A Bugatti driver made headlines in 2021 by reaching that claimed speed in the land which invented the car. But do voters still agree with no limits?
On German autobahns, 120mph tends to be a cruise, 140mph is getting a move on and 160mph and beyond is for when you’re really in a hurry.
Yet occasionally even petrolheads who make pilgrimages on the famously laissez-faire motorway network are obliged to slow down — like on a short stretch of the A2 outside Magdeburg, where the driver of a Porsche Panamera neglected to notice there was a 75mph restriction.
Officers said he had been clocked at 199mph, which, they noted, was considerably over the limit. The driver emerged from the incident with only a fine of €900 and two points on his licence.
