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04-28-2008, 03:51 PM
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How fast have you driven?
I was just thinking about this, I don't want to know if it was legal or not where you were, but what is the fastest you've driven in your car??
Me personally, would be around 110mph. It was a total accident too, I was angry at how slow people were going and how a semi truck cut me off, so I passed him the first chance I got. When I looked at the speedometer it said 110!! I was freaked! I slowed down to highway speeds once I got around that annoying truck.
Secondly, have any of you raced before?
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04-28-2008, 04:13 PM
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Around 145-150mph or so, just once to see what it felt like. I didn't stay there but a second, cuz all I could think about was what a flat tire or some other malfunction would do at that speed and how much more likely it was to happen because of the added stresses. Afterwards I slowed down to what I thought was the speed limit and I looked down to see that I was still going 85 in a 55.
I've been to 110mph several times, because that's what my old Corvette did in the 1/4 mile at the drag strip which I did nearly every weekend for a couple years.

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04-28-2008, 04:18 PM
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Again I don't encourage it, but (I was in the passenger seat :P) 96mph in a stoplight race.
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04-28-2008, 06:01 PM
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On or off the Autobahn? 
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04-28-2008, 07:29 PM
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I only got up to around 70 mph cuz someone turned into my path when I was running down a 3 mile stretch of road
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04-28-2008, 07:41 PM
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If I remember correctly, I think I avereged around 110 traveling from Buffalo to Albany one time.
Only been on the dragstrip in the Tercel, so it wasnt fast at all  I think my trap speed was 70 
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04-28-2008, 08:00 PM
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I've hit 150 twice..... Once when I test drove a 2004 Mustang SVT Cobra... and another time in the Jag, just to see what it could do. I'd like to see if/where there is a governor on it, but I don't want to go any faster than 150.
I took the Jag to a drag-strip once too. Hit 107 on the 1/4 mile if I remember correctly.. it was 3 years ago.
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04-28-2008, 08:27 PM
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SVT Cobras.. gotta love em.
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04-28-2008, 08:47 PM
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Yeah it was great. I was doing about 100 and the salesman (who was about 25) said "giv-er a little more"... so I did.. and at 150 I layed off...
Almost as nice as my buddy's new Shelby GT500..
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04-28-2008, 11:01 PM
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145 on a CBR900RR, and 130 in my old Trans Am.
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04-28-2008, 11:07 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperchargedXJ
Yeah it was great. I was doing about 100 and the salesman (who was about 25) said "giv-er a little more"... so I did.. and at 150 I layed off...
Almost as nice as my buddy's new Shelby GT500..
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haha, you almost tapped the speedo. C'mon, what other cars actually low ball the speedometer. I mean seriously, Cobra gauges go up to 160.
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04-28-2008, 11:10 PM
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Well it was a while ago... but I don't remember what the speedo went up to... it was in KM though (I converted)!
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04-28-2008, 11:50 PM
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1 MPH = about 1.1 KMH
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04-28-2008, 11:51 PM
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nope.... more like 1.6
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04-29-2008, 12:12 AM
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Haha wow you guys have gone pretty crazy fast! If I had a clear stretch of highway to test my car's limit on, I would totally be there. But when I was doing 110 it was on a busy interstate where the speed limit was 70. Way too muck risk involved there!
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