Originally Posted by
dannynoonan
Plague, there's also another nuance to this that's related to American driving... We treat any prospective merging driver as an interloper into our own private space. We will speed up as necessary to prevent him from merging in front of us, forcing him to play the same game with the sucker behind us.
So, in order to merge easily, one must have the most powerful car, and in order to cut off mergers, one must have a still more-powerful one. It's an arms race of sorts. 150hp, well you might as well stick to side streets like some sort of loser.