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Speed limits (was:Here's one of the many things I don't understand...)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 1 Feb 2003 23:28:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ronald Vallenduuk writes:
> "Bruce Schlickbernd" <corsair@schlickbernd.org> wrote in message
> news:H9LEJC.7q@lugnet.com...
> <snip> Middle East oil goes to Europe, where they drive their 5 liter V12
> engines
> > at 300kph, burning gas as fast as they can. ;-) I'm not a fan of the
> > current fascination America has for the dangerous and inefficient SUV, but • I
> > think this is going to be resolved by rising gas prices.</snip>
> No, the point is we don't have 5 liter V12 engines. Normal family cars have
> 1.4 or 1.8 liter engines. The bigger executive cars have 2.5 or even 3
> liter, but you're talking the top-class Beamers, Mercs and Jags. There are a
> few nutters with 5 liter engines around, but they're nowhere near as common
> as they are in America. There are two places in Europe where you can do
> 300kph: German motorways and race tracks. Anywhere else you'll find speed
> limits of 100/120/130 km/h.
In Italy *some* cars are allowed to drive up to 150 km/h. And in a country
of the Iberian Peninsula which shall remain nameless one can illegally drive
1.6 liter engines to the limit, at 200km/h, without much fear of being
arrested... :-)
Pedro
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