>>> Is it true that none of the roads in Germany have a speed limit? Or is 
>>> that just an urban myth?
>>
>> I'd say that around here once you get away from the city and any big 
>> junctions, 75% of the *motorwarys* have no speed limits at all.
>
> Ah - so *that's* why German cars are always so fast. ;-)

Actually all the major German manufacturers agreed voluntarily to limit 
their cars to 150mph.  Although you very rarely see anyone going that fast, 
around 100mph is pretty common, I guess 120 or 130 you see occasionally on a 
journey, but 150+ is not common at all.  I heard a story of someone *seeing* 
a Ferrari at "almost 200mph"...

The hardest part that I'm still not used to, is that when you see a police 
car, and you're doing 110mph, you don't have to slow down!  *That* takes a 
lot of getting used to.

>> All other roads have limits the same as UK, ie about 60mph out of built 
>> up areas and 30mph in towns and villages.
>
> Interesting. In Switzerland at least, the limits are all in km rather than 
> miles...

Well I converted them to mph for your benefit, they're actually 100 km/hr 
and 50 km/hr.  All countries around here use km, I've never seen miles used 
anywhere apart from UK and USA.  In fact my car doesn't even have mph on it, 
which makes it fun to drive in the UK ;-)

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