Go East! 370 HP BMWs Find Thrills on Fast German Autobahn: Cars
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Self-described speed-freak Christian Graf von Wedel owns a 370-horsepower BMW that’s designed to go twice as fast as some single-engine planes. Ask him about driving it on Germany’s speed-limit-free autobahns, though, and he’ll tell you it’s hardly worth the trouble, at least near his Frankfurt home.
“An autobahn isn’t always an autobahn,” said Wedel, a real estate investor who runs GW Wohnen GmbH & Co. KG in Frankfurt. “There are few good places in western Germany to drive fast.”