Re: Shayne AVERAGED 108 mph?!

["DRoxburgh" <DRoxburgh@email.msn.com>]

OK, from Duesseldorf to Breman we set the cruise control at 105mph and on
the hour reset the trip, one hour later 100 miles on the trip. That was
easy. Harder was Duesseldorf to Calais when we realised we had forgotten the
time and had to catch the last ferry, 3 hours to cover 270 miles, much of
which is busy motor way, and the last stretch normal road. The thing to
remember on German roads, is that if you are travelling at 120mph, and a
brit with a caravan doing 50 pulls out in front of you, it is the equivalent
of stopping dead from 70mph. The most fun though was Edinburgh to Kent 420
miles, 7 hours, one tank of petrol! (half of this is either windy roads or
London!). And cars, well, all before the Urq. First trip Mitsi Shogun,
second '89 Coupe 2.3 quattro (early non cat model), third 84 TWD coupe
(early UK carb model)


-----Original Message-----
From: dave weil <dweil2@telesouth1.com>
To: Quattro List <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: 14 June 1998 17:26
Subject: Re: Shayne AVERAGED 108 mph?!


>108?  Pretty good.
>
>However, I did from Heidleburg to between Hamburg and Bremen in 3 1/2
>hrs. once.  That's around 400 miles. 114 mph average.  Which is pretty
>good considering that my 2.0l Opel Omega had a top speed of 120 (130 on
>a downslope.)  I pretty much was able to stay at speed because there was
>*no* traffic at all.  If I had had a larger Omega (when I bought mine in
>1989, I don't think they had the 6 cyl. yet, which I couldn't have
>afforded anyway!)), or a *real* fast car, I could have averaged much
>higher.  Of course, not nearly as impressive considering the lack of
>speed limits much of the way.
>
>I made the same trip on the last weekend of summer in 12 hours!  Nothing
>but headlights as far as you could see from Frankfurt to Hannover.  At
>60mph, we were crawling.  Many times were were just creeping.
>
>Having put 70,000 miles on the autobahn, many of those miles at 120, it
>sure is hard to drive here.
>
>d(who thinks that it's insane to do it here)weil
>
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