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As an American, our typical freeway speed limit is 70mph. I’m not familiar with the speed limits where this car is designed to be sold/used, are you saying this car is too slow to drive on the freeway? What’s the average speeds for the freeways over there?

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In my EU country minimal car speed for highway is 80km/h, so this car would be allowed to drive there. Trucks are limited to max 90km/h on highway here, so only question would be if it is agile enough to be able to safely overtake trucks, or it would just have to follow some truck most of the time... I think that is quite ok for city car.

I assume bgorman is American, as he has quotes the values in miles, even when the website gives them first in metric.

130km/h is the motorway speed limit in many European countries, this car's top speed is 125km/h. It's advertised as a "city car" though, so it's probably fine. In and near cities the limit on motorways is often 110km/h or less anyway.

In the Netherlands the highway speed limit is now 100km/h to lower CO2 and N emissions. So it would do perfectly fine here.

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