Top Speeds

Jester

so let me hear them whats the fastest use hav been driving or been driven in a car at?

1. 162mph in an audi tt
2. 145mph in an volvo 850 T5
3. 132mph in an merc c200cdi
4. 124mph in an vauxhall vectra 2.0
5. 120mph in an vw golf tdi mk4

ando

89mph on the m50. Where did you get to drive them speeds at?

Gerry

Hrm, lets see...

140mph in a vw corrado G60 16V on the M4

In my own car (peugeot 405 GRD) , 100 mph - thats all it will do.

Jester, I'd love to know where you did 162 mph in a tt.

Kali

Err the TT is surely limited to 144 like all other german motors?

Anyway I think the fastest I've drove is 102 in a Punto 1.2... M1 North where theres a bit of a downhill section

Fastest I've been a passenger was 130 something headin south out of Darwin, Austrailia.. ~50km out its an unrestricted road.. was in some Ford V8 hirecar

Don't see myself doing that anytime soon these days... my max is 10mph over the limit now.

bugs

102mph or so on my Honda NSR
110mph on my brothers Honda fireblade (stopped accelerating cos he was watching and he'd rip me a new one)

sceptre

110 in a Corolla on the M7

Just tried it once when the road was completely empty. Didn't try to push it any higher and slowed down reasonably soon as it was a little faster than I was used to (as well as being well over what I'd consider safe) - despite my recent post in another thread here I very rarely exceed the speed limit in any way.

(have to confess I've only driven three cars ever - my corolla, father's corolla, GF's starlet)

jd

hold on a sec...
yip
still got a big mickey...

Gerry

Really jd? Well done with the whole moral high ground thing there.

Kali, I don't think all german motors are limited to 144, more like 155?

Borzoi

I've topped out a Ford Mondeo 2L on the AutoBahn for a few hours, belting along at 110-120MPH in the slow lane while guys passed me in Porches like I was standing still.

Did top out my old 1.6L Carina E, here, but very briefly.

My current car I haven't taken over 90 (and then only while overtaking) though after a particularly heavy W/E a friend drove me back from Killarney, and he hit 110 briefly, but scarily there was a lot left in the engine.

steve-hosting36

132Mph on the n11 in a BMW 323ci

Bard

Admitting to illegal activities? I'll have some of that...

On the northern section of the M1 (heading toward Balbriggan) I managed to hit somewhere between 115 and 120 mph. As if that's not enough... I was driving a 990cc Suzuki Swift at the time...

Dr. Dre

140+ in a Chevy Impala 5.7 V8
~100 in a single seater racing car at mondello !!
120 odd in a Subaru Legacy Turbo

the evil belly

120 on the portlaoise bypass (the mother was not impressed) i don't know if there was much more left cos i spotted flashing blue lights up ahead and slowed down very fuking fast as one can imagine. turns out it was a fire engine anyway so no ticket

ShayK1

Driving
102mph in 94 1.2 clio
110mph in 99 1.2 clio
110mph in 01 1.2 punto
Passenger
120mph in 92 2.0 BMW
130mph in 87 5.6l Merc

Mayshine

I presume that all you guys have a nicely calibrated speedo or a GPS receiver.

The overread at 100+ is quite signifcant so I would take a lot of those speed with a grain of salt esp 170 from an s3

the evil belly

Originally posted by Mayshine
I presume that all you guys have a nicely calibrated speedo or a GPS receiver.

tis a digital jobbie thats all i know

Snaga

Just over 70 on my Yamaha Virago.

Yes it was slightly down hill and yes there was a nice wind helping me along

speedfreak

cant believe some of ye doing 120mph+ on poxy Irish roads! madness! I work for VW and the VW group of cars do have limiters 'officially' set to approx 150mph but generally dont kick in until 170 or so. Fastest for me was on a German Autobahn in a Bora V6 4-motion (glued to the road) cruising @ about 130mph. And I was still getting cars zooming by me on the outside lane!

John2002

Originally posted by Jester
so let me hear them whats the fastest use hav been driving or been driven in a car at?

1. 162mph in an audi tt

How did you manage to get 163mph out of a car that has a top speed of 143mph?

http://www.audiworld.com/news/00/la/pressrelease.shtml

seamus

I've been in an Audi 120 (remember those?) doing 120mph on the back roads in Cork. God, now I look at it that was pretty dumb.

Fastest I've ever driven a car was 95mph down the m50. Just tried it around 3am one night when the place was deserted. And by jesus was my Punto screaming in pain!

rymus

Originally posted by Snaga
Just over 70 on my Yamaha Virago.

Yes it was slightly down hill and yes there was a nice wind helping me along

Gwan snaga ya wild man!

My spiritual experience came at 105mph on the cork to midleton road on my 650cc drag star. I didnt spot the patrol car parked on the side of the road in time and only managed to get down to about 90mph as I tore past it. Luckily el lawman was more interested in what was over a bridge than looking at me.

ondafly

over a 100 in a Type R Civic around mondello - altough i was just a mere passenger

Slaanesh

Got about 83mph out of my Suzuki GN 125 going down the M50, with a mother of a tail wind

Slaan.

PhilipMarlowe

Originally posted by Gerry
Kali, I don't think all german motors are limited to 144, more like 155?

Yeah, 250kmh..... but not all german motors...
They don't limit porsche

Chimaera

Driving myself:
105mph indicated in a Mondeo TDdi on a very straight road somewhere between Waterford and Rosslare (can't remember exactly where). Car was pretty heavily laden and still accelerating at 105mph :eek: Started running out of road at that stage so backed off. The thing was uber-stable though. I like diesel power though

Driven a 1.3 Escort to 90mph (indicated again) but wouldn't try it very often - that car is as giddy as f*ck once you go over 80mph.

Others driving:
Was driven on Ford's Dunton test track at 110mph in a Mondeo 2l last year - again I was amazed at the stability of the car with 5 people in it on a rather uneven concrete surface. B*stards didn't give me job though

As an aside, the 250km/h limit on German cars is a gentleman's agreement between Mercedes, BMW, and VAG. It tends to be applied to varying degrees depending on the car - BMW have readily admitted that the limiter on their M-Cars has a rather liberal attitude to the limit, and I think fast Audi's will go over it as well. AMG now offer factory approved release modules for all Mercedes models capable of exceeding 250km/h, and there are plenty of German tuning companies who'll sell you a release module for your car of choice. Porsche never subscribed to that agreement, and so don't limit their cars.

Interestingly enough, some high-performance German cars (Mercs in particular) are now being limited because there are no suitable road-legal tyres available to allow them to run ot their maximum speed. The most extreme example of this is the Brabus EV12 (essentially a Merc E-Class with a modified 7.3l V12 from the old S-Class) which is capable of running to 215mph, but is limited to 206mph because no tyre company could make them a tyre suitable for a 1.8tonne car capable of that speed.

Our man in Havana

Originally posted by Slaanesh
Got about 83mph out of my Suzuki GN 125 going down the M50, with a mother of a tail wind

Slaan.

80 in a opel corsa van on the M25. scary stuff!

Farls

124mph in a mazda 323F

128 in a nissan 100NX

Both down the M1 to Belfast.....since the penalty points came in i rarely hit 65 in the South but when in the North if it looks safe on a big open road sure why not!

As a passenger fastest was in a 2.0 Calibra doin somethin over 140

I don't condone it but we all go a little wild sometimes...

Farlz

[edit] Forgot about a certain GTi-R pulsar i was in touchin the 150 [/edit]

RicardoSmith

Sorry to be the auld granny here but....

Can't decide if this thread is completely moronic or not. While not a perfect driver myself it doesn't take a lot of working out that if you hit a pothole, have a puncture/blowout or some other unexpected event, with a lot of speed you are going to go a long way as a half a ton of unguided missle. That would demolise a house and completely obilerate anything like a car coming in the other direction.

Thoughts like that and a few very near misses (caused by other drivers and unexpected road conditions, not me, though I've done my own stuuuuupid things aswell) has helped me slow down a lot.

While doing big speeds in car designed to do it with the proper brakes, tyres etc., is bad enough, at least you have some hope of controlling and stopping the car. However in a standard car you haven't a hope as happened to those twats racing each other on the m50 a year or so ago. Driving beyond their own and their cars capabilities. If you do have an accident at high speed its going to a big one. It annoys me when I see something like a 1.oh likkle car passing me doing well over the ton. You are just not going to be able to stop in a car like that. Oh and those of you doing 100+ on stock tyres. Do you know your tyres aren't rated for those speeds? Do you even know what your tyres are rated to?

Personally I find driving on the roads a real pain and prefer to get my speeds kicks out on the track. The other thing I'd say is that you are not anonymous on these boards in case you think you are....

seamus

I know what you mean Ricardo, but I think, and certainly the way I've posted, this threads just means as to those very rare times when you're in a car going really, really fast. I seriously doubt that the speeds anyone is talking about here, especially those over 100mph, are speeds that they do on a regular basis. You'e probably noticed that the boards crowd tend to be a lawful bunch.

As for being anonymous, well, that's kind of moot, cos no-one here is screaming out, 'look at me! I speed!'. At the same time, any man who has been on his own in a car, on an empty motorway in the dead of night, cannot deny they have opened out the throttle, even just once, to see how fast they can (safely) go. My 95mph for example lasted maybe 3 secs before I slowed it back down to 65.

Tbh, a car doing anything over 50 that suffers a blowout or large pothole becomes a half tonne unguided missle. It's not speed that kills, it's inappropriate speed.

the evil belly

Originally posted by RicardoSmith
. Do you know your tyres aren't rated for those speeds? Do you even know what your tyres are rated to? B]

ya at the time i did it the tyre were rated for 143 mph(according to my tyre man) i was at serious speed for maybe 10 seconds then back to a nice respectable 80. all that on a dry almost empty motorway, with good visibility. i'm not out to die just yet

Chimaera

I'd love to see a car that only weighed half a tonne - most modern family cars weigh at least 1.2tonnes.

I can see your point alright, but the reality is that even travelling at 60mph, you're going to be badly off if something goes wrong. If we start worrying about every possible thing that could cause an accident, then we may as well stay at home and never bother driving. The reality is that no matter how careful we, or anyone else, are there is always a chance of having a serious/fatal accident while driving.

The only times I drive fast now are when the road is very obviously clear and conditions are appropriate. That 105mph I did was at 6:30am on a clear sunny morning, on a straight wide, road. The 110mph I was driven at was on a closed test track. Both situations were, relatively speaking, quite safe.

If it was on a narrow country road, then it would not have been even remotely safe, and I wouldn't have tried.

Routinely, I never travel any faster than 80mph, and that's only on large national routes/dual carriageways/motorways in good conditions. I've had too many scares to travel faster on small roads - there are too many idiots who drive down the middle of the road, even though there is a white line there, and plenty of room for two cars to pass each other :mad:

RicardoSmith

Just thought I'd rattle your cages heh heh...

Seriously though doing high speeds in a sports car, or a car set up with the proper sports suspension, brakes and balance etc., is a world away from doing it in run of the mill motor. For example doing high speeds in my old Golf GTI was no problem the car was rock steady at any speed. Doing high speed in something a 1 point oh, shopping car(t) is another. I'm driving an old fiesta at the moment and I'm scared if some one pulls out anyway close in front of me the brakes are woeful. I mean they pass the NCT and all that its just that aren't a patch on something with performance brakes, with discs all round and the brake bias set up properly, and the whole car balanced.

Actually my old CRX (16v) was an absolute live wire. Really hairy. It was so light it would dance about on any inperfections on the road surface. it wasn't unusually for it to enter a four wheel drift on an greasy surface. It was rated to 130+ but I found it a real handful even at 60-80mph. I mean to overtake you had to drop into third (good for 80mph) and hold on with both hands as the wheel would dance about all over the place as it tried to get the power down. Now on a track I'd have no problem getting 130+ out of it. But to try and do it on a public road that would be insane.

Something a lot bigger and heavier like a Big Merc or a 911 you could probable read the paper at that speed. Not in my little crx though, and definately not in the fiesta even you could get it to that kinda speed. The wheels would fall off and the brakes explode if you touched them at that speed in the fiesta...

Jester

The tt had a full exhaust system, full induction kit, larger ball bearing garett turbo, larger intercooler, engine had seen a lot of work (Forged pistons, titanium valve springs, different camshaft, lighter crank, was fully balanced as well i think) different engine management system (meaning it wasnt speed restricted as well), the compression in the engine was increased as well. Down a hill as well, was more left in it i think. Might have seen 170 - 180, had uprated brakes on it as well, think they were a full AP racing set, was a mental car, was lightened a bit as well, carbon fibre bits here and there.

Gerry

Maybe it was modified, or he was looking ahead of the speedo needle

Bard, you did 120mph in a suzuki swift 1 litre, and my dads wheelbarrow can do 80 mph. Good work by all concerned

Mayshine

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Actually 20mph at those sort of speed is a lot, why then do 190mph+ cars have over twice the power of a standard 225hp S3s yet only get 35-40mph extra.

Drag is the main reason

why do I need to double the power to get a 25% speed gain. Simply put the ratio between power and vmax is not linear as you alude to kayos, but inversly proportional.

Even with a tuned s3, you would need a load of road to hit a true 170 if it were even possible which I dont believe it is, were you on the autobahn or something??

If not consider the following

I have to assume that the car was driven in Ireland and you would never had the room to hit a terminal speed There are no motorways really long enough. Therefore I can infer that the car had some more speed in it. Asuming another 5-6mph spare, you are claiming a top speed in excess of 175 mph for the s3

Especially hard to believe considering the not so low drag coefficient of 0.33 which will seriously come into play over 140 mph

Aswell, all this in a 4 wheel drive car with associated transmission loses

For example, compare with a standard porsche 911 Carerra 4 2wd 320hp, a lower drag coefficient and an official top speed of 173MPH!

<prof mode off>

Get real

Ba$tard

LOLOLOL Quote:
Got about 83mph out of my Suzuki GN 125 going down the M50, with a mother of a tail wind !!!

Friend got 155mph on an unlimited stretch of the autobahn in a stock '02 Civic Type-R up a hill....how bad.

Just a comment on the 160+mph in an AUDi TT..

I dont care what the dude had in the car to boost it up...the TT's have the one of the highest downward drag co-efficency of any car on the road today...i.e. it doesn't create much downforce....

Audi ran a recall of pre-01's in order to fit a rear lip to help stop TT's LITERALLY from lifting upwards while travelling at high speed on a smooth surface....

I just hope the dude who owns it runs a pretty large rear wing on it at that speed in order to maintain control.

At anything over 150mph, you have to have at least 400kg of downforce in addition to the car gross weight in order to stop or do anything productive in the event of an unexpected detour......


Me....140mph in my Civic VTi...legally :-P

J.

BabyEater

Peugeot 106 1L 105mph on the Balbriggan bypass .It was on a good downhill .

mike65

Have any of you achieved these speeds since Nov 1, eh?

The fastest I've been (on Tarmac) in my entire life was about 100
in a 1975 Austin Maxi 1750 on the M6 I was 11 at the time

Mike.

batman_oh

civic type r wont do 155 either
ive done 114 mph on my rs125, and over 110 a few times
125 in a premacy 2.0 on m50
120 in a renault 5 gt turbo
and hopefully get the full clock out of my next bike(prolly bout 140) drivin that speed on a bike over here is fast enough 4 me thanx

Ba$tard

Would you like to put a wager on that there Batfink?

I know the car is rated at 146mph max speed and is as Aerodynamic as a shoebox....but there ain't no limiter..

He was redlining 9,000rpm in 6th.....I know this guy....he doesn't lie.....

On another note, speaking with a German friend.....he was cruising along 235kph when a R32 was entering from a merging lane at about 80kph 300 metres ahead of him.....R32 put the boot down...he could not catch him.......now, thats a car!

J./

daveg

111mph in a mazda 323F on the dual carrageway into Cork when I was about 22. There were 4 other guys in the car. It was crazy and I would never do it again.

jd

Originally posted by Gerry
Really jd? Well done with the whole moral high ground thing there.

Kali, I don't think all german motors are limited to 144, more like 155?

Forgot the smiley....

ButcherOfNog

125mph in my last prelude on the m1, once, just to see, it was still accelerating hard n i decided to back off, haven't tried my current 2.2vtec one out and prolly never will unless i take it to a track day or summit.

Turner

130 in my trusty 94 Rover 620sli 2.0i . The manual says its top speed is 125 but i was in the slip stream of a Mr-Bishi GTO going downhill on the balbriggan bypass.

I also hit 130 in a Rover 75 on the M4 bypassing maynooth and still could barely hear the engine. That car is soooo quiet.

Zascar

125 - Dads Ford Scorpio Cosworth (me driving)
115 - my civic vti... however I did get caught my the cops. He clocked me at 99mph, and was 'considering' whether to arrest me...

won't be doing that again...

kaimera

Passenger in a '90-somthing Ford van.

83 odd miles a hour coming onto the Portlaoise Bypass along the back road past the Rock Inn.

Hairy **** cos twas arse heavy w/no power steering.

The cousin who was driving put it into a ditch a few weeks later after over taking a car. Touched the wet grass and the back end went.

MarkR

I topped a whopping 65 mph in my 16v efi 1330cc jap starlet. I think i'll live vicariously and let someone else tell me the top speed of this car. Hmm... Must have a look on the net, see what i find...

Makaveli

Nothing too fast.
90 something in a 1.4 Golf on the M50 (passenger).
I think 100 was broken in a 1.4 Mazda 323 on the M50 (passenger).

As for me driving, well I dont. But fastest is proabably 40 in the above Mazda.

Mythago

240kph in a Holden Monaro in the Northern Territories in Australia, I wouldn't
look at speedo(road trains were coming backwards towards me!), but my mate
in the passenger seat assured me thats what we were at! In Ireland I've done
144mph in a 944 porsche on Ennis dual carraigeway and 115 in a Vectra... but
no more cos I got caught at 87mph when I slowed to send a txt!!

MarkR

Well that's comforting...

Churchy

120 mph - Aston Martin db6 , a few yrs back.

125 mph - BMW 535 Sport - loads left in her but we were worried about the tyres.

135 mph -Cavalier Sri -im a bit dubious about this speed , speedo was prolly off - max speed according to figures is about 120-125 or so , i think i was at that cos she was flat out.

98 mph - Nissan Bluebird 2.0 diesel and tbh this was the scariest - car wasnt deisgned to go above 60 imo

Did drive a chipped sierra cosworth b4 , but it was in a town and during the day so no mad speeds but it was fast , est 300 bhp.It prolly could have saw 150 mph but i dont think id have had the cahones for that speed.


Yes i did get caught speeding a few yrs back and got some points on my licence - they really do make you more aware of your speed cos i havent been above 80mph since i got em.