how fast have you ever driven/riden?

[alkemyst]

I didn't experience that at all at least not at that speed (not that I can remember anyway)....that car did once lose it's front driveshaft knuckle and I could have catapulted....it broke the transmission housing when it swung into it.

I also got clocked at 127 in that car and luckily got out of the ticket (I was about 17 at the time maybe 18).

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[jpeyton]

120MPH as the driver.

I5 south between Wilsonville and Woodburn

 

[skyking]

I had some directional michelins on the front, and it still got funny up there. The Challenger went light on me, then right around at that speed. might have been a crappy component though.
It got light in a lane change and continued off the edge of the freeway, got it back up on pavement, went twice around and stayed on freeway. Somehow I survived it, and it stopped backed into a guardrail for a bridge, causing a baseball-sized dent in the lower valance. I had the road to myself, thank goodness, but this stuff happens at that speed. Usually it ends in a single car accident, fatality, no witnesses. I got really lucky.

 

[Freejack2]

250mph, Yugo off a long cliff just before impact. I was smushed flat as a pancake at impact, luckily I was able to put my thumb in my mouth and blow myself back up.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: Freejack2
250mph, Yugo off a long cliff just before impact. I was smushed flat as a pancake at impact, luckily I was able to put my thumb in my mouth and blow myself back up.

No way!! terminal velocity of the yugo has ben proven to be 179.7 MPH!
I'll find the link somewhere, Yugo drop test from C-130....................

 

[Ultima]

110mph in my Mazda Protege,
130mph in my friend's V8 Camaro

 

[Noirish]

110 mph VW Jetta VR6.

 

[MrScott81]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: scottdog81
I have a hard time believing some of these stories......140 in a maxima, and 125 in a sentra.....125 in civic? LOL....there's a lot more, but I just think most of these aren't very true.

I got to 130 in my 2k3 Tiburon

Why don't you believe those other's but we are to believe your 130 in a Tiburon?

Anyways....130-150 isn't very fast to me if I am on an expressway.

My driven speeds are 127-135 in a 1966 Mustang GT, constantly at around 120mph or so in my 1988 GT, around 140 in my GTI VR6, speed limiter on my 1996 Saturn SC2 (122mph or something)....

ridden at about 160mph in a custom car (little coupe body and a chevy LT1 from a corvette)

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cuz most of those cars are 4 bangers with less than 130 horsepower.......

and yes, my tiburon can hit 130 (the 2k3 and 2k4 now have V6's with 190hp)

 

[damiano]

250 km/h in an M5 in France (in the passenger seat)
as driver probably like 200 km/h in the same M5

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: MeanMeosh
driven 133 or so (+/- 1 mph) in my 95 stock mazda mx-6
drive 100+ mph on the way home from college all the time (4 hours of rural area... 150 cows and 3 car on a 4 hour drive isnt a bad number usually.)

edit: when i was going 133, i hit a rather big hill, or else who knows how fast it could have gone =/ it was ungoverned and still had a good 3k rpm left.

Your speedo must be way off. There is no way an MX-6 could have been at 3500-4000 rpm at 133mph!

 

[FrOsTxxbYtE]

160 KPH in a DISCOUNT rental van

 

[Ynog]

Driving

85+ I95 in Florida.

Just going with traffic. I say 85+ because my speedometer only goes to 85, so I don't know how fast I was going.
But I doubt it was over 100. Probably mid 90s.


Passenger

110, on a bridge to boot. I kindly informed the driver that
I would prefer the speed alittle lower, atleast on the bridge.

 

[FrOsTxxbYtE]

160 KPH in a DISCOUNT rental van

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: scottdog81

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: scottdog81
I have a hard time believing some of these stories......140 in a maxima, and 125 in a sentra.....125 in civic? LOL....there's a lot more, but I just think most of these aren't very true.

I got to 130 in my 2k3 Tiburon

Why don't you believe those other's but we are to believe your 130 in a Tiburon?

Anyways....130-150 isn't very fast to me if I am on an expressway.

My driven speeds are 127-135 in a 1966 Mustang GT, constantly at around 120mph or so in my 1988 GT, around 140 in my GTI VR6, speed limiter on my 1996 Saturn SC2 (122mph or something)....

ridden at about 160mph in a custom car (little coupe body and a chevy LT1 from a corvette)

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cuz most of those cars are 4 bangers with less than 130 horsepower.......

and yes, my tiburon can hit 130 (the 2k3 and 2k4 now have V6's with 190hp)

Maxima has 255hp recently, 190 a few years ago.

 

[damiano]

Originally posted by: FrOsTxxbYtE
160 KPH in a DISCOUNT rental van

noob
double post with long enough time between the two clicks for another member to post

 

[DerwenArtos12]

~140 ona motorcycle
~200in a 53 chevy witha 572 crate engine and supercharger. ford 9" rear axle but down to about 2.5' wide with 2' wide tires to help keep the smoke down.

BTW, neigther of which are mine and I sure as hell wasn't driving the 53 chevy.

 

[Walleye]

100 in a 84 camry


(it had a significantly steep incline i was going down... anyone know the hill descending on north county fair coming south on the... 15 i think it is, in san diego county?)

(since the speedometer registers 110% of actual speed, it was registering 110 when i got to the bottom of the incline)


120 on the back of my dad's 73 BMW motorcycle. opposed twin cylinders = cool. lots of surface area for lots of cooling.


edit: i wasnt driving the motorcycle, so it doesnt really count.

so we'll set this as i went 100 under the power of a car i controlled.

 

[BigJimbo]

97 GSXR 600

185-190ish that was on highway
ive gotten around 140 in half a$$ traffic
and done about 160mph running from po

bike toped out couldnt go any faster without risking blowing my motor...and at that speed....your dont wanna do anything stupid

 

[matt426malm]

100mph in my chevy s-10

 

[FuZoR]

i never drove more then 80mph... living in a huge city.. don't think there are any areas that will give me a oppurtunity to drive 100+

lol

 

[Gravity]

147 in my '98 328i bmw. Speed is electronically limited. I added a software mod to impact the air/fuel ratio and eliminated the to speed limiter.

The car starts getting light at about 135. 145 she felt like it was flying. 147 cause I new it could do better than 145 and I didn't want to have to come back and do it all over again!

 

[DeadSeaSquirrels]

I was on a back of a motorcycle (SV650) at 100mph...405 Freeway in CA to Santa Monica.

Felt safer than driving a Ford Expedition, but I did think about falling and how utterly impossible it would be to live afterwards.

 

[DrPizza]

driver: 85ish on an interstate (flow of traffic)
passenger, same.

edit: wow, all these posts and only PanzerIV, Ohtwell, and FuZion aren't speed freaks...
As far as that goes... it seems to me like a lot of cars have governors on them that limit the speed.. We must have a lot of car-savvy people who know how to disable the governor in this forum... or a lot of people who like to exaggerate. I know my wife's previous car's speedometer went to 160, but had a governor set at 115. (V-8 T-bird) Great acceleration in that car, but still, I managed to stay within flow of traffic speed (her sister figured out the governor)

 

[NeoAaronX]

145 MPHish in a 95 Talon. (Pictured in my sig) I was riding shot gun and my friend was driving.

It was a snowy/rainy night and I only had the car for a few weeks and my friend wanted to top it out.
The damn car has a higher top end speed than a Mustang Cobra.

Well,... at about 145 or so there was a slight turn on the highway and then the back end of the car lifted off the road,....

and we slid for about 100 yards under a barbwire fence. Sparks flying every where. We hit about 3 t-posts,.....

it kinda sucked.

$5500 in damage done to the car.

That's how I got my bodykit.


-Aaron

Speed kills. Lets be careful out there.

 

[BruinGuy]

I topped out at 120 MPH going down hill in a Dodge grand caravan as driver. It was a clear blue day in Montana where the speed limit used to be "Reasonable and Prudent," I determined that 120 MPH was both reasonable and prudent, although I only had my dirver's permit, and not a license yet.