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Originally Posted by HFW003
Sorry mate.
We’ll be back in August, I’ll ask if I can drive  |
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Originally Posted by Joekerr
I've heard a lot of stuff in Italy is closed in August (just FYI) - you looked into this to see if true? Basically, that a lot of Italians take off for vacation in August and so stuff gets shut down.
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August 15th is a Nation holiday in Italy.
Actually that week should be avoided bc there is A LOT of traffic on the Autostradas during that time. It's kind of the Italian 4th of July... they have their version of the Blue Angels fly all over the country that week. This is the same aerobatic aircraft team(PAN) Frecce Tricolori - that crashed in Ramsteim AFB air show disaster in Germany in 1988. To this day airshows are banned in Germany.
(313° Gruppo Addestramento Acrobatico, Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale (PAN) Frecce Tricolori)
I took these pics in Jesolo, Italy near Venice many years ago...
Getting back on Topic...
Driving my stock US spec 135i on the Autobahn... even though the speedo read 155 mph(250 kph) - my GPS showed "only" 245 kph.
BMW's are speed limited to 210 kph unless they have ticked the M-Sport option which includes "Speed Syncopation #840" option. Then the car is limited to 250 kph(on the speedo, real speed GPS of 245 kph!). M cars are limited to 268 kph. IF the owner goes to a M Driving School... they get a "code" where their local dealer can code the car to a higher speed limiter of 280 kph. I think a fully "open" vmax for a e9x M car is close to 300 kph.
Discovered my top speed limiter wasn't 130...
https://www.1addicts.com/forums/show....php?t=1283209
Later on I got a euro tune(380 PS and 520 Nm) and an open
V-max... my car would do
285 kph constantly. I know a few times I went slightly faster... but I was too busy driving to dare to look down at my speedo. I think I probably was doing 290 or 295ish kph. I have friend's with tuned 135i's and they say 294 kph is the real V-max for these cars. IDK.
Some "slower" vmax's for your entertainment...
274 kph driving one handed...
