G'day Sandra,
yeah... here in Oz the powers that be have decided it's easier to keep lowering our speed limits than fixing our roads. The highest speed limit you'll find here is 110 km/h - very frustrating. I HATE "do-gooders" that insist they know what's good for me better than I do - especially when I'm pretty sure my IQ exceeds theirs by at least 100 points (that only needs me to have an IQ of 101 by the way... )

I recently did a "quicky" 1400 km round trip into country New South Wales - my car has a 5.7 litre V8 (350 Chevy in a Holden SS Commodore) and 6 speed manual gearbox, fun to drive, and believe me the limits were very frustrating. The vehicle is well able to travel much faster than 110 safely. Did the return 700 k's in 7 1/2 hours for 66 litres of fuel and without exceeding the speed limit - was pretty pleased but would have happily spent a little more on fuel to be able to travel at 140 plus.

If I had a car full of disks instead of people that would have been some amazing bandwidth

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