Agree on the safety part. I have hit(maxed) 160 in a Dinan 5. To my surprise the car was steady. Can't say the same on Z4 doing much lessI was expecting more from TX. Only one ticket over 155... and in a Dodge no less. I'd be worried that POS would disintegrate on me.
I've hit 160 in a Panamera, she (and I) wanted more but it's so hard to go that fast safely.
They are over the legal speed limit in the US. But don't think they are "wild" (except for the first one). German Grandmas picking up their grand children routinely drive faster than everyone on the list except the #1.
In a previous life, while living in Germany, I'd reach 220km/h (~135mph) fairly frequently. It was intense, but one gets used to it. I managed to max out my E46 330Ci once - to 250km/h (~155mph). A long, sweeping, large radius turn became a white knuckle moment with just those extra 15mph. And as I was speeding up, I saw in the rearview mirror a Transit (who was trying to keep up) experience a spectacular engine explosion: nuts, bolts, chunks flying everywhere - including catching up and hitting my windshield. Quite the chilling moment, which also marked the end of my nutso-speeding days.
It is eerie, and very hard to resist. On a mountain road I frequently drive, passing lanes are few and short - so passing used to take some planning. Not so in the Taycan (and mine's not a fast one, see above) - passing is more of an impulse thing. I have to temper myself - even with the roofbox on, triple digits is still pretty quiet and there just isn't any feeling of speeding, but the manual says not to exceed that threshold. ?
I think that's it. When you have roads and customs built for very high speeds, you can probably acclimate to it - like anything. Being 40 MPH over what I was used to and 45MPH over the road's stated limit, every undulation and divot in the road caused me to become skittish and lose confidence. I-130 is fine, but it isn't built to autobahn specifications, and it isn't expected to be either.
There are 80mph or even 85mph speed limit roads in the US. Taycan can cruise at 100 quite comfortably (I don't know about the roof box limits though), it doesn't even drop the energy consumption as badly as I would have expected (though the consumption at 70-80 was more than I expected, so maybe the Taycan consumption curve is just flatter than Tesla).
