What's the fastest speed you've traveled in a car?

[aphex944]

After reading the highway speed poll, this had me interested. How fast have you traveled in a car, whether it be on the road or a track? To keep the discussion civil, you don't have to say where

The fastest I've been in a car is 166mph. After a certain point it became strangely quiet! I've experienced about two sprints up to 140-155mph since then, but nothing over 160.

 

[Patu]

230km/h which is about 143mph on some German highway.

 

[MaZa]

Short sprint of 170km/h with ex-my old -89 BMW 520i. Im not one who usually breaks speed limits, but just wanted to try what that old POS (not topspeed, but stability in highspeed) can do on lonely straight highway.

 

[nickknutson]

142mph.

 

[krmathis]

Legal: 225km/h (140mph) in several occasions on German Autobahn.
Illegal: 250km/h (155mph) on Norwegian roads (speed limit 90km/h). Even faster on two wheels...

 

[m_memmory]

Fastest I've ever driven is about 105mph at which point the car I was driving was shaking a bit (anything over 85-90 and the engine felt like I was thrashing it too much)

Fastest I've ever been with someone else driving? Probably about 120mph or there abouts.

 

[TVaudio]

144 mph according to speedometer, which was a certified version.

 

[chris_ah1]

155mph because that is what the car was limited at so all that V12 to waste

GPS SOG reported 153mph though.

The car was incredibly quiet and placid - much more so than during jump from 110 to 130.

 

[Dimitris]

280 Km/h in a Ferrari 348tb. Too bad I wasn't driving.

 

[digitalmind]

270km/h next to my dad in his toy, an '86 911 Turbo. He sold it a couple months ago, unfortunatly. That was in Germany.
182km/h (gps) in my car with me driving, in Germany. That's all it will do.

 

[Jahn]

Quote:

Originally Posted by m_memmory /img/forum/go_quote.gif Fastest I've ever driven is about 105mph at which point the car I was driving was shaking a bit (anything over 85-90 and the engine felt like I was thrashing it too much)

bingo! me being stupid in my old mustang on the way to atlantic city. of course it would have been faster but 1911 was weighing down the passenger seat!

 

[mjg]

180

3000 gt vr4. Atleast that's what the spedometer said.

 

[minktoast]

151mph when I hitched a lift up the M11 from London with a nutter in a BMW M series... the bends in the motor way felt like sharp turns. Terrifying.

 

[oicdn]

140 in a car. 168 indicated on my bike. Strangely enough, I'de go 168 on a bike before I would go 140 in a car anyday. I have this horrible feeling that the car will get a draft under it and flip it over...so I feel much safer at higher speeds on the bike....

But what's REALLY fun, is going 120 around a long sweeper. That'll put hair on your chest...

 

[Kirosia]

88 mph, damn '85 DeLorean