>>LOL. Remind me not to get in a car with you!
A 125mph trip is very possible on parts of the Autobahn... though there are wider speed limits now and often you encounter temporary restrictions for maintenance. Earlier this year I drove across Germany en route elsewhere: there were 130kph signs but still the big Mercs and Porsches howled past me.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1