If there was no speed limit on the motorway, what speed would you do?

noiseboy72

I'm not sure why you felt the need to stoop to personal insults or why you failed to understand my post.

My point is that cars have a maximum speed at which they will comfortably cruise before the mpg bombs and the car feels unstable. I'm not suggesting that we all drive at this speed,, but all cars are different in this respect.

I do understand cars, engineering and driving very well. I've driven more than 650k without an RTA, am a member of the IOPD, hold an HGV licence and have worked as a military driving instructor. I do therefore find your needless trolling somewhat pathetic.

domtheone

Cant really vote as there are too many variables.

I’d just like the option to go faster than the current limit, when conditions allow.

If im in economy mode, 70 is fine.  If not, 100 will do.

Theres only a small % of the time that i’d like to press on faster.

On the huge 4 lane motorways, even 100 feels pretty serine.  Especially compared to 140 on a 2 lane autobahn!

Really, i’d 100% be on board with variable limits (ie 50 in bad weather, 100 in good (good weather/little traffic).

We’re such a nanny state though so its all irrelevant.

mjn

But lets not forget that even the safety conscious Swiss have a higher motorway limit than we do

domtheone

I guess they've reviewed/updated their limits more than once in the last 50 years.  

Unlike us

KyleS1

The main dual carriageway I use everyday rarely gets above 70 due to all the pesky lorries overtaking each other doing 0.5mph faster than the other. Honestly, though I’d probably still drive around 80mph with odd blips up to 100mph.  80 seems a nice cruising speed. Not sure what mpg I’d get in the GTI going 100 .

gibbsy

I'm happy doing between 60 and 70, although most of the time 60 is an aspiration not a limit. Last time I drove at 100  on a motorway for a sustained period was many many years ago and that was on an advanced driving course. It sounds fun. It's not. It's knackering. Even harder driving fire appliance flat out.

There are far too many idiots on the motorways who simply do not use their mirrors. Too engrossed in their conversations, whether on the phone or just to another person in the car. You simply cannot ignore when the nut behind the wheel is going to fail and if that nut fails just in front of you then it's curtains.

Unless all those around you can give their driving 100% concentration then doing 100 on our poorly maintained motorways is like playing Russian roulette.

rousetafarian

Behave, there are three things wring with the quoted post, so please refrain from posting suchlike.

Soulman61

I lived many years in Germany and got used to cruising at around 140kmh (90mph) but often drove at 160kph (100mph) and still many cars overtook; some doing more than 200Kph (125mph). My first experience in Germany was in a taxi from the airport doing more than 200kph, with about 2 metres to the car in front. That was scary.

I now live in France and find the 130kph limit plenty fast enough, considering the standard of driving here. Much more disciplined in Germany. I think the unwritten limit of 80mph is about right for the UK, all things considered.

tickedon

I took my previous Volvo car to Germany, I got it up to 145mph and decided that was more than fast enough to me... generally managed to cruise quite happily 110-125mph on the unrestricted sections and didn't find it tiring.

UK roads are an entirely different matter, but as I often drive during the night with less traffic, I'd have opportunities to go faster on some of the better maintained sections.

Julian Stevens

80 ~ 90 mph, with occasional stretches at 100  mph, always depending, of course, on road and traffic conditions which, these days, generally dictate no more than 70 ~ 80 mph.  To do more is inviting trouble (and I'm not as sharp as I was 20 years ago).  Contrary to expectation, in N. America we encountered stretches of freeway on which the official speed limit was 75 mph and, as here, the going (and unofficially tolerated) rate was about 10 mph higher.  But, over there, the freeways away from urban areas are wider and straighter.