Monaro run home from work in Germany on Autobahn

Just a routine run home from work, took the Monaro out as it was a nice day (unusual out here during winter) and popped the video camera onto the mount inside....nothing too special, max speed ONLY 234km/h so only 144mph, but it was late afternoon and I wasn't going to start being stupid with many others on the roads too...

The beeps you hear are the overspeed setting which is manually programmable by the driver, at the moment I've it set to 150km/h, so whenever you hear that annoying beep it's me crossing over 150km/h...

The thing to remember as well is that when I say it's only 144mph, watch the gear changes - I've only just upshifted into 5th before hitting this speed, so I've all the rest of 5th gear left to use and 6th on top of that...

Nurburgring trips are already scheduled for later in the year, so should be plenty more videos of the Monaro in Germany to come :)

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Monaro
• Germany
• Baz
• Aachen
• V8
• Holden
• CV8
• Autobahn
• 44
• kmh
• mph

[bazpics]

I wouldn't have been running with full headlights on no, at most the sidelights, but most probably nothing as it was a bright sunny day...

[bazpics]

Skout - yes, the car is originally from Australia, it was imported into the UK where I am from, so it has the same right hand drive steering wheel as it came from the factory with.

[bazpics]

Yeah, I've already had her out on a couple of different tracks already back in the UK and Ireland so that I could "safely and legally" throw the rear end out without having to worry about Granny Smith with her 20 year old fiat tottering round a corner on my side of things while fixing her makeup at the same time :)

[bazpics]

Yeah, in general there is a good sense of what's around a lot of the drivers out in continental europe, don't get me wrong there's still plenty of halfwitts out there, but thankfully they seem to be in the minority :)

[spadgm]

Foot flat in a V8 on the autobahn,thats what dreams are made of!

[Caly2c]

So weird to see an aussie car overseas like that!

So used to seeing it here down under.

Great to see an aussie product being represented

What do they think of it. i bet you get lots of looks!

[CIKO32123]

@Caly2c well, in germany we are not really in v8 cars. and a monaro is a very "special" car. so, i guess not. would have been different, if he drove a supra or a skyline or a bmw X6 M or something

[ramcycle7]

This is my fav street car on Gran Turismo 5. Cool car man!

[200twistatwista]

Deutschland ist Geil : )

mm Ich Hasse USA : )

[MillionairJoe]

dont you just hate it when you get some punk ass driver in a golf or audi, who recons he can race a v8, or pulls out infront of you doing speed?

[MrGrog88]

is that the Australian model or the export model?

[bonzoAU]

@ingemeiselfanclub no not really it would be much the same going from right hand drive to left hand drive and doing what your talking about with the right hand

[Mechknight73]

Peter Hanenberger, previous Managing Director of Holden, was the suspension engineer for Holden in the 70s. It's because of him that Kingswoods hugely improved, and Commodores got off to a brilliant start. When he retired to his native Germany, rumour has it he had the factory custom build him an LHD Monaro, with its engine and suspension tuned to his specs. Would be interesting to see that one

[AusWanabee]

Nice ...  Great to see it being enjoyed

[Sixes350]

Even the NT has had its once famous open speed limit cut to a poor 130km/h :(

[hardanddeep01]

If only we had roads like that here. Being right handed myself, i know i'd rather have my right hand on the steering wheel at all times & if i had to change gears or do something less important like the aircon or stereo, do that with my left hand...