So cute he considers 120 km/h to be fast

@anunearthlychild8569

9 ай бұрын

He probably confused kilometers/h with miles/h. 120 miles/h is about 200 km/h. If the VW California would only manage a maximum of 120 km/h, it would be the absolute slow seller for us. 😉

@scottsimon1

9 ай бұрын

That's 74mph. The maximum speed limit in the US is 80 mph (128 kph). From the 70's til 1995 the national speed limit was 55 mph (88 kph) to save gas. When you drive that speed on the freeway it feels like you're going nowhere.

@rayewen3347

9 ай бұрын

Probably during the fuel crises. @@DieHureBabylon

@teachersusan3730

9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@antonpayne919

9 ай бұрын

@@anunearthlychild8569cute that you think 200 kph was fast. no, seriously. my fastest on the autobahn was 220 kph. when i was younger i used to drive quite often as fast as 180 to 200. you get quite comfortable when you do this more often. now that im married ive become a chill driver, moving maybe 140 to 150 or often only 120 which is pretty slow by germanys standard tbh 🤷🏻‍♂️

There is a saying: "When an American get's a drivers licens, he is allowed to drive a car; a German is able to drive a car."

@lynnm6413

9 ай бұрын

We also pay 2000 € more than the Americans….it would be sad if that didn‘t do something

@peterpain6625

9 ай бұрын

That sums it up perfectly ;)

@tigeriussvarne177

9 ай бұрын

Americans learn how to move a car, Europeans learn how to drive a car. ;D

@RealNelsonC

9 ай бұрын

@@lynnm6413 In Germany you currently pay about 4000 € for your driver's license thanks to inflation. So I don't think Amercians pay about 2000 € for theirs.

@lynnm6413

9 ай бұрын

@@RealNelsonC ooops, thanks for the update... I did mine in '99 and wasn' t sure how much to add... lol

The blue sign means "Spielstrasse" (play street). Beware you could encounter playing kids on this street. Playing allowed for kids. Max speed is 7 Km/h or 4 miles/h.

@hijiri0794

9 ай бұрын

Ist das die Geschwindigkeit mit der Leute gehen? Ich weiß nur "Schrittgeschwindigkeit".

@michaelmedlinger6399

9 ай бұрын

@@hijiri0794 Das ist die richtige Bezeichnung dafür, ja, und bedeutet: „Kein Gas geben“. Ich stelle aber fest, ich muss immer wieder bremsen, weil mein Auto gern auch ohne „Gas geben“ zu schnell fährt.😃

@zoolkhan

9 ай бұрын

@@michaelmedlinger6399 diesel

@_Professor_Oak

9 ай бұрын

4mph? You might as well get out and walk

@michaelmedlinger6399

9 ай бұрын

@@_Professor_Oak I think that is the general idea.

Fun Fact: The blue sign they showed means "Spielstraße" (Playroad). You are not allowed to drive trough that street at more than walking speed, because kids play there. It's a common sign in east germany, often near preschools.

@ingobordewick6480

9 ай бұрын

It's common in all over Germany, not only the east.

@Arcanes391

9 ай бұрын

And the sign right behind is for the hight of the bridge. It is good to know the space between bridge and ground if you drive for example a big truck or bus.

@DramaQueenMalena

9 ай бұрын

And in Switzerland

@nelerhabarber5602

9 ай бұрын

And in Austria.

@adrianhempfing2042

9 ай бұрын

Not seen it here in Australia. Just confusing. Maybe it needed to say - 15kmph , shared pedestrian road

I don't understand why people get so worked up about German autobahns. They usually think that 'some sections have no upper speed limit' means that everyone is driving their Bugattis everywhere at 200 miles an hour, like Formula 1 or Nascar, ignoring all rules and its really unsafe. It isn't. When everyone knows, understands, respects and follows good road safety practices, responsible, safe driving becomes habit for all road users. I have driven in the UK, Germany and the USA. The Brits are respectful, responsible drivers, German drivers are safe, always aware of other road users and the US was like 'ignore everyone else, this road is for you, you paid real actual money at the petrol station, if anything happens i'll just get a better lawyer'......

@7ismersenne

9 ай бұрын

well said

@ddog99

9 ай бұрын

"I don't understand why people get so worked up about German autobahns" Just because it's different ... that's all

@greentoby26

9 ай бұрын

"When everyone knows, understands, respects and follows good road safety practices" Sadly, that is never ever going to happen. At least motorists start to get the hang of what "Rettungsgasse" means.

@nicoincognito2160

9 ай бұрын

Next time you have to drive in Marocco. You will learn, that you can drive without respecting any traffic laws. Regard traffic lights as disco lights and ignore them. What amazes me most is, that it works in a miraculous way.

Yes, you can drive from Dresden to Berlin in 17 minutes, but only if you are traveling at 677 kmh or 420,668 mph. 🤣

@pinkhope84

9 ай бұрын

Er hat 70min gesagt nicht 17

@stefanb4375

9 ай бұрын

Ich habe es als joke aufgefasst denn ich habe auch 17 Minuten verstanden 😅

@_Professor_Oak

9 ай бұрын

420 THOUSAND mph? I think you meant . not ,

@martinkasper197

9 ай бұрын

@@_Professor_Oak In Germany and most other countries . and , are exchanged. 700.000,05 mean sevenhundred thousand and 15 cents.

@raydafuq3570

9 ай бұрын

@@_Professor_Oak nope. Not everyone uses the american way of writing numbers. For us Germans and I think most other Europeans the , and . are switched. The . is for thousand, hundred thousand, million etc. while the , is the dezimal (decimal?) sign. 420,668 mph therefore means 420.668 for Americans. We also don't say stuff like zero point five we'd say zero comma five. In Germany I've seen a thousand written in multiple different ways - some write 1.000, others use the 1'000 or don't use a sign at all and write 1000.

5:27 - Er ist 130 km/h gefahren? Was für ein Teufelskerl! 😅

When Tom Hanks was in Germany, he was given a Trabant P 601 de luxe station wagon with 26 hp. The maximum speed of this vehicle is 105 km/h.

@performancegold8562

9 ай бұрын

That's fast for a Trabant

@AleaumeAnders

9 ай бұрын

@@performancegold8562 Nah, if in the 80s you told a saxon that they sell bananas in East-Berlin, they managed to get it up to 110 km/h ... flintstones style.

@scottsimon1

9 ай бұрын

That sounds like the wrong car for the autobahn 😀

@performancegold8562

9 ай бұрын

@@scottsimon1 But it's fun to drive. In a special way.

@topquarkbln

9 ай бұрын

​@@performancegold8562...but only when you are free to choose to test-drive it for.a limited time just like that. Certainly not if you were an East German and you had to wait for this "car" 20 years but only if you were ideological stable... 🤔

120 km/h is really low level! A colleague of mine one day brought me home for the weekend. He drove a VW Passat Station Wagon, so I wasn´t aware what to expect. The 6-speed gear should have been a warning sign! When he floored the pedal on the autobahn I saw the speedometer needle shooting up to the 260 km/h mark. Which is 162 miles/hour! Never before and never after that i reached my home so fast - and so soaked in sweat! Later I bought a car with a 6-speed, too, but 220 km/h (137 mph) was more than enough for me! Fun fact: While driving that high speed he was talking on the phone also!

That blue sign he showed is for a "Verkehrsberuhigter Bereich" a "calm traffic area". You must watch out for playing children more in that zone and can only go a maximum of 7kmh, which is walking speed. A lot of people confuse it for a "Spielstraße", a "play road" but that's wrong. A spielstraße is completely restricted for cars and marked by two signs paired together. A round sign of a red circle above a white rectangle sign of a single child with a ball

Last time I visited Germany I was 17 and had no driver license, but my English GF got one. Even on the narrow Devon country roads she drove as fast as the devil flees from holy water, means, felt as fast as a flash. In Germany she drove my dad's car , which at the time was a Mercedes S-Class, on those autobahn parts without speed restrictions well over 200 km/h if possible. Mostly she made it possible. Even nowadays she feels the need for speed. And that makes her my personal Racer X.

fun fact: he talks about 120 as if that was fast, but we drive from village to village with that speed if we can on the countryside. autobahn "begins" to be serious at 180. "fast" is 240+. 100kmh equals 62mph, 240kmh equals 149mph.

Hanks pronounced "Eisenhüttenstadt" really well

The other traffic sign is a warning that the following passage (can be seen in the background) has a clearance height of 3.30 m. This is important for trucks.

The meaning of the blue traffic sign: This is a "play street" where the children are allowed to play on the street and the cars and all vehicles, no matter which one, are not allowed to drive faster than walking speed = 5 km/h.

in germany we say RECHTSFAHRGEBOT! great video as always :D

The blue traffic sign shown in the Video means "Spielstrasse", which translates to Play Street, which means you have to expect children to play street, and pedestrians and bikes have the same rights as car drivers. Therefore the maximum speed is between 7 and 10 km/h depending on the situation, not much faster than pedestrians, and parking in these streets is only allowed in marked parking lots.

Most dangerous things on a German Autobahn are Tourists driving there for the first time.

Apologies if someone has already said this: Flying down the Autobahn at top speeds is hardly ever possible, unless you try doing it at night (= few cars) or on Sundays / German holidays (no trucks on the roads). The reality of German Autobahns is that too many of them have only two lanes in each direction. They are full of trucks that are under time-pressure and hence have to overtake each other, thereby slowing down traffic significantly. So basically you would speed up, only to slow down again in a few meters because either one truck is passing another, or a much slower car is overtaking a truck. The idea many foreigners have that German Autobahns can be used like a racing track is hardly ever realistic.

@gubsak55

9 ай бұрын

Of course I knew this back in 2005 when we moved from Denmark to Luxembourg, but on the first night driving back to Denmark we were doing 190 km/h ready to pass a row of lorries doing maybe 85 km/h when suddenly a lorry infront of me started overtaking the others. I thought we were going to smash into the back of that lorry but fortunately we "stopped" maybe 15 metres before impact. Since then I never try overtaking rows of lorries at that speed. And you are right. it is quite seldom when you can go faster than 160 km/h for more than a minute or two before you have to slow down again or somebody is trying to overtake you doing 230 or more. Only last spring when petrol was expensive for a few months I was one of the fast cars doing 150 km/h, but now it is back to normal again And now we have bought an electric car so we will usually only do 130 or less so we don't need to care about the state of the battery all the time 😂

Just write before coming. I can drive you. Just did this with an African friend. Just when I reached 130 (which is nothing), his face became green and he was whispering.. Slow down pls. 😂😂😂😂😂 At 180 he forgot his name..😅😂

130km/h is a so called "Verkehrshindernis".

The sign at 9:30 is founded originally from/in the Netherlands in the late 80s or early 90s (I don't know it exactly anymore). It means, that you are entering a (speelstraat - dutch - or verkehrsberuhigte Zone - german) you have to drive there very slow because of the children who play there on the street. It is not a sign to laugh at, but it a serious message for car drivers to drive very slow and be careful. Speelstraat means: it is a street where children are playing in that area.

Tom is actually not wrong about the VW's .. about every second to third car in Germany is a VW ( now if you count the variants of Audi, Seat and Porsche which are all owned by VW you get even more :) )

The blue sign means traffic-calmed area, or play street, where you can only drive at 7 km/h. Children are allowed to play on the street.

Then Tom Hanks should have driven with our acquaintance who likes to drive fast on the Autobahn in his Audi quatro turbo at around 220 km / h , i think he would have been really scared.😅

Just ask a Taxi driver . They will show you

The incomprehensible road sign was very funny. Thanks for a good giggle, Tom.

Tom Hanks is a legend. The freeways in the US are not a free for all. Some people do drive slow in the left lane when they shouldn't, but overall driving is more orderly than in some other countries I've been in like Italy or Mexico.

@MattyEngland

9 ай бұрын

Legendary pea-dough-file.

@Mary_Thompson

9 ай бұрын

​@@MattyEngland No, he's not.

11:00 no, what you need to do is contact Misha @ the Nürburgring and get him to take you on a lap. He has a youtube channel ;)

I remember German cars didn't used to come with cup holders ... The Americans said why not??? The Germans said because when you are driving you are supposed focus on driving not eating and drinking in the car.

@floragirard8394

21 күн бұрын

Thats bullshit, we eat, drink, do make up, smoke, write massages, take pics at 250kmh...

"The highways in Germany are straight and flat" LOL. That's because he drove only between Dresden and Berlin. The northeast, and northern Germany in general is pretty flat. The more west and south you drive, the hillier the landscape gets and the Autobahn as well. Just FYI.

I think it's great that we don't have a speed limit on the Autobahn here in Germany,, but since there is so often traffic jams or construction sites, you can usually only drive slowly.

@hellemarc4767

9 ай бұрын

Only 70% of the Autobahn has no speed limit.

@jeansh7325

9 ай бұрын

@@DieHureBabylon because of fun I think. And a feeling of freedom

@HastDuWasSuchen

9 ай бұрын

@@hellemarc4767 In reality it's even less because within these 70% of Autobahn without speed limit those parts of the Autobahn where temporary speed limits exist do get included in the "no speed limit" category of the Autobahn. This means that on a lot of stretches of the Autobahn which are technically without a speed limit you still have to follow a speed limit for most of the day. Never trust a statistic you haven't manipulated yourself.

@dnocturn84

9 ай бұрын

@@HastDuWasSuchen The 70% includes contruction sites though...

@HastDuWasSuchen

9 ай бұрын

@@dnocturn84 Why do you say "though"? Did I say something contradicting this? I'm aware of the fact that construction sites are included in the "no speed limit" category since these are not permanent speed limits. Since jeansh7325 already pointed out that construction sites cause you to slow down, I didn't feel the need to repeat it.

Nice, I went to school in Eisenhüttenstadt. It's a sleepy place but quite likeable 😊

You should know that there is a recommended speed of 130km/h. If there is an accident that exceeds the recommended speed, in 95% of cases you will be partially to blame and the insurance company will not pay for the damage! Not even many Germans know that! So full throttle only when free. Unfortunately, there are always people who just pull out and don't pay attention to the traffic behind them.

The signs means "Spielstraße" - playing street. It means that people can walk and children can play on the street. Cars can drive through but slowly and pay attention. It's mostly in small lanes in cities.

Suggestion, if you are back in Germany, drive from Berlin to Hamburg on the "autobahn". The section is not too long and at the beginning there is still a speed limit of 120 for a long time. Then it is lifted on about 180 kilometers. There is not much going on in the morning between 10 and 12 o'clock, so it won't overwhelm you.

The Volkswagen California has a top speed of around 220 km/h, depending on the age of the model it can also be slower. But the model in the video should be able to drive that fast.

I remember that crazy motorcycle maniac. He tuned his racing bike and had to add an extra speedometer because the default one was at the limit. He was driving on the autobahn with over 400km/h that means app 250mph. He did wheelies on the left lane with over 200 km/h, app 130mph. He is probably dead. He is thought of hitting a van on a normal road with 100kmh speed limit but driving over 200.

You can be fined here in the UK for not maintaining lane discipline. Also, 120kph is only 70mph, so not fast.

@mlee6050

9 ай бұрын

As in don't hog overtake lane?

@philroue

9 ай бұрын

@mlee6050 Yeah, as soon as you have overtaken, you are supposed to move back to the outside lane, not stay in the overtaking lane.

Tom Hanks is such a great entertainer! I do not like all his movies but he as an actor or entertainer… wow!

All Males under 90 are RacerX on the Autobahn :-)

Years ago i saw this video too. very funny and greetings from germany.

I enjoyed listening to old Hanks lark around. His quite the Hollywood elder now and remains well liked. Good choice lad. Looked like Germany was a hoot for you, bit of a duck out of water but you did well. I went to Europe 6 countries in 6 weeks driving most of it but not a V Dub. So many beautiful cities, I would struggle to pick a favourite. There's a young couple from the US who have just finished a tour of Australia. They have a vlog called One Pack Wanderers. Check them out for some ideas, you could be surprised.

Love blowing with 240 on the 31!!

The blue sign means "Spielstraße". It is a street where children are allowed to play on the street, so the cars have to drive very slow (sloe as a walking passenger) and careful. Greetings from Germany! 😊

I would like to be your Racer X when you are back in germany :-) I am living near munich, just in case.

130 km/h? Don‘t get me wrong, that‘s what I normally drive today - much more relaxed and does not consume nearly as much fuel. But it is not „fast“! You will be passed by cars going well over 200 km/h. I was driving to Berlin several years ago on a Saturday. Almost no traffic (very unusual), a beautiful, sunny dry day, and I decided to just go what was reasonably possible. I hit 220 km/h a time or two. But not to be recommended most of the time!

@holgerlinke98

9 ай бұрын

even if you go 220 there might be a bunch of porsches in your back pressuring you to make space. That is imho not an experience common in eastern germany, more like southern, south western experience.

@michaelmedlinger6399

9 ай бұрын

@@holgerlinke98 Oh, ja! And not just Porsches!

@vophatechnicus

9 ай бұрын

Just consider the originally video to be more than 11 years old. Yeah even in 2012 130km/h was not that fast... I have to drive ~50000km a year and 200km/h + are a "standard" speed if traffic allows it... 120km/h is kind of boring to me...

@reinhard8053

9 ай бұрын

I have an RV with a rather modest motor and much height, and even with this thing I can get to 130km/h. I just don't do it normally because it takes to much fuel.

the blue sign simply means : kids playing on the road - drive at max 10 kmh - the red circle sign in the backround is a notification to truckdrivers, that the bridge they have to go under is 3.2 meters high - so - if ur truck is loaded higher than that - find another way^^

I live in Germany since 30 years, the Autobahn still scares the living shit out of me. I only go on it if I really have to.

@herb6677

9 ай бұрын

I have been to Germany the last 10 days and i let my wife drive, because I'm too interested in the surrounding landscapes. As long as you are keeping to the rules, everything is OK. there is really nothing to be afraid of. You just have to constantly look in the mirror to know whats going on behind you, so you can leave the left lane at the right time when someone faster needs it. And if you can't, because two trucks decide to do an elephant race, you just have to put the foot down a bit more for a short time. As Tom said, the streets are smooth and more or less straight, nothing fearful happens, if you go 180 km/h for a short time.

@ClaudiaG.1979

9 ай бұрын

why does it scare you ?I think driving on the autobahn is pretty chill. maybe you can ask your local driving school to give you some lessons in autobahn driving. My aunt did this. she had her licence for over 20 years but she never drove. She was really scared to drive, so one day she decided to overcome her fear and went back to a driving school and took some lessons. it really helped her, shes driving like a pro now.

@BUGGAleon

9 ай бұрын

Just stay off the left lane hahah

@greentoby26

9 ай бұрын

I was born and raised in Germany, and I am never going to take the Autobahn again if it's avoidable in any way. It's not about how *you* drive. You can do everything right and still end up tailgated or in a huge traffic jam because of a rescue helicopter deployment. It's about the people who feel like they own the place and are constantly encouraged in that.

Du machst echt coole Videos. Mach weiter so

I once took my brother in law's VW R32 for a quick drive on the A8 Autobahn at 249kmh. After about 3 minutes I was getting tunnel vision and very sweaty palms so we settled back to a comfortable 200.

we have a law that is telling you, you have to drive on the right side of the Autobahn called „Rechtsfahrgebot“ to get space for the faster people on the left

Gimme a call next time you´re over. I´ll take you with a Porsche on the Autobahn!

tom is kinda right. Lots of car brands belong to VW and use the same parts/are enigineered by VW

130 kmh is okay for overtaking trucks and reaching the destination quite quickly-but also economically. Who drives faster has fun, provided that traffic density and construction work allow it. From time to time, you can also see business people who drive in the pack so around 180-230 kmh. It has a bit of a NASCAR Daytona feeling. (haha) In principle, anyone can drive you on the Autobahn, the question is: how fast do you want to experience it? Sunday morning on the free three-lane 200 kmh are also relatively unspectacular. With 2 lanes with truck traffic it is already a little more exciting. xD If you like it really exciting, then make a professional driven cab trip on the race track Nürburgring-Nordschleife. Fastest roller coaster in the world you can have with four tires... ^^

i am indeed near from that town he drescribes: eisenhüttenstadt...means iron hut city

Google maps says it is a 2 hours and 14 minutes drive from Dresden to Berlin with a distance of 193 km . So if you drive 120 km/h it hardly takes 17 minutes to drive... I smell a "fisher man's tale" here haha lol 😂

We drove across Europe German and Austrian speed limits are insane! We tried staying in the slowest lane when we could but lorry drivers tried to intimidate us by getting so close and flashing lights. Never ever again. Think my knuckles are still white

@anunearthlychild8569

9 ай бұрын

In Germany, we have to take a few driving lessons on the motorway at driving school. That makes sense, because you have to get a feel for it. When it comes to speed, you not only have to keep an eye on the vehicle directly in front of you, but also some vehicles in front of and behind you. If you have practice, it's a lot of fun, but I also know Germans who don't like to drive on the motorway.

@lynnm6413

9 ай бұрын

If lorry drivers were flashing you, you were definately going too slow…we have a law that says you can get fined for going significantly slower than the ‚traffic flow‘, which in this case you were if the trucks even complained. Under 100km/h is basically just waiting for Autobahn police to pull you over if you don‘t get phoned in by someone thinking you are driving drunk, going so slowly.

@MattyEngland

9 ай бұрын

You were obviously driving dangerously slowly.

@zorrothebug

9 ай бұрын

@@lynnm6413 You are just fine at 80-90kmh on the right lane in flow with the semi trucks... No police will pull you over for that speed. If you go slow as 60 or even slower, then yes, they can pull you over, because the minimum required speed for entering the autobahn is 60kmh. If you are driving a vehicle which from factory is not capable of going at least 60kmh you are not allowed to enter the autobahn.

@_Professor_Oak

9 ай бұрын

If you were being flashed by lorry's in the EU, then you're probably a wuss on the UK highways too. Don't use highways if you're scared to do 70.

I LOVE "Cloud Atlas"!! :)

....the left lane is (over longer period of time) about 100 to 150 miles per hour (you can go also 80 mph, but you wont make lot of friends if you stay there too long). In the middle you usually still have to drive over 75 mph... and if you cant do that either then you ll have to stay on the right one!

When I hit the 160km/h I feel like it’s enough for me😂😂😂

German here: I love this bit. :D

In this case "Hütte" does not mean "hut" in the usual sense, but is the place where the iron was processed.

@zeisselgaertner3212

9 ай бұрын

Hütte bezieht sich schon auf die Hut-förmige Überdachung der Schmelz- und Gießeinrichtung dereinst. Der Begriff den Sie suchen, lautet "foundry".

@cadeeja.

9 ай бұрын

@@zeisselgaertner3212 Ich weiß, dass Eisen verhüttet wurde. Ich wollte nicht übersetzen, sondern erklären ^^

It's a great pleisure to see him so cute. I like Forest Gump very much.

Speed is made possible by the boredom of a flat straight empty lane, with walls or dams left and right, so nothing to see. Also, modern cars seal off most noise and vibrations. So the thrill at let's say 160 km/h is like being on a plane as a passenger. Falling asleep is probably the biggest danger

Beautiful movie.

Hello from North Germany - Norddeutschland 👍

Tom is brilliant. In each case he resorts to many stereotypes that must be very much inherent in the minds of USA citizens.

Gimme a call... We will drive on the Autobahn 😉

An old boyfriend of mine was in the British Army, Royal Corps of Transport, in Peace Time, and one time he and his buddies were stationed in Germany for training manouvers an such. They all drove big Army trucks up and down the autobahns a lot. I was staggered when he told me that they would routinely fix the steering and just cruise while they napped. Bloody Hell, the mind boggles.... 🙄

Cloud Atlas is my favorit Movie 😍

Ye Linger in the left lane is like a suicide comando Xd bc if some 1 with a big car comes behind u with like 250km/h if this guy dont realyse that u are like craling on the left lane with 130km/h u get a nice crash folowed by Police and firefighters to clean the crashing zone

Hanks translated 'Eisenhüttenstadt' literally correctly, but not in this case. 'Hütte' also means steelwork. That is the right translation not "hut".

Yoe can trust any German, who has his licence for more than 2 years and drives regularly to take you for a ride on the Autobahn safely. Of course accidents still can happen, but that's even more so on an U.S highway.

I guess he means 120 mph because 120kmh is like the max speed on most countries some even 130

Dresden to Berlin is 195 kilometer equals 120 mile. In 17 minutes?

Oh yes, last night i go 265km'h... Sooooo fast😆

Lol 120 140 xD my bycicle goes that fast downhill here in germany (no it doesn't. I know that. I hit 80 once tho.). Autobahn 250 but I find it uncomfy cause every little correction of the steering wheel has such an huge impact. 200 is fine and chill tho.

If you drive in the Autobahn and drive a speed of 100km/hr (62mph), like most foreigners do, and you want to pass a truck, you look in your back mirror, no cars in sight, so free to go to the left lane to pass the truck. Al of a sudden there is a car horn from the back and lights flickering because a German wants you to hurry passing that truck. That happend to me the first time, you’re not used to the high speeds in the left lane, one moment there is no car in your back mirror and the next moment there is a car coming closer with twice the speed you’re driving. So now when I pass a truck, I make speed on the right lane until about 150km/hr and then pass the truck. And even then it is a close call some of the times.

The blue sign means that you not drive more than 6kmh. It means „Schrittgeschwindigkeit“ no fast as you have speed when you walk.

5:22 idk how often i already watched this and i still lough hard when he mentioned this VW van can go up to 130-140 km/h (actually its max speed is 180 km/h), what is the recommended speed for sections without a speed limit. some US americans and their imagination of speed is hilarious :D even the "strongest" VW van T1 (44 PS, build from 1965-67) could reach 110 km/h.

@gubsak55

9 ай бұрын

My parents in Denmark in the nineteen seventies had a VW Samba bus from 1959, and only on rare occasions I was able to make it do more than 90 km/h. When my brother moved to study in Copenhagen and was renovating a house we filled up with materials for renovating and the VW could only go 40 km/h uphill on the motorway. 😅

I'm a slow driver, I like to do chill 40 in a 50 zone and so on. I think I've never done more than 160, and saying 130 is fast is just funny :-D

Nice top. Suits Joel 😘

your laugh is so cute :D

As a half German where I lived for many years, I found it difficult to understand his fear at driving 130/140 kph. Even in France where I live now, 130 kph is the max. When I was 24 (I'm 76 now), I was given the latest BMW as part of my job. I found myself driving at 250 kph - if you have a good car, you don't even realize your speed......

he Sign is from West germany, it is the Sign ,, Spielstrasse `` Playingground for Kids, so all cars have to drive slower than ppl. can walk, and all walker are to respect.

Ich wurde vor Jahren auf der Autobahn geblitzt. Am Sonntag um 6:14!!! Hat mich €145 gekostet und zwölf Monate "Bewährung". Da stand wortwörtlich drin das ich in den nächsten zwölf Monaten nicht über 29 km/h über der erlaubten Geschwindigkeit sein darf, sonst ist der Lappen für mindestens vier Wochen weg. Alles gut.

He just forgot the B and the M...it's VW...it's BMW....and the E39 at that..the best BMW ever made...🤣🤣

Wait…. You model for Under Armor? That’s you in an ad on my instagram feed!

Idk, my experience... driving on the Autobahn with someone who likes to go fast was almost always horrifying. They were either talking on the phone, texting or waiting for me to admire their driving skills while going 180 to 200 km an hour. I was just afraid for my life. And I am German. XD But maybe that is just me, I have always felt quite content on a bicycle. :P

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yeah .. using the phone in the car that way is actually forbidden and the risk a hefty fine by doing that, also they risk doing the Dr. Strange .. "

Tom exaggerated everything. Like a comedian does in a show that stereotypes actors. The 17 minutes (if I heard that correctly) from Dresden to Berlin is not possible with any road-legal vehicle. However 70 minutes might just possibly be in the realm of achievable. But in that case, nope, not while still staying within the crap-ton of local speed limits for interchanges, construction sites, dangerous areas, etc. You'd pretty much have to ignore ANY safety limits as well as any other traffic. So if 70 was the supposed number, yepp, as Tom Hanks I would have sweated bullets as well.😂 And obviously, even with VW owning a huge load of other car manufacturers, yepp, there's Mercedes and BMW as well.😂

If you are in Munich sometimes, just give me a hint. I'll show you the Autobahn. 125 shouldu bei ok for the beginning. But I"m talking about mph 😉

120km/h is usually more like the minimum when the speed limit is unlimited...

Audi, Porsche, Ducati, Lamborghini and many more are all part of Volkswagen.. 😜

7:45 „1, 2, 3, 4“ … 4 = FEAR …. Small hint for all English speakers: the German number 4 (Vier) sounds in German exactly like YOU pronounce the word FEAR.

The sign means:"Spielstrasse" meaning children are allowed to play on the street. They have the right away

I LOVE autobahn: I take my old and ugly 70HP sh*tbox car (Skoda Forman) and drive it FULL throttle all the way, which means just short of 150kph (sometimes 165kph downhill) and seems like parts will start falling off anytime. Then imagine the looks of Germans in new VW's and Audi's driving slow because they can save the planet and ME not giving a sh*t about fuel consumption or eventual potholes. Yeah baby! AUTOBAHN! 😀

I hope you find your Racer X

O yes i like to druiven in germany to try a new record of speed from holland my record is 270+- in a porche

Eisenhüttenstadt! :D