All my "driving" in Switzerland was in a train...so the siteseeing was top priority.

Freaked my g/f out driving through italy last year...that was fun for me!

 

since my last post, i have topped it.

my new record is... (if you're a cop then i'm just kidding about this) ... 114 mph.

 

thats it?

 

yeah, i don't have anywhere to really let loose yet, and i don't have a radar detector.

and 114 is fast, if your last car was an '89 escort wagon.

 

Where were you in Italy? I was stationed in Vicenza (about 40 miles N-E, I think, of Venice) for 4 years, and got to roam around quite a bit, primairly in the Veneto region, but also Milano, Firenza, Genoa, and a couple of other places I can't remember at the moment.

Do Italians still roll in lines of cars 10-15-20 long, at 100+mph, 5-feet off of each others bumpers, on the Autostrada? Did you get to experience the 'ol "dotted-line-down-the-middle-of-the-road-equals-passing-lane" phenomenon? Get passed by any RILLY, RILLY old guys in Ferrari? Schitt!!! I miss Italy most of all. Screw teh Autobahn, gimmee the Autostrada and my Turbo Calibra and I'd never set foot in America again!

BTW, if you ever do get a chance to drive through Switzerland bee careful. They take their speedlimits seriously. But only when they feel like it. In other words, speeding is a luck of teh draw kinda thing...

 

125 in a hired Vectra when I was 18. Got pulled by the cops and let off!!!! Pulled the old poor student coming back from a conference routine.

 

185 in a car, 173 on a bike.

 

I thought the 2.8 transmissions 5th gear was the same as the 1.8t's... just different gears in between.

 

only 98 in my A4 1.8T would have toped it out on the highway but my radar told me other wise

 

my car maxs out at 220km's right now cuz its stock, u feel the power loss