A shot of my speedo on the Autobahn today

[ZeeOSix]

130 (85) isn't really a big deal.

Top scale is clearly labeled MPH.

 

[Pew]

That's slower than my previous 1.0L focus

That Armada may not be able to go much faster just due to the weight, plus, Nissan limits their AWD models to ~130 mph. My G35X is AWD and is governed at 130 while RWD models can go 150+.

The q50s (awd) and associated trims are limited to 155.

 

[javacontour]

This was about the limit of our turbo diesel 4 cylinder Hyundai Tucson (IIRC) Rental back in May.

Photo taken by oilBabe as I was driving.

It would do maybe 165 kph, perhaps a bit more, but it took effort and traffic didn't really cooperate.

 

[willbur]

(Edit: 1.6 kph= 1 mph)

In Germany certainly.
Fines for exceeding speedlimits in areas that are speed limited (which are the vast majority of paved roads here)
are quite steep and go up to and including loss of license.
In principle, exceeding the speed limit by 28 kph may results in loss of license, discretion of the local court.

A drivers license costs thousands of dollars in germany (this is a simplification but broadly true)

Also speedlimits in germany often do not legally need to be posted, as the type of road that it is, has an implied speed limit, posted or not.
People learn during drivers licencing which type of roads have which limits.
And the exceptions, up or down, in limit are often what gets posted.

On the autobahn is usually posted 120 kph, 130 kph or unlimited since the autobahn can have different limits depending on curves, traffic history at the location and of course construction (and in construction any lower limit is possible)

So this can make it a big tricky.

as recently as 10 years ago communties would strive for fairness and not set up an automated radar trap box (they are ubiqitous here) for hundreds of meters after an unlimited zone, to give you time to coast down and not have to slam on the brakes on spotted the sign, to protect your license.
But this has changed, now communties want/need the money (if I say why, this would be considered political by some and might get the post censored, sad that we have to self censor)
Say a 100 kph limit due to upcoming construction and you are going 100 mph (=160kph) you need to break pretty hard if the radar is right behind the speed limit sign.

I had a near miss going 137 kph in a 130 kph zone and 40 yards after another 130 kph sign a 100 kph sign had been set up and 50 yards after that the radar trap.
So think I just saw a 130 kph sign and I am good, overlook the 100 kph sign (because who looks for another traffic sign if u just seen one, eyes on the road right?) but I suddenly got a funny feeling and let off the gas..
still coasted with 129 kph past the radar machine.
Would have been enough for loss of license, but luckily another vehicle was block the line of sight to the speed trap...and i never got the ticket mailed.
It is quite difficult to fight tickets here as the radar trap machine takes a pic of the licence plate and your face.

Its a form back backdoor taxation of drivers, consist with the goverments desire to make driving as expensive, and therefore rare, as possible, w/o triggering a voter revolt.
And most drivers ares resigned to this taxation clad as a "safety" meaure

How steep?

 

[WeyounDS9]

How steep?

It depends on by how much .
300 Euros are not unusual.

Leaving the Autobahn in an unauthorized manner (say there is a traffic jam and you use your 4WD to drive over the shoulder onto a farm road right next to the autobahn), is approx 2500 Euros.

 

[willbur]

It depends on by how much .
300 Euros are not unusual.

Leaving the Autobahn in an unauthorized manner (say there is a traffic jam and you use your 4WD to drive over the shoulder onto a farm road right next to the autobahn), is approx 2500 Euros.

2500 for that? Wow

 

[Snagglefoot]

We get deer jumping out of the woods up here. Even a clear straight away poses a lot of risk at high speed. Darn.

 

[WeyounDS9]

2500 for that? Wow

1 Euro= approx 1.17 USD

 

[Carmudgeon]

I've seen that quite a bit in the US too?

What's fun is when the breakdown lane is the fast lane down in MA during rush hour When I was younger and dumber I enjoyed that a few times.

I've not seen it where I am, and in more risky, prolonged situations I have seem them to put down K-rail to provide separation and prevent head-on collisions when they need to take lanes from the opposite direction. Those closures were not just day closures, but longer term, with nothing but some tiny cones separating oncoming traffic at highway speeds, even if reduced somewhat.

Top scale is clearly labeled MPH.

Pays me for being lazy. I was referencing 130kph (~80 mph) not being such a big deal in the context of the 85mph limit in Texas being the "highest in the Western Hemisphere" or whatever was claimed.

Traffic doing 80-85 mph is not unusual any more where I am, and the highway could support it, but we're set in the notion that, despite some outliers, 65 is some magic number in the U.S, and in general, little to no use of dynamic limits, as they do more commonly over there.

130mph is of course a little different story, but even there, is not the norm for most folks.

 

[_Will_]

A little shot of my speedo from earlier today on the Autobahn in my 2023 Nissan Armada.
Took a trip from Kaiserslautern to Neunkirchen so my GF could go shopping at the SaarCenter Mall.

I didnt drive this speed all the way, but a lot of the way, due to light traffic.
That Nissan V8 just wanted to keep on pulling.

Oil: Royal Purple 0w-40
Filter: Fram Ultra Synthetic 7317
External Temperature approx 26C
Elevation maybe 1000 feet.

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Nissan gets some hate on BITOG but I’ve owned three with either a V6 (4.0 Frontier and 3.7L QX50) or a V8 (23’ Titan); and they’ve all been good engines that performed well for me. The 5.6 as you’ve noticed likes to pull and pull, nice and smooth while doing so.