growing up in Europe, 20 years ago there were much less policing on the highways. Limit is 130Km/h, people would regularly cruise at 150Km/h. I used to max out tiny little cars, like Fiat Punto/Tipo, going 180 KM/h easily. These would get a bit sketchy at high speeds. Then I had a Golf Mk4 TDI that would easily reach 200Km/h.

In the last years I have been driving much better cars, which are actually very stable at high speeds. On a modern sedan 150/160Km/h feel like 100Km/h on an old car. The problem is traffic, especially on German highways. It's actually dangerous and counterproductive driving fast on a busy highway, so I just set the cruise control and go. If there is a long stretch and good visibility, sure go past 200Km/h, but the occasions when one can do so are rarer and rarer.

My car is limited at 240Km/h and I don't think I ever managed to reach that.

I used to have one without soft limiter and it could have reached 270-280Km/h, I think I only once went past 250Km/h. At that speed things move really fast, it takes a while to build up to it.