This is a real problem over here, which make many people very angry. Indeed, in Germany the fees and punishments for reckless, agressively and/or drunken driving are, compared with many other countries, ridicolous low weak. Even if you have killed someone, and if you have a tricky lawyer, it will be done for you with paying a few hundreds or thousands of Euro and loosing you license for some months.

It happens not very often, that the judge confiscates your license for the rest of you life. And only sometimes, that you car will be confiscated and sold (for example here:
http://www.zoll-auktion.de/auktion/auktionsuebersicht.php?katid=191&erste_seite=ja ) or used by the police or other authorities, too.
I just had a short look on this page and I have seen, that the most offered cars or good were formerly used by the authorities, or they were confiscated, because the former owner couldn't pay any more their loans and debts (usually, when they were offered from a "Finanzamt" or so).

And if someone will be send to jail as punishment for his driving (than mainly, when he had caused the death of someone), this happens quite rarely in Germany, so rarely, that it's worth to be published in the newspapers. Very often a very shameful situation over here.