It’s just a much bigger country. While Europe is big, the countries are small and separated by their long national histories and unique languages. Europe is also much denser, so distances to stuff that matters are shorter.

UK: 30 miles in built-up areas, 70 miles on motorways. Most of Europe has 120 or 130 km/h (75 or 80 mph), except Germany which technically has no general speed limit on the Autobahn.