Too Fast For My Blood

Shown from left to right: Earl Francis Curzon Howe,  Captain Malcolm Campbell, and Rudolf Caracciola  -- after winning the Irish Grand Prix on July 21, 1930, at Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland.

HowStuffWorks discusses the top 5 speeds clocked on the Autobahn. No. 1 is
268.8 miles per hour (432.59 kilometers per hour) by driver Rudolf Caracciola in a 1930's V-12 Mercedes-Benz W125. Read the article and check out the full story of the top 5 Autobahn speeders.