Check out this truly amazing film.

As described by Jerry Kindall:

On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur.

No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.

The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets.

Now, thanks to the miracle of the Internets, you can watch it in your browser.

And if you still need more speed after watching that (how could you?), go here.

(And here's a MeFi thread containing much knickers-in-a-twist, hand-wringing earnest discussion (go figure), but also some pretty cool links, such as this one.)