Re: Those Germans are getting bad influences

[SCIROCCO2@t-online.de (Dirk Schneider)]

Hi,

I'm also from southern Germany and I can fully agree to what Colin
was writing about the  situation on the Autobahn here.

Driving isn't much fun anymore, the Bahn is much too crowded,
and when driving with 200 km/h there is always the fear that a very slow car
pulls out right in front of you.

Fortunately there is a quite empty road 10 minutes away from my home
and on that one is no speed limit either.
It's only about 15 km long but it's perfect for testing the car
or just to have a full-speed trip
for fun and without being illegal..

Anyway, I still drive as fast as my Scirocco goes,
210 km/h in a topless Scirocco is a feeling of its own  :-)


Greets
Dirk



----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin" <cwass99@home.com>
To: <jester@westfailure.net>
Cc: "volkswagen scirocco" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>; "volkswagen scirocco" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>; "Dirk Schneider"
<Dirk@Scirocco2.de>; "Jorel Jackson" <jorel140@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: Those Germans are getting bad influences


     They were just starting to do that (as far as I noticed) the last time I
was there, late '90's.  The problem was there were no small accidents on the
autobahn.  15 or 20 cars all in a pile wasn't uncommon (I don't think I ever
saw an accident on the autobahn that didn't have more than 3 or 4 cars at
least) and there was pretty much no such thing as a non-fatal accident.  The
most common cause in southern Germany (where I was) seemed to be very fast car
driving up the tail pipe of slower car that just pulled out to pass.

Cheers,
Colin

On 06-Dec-01 jester@westfailure.net wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Jorel Jackson wrote:
>> kept thinking: Germany is not far away, that must
>> really be cool with no speed limit...
>
> Unfortunately, there are more and more speed limited sections of road..
>
> I have a friend that has an import/export business for german VW camper
> acessories & goes to germany often. (if we want parts from germany, he
> might be willing to run a group buy on anything easy to find over there,
> but anyway...)
>
> He says that fewer and fewer stretches of german highway are unlimited
> speed :( the autobahn is fast becoming history.
>
> take care,
>
> Steve
>
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