The fastest speed you have driven at?

crenz · Aug 13, 2003, 06:23 AM

Inspired by iJon's new car --
What's the fastest speed you have driven at yourself ?

For me, that would be 200 km/h (~ 120 mph). I had borrowed a Mazda MX-5 and made a nice trip with a friend. Didn't drive too long at that speed, though' since with a convertible, it is nicer to drive around 140 km/h (~ 84 mph).

edesignuk · Aug 13, 2003, 06:28 AM

approx. 110mph in my Mini Cooper down the A13 @ 3am!

eyelikeart · Aug 13, 2003, 07:16 AM

The fastest I've ever driven was about 125mph in my V6 Camry a few years ago.

In my current Matrix, I've barely broken 105mph.

robbieduncan · Aug 13, 2003, 07:48 AM

About 105 mph. Probably going to try and break it this weekend in France (as you do not get points on your license when caught there!)

scem0 · Aug 13, 2003, 07:54 AM

About 10 MPH down my driveway

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I'm in drivers ed so I hope to increase that speed soon

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scem0

evil · Aug 13, 2003, 07:57 AM

somewhere in the 100 mph range for me.

cb911 · Aug 13, 2003, 08:30 AM

whoa. we've got lots of people here that like to go fast!

the most i've gone is about 130... km/h. i'm still only on my provisional license, so if i got caught i think my license would be suspended for about a year or something. that would be a major bummer.

but when i get my motorbike... that's a completely different story. i'll be taking that beast to lots & lots of track days.

rainman::|:| · Aug 13, 2003, 08:41 AM

about 120 mph (the speedometer only goes to 80, this is estimating) on a '78 Nova, believe it or not... before that, 111, but I was a passenger. I think that was a dodge dynasty.

pnw

razorme · Aug 13, 2003, 09:13 AM

I've been at 215 km/h (135 mph) in two different cars - once was my bro's 300 ZX, the other was the 88' Toyota Supra.

I have only been about 180 km/h in my Solara - I cringe at all of the bugs that get smeared on the car when you go that fast!

Stelliform · Aug 13, 2003, 09:14 AM

Fastest I have been is around 100 in a Dodge Ramcharger. The Speedometer in the Dodge only goes to 83, but I had my friend in front of me in a Toyota Tercel.

It would have been faster, but I only had 1/2 of a mile of straight road. (Before a 90 degree turn)

Kyle? · Aug 13, 2003, 09:44 AM

Possibly 105 in a '92 Lincoln Continental. For some reason they stopped the digital speedometer at 85 mph (too many manufacturers do that). It's got a solid V6 in it and can get going quite fast, I just won't know how fast that is.

nospleen · Aug 13, 2003, 09:47 AM

Back in 97 I bought a brand new Z28 and my dad bought a new vette. He said, lets go found out how fast your Z will go. I said, okay if we can take your vette out next. My Z would only do 151, but his vette would do 172. Now that I have a daughter, I would never do that again...

Macmaniac · Aug 13, 2003, 09:55 AM

I hit 85 going down the West Virginia Interstate in my famalies 2000 Honda Oddesy minivan.
Yes its slow but I just got my permit

Pismo · Aug 13, 2003, 09:58 AM

I drove 110 mph in my dad's 1965 Ford Mustang on I-89 last summer. It was around midnight and I wouldn't dare drive that dast during the day.

Mudbug · Aug 13, 2003, 10:06 AM

heh - I used to have a BIG ramcharger with a 16" lift kit and BIG 44" mudders - it was the original Mudbug (where my name really came from, btw - it was my license plate) If the one you were driving was anything like mine, then 100 mph in it scared you witless - mine would start to shimmy and shake a good bit at anything over 80, but mostly from the soft tires...

I've done 150 in a Ferrari 308 GTB (think Magnum PI) that a friend owned when I was growing up in Baton Rouge - I want to try it again, in something just as supersweet...

jelloshotsrule · Aug 13, 2003, 10:14 AM

how big is your wang competition

maybe 95 mph

TEG · Aug 13, 2003, 10:34 AM

I don't know... My POS Taurus only reads up to 85, but I estimate 95, in Michigan, where if you're going 85, You'll get run over.

As A Passenger 115 on US23 Between Flint, MI and M-56.

And 175 in a Piper Cherokee, over my hometown.

TEG

bousozoku · Aug 13, 2003, 10:43 AM

130 mph regularly in a new 1980 Ford Mustang Turbo. It took all day to get there but it would hold the high end.

strider42 · Aug 13, 2003, 10:55 AM

I got up to 110 mph in a subaru station wagon, over a hundred in that thing a few times. Now I drive a saturn, so it can't go that fast (and I wouldn't trust it if it could). I've been in a car with my friend driving at over 120 mph in his '87 BMW 535is. crazy thing about that car was that you would feel the back end settle in at about 120 mph. It was more stable at that speed than at 110 or 100 it felt like. My next car will likely be a subaru wrx. and that sucker flies, so we'll have to see then.

robbieduncan · Aug 13, 2003, 10:55 AM

This guy beat most of us and he's blind!
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_808848.html

Powerbook G5 · Aug 13, 2003, 10:58 AM

In my Ford Probe GT, I've hit 120+, the speedometer only goes up to 120 but it goes much faster so I can't tell since I buried the needle long before I let off the gas...it was on an onramp outside of Orlando merging onto I-75 I believe. In my dad's Malibu, I've hit the max, 105, I hate those rev limiters! In my friend's Porsche 911, I hit 90 something before hitting a puddle and spinning...in his Lamborghini, I hit about 215 mph, though. It was on his dad's runway so we had lots of room to get up to speed. In my parent's Aztek, I hit maybe 95, the thing took forever to get up there. And in my boss' Mustang GT I hit 110. I love cars!

mstecker · Aug 13, 2003, 11:05 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by paulwhannel
about 120 mph (the speedometer only goes to 80, this is estimating) on a '78 Nova, believe it or not... before that, 111, but I was a passenger. I think that was a dodge dynasty.

pnw

There's just no way that a '78 Nova did 120mph. Unless it was seriously hopped up.

Me, I've a Porsche 928 that regularly hits 130 on the onramp to the expressway early in the morning. Heh.

Backtothemac · Aug 13, 2003, 11:10 AM

Three seperate occations.

A friend of mine in college had a Ferrari 512 BB. We got it up to 174MPH going to Birmingham on I20/59

I had a Taurus SHO with a SuperCharger and personally got it up to 168MPH, and Eye, you will know this road. Between Baton Rouge and Lafayette.

Going to Arizona in 1988, my Mustang GT 5.0 with SuperCharger 163MPH going across the Texas desert on I-10. Wow, there is nothing in west Texas from San Antonio to El Paso. Well, Ft. Stockton and Van Horn

Backtothemac · Aug 13, 2003, 11:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by mstecker
There's just no way that a '78 Nova did 120mph. Unless it was seriously hopped up.

Me, I've a Porsche 928 that regularly hits 130 on the onramp to the expressway early in the morning. Heh.

I had a 78 Nova Custom with a 350 and 4 barrel stock, and it would do 126.

Kwyjibo · Aug 13, 2003, 11:13 AM

In my friends boxster we got to about 135 going down to school and we kept it there for like ten minutes but then we were afraid of getting pulled over. Nothing like making a 2hr trip in 1 hr 10 minutes

Aug 13, 2003, 06:23 AM	#1
crenz macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Stuttgart, Germany	The fastest speed you have driven at? Inspired by iJon's new car -- What's the fastest speed you have driven at yourself ? For me, that would be 200 km/h (~ 120 mph). I had borrowed a Mazda MX-5 and made a nice trip with a friend. Didn't drive too long at that speed, though' since with a convertible, it is nicer to drive around 140 km/h (~ 84 mph).

Aug 13, 2003, 06:28 AM	#2
edesignuk Demi-God (Moderator emeritus) Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Great(?) Britain	approx. 110mph in my Mini Cooper down the A13 @ 3am! __________________ Search before you post: MRoogle **Better BBC Search**

Aug 13, 2003, 07:48 AM	#4
robbieduncan macrumors Demi-God Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: London	About 105 mph. Probably going to try and break it this weekend in France (as you do not get points on your license when caught there!) __________________ My App Store Apps: DLR Times

Aug 13, 2003, 08:30 AM	#7
cb911 macrumors 68040 Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: BrisVegas, Australia	whoa. we've got lots of people here that like to go fast! the most i've gone is about 130... km/h. i'm still only on my provisional license, so if i got caught i think my license would be suspended for about a year or something. that would be a major bummer. but when i get my motorbike... that's a completely different story. i'll be taking that beast to lots & lots of track days. __________________ Thankyou Mr George Hotz for the 1.1.2 & 1.1.3 OTB iPhone unlock solution!

Aug 13, 2003, 09:14 AM	#10
Stelliform macrumors 68000 Join Date: Oct 2002	Fastest I have been is around 100 in a Dodge Ramcharger. The Speedometer in the Dodge only goes to 83, but I had my friend in front of me in a Toyota Tercel. It would have been faster, but I only had 1/2 of a mile of straight road. (Before a 90 degree turn) __________________ Obi-Wan - "Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."

Aug 13, 2003, 07:16 AM	#3
eyelikeart Demi-God (Moderator emeritus) Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Metairie, LA	The fastest I've ever driven was about 125mph in my V6 Camry a few years ago. In my current Matrix, I've barely broken 105mph.

Aug 13, 2003, 07:54 AM	#5
scem0 macrumors 601 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: back in NYC!	About 10 MPH down my driveway . I'm in drivers ed so I hope to increase that speed soon . scem0

Aug 13, 2003, 07:57 AM	#6
evil Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: chicago ex-toronto	somewhere in the 100 mph range for me.

Aug 13, 2003, 08:41 AM	#8
rainman::\|:\| macrumors 601 Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: iowa	about 120 mph (the speedometer only goes to 80, this is estimating) on a '78 Nova, believe it or not... before that, 111, but I was a passenger. I think that was a dodge dynasty. pnw

Aug 13, 2003, 09:13 AM	#9
razorme macrumors regular Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: NW Calgary, AB	I've been at 215 km/h (135 mph) in two different cars - once was my bro's 300 ZX, the other was the 88' Toyota Supra. I have only been about 180 km/h in my Solara - I cringe at all of the bugs that get smeared on the car when you go that fast!

Aug 13, 2003, 09:44 AM	#11
Kyle? macrumors 6502a Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: MI	Possibly 105 in a '92 Lincoln Continental. For some reason they stopped the digital speedometer at 85 mph (too many manufacturers do that). It's got a solid V6 in it and can get going quite fast, I just won't know how fast that is. __________________ We start, then, with nothing, pure zero. But this is not the nothing of negation. For not means other than, and other is merely a synonym of the ordinal numeral second. As such it implies a first; while the present pure zero is prior to every first. The nothing of negation is the nothing of death, which comes second to, or after, everything. But this pure zero is the nothing of not having been born. There is no individual thing, no compulsion, outward nor inward, no law. It is the germinal nothing, in which the whole universe is involved or foreshadowed. As such, it is absolutely undefined and unlimited possibility -- boundless possibility. There is no compulsion and no law. It is boundless freedom. -Charles S. Peirce www.nothing.com

Aug 13, 2003, 09:47 AM	#12
nospleen macrumors 68000 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Texas	Back in 97 I bought a brand new Z28 and my dad bought a new vette. He said, lets go found out how fast your Z will go. I said, okay if we can take your vette out next. My Z would only do 151, but his vette would do 172. Now that I have a daughter, I would never do that again...

Aug 13, 2003, 09:55 AM	#13
Macmaniac macrumors 68040 Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: A tiny spec in the "Garden State", 1 square mile in area, somewhere on the outskirts of town by the railroad tracks	I hit 85 going down the West Virginia Interstate in my famalies 2000 Honda Oddesy minivan. Yes its slow but I just got my permit __________________ The customer is NOT always right

Aug 13, 2003, 09:58 AM	#14
Pismo macrumors 6502 Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: NH	I drove 110 mph in my dad's 1965 Ford Mustang on I-89 last summer. It was around midnight and I wouldn't dare drive that dast during the day.

Aug 13, 2003, 10:06 AM	#15
Mudbug macrumors god Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Northwest Louisiana	heh - I used to have a BIG ramcharger with a 16" lift kit and BIG 44" mudders - it was the original Mudbug (where my name really came from, btw - it was my license plate) If the one you were driving was anything like mine, then 100 mph in it scared you witless - mine would start to shimmy and shake a good bit at anything over 80, but mostly from the soft tires... I've done 150 in a Ferrari 308 GTB (think Magnum PI) that a friend owned when I was growing up in Baton Rouge - I want to try it again, in something just as supersweet... __________________ happy thankschrismahanakwaanzicasmasgiving.

Aug 13, 2003, 10:14 AM	#16
jelloshotsrule macrumors Demi-God Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: serendipity	how big is your wang competition maybe 95 mph __________________ until the last lock breaks, none of us are free

Aug 13, 2003, 10:34 AM	#17
TEG macrumors 601 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Langley, Washington	I don't know... My POS Taurus only reads up to 85, but I estimate 95, in Michigan, where if you're going 85, You'll get run over. As A Passenger 115 on US23 Between Flint, MI and M-56. And 175 in a Piper Cherokee, over my hometown. TEG __________________ Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation-Steve Jobs The Tegian Zone-Wikipedia

Aug 13, 2003, 10:43 AM	#18
bousozoku Retired (Moderator emeritus) Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Gone but not forgotten.	130 mph regularly in a new 1980 Ford Mustang Turbo. It took all day to get there but it would hold the high end.

Aug 13, 2003, 10:55 AM	#19
strider42 macrumors 65816 Join Date: Feb 2002	I got up to 110 mph in a subaru station wagon, over a hundred in that thing a few times. Now I drive a saturn, so it can't go that fast (and I wouldn't trust it if it could). I've been in a car with my friend driving at over 120 mph in his '87 BMW 535is. crazy thing about that car was that you would feel the back end settle in at about 120 mph. It was more stable at that speed than at 110 or 100 it felt like. My next car will likely be a subaru wrx. and that sucker flies, so we'll have to see then.

Aug 13, 2003, 10:58 AM	#21
Powerbook G5 macrumors 68040 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: St Augustine, FL	In my Ford Probe GT, I've hit 120+, the speedometer only goes up to 120 but it goes much faster so I can't tell since I buried the needle long before I let off the gas...it was on an onramp outside of Orlando merging onto I-75 I believe. In my dad's Malibu, I've hit the max, 105, I hate those rev limiters! In my friend's Porsche 911, I hit 90 something before hitting a puddle and spinning...in his Lamborghini, I hit about 215 mph, though. It was on his dad's runway so we had lots of room to get up to speed. In my parent's Aztek, I hit maybe 95, the thing took forever to get up there. And in my boss' Mustang GT I hit 110. I love cars! __________________ iMac, therefore, iAm.

Aug 13, 2003, 11:10 AM	#23
Backtothemac macrumors 68040 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lafayette, Louisiana	Three seperate occations. A friend of mine in college had a Ferrari 512 BB. We got it up to 174MPH going to Birmingham on I20/59 I had a Taurus SHO with a SuperCharger and personally got it up to 168MPH, and Eye, you will know this road. Between Baton Rouge and Lafayette. Going to Arizona in 1988, my Mustang GT 5.0 with SuperCharger 163MPH going across the Texas desert on I-10. Wow, there is nothing in west Texas from San Antonio to El Paso. Well, Ft. Stockton and Van Horn __________________ MacBook 2.4GHZ 3GB Ram 320GB HD

Aug 13, 2003, 11:13 AM	#25
Kwyjibo macrumors 68040 Join Date: Nov 2002	In my friends boxster we got to about 135 going down to school and we kept it there for like ten minutes but then we were afraid of getting pulled over. Nothing like making a 2hr trip in 1 hr 10 minutes

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