Kevin Lyons

+Wow! Is that what they call a cliffhanger at the end? Good scenery and colour for 1956. As they are approaching the frontier the co-driver asks how fast can car go? Driver answers we are doing 100 mph, top speed is 160 mph. How much faster are these kind of cars now?




Joel House

200 mph sometimes more. Depends on the car, the tune, and the track. You can see some videos taken on the Autobahn. Even the slow lane is scary. There's one with a Maserati clipping past 205. It'd be more exciting if the driver was texting of course. The matter of ground effects comes into play, a hundred plus ton 747 lifts off at 160. Lift plus thrust greater than weight plus drag, and you can fly to work.



Purrete

There were no "mph" in those cars at that point in time...... it was all "kmph". Europe was always "normal" and only the UK was playing out of tune until they also adopted the Kilometer way of thinking. Today only the US keeps playing out of tune .......call it stubborn....or is it stupid?




Lynn Beers

My boyfriend goes to Germany every year just so he can drive the Autobahn!