I've attracted a fair amount of "road-ragers", the latest one being this morning in a VW Passat (or was it a Jetta). I seriously do NOT consider myself an aggressive driver. I NEVER tailgate, I never cut anyone off, and I always use my signals. The only thing is, I do like to go somwhat fast occasionally, but I stay in my lane and try never to tangle with anyone. Nevertheless, these guys know how to find me, not sure if they despise BMWs in general, or X5s in particular??

Anyway, this morning it was me and another E53 (3.0i) peacefully driving side by side. I'm on the left of the other X5. This A-hole in a Passat comes flying in from behind me....He is 1 inch from my ass, and he is weaving left to right to show how pissed off he is. So I speed up quite a bit to allow him to fill his "need for speed", but I don't much feel like changing lanes since the right lane is ending soon anyway. The Passat speeds up too, but he is furious that I am still faster than him. So he switches to the right lane to try and outgun me. Mind you, I am in no way impeding him, or preventing him from going fast. I am just staying in my lane going pretty fast. Well, sure enough, he is unable to gain enough speed to pass me on the right, and then his lane ends....he is forced to shuffle back into line behind me. This pisses him off to no end. When it becomes 2 lanes again, he revs up like a madman, gets in front of me, and purposefully cuts me off AND BRAKES at the same time. If I did not brake really hard I would have flown straight into his right rear fender.
Who ARE these people? I guess my only consolation is that the folks who do this stuff must engage in this tailgating/cutting off behaviour pretty consistently. Which means that the Law of Probability will eventually catch up to them, and they will meet their Maker sooner than they bargained for.

And the final aspect of this is that I'm obviously dreaming of an X5///M, as I'm sure many of us are. But I'm afraid if I ever do get one, I will only attract more a-holes like this one, trying to show me up.