AdDaMan wrote:were you in the right hand lane?
if so he probably just wanted to come by as he was in a rush.
*Nods*
I have an asthmatic turbo diesel (estate) barge and sometimes come up behind reasonably powerful cars sitting in the right hand lane doing X mph when I want to do X+10mph, they fail to move to the left despite having me sat behind for 30 seconds (I don't tailgate, but it's pretty obvious I've caught up with them, hence going faster), so I often go to make the pass on the inside, almost invariably they then floor it and prevent me from doing so - I'll then catch up and they'll then do the same, sometimes coming back to the left lane, so I then go to overtake on the outside and they floor it off into the distance again before slowing down - usually cutting back into my lane in order to slow me down again. I want to yank them out of their cars and shout "I want to do X+10mph you clearly want to do X mph, what's the big f'king issue! Just let me be on my way and leave me the f'ck alone!"
Hence when I'm in my tubby and some old bag of nails approaches behind me, I don't always see it as a sign that they think they have a faster car, I first assume they just need to be somewhere quicker than I do and therefore pull over allowing them past.