but only to the state troopers and didn't take the Marlboro out of her mouth.

As for the need to wave. I rarely wave unless it is more of courtesy wave.

 

[7000ft]

Of all the LC's I've owned (62, 62 again, 100, 200, then my current 200), the 200 gets the least amount of wave-backs . When I drop-off or pick-up the kiddos, I see at least 2-3 200 series every morning AND driving around town I usually see another 3-4 on the road. The worst part is the lack of wave-backs, then the blank stare from the other driver(s). If you see an Onxy blue 200 waving at you, give a wave back or maybe just nod

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Buy a Porsche. That groupie club wave and flash their lights at even VWs.

 

[Leelanau]

Before we left for the airport, we stopped to grab a coffee at Brewing Market Coffee on Folsom St and had this HE park across from us while I was inside. I wanted to wait for the owner, introduce myself and see if they were on Mud, but my family said that was way too creepy.

How am I ever supposed to make Mud friends?

 

[ElJayBird]

In the normal people world, the 200-series is just another car/appliance. There's 4 in my community. No one's waving.

Exactly - we’re a niche in an already niche market

 

[ToothDr]

Lots of 200 series here in Denver. I get a wave back 50%of time In the 200.
Now, when I’m out driving the 80 series I get lots of thumbs up and waves from
not only cruiser heads but others as well.