I pay no attention to aggressively driven vehicles whatever the make or model.

The best way to deal with pushy types like that is to be aware of what is behind and all around you but make use of your peripheral vision and under no circumstances let them know that you know they are there.

If they can intimidate you out of their more important way in their increasingly aggressive looking cars they will, so just don't see or acknowledge the flashing lights or the waving arms or the glares, and that includes when they overtake you and give you the practiced until perfect daggers stare.

Similarly turn a deaf 'un when they blast the horn in anger and take no notice when they swerve in front of you to teach you a lesson from a driving god.

Ignoring bullies can be quite amusing once you perfect your own technique.

It is high time motorway lane discipline was updated. It is absurd on 4 lane carriageways to move from the first or second to the fourth lane to overtake a driver hogging the third lane - something I have often had to do on the M1 and M25, although a blind eye seems sensibly turned to 'undertaking' - apart from vigorous flashing by the righteous.

When I drive in New Jersey (where my son lives), lorries and cars travel at roughly the same speed and overtaking is done in any lane. So when it is busy, all lanes are full of traffic. Speeding is enforced with heavy fines.

In the UK the first lane sometimes contains only three visible vehicles moving slightly more slowly than the nose-to-tail cars and lorries in the second lane while the third lane is frustrated-car solid.

So … if I stayed in lane 3 at 70mph I was constantly being tailgated & flashed by a succession of black German cars / white vans; but if I pulled back into lane 2 I was quickly blocked in at 60-65. Should I pull over regardless, or stick to my guns, driving at 70mph in lane 3 and continue to overtake slower moving traffic in lanes 1 and 2 whilst the speedsters built up behind me?

Pull over regardless, and let the bonus chasers by, much less stressful. If this means adjusting your speed to the conditions in Lanes 2 and 1, so be it.

John F raises a good point about undertaking, I'm not averse to this myself on occasion where the lane hogger remains oblivious.

However, to allow it US style would open the floodgates. Last week on a 4 lane stretch of motorway I saw an idiot weaving in and out of 4 lanes of traffic, travelling at around 90. And yes it was a German saloon!

What qualifies you to be "road trip God"?

"Go with the flow" or move over. 75-80 is hardly dangerously excessive.

{I await the holier than thou responses}

Buy a Dacia Duster and become invisible.

I dont get any road rage in the Duster. Even BMW drivers tend to sit back.

No idea why

This sums up aspects of the madness of UK motorways - it would be so much better for the limit to be raised to 80 with this being enforced rather than the stupidity of an ignored limit - ignored because it is too low, and not because drivers desire to break the law.

Just be aware on the M25 Kent & Hertfordshire sections where the hard shoulder is used as a live running lane there are unmarked digital cameras, parked up high on the outside of gantries, these are reported to have a lower than usual trigger threshold.

On the M25, people drive too close to one another. If the car in front brakes and the one at the back does not respond it will lead to an accident.

The other thing which bugs, is when people change lane from 3 to 2. Sometimes where is someone changing from 1 to 2. Many drivers don't turn their head to look around, instead rely on mirrors, which only shows one lane, but not two lanes.

My take is that if people want to drive faster than the speed limit, I will move over and let them. It can always look a bit sanctimonious (not always intentional) if clearly someone wishes to pass in the fast lane and the lead driver sticks to their guns at a straight 70 to apparently make a point. To me the person holding up the faster traffic is the worse driver, even if scrupulously sticking to the speed limit. People moving into the fast lane and then taking an absolute age to overtake at a differential of 2 mph winds me up a bit also. If you are going to overtake, do it in a reasonable time frame.

This whole thread makes me kind of look forward to Google driving us all around! On balance I enjoy driving more than it aggravates me but on some level I'd be happy to be driven around by a robot butler instead.