The Fastest you've driven?

[pimprolla112]

not sure how fast i was going but im going to say 115 in my 91 rolla, damn that was scary loaded down with about 400lbs of newspapers, motor was screaming. NOt sure in my blazer friend said we were doing 110 my speedo stops at 85 but it was leaned the fuck out doing 4700 rpm on the tach considering it redlines at like 5200 motor was running hot for a little while.

Fastest ive ridden 155 in a 95 supratt damn that was fun.

[XR6TURBO]

Took my XR6 Turbo to 190 but it wants to go more and i know it will

[SeaWarrior]

ha!

[tryckedout]

fastest i've been was 104mph. that was in a 94 toyota corolla. that car had very little power but once it started going, that thing could weave on a freeway like no other.

that car is dead now (RIP) and my weaving days are over (at the ripe old age of 20).

[tryckedout]

Originally Posted by XR6TURBO

Took my XR6 Turbo to 190 but it wants to go more and i know it will

190? geeze, i wish i could get to that speed. i wonder if i'd get sick at all. how do speeds above 150 affect health? do they at all?

[dave92cherokee]

Took a 2002 Mustang GT 5 speed for a test drive when they first came out and got on I840 down here and had the speedo pegged out and kept gaining speed so I'm guessing it was about 160 or so. Fun part was is that it caught 4th gear at 80mph on the interstate and you could hear the tires chirp from it snatching it. What's even better than that is the car salesman was in the backseat while I was doing this and he was wanting me to keep going faster but we ran out of interstate.

[deadbolt_35]

Originally Posted by tryckedout

190? geeze, i wish i could get to that speed. i wonder if i'd get sick at all. how do speeds above 150 affect health? do they at all?

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while i'm no expert on the subject, i would imagine that if you're pregnant or nursing, or if you have heart problems, i would not attempt to drive at speeds of over 150mph

[SeaWarrior]

Originally Posted by deadbolt_35

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while i'm no expert on the subject, i would imagine that if you're pregnant or nursing, or if you have heart problems, i would not attempt to drive at speeds of over 150mph

see your doctor before you try speedtrilixol...

[TRD2000]

lol until trains and cars people thought the human body was simply unable to travel faster than 50mph.... any faster would undoubtably kill you.

re heart probs etc... i would suggest it is entirely to do with how stressed it makes you. it would be a LOT scarier if there was things to run into or you may have to stop than say on a salt pan. And if you do it a lot you are probably (health wise) at a lot less risk. IE. micheal shumacher would be a LOT more relaxed than me at speeds of 190mph. I'd crap myself i imagine.

[Hofmeister]

I've done 250km/h in a 2006 BMW M5 in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec (on the back straight - 4 of us were in it!!). Use to work for BMW Canada on the Driver Training program.

[deadbolt_35]

Originally Posted by TRD2000

IE. micheal shumacher would be a LOT more relaxed than me at speeds of 190mph. I'd crap myself i imagine.

i've always wondered what it's like for racecar drivers after driving at 200mph in these hyperperformance racecars all day, and then having to drive home at 70mph in normal, passenger cars

[cody_e]

Originally Posted by deadbolt_35

i've always wondered what it's like for racecar drivers after driving at 200mph in these hyperperformance racecars all day, and then having to drive home at 70mph in normal, passenger cars

They get dehydrated and sometimes need IV's.

[deadbolt_35]

Originally Posted by cody_e

They get dehydrated and sometimes need IV's.

yeah, i've heard they even will lose a couple pounds during the course of the race, but that's not quite what i was getting at.

i was just thinking that the stark contrast of driving +200mph for hours at a time and then having to drive at normal highway speeds would be something you'd have to get used to

[Millermagic]

80 by mistake in an 06 Focus SES with the 2.0. I wasn't really paying attention to anything. I just put my foot where I would in my car and let off once I would be up to the speed limit in my car. Aparently, I had my foot in a little too far for a little too long. And the fastest in my car was 75 when I got stuck inbetween two log trucks in the middle of no where.

I got the lead foot, don't I?

[Alibi]

I don't really know for sure since my speedo only went up to 85, but I was following my girlfriend's dad on his Harley and he was going 130mph... I actually caught up to him from behind so I must have been around 140 or so...part of this was downhill so I'm sure that took some of the strain off the engine.

I've got that engine in a T-type now w/ a 100mph speedo so I still wont know for sure how fast it can go.

And this was in my '90 Oldsmoble 88 with a 3.8 ...before I wrecked it...