The Fastest you've driven?

Hi guys

I like driving fast and because I live near the german boarder I often get over there to flat out my car.

Fastest I have been was in a rented Alfa Romeo 166 3.0 V6 doing 255 km/h (159 mph) on the Autobahn A81 between Singen and Stuttgart.

Here are the links to the pics:
http://medlem.tripodnet.nu/need4speed/pics/michael_lusk255.jpg
http://medlem.tripodnet.nu/need4speed/pics/michael_lusk250.jpg

I have driven several cars until today and of course I ve seen topspeed and made pics from all of them (You can see all of them on http://come.to/need4speed). Here are the figures:

Seat Leon 1.8 T 20V, 240 km/h
Volvo S60 2.4 A, 225 km/h
Fiat Punto GT, 225 km/h
Opel Astra Caravan 1.6, 210 km/h
Renault Clio 1.4, 202 km/h
Mazda 121, 180 km/h
VW Beetle, 136 km/h

Send in also pics of your car to prove how fast you have really been.

many regards
Michael

Well,
On a track :-

175 mph Dodge Viper GTS
180 mph Ferrari 355 F1
195 mph Race prepared Lotus Espirit V8 twin turbo
165ish mph Porsche 911 Carrera 2



On the road :-

130 mph 2002 330d sport
125 mph Vauxhall Vectra 2.5 V6

I have gone 90 in my 325xi. I have never had the courage to go over the 100 mark!

I have a 95 Corolla and I've done 100 in it! If I had a 325 or any 3 series for that matter I'd be going a LOT faster all the time! :D Use your power for the people who don't have it!

110 on I-15 chasing an E55, but i laid off because i saw lights up ahead. when i passed going to speed limit he took off backwards for some reason and went off the off ramp going really fast. the E55 is some girls moms car that goes to my school. her dad has a 288 GTO, 360, 360 spider, 550 barchetta, lambo Mioura (sp?)

Originally posted by Bubs5


I have a 95 Corolla and I've done 100 in it! If I had a 325 or any 3 series for that matter I'd be going a LOT faster all the time! :D Use your power for the people who don't have it!


haha bubs

Originally posted by snorlaxtowncar
92- nice! when I went 90, it was in the interstate where the speed limit was 55- what was the speed limit where you went 92?

I was going 92 in a 45. But since the time I posted my first message, I have gotten up to 115 on the same stretch of road.

About 170 driving my uncle's '99 Lotus Esprit. Long straight road, wondering if I'm gonna die. You should try it:flash:

In my younger years - had a pinto that would do 120.
Got a ticket doing 128 in a '71 LTD - didn't know that things that big could go that fast!
Biggest rush was doing over 145 in a Datsun 260Z. Took forever to get it stopped!
Just got rid of a '70 Mustang I had in Japan - Old, but it'd still do 120 when I could find a road big enough and clear enought to open it up on.

146 mph (235km/h) with our '90 Lexus LS400:cool: on German Autobahn (means legal)

156 Km/h in a VW Golf GTi, there is a thread in Honda/Acura Asia Pacific forum (What car has always been on your want list?) look at that for more info

115 in a '98 dodge avenger
113 in a '02 dodge intrepid
112 in a '96 ford taurus
120 on the back of a flathead harley davidson
105 in my own '92 plymouth acclaim

i've gotten to 140 in my si..
150 in my old gsr
155 in my buddies rx-7
159 or so in my s2000
and 165 in an nsx once.. and it scared the hell out of me... :eek:
but i loved it :D

100 MPH, Stock Holden TF Gemini

140 kp/h, this was my toyota corona btw... along a moderate stretch of backstreet at 2am in the morning... handled like a tank past 100 but she got there in the end...

i've also done 130 in my friends chrysler galant (its little 1.5L was SCREAMING!!)... the backstreet has a few kerbs that you have to slow down for, so i popped it back to 3rd, the engine kicked up a few thousand revs, tyres were screaming (coz they were bald)... its pretty much stopped me from doing stuff like that again... or until i can get a car thats meant to perform well at high speeds...

this was all done a few days after i got my liscence, so i was fairly inexperienced at the time...

i've buried the needle in my civic way past te 130mph @ like 6200 rpm. so i'd say somewhere around 140 something.

115 in a 25 once before on a road called rollercoaster hill. it goes downhill and then up sharply giving the feeling of riding a coaster. the G forces are INTENSE.

110 chasing a mustang on ocean ave. (30mph zone) i proceeded to pass him on a turn at about 80mph.

170+ on a friends 'busa when i questioned its capability of speed. i felt it had more but i was NOT about to go any faster. (i was scared shitless as it was)

about 55 was the top for me ...but thats cuz im 15 and my mom wouldnt let me drive any faster..but when im 16...i think 105-110 on I-81 would work ;) :) :D

but i have ridden in a E46 M3 of a friend of mines and been to the 120 mark and then saw cops. And a friend of my dads has a race tuned Esprit road car and i rode in that and got to 180 and then i was shitting my pants and hoping not to die

I have been way past 200 km/h :frog:

Okay so I was cruising my mom's 1998 Ford Escort ES Sport(about 92 horsepower to the wheels,a real man's car)on the highway going about 70-75 mph.I come across this rig going about 55.Well you know the phrase,Can't Drive 55,so I whip into the left lane(two-way road)and get on it.About halfway through the trailer(The Escort only took about a minute or two on good days to pass rigs.A true muscle car.)I see a Mack blasting right for me.So I rev the gutsy four cylinder to the point that the powerfull buzzing from the engine almost blew me ears out.I flip it over into the right lane just in time,the huge 13" tigerpaws screeching and pawing for traction.Threw all this conclusion,I realized I had not checked the speedo.96 mph!!!!Trust me,you will never know true performance untill you've revved an Escort to a whooping 96 mph.I became a man that day. :grey:

159mph RX-7 Turbo II
112mph RX-7 R1 Competition Yellow
100mph RX-7 Savanna GSL-SE

Need guts to go more than 160mph.....scary man!!!

Hit the 250 KM/h limiter in the MB 400SE. Whee! I love having the Autobahn nearby.

{tm}
It can growl. Oh yes it can.

I regulary do 90-100mph on the B-roads going to work in the UK. Standard Focus.

The fastest was 140mph (probably 125-130 real speed) in my Civic VTi (B16a 160 bhp). It was a clear evening on the Motorway with 3 lanes to myself with about 500rpm to the redline then I sh*t it.

the fastest, it was arround 230kmh (140mph) with an Alfa 166 V6 Turbo.
But usually, I don't overpass 170 (105 mph) on the highway in order to avoid fines and radars.

Originally posted by Stefanel1
the fastest, it was arround 230kmh (140mph) with an Alfa 166 V6 Turbo.
But usually, I don't overpass 170 (105 mph) on the highway in order to avoid fines and radars.

you can go 105 without paying fines?

Ive toped out a 93 R1 FD3S on the A6 Autobahn hedding to Landstule..it was fun:)

You can. The speed limit (on the higway) is, in France, 85 mph, but the radars are set on 100 mph. You can drive faster if you want : there are not as many radars as in England or, worse, in the USA.
In Italy, it's better, the spid limit is 95 mph (with a tolerance too).
The best is, of course in Germany, where there are not speed limit.

I hit about 115 in my Cutlass one night and it still had a bit left, but I was on Highway 83 where the speed limit is 65 so I decided not to try to max it out.

with my dad's mercedes 190E, the fastest was 150kmh while i was driving

Originally posted by Stefanel1
the fastest, it was arround 230kmh (140mph) with an Alfa 166 V6 Turbo.
But usually, I don't overpass 170 (105 mph) on the highway in order to avoid fines and radars.

A 166 V6 Turbo :eek: :eek: :eek: Do tell me more:eek:

This 166 is a 2.0 V6 Turbo 205hp. Very nice car and... very nice motor, as every time by Alfa Romeo ! 0-60mph : 7,9 sec. max speed : 155 mph.
It's the car of my sister's husband.
You feel the turbo when you're accelerating. It's an exceptional car, nice to drive. But, it's not very big inside (for the size of the car), worse than a 5 series !
On the little roads, it's almost agile like a little GTI. And on the Highway, perfect stability and you can go quite fast without knowing it ;)
Finally, i can't forget to speak about the motor's song, so nice.
And I hope I will be able to buy a 156 around 2004.

and no comment ;) (arround 180mph)

The max in a car would be the 290 km/h I've done in my brothers Audi S2 with +/- 440 bhp.
We haven't topped it yet... It keeps on going!

The max I've done on a bike would be the 327 km/h I've done on a non-standard Hayabusa.
The original speedometer only goes up to 300 km/h but I mounted a cat-eye bike speedometer and those are very accurate.

The max speed I've done wheelying is 227 km/h underneath a bridge-restaurant on a Dutch highway. :cool:

:D 135 ... then i ran out of road :mad:

that was crusing speed... i am sure i passed that speed but after i braked a little and look at the dash thats what a saw.

I am not sure. I would say over 140. The speedo had wrapped around back to 35MPH and the spedo tops out at 125MPH, and the engine had some more room to go.

I took my mother's 2002 Ford Escape XLT up to 100-mph once. That thing kicks ass. It's Duretec 32-valve twin-cam V6 has got 200-hp stock & will haul. It's the front-wheel drive version so it pulls harder & is lighter. I think it's good for a high 16 in the 1/4. That don't sound like much, but for me....:sun:

ouh... 100 mph, that's pretty fast :D

Believe me, in a big clumsy Escape, it feels like 230-mph. :flash:

maybe... drive an X5 ;)

maybe... drive an X5 ;)

Well, a X5's not exactly in the same class as an Escape. A X5 would eat an Escape whole & spit out the Chassis.... :licker:

169mph on the digital in my friends Corvette...This Corvette to be exact...

http://www.geocities.com/teamxrpm/P1010028.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/teamxrpm/P1010029.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/teamxrpm/P1010022.JPG

It's the purple Pace Car in the last pic:D

... I don't really know the Escape ;)

I went with my Delta to 200kmh last Friday. The rest at arround 170-180.

MY MAX WAS 120MPH IN MY 94 NISSAN NX2000

Winter of 1974/75:

A freind had a real oddball... a 1958 Chrysler 300D onto which had been dropped the rear body of the same year Plymouth station wagon. Still had the cool front end, and the 392 Hemi with 2 four-barrels, but a light body and I suspect slightly more aerodynamic. I hit 150mph one afternoon on the freeway.... on bias-ply tires. That should've scared the *** out of me.

just this past week like tuesday I think it was I was doing 95 on this country back road. Doesn't sound impressive but read on. I was coming up on a long sweeping turn so I slowed down to 90 and then about half way through it I got back up to 95 anyway my friend starts telling me to get over. I was focused and didn't listen to him so I look ahead and there's a dip in the pavement that's like 10 feet long, not a sharp dip just a smooth dip in the pavement. anyway I didn't want to swerve so I hit it, the suspension botttomed out completely and when I came out of it the car had to leave the ground by at least 5 inches cause the engine reved and it landed hard as shit. anyway I've had it up to 120 but this incident was more exciting.

240+kph on the nullibor plains in a 1980 XD Spac

at 240 i ran out of speedo so i dont know if i was goin faster than that

in my 97 z-28 6/speed i was burying the needle on 150. 150 speedo isnot enough in that car. damn you chevrolet!:smoka:

The fastest I've ever driven is about 130 in my 87 Celica. It scared the livin sh!t outta me! :eek: I was racin a couple friends, one friend's CRX topped out a 100, and the other kids car passed me. I believe he topped out a 140. I never did that again!

The fastest I've done in my Mitsubishi Spyder is 105, it had more room to go but I had enough. I didn't want to risks wrecking it or killing myself, I had just bought it. :)

*94* accord,
Fastest 118,
4th gear 5 thousand
5th gear same speed much lower
I have a limiter at this speed...Can go faster and want to car feels very smooth at this speed. I gotta get that thing removed.

153 mph. Took me a while, but the 6-speed helped.

i did the 240+ in a 4 speed (gearbox didnt like it)

:o80-90-100, those are daily crusing speeds for me when driving around the nations capitol, but anything faster then that is very risky. State Troopers are hard pressed to catch "speeders" especially at night and when it's even remotly warm. Thats in fact due to all those bastard copy-cat kids who think they're auditioning for the next Fast & Furious :rolleyes:

However there are ways around this, and my top speed has been around 140ish on my 1996 Avalon @ around 4000rpm in 4th, before i ran out of road, and i've yet to try and max since. My 2000 i've only taken up to 127 just because it feels so floaty and out of control at anything over 120mph.

well here in germany as you know we have NO speed limits out of the cities


so in my bmw z3 i daily reach top speed of about 230kmh that are hm
135-140 mph
in our bmw 540 i also drive very often 260 (it´s not limited any more)
thats about 160 mph

in my uncle´s 993 turbo S i reachedeasily more than 180 mph

ahhhh... the free germans highways.... wish we had that over here )

In corolla .. toll road .. 160-190 kmh .. about 100-120 mph
In MB E-class .. toll road ... 210 kmh ... about 130 mph
In BMW 7 series .. toll road .. 200 kmh .. about 124 mph
Test Drove Maserati 3200 matic .. toll road .. 200 kmh .. about 124 mph

Wish there are many autobahn here .... i can go flat out ... :mad: :( :) :D

As I see you're Irish, I've a question for you BMW-hamman : are your speed limits in mph or in kmh ? I'm not sure... ;) even if i went in this beautiful country 6 or 7 years ago. Belfast was ot the best, but the rest was beautiful, nice country, but I'm not a fan of the Guinness :D

Teh fastest on the road was about 140-ish-mph, but on the race track I have been about 200mph, in a racing Diablo.

Originally posted by Stefanel1
As I see you're Irish, I've a question for you BMW-hamman : are your speed limits in mph or in kmh ? I'm not sure... ;) even if i went in this beautiful country 6 or 7 years ago. Belfast was ot the best, but the rest was beautiful, nice country, but I'm not a fan of the Guinness :D

Stefanel .. I am Indonesian Chinese .. :) ... speed limitss .. ehh .. in KMH but nobody cares here .. as long as you have the space ... u can flat out ... but the problem is the toll road condition is not smooth and too many crazy drivers ... hahhahahah .. :) ... that's why I said I wish I have the German Autobahn .. that I just went there A few days ago in my business trip ... ;) :D

You put an Irish flag in your profile ;)

Indonesia is wonderfull, my godfather worked there for TotalFinaElf for about 6 years.
Speed limits in Germany are indeed quite smart, overall on the highways :D
Come here to say hello when you'll be in Paris :D ;)

Originally posted by Stefanel1
You put an Irish flag in your profile ;)

Indonesia is wonderfull, my godfather worked there for TotalFinaElf for about 6 years.
Speed limits in Germany are indeed quite smart, overall on the highways :D
Come here to say hello when you'll be in Paris :D ;)

upppss .. :eek: ... so sorry .. I didn't check it ... :p

Total Fina Elf? .. is that an oil company? ... :) ..

When i was in German (Munich and Hamburg) .. I took the taxi from airport to hotel .. the taxi was an old E class (1989 maybe) diesel non turbo and the suspension almost give I think .. but the driver ran it 160 kmh on the autobahn and felt ok ... coz the autobahn was so smooth .. so amazing .. :) ..

I had a French Customer but they gave up a year ago .. I tried to contacted but nobody answers the phone ... If they still active for sure I'll be visit Paris too .. This time I only went to German, Spain, Italy, and USA .. suppose to be in Shanghai now but I cancelled it ... u know .. bcoz of the virus .. that's why I can post tonight .. and thank u for your kindness .. If I have plan to come to Paris I will inform u stefanel .. :)

TotalFinaElf is one of the main oil company in the world ;)

160kmh, it's not fast on an highway (i don't know the Indonesian highways though ;) ). But in France, you can also drive untill 160 without problems with the radars.

This virus is quite dangerous :(