Feeling the engine growl of an MP4-12C next to you through your thin doors as you are stuck in an interminable traffic jam.
Having an alpine white Cayenne S towing an equally white yacht blitz pass you on the pitch dark motorway. And you are already doing 200kmh.
Being passed by a steady-handed Swift 1.5 doing 150kmh on a rainy day.
Sandwiched by a C63 AMG and Audi TTS chasing each other into the commencement of the motorway.
Reaching the end of a roadworks zone into a no-limit stretch, head-to-head with an identically engine-speced sDrive 35is that has already downshifted to 3rd for a sprint.
Alongside an immaculately upkept, tuned EG6 in the year 2013 on a smooth 100kmh stretch.
Chased by irate villagers in Provence while navigating their curvy roads in a rental Micra.
Stuck in a column of race-specced Porsches of various generations while doing a family holiday near Le Mans.