XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 1/23/2014 4:42 AM, J. Clarke wrote:   
   > In article <52e0c96f$0$52806$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, dtravel@sonic.net   
   > says...   
   >>   
   >> On 1/22/2014 4:19 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>> In article , Thomas Koenig   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Robert Bannister  schrieb:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Much of the rail system goes down the   
   >>>>> middle of two of our freeways, and when you're stuck in the traffic it   
   >>>>> is quite annoying to see a train go whizzing past.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Trains are a good alternative for some routes in Germany.  Germany,   
   >>>> being a fairly densly popoulated country, has a reasonably dense   
   >>>> rail network.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The ICE 3 trains between Cologne and Frankfurt airport are quite   
   >>>> fast, up to 300 km/h (185 mph).  They run parallel to the Autobahn,   
   >>>> and you cannot hope to pass them in a car, even if there is   
   >>>> no traffic jam :-)   
   >>>   
   >>> Two words: Bugatti Veyron.  ;-)   
   >>>   
   >>> Ugly as sin, but fast ... of course you would need to stop to refuel it   
   >>> every 50 metres, which means the train still gets there first.  :-)   
   >>>   
   >> Just don't car pool with Jeremy Clarkson.   
   >   
   > Who raced the train from London to Milan and came close to beating it,   
   > with a Ford Mustang.  If he had been driving a Veyron he might have won.   
   >   
   IIRC part of why he lost was because of how often he had to refuel.   
   Someone has already pointed out this would be even worse in the Bugatti. :P   
      
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