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if i was caught doing 100+ mph I'd expect car impounded, a night in jail and a bit of police brutality thrown in for good measure.
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Mental Hospitality posted:The key to never get caught doing triple digit speeds is to try it one time in a 90's Ford Taurus with horribly warped brake discs when your 18. Scariest and dumbest thing I've ever done in a car and I've been a supremely cautious driver for the last 20 years since.
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May 19, 2022 21:44
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I once drove my mum's Rover 25 120mph up the M1 in order to arrive at my girlfriend's place before midnight on new year's eve when I was 20. Only time that road has ever been empty and a Rover 25 is not meant to go 120mph.
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May 19, 2022 22:23
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Driving on some of those highways through the dakotas and such out west in the US, where you can't see another car or building out to the horizon and its a perfectly straight road, its hard, especially when young not to get curious "I wonder how fast this car would go". I've always been a really boring driver, never had a ticket, don't speed or hoon around even when I was younger, but even I had the curiosity out in those conditions to take my car up to its max at 145 or something. I don't even want to think about what the lovely cheapest-I-could-find tires I would have had at that time were rated for.
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May 19, 2022 22:28
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LeeMajors posted:I hit 110 or so in a 1985 MR2 once, and I resolved to never do it again. 130 in the '16 was nothing.
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May 20, 2022 00:11
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I've maxed out my last two cars (126 and 137 respectively) once on an empty straight highway at night and neither was dramatic as they were both relatively new and electronically limited. I don't know if I'll try that on my new car which supposedly can do 170.
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May 20, 2022 00:43
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ilkhan posted:130 in the '01 mustang. Same feeling. I did get my 2013 SHO up to 120 once on that 85mph freeway outside Austin. It’s governed to 120 but it was a similar feeling to your mustang. It was like nothing to it.
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May 20, 2022 00:52
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Here I thought MaxV testing was pretty standard. 120 in my old Nova, 105 in an MN12 Thunderbird (fuel cut), 135 in a 2000 Mustang. Haven't done it with the 6, but I've broken 100 with it. 115 or so in a '96 Bonneville and 131 in an '03. Not all my decisions are bad, but my automotive ones usually are.
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May 20, 2022 01:00
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90ish is driving to conditions on a toll road by me depending on who’s with you
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May 20, 2022 01:29
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I hit the governor at 113 in a 3.8 ‘92 Olds 88. It wasn’t special or even a very strong memory. I’d imagine most of you drove a 3.8 for like ten years of your life. I’ve done 110 in my FiST and it also wasn’t special.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Here I thought MaxV testing was pretty standard. 120 in my old Nova, 105 in an MN12 Thunderbird (fuel cut), 135 in a 2000 Mustang. Haven't done it with the 6, but I've broken 100 with it. 115 or so in a '96 Bonneville and 131 in an '03. Not all my decisions are bad, but my automotive ones usually are. See? This guy gets it.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Here I thought MaxV testing was pretty standard. 78mph in a 50s gm greyhound bus converted into a rv, 671 detroit pinned to the governor in 4th with taller than stock tires. took about 3 hours and a gravity assist to get a 100whp n/a diesel bricknose up to 100mph. Its much easier with a turbo... even when it had a dead cylinder*. Not gonna bother with the new longblock. I'm pretty comfortable cruising at 75 in that heavy pig. 130 in a p38 rangie, 120 in a discovery1. same engine I built, still had pull, I didn't. Had to test the engine I specified and built. It cruised much better in the p38 with its 8" longer wheelbase and lack of rear end heaviness that D1s inherently have*. had a festiva that could pull to 110+?(odo ends at 85) with ease. a bp-swap may have been involved. 140 in a supra. that's the fastest i've gone in a shitbox. *parts of the rural southwest means you can be in the middle of nowhere for several hours without seeing another person or car.
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The Jag did 130 without a sweat. Felt like it could keep going for a while.
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I did 105 in a '74 Dodge Dart with a slant 6. It started overheating but otherwise felt pretty stable.
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Dr. Lunchables posted:See? This guy gets it. Yes! Especially when you're young and dumb. I hit 175mph in my 2005 E55 on a 2-mile stretch of dead-straight empty interstate at 1 am with tune, upgraded intercooler, and 180mm supercharger pulley. It was still pulling hard when I chickened out. Similar setups claim 200mph top speed, and I believe them. I'd never do it today. Too much to lose.
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I've been in a 1994 Dodge Caravan and 1995 Mazda MPV when both were pushed to 135mph but I wasn't driving either.
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Best I've done is a 135-140 pull in the Aston. I stopped more for fear of going to jail than anything else, since the car clearly had a lot more in it.
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200 plus a few for lots of time at a time. On a banked oval. But then I used to test tires for a living.
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When I was 18 at my graduation party my uncle who worked at a car dealership borrowed a Boxster and when he showed up he gave me the keys and said "Have fun." This was very dumb for two reasons, one because I drove the car the entire day and wasn't at my own graduation party which pissed my dad off, and two, because I got it up to 128 on a 55 MPH highway in southeastern Wisconsin. I stopped at 128 because the car wouldn't go any faster. When I was 19 I had a ZX2 (also from my Uncle, oddly enough) and was working in Milwaukee. I got that up to 108 on a stretch of highway 100 and the next day read the owners manual that said the stock tires were rated for 110. Kids are dumb.
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Summer after I bought my first car, I tried to max it on a very quiet rural road. I got it up to 120 with two passengers and the AC blasting. I'm glad those things were slowing me down, because I put the car in a ditch. Another 10mph and I might have rolled it instead. I, too, was dumb.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekEM3VyaDow
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Here I thought MaxV testing was pretty standard. I think you’ll find most of the posts here have something in common.
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DanTheFryingPan posted:Even on the Autobahn I prefer around a nice 130km/h most of the time because going faster tends to be hell on fuel economy. Anyway what I was getting at is that about 120-140km/h is a reasonable speed for me here and decent range at those speesd in cold weather is what I'd want to see if I were buying a new EV, rather than a huge "city" range.
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mobby_6kl posted:
I think that physics means that if you want an EV that does 200miles at 140kph in cold weather, you're getting one that does 380 miles of puttering around a city whether you want one or not. EVs are just opening our eyes to how insanely inefficient gas engines are in slow city or stop and go traffic.
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Twerk from Home posted:I think that physics means that if you want an EV that does 200miles at 140kph in cold weather, you're getting one that does 380 miles of puttering around a city whether you want one or not. Yep. Take a 300 mile range EV. That immediately becomes 210 miles because you don't drive them from 100% to 0, you drive them from 80% to 10%. And they don't get that kinda range on the highway, so drop your 210 by another 20%, to 168. And they don't get that kinda range in the winter, so drop it another 10%, you're at 151. Now, what if you're driving from Sacramento to Tahoe? You're gonna lose another 20% due to elevation change. Your real world max range is now 121 miles.
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Tried to see how fast my Ninja 650 would go... got to 125 when the rear tire decided to tell me it wasn't balanced properly and almost put me in a tankslapper. I rode very conservatively until I eventually sold that bike on Halloween 2012. I haven't ridden since and I miss it very much, but people these days cant drive for poo poo.
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Did 75 in a 93 Chevy Van once...in like 2010. Don't recommend it! I hit 150 on my Tuono and almost got blown off, turns out tucking doesn't help much on a naked bike.
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I got my 95 SC 400 up to 120 mph once in rural Iowa. The car was pretty calm at that speed. It was not a good idea. In my experience, vehicles from American brand names will not maintain cruise control speeds over 85 mph. Japanese car cruise control doesn't seem to give a poo poo.
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I got my grand marquis up to 100 once, it was terrifying. The car did not like it and neither did I. It was better on a (cruiser) motorcycle believe it or not, except for the fear in the back of my head that I'm one unfortunate pebble or bug on the helmet visor from being a red smear on the road. I have no desire to ever reach that speed again, my own personal speed limit is 75, I have no desire to ever go beyond that again.
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I rented a Golf R from Turo for a road trip. I don't regularly check my speedometer but my butt speedo was calibrated to my Fiesta ST. Got a ticket for going 95 when I thought I was in the low 80s. Smooth fast cars are dangerous.
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Gangringo posted:I rented a Golf R from Turo for a road trip. I don't regularly check my speedometer but my butt speedo was calibrated to my Fiesta ST. Got a ticket for going 95 when I thought I was in the low 80s. You're touching on a huge part of why I love subcompacts: They and convertibles are basically the only cars left that do not try to fully isolate you from the road and everything going on around you. The Fiesta ST is basically perfect because it's quick and capable, but you feel how fast you're going at all speeds. Even it is much, much quieter inside than basically any 90s car!
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Honestly that's why I love shitboxes, the fear of death keeps me from doing anything too stupid. At least until I get on a track. *edit: also predictably, BMW making GBS threads into your eyes once more https://twitter.com/_theintercooler/status/1527413217504415749?s=20&t=zSWxTU_ReC_HJ1_i7nwX2g ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE THOUSAND POUNDS Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 18:06 on May 20, 2022 |
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Olympic Mathlete posted:ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE THOUSAND POUNDS And they'll sell every single one of them no problem.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Honestly that's why I love shitboxes, the fear of death keeps me from doing anything too stupid. At least until I get on a track. Weight or price?
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I got my '88 Scirocco 16v up to ~120 or so once on a long bridge late at night. It handled it fine, but I realized how dumb that was and never tried anything like that again.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:*edit: also predictably, BMW making GBS threads into your eyes once more I think this looks sick and I wish I could afford one (or have a chance in hell of being put on a list)
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Got up to about 160mph last Sunday in the middle of nowhere, west-ish of Cochrane, with a scant 235hp. Cessna 182, faster than what I usually fly but still slow by plane standards.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Honestly that's why I love shitboxes, the fear of death keeps me from doing anything too stupid. At least until I get on a track.   Well I can tell you which one I'd rather have
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KakerMix posted:Well I can tell you which one I'd rather have Honestly? I'd sell the old one and buy the new one and pocket the difference. Nostalgia has no place in the Temple of Speed at all Costs.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Honestly that's why I love shitboxes, the fear of death keeps me from doing anything too stupid. At least until I get on a track. Yay, BMW built another rolling stat sheet
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