Little Car Syndrome

[In Focus]

I drive an LV Focus, red in colour, with after-market wheels, but no turbo badges, or any mods, obvious or not ... but every little car, and I mean little car, wants to drag me at the lights! Getzes, Swifts, Yarises, Jazzes.

I know it's not a fast car (I mean, it's automatic and all, FFS), but it blows these cars away. Yet still they keep coming. Sometimes I don't even realise until I hear this mosquito-like buzz alongside me as some clown red-lines his Jazz in first gear, only to go into reverse when he's forced to change.

Is it just me, or do Foci in general attract attention from minnows? I never used to have the problem with the old EF 6cyl. Maybe it was too in-between: too quick for the little guys, but too small for the turbos and V8s to bother with??