I've never played Escape Velocity, but about 10-12 years ago, I played pop-pop. Oh these childhood memories... That said, Redline caught my attention through its developer Jonas Echterhoff (also known as the author of Reckless Drivin'), who had a link to it on his own website.

Redline by Ambrosia Software - a company that's about as dead as this game and yet refuses to die. Good for whoever wants to play that occasionally - the multiplayer tracker hosted by them still works.

Speaking of games that allowed ridiculous vehicle handling tests: this one was for Mac and ended up making me try to imitate Gigi Galli virtually.

Group B? Errrmn... I think it was going to be designed for Group 4 as the big 500 SL Rallye Group 4 for the 1981 season was a huge failure that made Mercedes-Benz pull out. Then Group B came along and Mercedes realized that even the Cosworth Baby Benz wouldn't stand a chance against its competitors.

98% water power, actually

Yes, I do understand that. I forgot to put the Bundesstraße in that comment regarding the Richtgeschwindigkeit, though.

I have to disagree with your #1 point. The Veyron, unlike the others, is not a hardcore trackday machine. It's the only car in that league you can consider a Super Gran Turismo rather than a more hardcore supersportscar. Thus, it stays in line with what the Bugatti EB110 was in the 1990's.

It can be unrestricted, but of course it's not always unrestricted.

Richtgeschwindigkeit 130 km/h is what is in effect on every "derestricted" section of an Autobahn. It's the recommended speed, rather than an actual limit. It does play a role when an accident happens, though, in which case speeds above 130 km/h increase the extent of your fault if you're involved in an accident.

RaumAffe69, as the B10 around Göppingen (which I use occasionally, including for a Toyota GT86 transfer back in June, yay!) has a limit of 120 km/h, I must disagree with you about this statement regarding Bundesstraße speed limits.

Regular exits usually don't affect speed limits on highways here as Germany is rather densely populated. They're only lowered at major highway junctions, high traffic density zones and generally dangerous sections in the most cases.

Raphael, I have to apologize to you. I made a research error. Contradicting to my original comment that I edited after approximately 2 minutes, this particular section of the B2 doesn't appear to have a speed limit at all. I had claimed that the limit was 100 km/h / 62 mph, which appears to be incorrect.

As you can see from reading this German press article and the pictures that are identical to the ones shown in the video (using an online translator), Jessi Lang was not driving the R8 on an Autobahn at the time of the accident. In fact, she was using the national road B2.

Fortunately, the circuit used in the German Grand Prix was longer than the 20.832 km Nordschleife of which only 20.6 kilometers are usually timed. The start/finish and back straight must be considered in Jim Clarks time as well as the fact that in 1966, the Hohenrain Chicane did not exist yet.

That's a German Volkswagen T3 "Doka" truck abused to test the retaining wall of a crash test facility at over 60 mph.

Do you mean the 3.0 liter L81? Opel called that engine X30XEI. An Irmscher-tuned version of the Vectra B with that engine with 220 hp was sold in 1998. Apart from that, the Vectra B only got the 2.5 liter version.

Unreliable junk? Well, so were ours. In fact, one was deliberately crashed for entertainment purposes in my town two weeks ago. It was a post-facelift 2.5 DTI (BMW engine!) with a 5-speed manual.

Ha, the K70. My father totaled one of those in the late 70's or early 80's. I wouldn't consider it a top 10 contender here to be honest. The NSU Ro80 from that era (oh, another NSU, what a coincidence) was a lot worse.

I guess nobody of you ever heard of the Bowler EXR and EXR S.

BMW participated as well, but had less luck than Audi. They had fielded four Z4 GT3s as a factory effort with Team Schubert and MarcVDS, but lost three of them.