BMW venom.....

I may be wrong but it seems the sight of the Giulia brings out the racy in some drivers. I was passing a car in the fast lane of the interstate at 75 mph. When I checked behind me the lane was clear. I'm beside the car I'm passing and look in the rearview and here's a Nissan Altima closing at an rate so fast he had to climb on the binders hard to the point where the rear end started twitching so much it had the front end dancing around. I think the people with him weren't very happy because he didn't resume his frantic pace.

The only time I had someone get pissed was a older jacked up diesel truck with what looked like kid about 20. I had been following him on a two lane for awhile and he was having fun rolling coal on the people behind him. We came to a stop sign and I was right behind him. He hammered it and was billowing a black cloud and I had enough. I went around him easily and dropped back to 60. He climbed on my bumper but was having trouble getting around because of traffic. He had to establish his dominance so he started to pass in a no go zone with a curve ahead and of course a car came around the bend. I had to slow to let him in. You can't fix stupid.

I've owned a lot of cars. Some of the ones that brought more than their fair share of attention form other drivers wanting to race or be a douche:

87 Grand National
00 Corvette
10 Camaro SS

The GN... well everyone wants to race a GN, and I was young and dumb when I owned that car.

By the time I had the Vette I was more mature, but man when you're a younger guy in a Vette, EVERYONE wants to race, BMWs, Mercedes, Mustangs, etc. They didn't seem to get the idea that I had no interest in it.

I had one of the first 2010 Camaro SS on Long Island, everyone would chase me either to check out the car or to try and race me. This went on for a good year before the car got more common and everyone forgot about it.

Now the Giulia QV, I will admit I haven't driven it much, but I've already had a couple M3's decide they needed to pass me at WOT when I wasn't even paying attention to assert their dominance. Its just confirmation bias, people want to think they bought "the best" car so they feel the need to demonstrate that to themselves even if its not a fair race or anything.