Happened this weekend in southern Germany in the Black Forest. Swiss Car. I used to go motorcycle riding there it's all curvy going up and down... Mowed down some trees. Driver is injured. Even found a Youtube Vid where you can see them pulling it out of the ditch. Maybe the engine and interior is useable...
Man what a freakin bummer, hope the driver recovers quickly & the usable car parts revive another car. Damn shame
Na ja, wenn's sein muß... All kidding aside, that's really too bad, hope the driver is Ok. But there's a very good reason why the Germans imposed speed limits on those cars, they just don't handle at speeds, and there are a lot of narrow windy roads.
Not sure what you are referring to, but the speed limits are imposed on roads no matter which car. I have not heard of a car-make specific speed limit. Yet. Well thinking aloud to protect the environment and make it super-complicated you might want to transpire that idea to German authorities.... ;-) Patrick
Didn't the TÜV issue special coloured license plates for those things that had a maximum permissible speed of 100 km/h? Wasn't it a green or a red plate? My father had told me that, - I have no idea if he was right, he's lied to me before. For all I know he was talking off the point on his head, - and it wouldn't be the first time.
First of all this is a car which is registered in Switzerland, driving in Germany. So no TÜV and no colour sheme of German license plate playing a role in this incident. In general, yes there are different colors of the text on the license plates in Germany. Green letters are for vehicles which are tax exempt (agriculture, fire trucks,...), with no relation to the maximum vehicle speed (other than those kind of vehicles typically don't come with max speed of 140mph ). Red letters/numbers are for temporary use (like for a repair shop who needs to drive a non licensed car to a body shop, or for a test ride). In some cases (very limited) you can use those plates also for historic vehicles. Again no speed limit assigned for the vehicles which are operated with those plates.
Yes in particular once one is used to all the bells and whistles modern vehicles have in regards to active and passive safety. Sometimes you loose your instincts when out of practice.