I just came back from a 3000kms (1800miles) trip across Europe (London-Paris-Milan-Marseille-Paris-London), and I did some 'quite' fast driving (the AVERAGE speed on the right lane of Italian highways is 200kmh/124mph, and I had to let angry CLKs pass because they were tailgating me at this speed into heavy traffic....).
I'm very very very bad at maths so if anyone could tell me what my average speed is on those 2 trips is :
- Calais-Paris : 300kms = 1h30minutes
- Marseille-Paris : 800kms = 5h30minutes

 

Calais 200km/h
Marselle 145.45km/h

 

Hey le car. Sounds like a nice trip. You're right about the women and cheese in Paris. The women in London are quite lovely (a.k.a. fine) also. Two of my favorite places to travel. Mainly because of the women and food!

 

Those 200km/h average speed is alot man

 

The first part of the trip (Calais to the A1 highway) is a perfect empty stretch of highway, with good surfacing and no cars at all, so no cops (they don't bother going on empty roads because they don't make enough money from the tickets there... ), and I have trouble keeping under 200kmh, it's just too tempting... And that's where I reached my top speed of 262kmh a few months ago. And the second part is a bit more crowded, but at 3 in the morning I had not much to worry about.
It's stupid though because if you get caught over 200 in France you go to prison.

 

But I'm still far from what the french car magazine 'SPORT AUTO' did a year ago : they had in bold letters on the cover : "Paris-Nice in 5 hours"... just to let you know, Nice is about 1000 kilometers from Paris, and they did it with a 911 and a BMW 750, I think. Of course the government complained, but they remained in the news agent, amazingly.

 

I remember the cover of that issue now : a shot from the interior of the Porsche with the digital speedometer reading 310kmh (192mph)....................on a public road......