Some people take part in track days or have access to private land.

No spped limits in Isle of Man, Northern Territories of Australia, Saudi Arabia

Many countries have higher speed limits then the UK

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_by_country#/med...g

I can't tell the difference in the key colour of countries that have no limit and 120KPH :(

Edited by macski on 08/02/2018 at 20:33

We're one of the slowest in Europe.

btw that map shows Northern Territories in Australia as being 80mph, and Saudi Arabia 75mpyh

We're one of the slowest in Europe.

btw that map shows Northern Territories in Australia as being 80mph, and Saudi Arabia 75mpyh

Not for very much longer - the race to be the country with the slowest overall speed limit will soon be won by-- France!

The overall default speed limit for roads with no central barrier and no other signed speed limit will be 80 kph, that's 49 mph.

So that's all the RN's that are single carriageway, and all the D roads, and all of the unclassifieds.

Coincidentally, the French government have sub-contracted the speed radars to a private company who are using mobile radar cars that can nick you when they are on the move or parked with radar surveillance front and back.

This is in addition to the fixed radars.

So watch it if you are going to be driving in France this summer.

For those interested in finding out more:-

www.radars-auto.com/info-radars/radars-mobiles-mob.../

If you have google translate enabled, right click on the pages, and left click on translate.

Some cars can do 70 at 2000rpm or less.

'Top speed' is irrelevant these days. 0 - 100 kph and mph times are better indications of capability.

One point not often considered is that tyres must be fitted that can handle that top speed, even if the car never approaches it; and that those high-speed rated tyres can cost more money than the lower speed.

How do these high performance motors get run-in properly, coughing along in traffic without an oil change for 20,000 miles. They need to lend them to me for an airfield / track day

Lowering the overall speed limit in France from 90kph to 80kph on single carriageway roads is a typical government solution.

Don’t look at what a speed limit should be for somewhere where accidents have happened but lower it overall even where there have been no accidents.

You then ignore other factors like the poor signage of bends and accidents still continue so lower it again. But these accidents are happening at 130kph so way above the speed limit.

I, and cars in front, got overtaken on blind bends by some idiot: no way could he see if anything was coming. This measure will not prevent this.

Politicians are many things but they are not necessarily idiots: they are just working from an agenda that they have not told you about. Lower speeds equal lower emissions: saves them doing something in another area.