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  1. 06-07-2007, 12:52 PM #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by henk4 View Post
    yes, they allow 130....
    If you do that lorries overtake you. Seriously. Fiat Cinquencentos flash you to get out of their way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrer View Post
    If you do that lorries overtake you. Seriously. Fiat Cinquencentos flash you to get out of their way.
    I know the problem, but the limit is still 130, despite earlier efforts from Berlusconi to allow 150 on three lane motorways during the daytime...
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    Quote Originally Posted by henk4 View Post
    I know the problem, but the limit is still 130, despite earlier efforts from Berlusconi to allow 150 on three lane motorways during the daytime...
    I have to say the Autostrada from Milan to Roma is just spectacular utterly wide and straight. If the conditions allow I don't find it dangerous to do a certain speed above the legal limit.
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    To quote Mr Clarkson, "there should be Minimum speed restrictions, with snipers picking off those that can't make it" - being stuck behind busses etc is so infuriating and even dangerous when the old ladies decide it's safe to overtake when there's a huge Range Rover rounding the upcoming bend...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Waugh-terfall View Post
    *cough* 230km/h *cough*
    What?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrer View Post
    What?
    Cameron is with the EU govt' yet he drives at 230km/h...
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    All the official government'y type people won't be happy when they have to swap their big Jaguars for Protons....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Waugh-terfall View Post
    To quote Mr Clarkson, "there should be Minimum speed restrictions, with snipers picking off those that can't make it" - being stuck behind busses etc is so infuriating and even dangerous when the old ladies decide it's safe to overtake when there's a huge Range Rover rounding the upcoming bend...
    I remember that. Crazy Clarkson.

    It is true though. It slows down the city. Literally.

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    All the official government'y type people won't be happy when they have to swap their big Jaguars for Protons....
    I can imagine that too.
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    Vote Clarkson!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Waugh-terfall View Post
    Cameron is with the EU govt' yet he drives at 230km/h...
    Damn you, that was only once.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrer View Post
    I have to say the Autostrada from Milan to Roma is just spectacular utterly wide and straight. If the conditions allow I don't find it dangerous to do a certain speed above the legal limit.
    I know, I drove it all the way down to Naples, and I am sure you remember the stretch between Bologna and Florence which is anything but wide and straight...
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    Quote Originally Posted by adamfraser View Post
    All the official government'y type people won't be happy when they have to swap their big Jaguars for Protons....
    nobody is proposing that, people are now buying BMWs that won't go over 250. Would they stop buying them if they can't go faster than 160?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Waugh-terfall View Post
    Vote Clarkson!
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    Quote Originally Posted by henk4 View Post
    I know, I drove it all the way down to Naples, and I am sure you remember the stretch between Bologna and Florence which is anything but wide and straight...
    You're completely right, italian motorways are either very wide and completely straight or twistier than a mountain road...

    Of course I was referring to the straight bits. Speed in itself isn't dangerous. Inadequate speed is.
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