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266 km/h in a very small car is quite something different from 180 km/h (112 mph) in a big car. Incomparable, in fact.
I have driven several cars over Germany's Autobahns at speeds close to their max. I can tell you that a smal car like the '85 Honda Civic Mark 3 becomes hard to control at 180 km/h while it works perfectly well at 175. The Lupo is smaller than the Civic was.
A Mazda 3 series was fine up to 205 but not beyond.
An Impreza Turbo WRX can do 245 and still feel stable, but it has a lot of fairings and a big wing all designed to create downforce.
Even German car companies get it wrong sometimes, like Audi did with the first gen TT; a small but powerful car that became lethally unstable at top speed.
Of cars rhat have crashed at those speeds it can be quite hard to determine the make and model and retrieve more than 90% of the driver.
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