Yahoo Autos These Are Our Favorite Autobahn Top Speed Videos
Our speed laws here in America are generally pretty restrictive. That’s especially true when you consider that we’re the country that will sell any geek off the street a nigh-on 800 HP road car for under $100,000 (thanks Stellantis!) and then tell the person who bought it that they’re not allowed to go over 60 mph. Ever.
It’s that kind of thinking that leads many automotive enthusiasts to dream about an uncrowded, unrestricted stretch of German Autobahn, with its gentle curves and beautifully smooth pavement. We wonder if our cars will really hit those advertised top speeds and start doing the mental math to see how much it would cost to get there.
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Luckily, until we hoard enough wealth to go to Germany and drive some obscene machine for all it’s worth, we have YouTube to tide us over with its many, many Autobahn top speed run videos. These are our favorites.
Tesla Model S Plaid
Tesla Model S PLAID - TOP SPEED on AUTOBAHN [NO SPEED LIMIT]
It’s a car we love to make fun of (for reasons that are apparent in this video’s thumbnail), but there’s no arguing that it’s a seriously powerful performance EV. It’s also super slippery through the air, which should make for a pretty sweet top speed and a rapidly draining battery.
Honda Civic with an AliExpress Turbo
HONDA CIVIC *ALI-EXPRESS TURBO* TOP SPEED on AUTOBAHN
A car being well-built with quality parts is a pretty tried and true recipe, but let’s face it, that’s not how most of us operate. This car, with its AliExpress turbo manages to not only build speed with frightening ease but almost break the speedometer by going so far past the maximum listed speed that it seems like the needle might swing all the way round again.
1,400 HP Nissan R35 GT-R
1400HP NISSAN GTR Total Car Concept *337km/h* REVIEW on AUTOBAHN by AutoTopNL
The R35 Nissan GT-R might be a bit of a dinosaur at this point, but it’s still an excellent base for a top speed car with astronomical power figures. On E85, this car allegedly puts out over 1,600 HP, but in this video, it’s detuned to a paltry 1,400 HP which still manages to push it to an indicated 211 mph without breaking a sweat.
BMW S1000RR
BMW S1000RR Akrapovic | TOP SPEED on AUTOBAHN [NO SPEED LIMIT] by AutoTopNL
Four wheels are arguably the easier, safer way to hit peak Autobahn speeds, but they’re certainly not the only way. This video shows off BMW’s much-loved S1000RR superbike with an Akrapovic exhaust hitting a GPS-indicated speed of 185 mph.
Now, I don’t know about you, but the person doing this is a whole lot braver than I’ve ever been on a motorcycle.
Twin-Supercharged BMW E60 M5
700HP BMW M5 E60 V10 BI-KOMPRESSOR TOP SPEED DRIVE ON GERMAN AUTOBAHN 🏎
They say that money can’t buy taste, and that’s certainly true with this highly modified BMW E60 M5. What it does appear to buy, however, is speed and a lot of it. The V10-powered E60 already sounded fairly maniacal in stock form, but this thing is a 700 horses of a different color, if you get my meaning.
