Whats the fastest speed you driven at, and in what car?

[mechanixfetch]

170 km/h in a Ford Explorer, Escape and Focus....that is where the limiter is on them all

They top out at 170? dang I thought I'd maxed the old girl out, and I can't try again for a few years till the points go off my DL for fear of losing it. Edit old girl refers to Explorer not my mother.

[Doug_Dread]

230 km/h in my Ford Cortina Mark III (estimated, speedometer only marked to 200 km/h)

[jediali]

140 mph in my old audi s3, on a private track in fife.

[LandQuail]

150 in my 04 Sti on a stretch of bumpy-ass Arkansas interstate. I had to hit V-max at some point. It came up quick and hit the rev limiter like a wall; rock steady throughout despite the poor road surface.

[Kitdy]

140 mph in my old audi s3, on a private track in fife.

Fife rules!

Just recently "tested out" the new City Golf my family got at just under 185 km/h and was dissapointed to see the revs hit the wall at about 5400 rpm.

[bricker]

I saw a same thread on other place and I thought it should be fun.
Mine was 130mph 3rd gear on 93 vr4.

Hmm, my vr4 is getting pretty wound up at that speed, and in 5th gear. Last week I cruised for nearly a half hour at 120mph (264kph for all you euro wanna be-s) through the desert at about 6a.m., and I helped it out on the downhills some, it might go 150 at best. Eventually I hit 130-135 mph, but why wring it out when its so fresh?.-BUT
Before all that, when I lived in Germany, (1986-1990) I had a '74 ford granada wagon (factory stock) that had a small v6 with dual carbs and airplane gears, and I cruised to work every day at about 120mph easily.
The fastest I have been was in a '57 chevy station wagon which had the back doors chopped out to look more like a nomad, it ran a 4bolt 350/4spd, and at 140mph and 14 years old, i knew I was going to die.

[bricker]

heh heh cool im a novice

[Rockefella]

heh heh cool im a novice

Thanks for this brilliant piece of information.

[jcp123]

135 in Y2k New Beetle 1.8t...where the limiter is.

Runner up: 120 in '73 Mach 1

Unknown speed in one of my Dad's former co-worker's Saleen Mustang. Who says IBM employees can't have fun

Others:
-110 in my '68 Mustang with 302 (had some legs to go still, but I had no reason to)
-105 in '00 Focus with 16v, where the limiter was (wouldn't have gone much faster anyway, it struggled to accelerate after it hit 90)
-90 in my 5.9/360ci Magnum powered Dodge van...with aerodynamics like a drag chuted brick, it didn't want to go much more.

[double_8]

190kph (fifth gear) on stock honda odyssey v6 with other 5 people + luggages in the car. And still can go faster than that. Top speed 215kph. . God mercy on me..

FYI: 105kph (second gear) for stock honda odyssey v6.

[2ndclasscitizen]

Pfft. Second gear in the LS1 Calais would be rather a lot, (at least 120-130kmh) seeing as though redlining at 6000rpm in 1st is just over 80kmh

[Ferrer]

Limiter? I'd've thought an S would be able to go faster than 210kmh

I was going through the thread and I came across your post, sorry for such a late reply. And no it doesn't have a limiter, just that at 210km/h the cars starts losing it fight with the air. I suppose it could go a little bit faster but you'd need a pretty long strech of straight and clear motorway...

[rhsxc]

120 mph in a GMC Denali could have done 150 easily

[johnnynumfiv]

I hit 110mph in the dakota passing out a big rig.

[Mr.Tiv]

a bit over 120 in a Buick LaSabre. Quite stupid of me.