> Choose your road carefully - drive the entire surface at least once before
> any high speed runs to check pavement conditions. A minor dip / whole at
> 70 is a whole different animal at 150.
It wouldn't be the first 200mph road car. That said, there's very few
places where one could even *consider* using that.
Personally, a nice stretch of uncrowded (not all that common) unrestricted
Autobahn is good for 130-140mph - it's great to be cruising comfortably
along at 135mph, accompanied by traffic moving similarly, with your spouse
snoozing away in the passenger seat - but my personal threshold of
discomfort starts to close in around 150. Those 250kph speed limiters the
Germans cooked up don't seem like a bad idea IMO.
Vehicle condition is important enough at 70mph, it's critical at 140mph.
In the US, at least in California, we've mostly forgotten how to build
roads; what passes as new pavement around here would be condemned as a
hazard in most of the industrialized world.
John.
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