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Cat seems to quite like the roar of the Ferrari ...
Where's the autobahn ... I remember hearing about a guy test driving his Ferrari on the autobahn and surprisingly at 185 mph he missed his turn off ... it wasn't a pretty result. He drives like I like to drive ... Appears to have really tight steering which is cool.
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“El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"
Aragorn (26th April 2022), Dreamtimer (27th April 2022), Wind (26th April 2022)
The Autobahn is, as its name suggests, in Germany. It is the generic name for the German highway network, and although there is a speed limit of 130 km/h on many sections of the Autobahn, the German highways are of course best known for their many unrestricted areas where you can drive as fast as your car will go, albeit while still adhering to other traffic regulations and conducting yourself responsibly. In other words, if you were to behave like a hooligan on the deregulated sections, then you can still get yourself arrested, because the German police does monitor those sections of the Autobahn just as closely as they do the restricted areas.
There is also a section of the infamous Nürburgring — specifically, the Nordschleiffe — that is part of the deregulated Autobahn and that is open to the public on weekdays, albeit that you do have to pay for passing through there — it's a toll road — and if you're caught with a ticking chronograph in your car, then you're screwed. It is strictly verboten to time your lap at the Nürburgring when it is open to the public, although many still do, and then often crash.
The Ring is well known as a very dangerous circuit — many people have already lost their lives there, including professionals — and it is often referred to as "the Green Hell of the North". There are several blind corners, two very treacherous carousels — i.e. flat-surfaced corners with a concrete banking on the inside of the corner — as well as several climbs followed by heavy compression.
There is also a prohibit of driving over the Ring more than once a day if your car is too loud, as Shmee150 recently found out when he went onto the Nürburgring in his Huracán STO and wanted to come back for seconds after his first lap. Although not a road trip video in and of itself, I'll post Shmee150's video — 20 minutes in length — of that event below, because he's got cameras in his car and he's showing the whole lap on screen as if you yourself are behind the wheel of his car. It is quite spectacular to behold.
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I had a chance to drive one of those unrestricted autobahn sections when we visited Germany years ago. Generally kept the rental car from 160 -180 kpm, not being used to that kind of speed I was plenty good inside that range.
Funny side story to that: Cruising along right there in that range of speed, when out of seemingly nowhere two brand new pure white BMW's came ripping by in tandem like we were sitting still, and were out of sight in no time. That, was a bit of a jaw dropper, because I had thought I was going fast. Bought new meaning to the term getting your doors blown off!
The unexamined life is not worth living.
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I was driving the interstate once and chugging along at my usual 85 and a BMW and a Mercedes pulled up behind me, passed me, and then side-by-side just blasted off. It was cool. I didn't have the horsepower or the huevos to compete so I just watched them blast on down the road. I was driving an older middle-class 'sporty' car. I'd had a chance to buy a well cared for Mustang and passed it up because of the paint job and always regretted my choice. About 5 miles down the road I passed an overturned Mercedes. I don't know for sure if it was the same car, but I suspect it was.
“El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"
Aragorn (27th April 2022), Dreamtimer (28th April 2022), Wind (27th April 2022)
- Part 1: 23 minutes
- Part 2: 15 minutes
- Part 3: 20 minutes
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“El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"
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