Well, we thought, as we had the time, let’s go and see the new cars at least. Oldenburg Porsche spare parts guy was busy so we looked at the new Panamera in the dealership display area, deciding the car wouldn’t be on the shopping list even if we had the money. We also saw a pile of four alloys with Finnish Nokian winter tyres on them for a bargain price of 4500 Euros, which certainly set the alarm bells ringing – this would not be our tyre shop (which we actually had known anyway). The spare parts person soon appeared to confirm our suspicions and sent us off like a couple of accidental tourists who had come into a five star hotel by mistake: “zees sings need to be planned ahead. Zees tyres need to be ordered in Ordnung!”
An experience richer we got back onto the motorway which was in quite a poor condition in areas. The Germans were of course trying to fix their roads too, which along with the onset of the rush hour caused some delays. There were a few unhelpful bottleneck places too. Actually, it was a bit like near London at times. But only at times. We soon saw signs that we interpreted to mean that the speed limits were over for now and duly pushed the needle to around 130 mph, to go like true hogs of the road!
There were a few others on the road too that were thinking like us and actually spurred us on. Great to be speeding legally! The 911s are built for speed and one can only truly appreciate the car having experienced over 120 mph speeds in one.
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