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For generations, they have enjoyed the right to drive as fast as they wish on their nation's motorways. But now every Porsche owner's dream is set to be shattered. Yesterday, the governing party voted to impose a blanket 80mph limit.

The German Autobahn or motorway is the planet's last bastion of unlimited foot on the floor driving. The country has more than 12,000km (750 miles), of such motorway, and driving as fast as you like or can, is permitted on 6,000km of the network.

Its only rivals in terms of limitless speed of driving are hardly an equal match: they include the winding roads of the Isle of Man, which has no motorway, a state in the American far west and a state in India.

The SPD's new initiative came only days after the Nobel laureate Al Gore criticised Germany for not having motorway speed limits during a conference on climate change in Berlin.

12,000km (750 miles)
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Its only rivals in terms of limitless speed of driving are hardly an equal match: they include the winding roads of the Isle of Man, which has no motorway, a state in the American far west and a state in India.

I wonder what State they are referring to there? I know Montana opened up their speed limit to "safe and prudent" but after about a year and a half of out of state motorists coming in and killing themselves on the highways they got sick of cleaning up the messes and put speed limits back in place again.

Zieveraar wrote:
Ofcourse, even at 140kph, you'll get passed regularly on Belgian roads, easily even. We're regular bast**ds on the road here, even if only to compensate all the trafic jams we encounter all the time.
I said 130Mph, but yeah, you Belgians do like to whizz down the road