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Top 10 Speeds Clocked on the Autobahnby Jamie Page Deatonand Kristen Hall-Geisler

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The autobahn is a tem pting informal

speed track for drivers. See more ExoticCar Pictures.Comstock/Getty Images

For most Americans, the German autobahn is a near-mythical

beast, a serpentine wonderland of multi-lane blacktop where

the speed limit has been slain and the fiery horses under the

hood can be unleashed.

It sounds almost too good to be true. A public road, in a

notoriously buttoned-up country, where a person can drive as

fast as their engine size and nerve will allow? Yes, dear

readers, there is an autobahn. And these 10 vehicles have

been pushed to their limits on this fabled road.

The thing is, it's just a highway, lik e almost any you're familiar

with. It's not a closed course or a race track with rubber tires

stackedon the shoulders of the road. So anyone who lets the horses out to play and nears 200 miles per

hour is risking not only their own life but also the lives of the poor suckers in the Citroens and Fiats in the

next lane. A mistake at that speed is usually, well, pretty terrible.

But that doesn't stop people from putting the super in supercar. Here the 10 fastest times clocked on the

fabled autobahn -- and just to keep you interested right to the end, the top two speeds will knock your high-

tech, twenty-first century socks off.

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