[Healeys] Autobahn speed limits

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In a message dated 1/6/10 8:26:04 AM, healeys-request at autox.team.net 
writes:


> Even that is gone. We do not have offical overall speed limits on the
> Autobahn, but speed limit signs nearly everywhere. So along a stretch of
> maybe 200 miles you may find perhaps 10 miles without speed limits. To
> say we have no speed limits is just a marketing issue for our car
> manufacturers (BMW, Mercedes, Porsche) to build these over-powered cars
> with 300 horsepower and more. You are not faster with these on our
> Autobahn.
> 
Mercedes recently announced, on the new E-Class, a camera system that 
locates, recognizes and interprets German speed limit signs and flashes a 
warning, in the form of a speed limit sign, on the speedo if the driver is 
exceeding the posted speed limit on that road.
Seriously,
gary