What's the fastest you've driven a car?

[MajorDolphin]

Like the title says, what's the fastest you've ever driven a car?

My top speed in any car is 180 kmph (112 mph), but that was in a rental car and I nearly crashed it at that speed because I had to hit the breaks suddenly.

The current car I'm driving in is a Toyota Aygo (yes, that shopping trolley). I went 170 kmph (105 mph) in that, which is actually the highest speed the speedometer indicates.

Spoiler: Here's a picture I took.

Captcha: Life's too short, well that hit the spot.

I've done 160 mph in a VR4 3000GT twin turbo. I can hit 120mph in my little CRX without breaking a sweat (but run out of gearing pretty quick up there).

Um.. all of which was done in a completely legal setting. . .


Almost forgot. The scariest experience of them all. 120 or so in the back of a pickup. After a few minutes I began to pray.

 

[loc978]

my current car's a stock Ford Falcon XR6, fastest I've done was 220km/h before the car started shaking and shook more when braking. Hasn't got the most....locked steering column and gear stick as the previous owner had a head-on collision and buckled the diff a bit.

I go up to 200km/h with my Audi A3 everytime I drive on the Autobahn.
Fastest might be something around 230.

This isn't yours is it?

On the autobahn, that's more likely to happen if you try to drive under 130kph (~81mph)... the wind of tractor-trailer rigs passing you is likely to knock you off the road.

 

[Uszi]

115mph in a Ford Fusion.

Heh, if you're speeding on I-80 going from Chicago out towards Iowa, you might as well be on your own property for how many strangers you will see on the road... As in zero.

Pro-tip for speeders: The cops will not pull you over[footnote]Hmmmm, unless they're really bored, really big dicks, and/or you're the only car on the road[/footnote] if you're doing 1-9 mph over the speed limit, unless its a school zone or something. But they will start pulling you over as you approach 15 mph over.

 

[TheTim]

In My dad's Shelby mustang Cobra gt500 I've pushed 155, i stopped that shit fast, it was pretty scary, but fun.

 

[Whateveralot]

I find it funny to see how many people are actually scared of driving so fast.

I know I'm abnormally careless. When I nearly crashed my car as described in the first post, I nearly killed myself and 3 of my best friends. I was about 4 inches away of death, but I made it, kept the car under as much control as possible (nearly spun out, hit 2 other cars), the car "danced" as I slammed the breaks because of it's massive weight (it was packed full). Regardless of all that, I still drive like a maniac and I feel fine about it.

Driving just doesn't scare me. Even though I lack a lot of experience, I hardly ever feel intimidated by a situation. Unless things nearly go wrong which only ever happened when something was just out of my control. This one time someone nearly killed my by sounding the horn right next to me when my window was open. It scared the shit out of me.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

88mph.

Shit got real after that. Fucking gigawatts...

Liking the 2000's Marty?

OT: 150 KM in my piece of junk Batmobile. Just to see. It's too old to push it that hard often though so I don't think I'll be doing that again any time soon. Also speeding tickets cost more money than I can afford.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

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[derelict]

Maybe 130 or so in a car, older Supra. Gotten my bike up to 160 or so, but tbh I like the curvy roads more than the straight lines.

 

[CrashBang]

Actually not that fast. My old car could only get to 89mph before shaking almost uncontrollably. But, by that time, I was in 1955 so the shaking was the least of my concerns. In my current car (Peugeot 206) I've hit about 95mph but not actually tested how fast it can go. I'm guessing she can hit 120mph but the revs are way too high

 

[Aerodyamic]

200kph in a ford Taurus.

 

[The Lugz]

127mph diesel zafira in france, not my car tho

Roughly 80km an hour, I know not that fast compared to some of the stories on here but it was on my uncles farm in a car which was about as old as me and only had half a roof.

sure that wasn't mph? 80 k isn't very fast at all for a car
I've done 77k on a pedal cycle down a hill!

#edit# 'on a farm' ok never mind sorry lol

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

120mph while driving on the motorway late on a sunday night, deserested road and police . Sadly the car I'm driving now can only dream of breaking 90

 

[AmayaOnnaOtaku]

over 100. But I slowed down after I looked down and saw the speed.

125mph in ford focus...I didnt intend to go that fast really...the speedo kinda just crept up, I hadnt looked at it for a while and the lane I was in was clear...sooo 70mph turned into 80 easily enough and I knew...when 80 got to 125 and I noticed I thought hmm I should slow down.

Thats what I drive as well. Seems like the Focus likes to go fast!

 

[teqrevisited]

70mph. Can't really do anything crazy with my instructor watching.

 

[MrSnuggles]

175kph.
Nissan 1400 Champ LDV
Think it could of done a bit more but had cars coming up in front so had to slack off... but was oddly comfortable.. and stupid speedometer only shows up to 160kph :/

 

[kickassfrog]

I've flown a glider faster than I've driven a car.
Approx. 80 knots, FYI.

 

[Pariah87]

over 100. But I slowed down after I looked down and saw the speed.

125mph in ford focus...I didnt intend to go that fast really...the speedo kinda just crept up, I hadnt looked at it for a while and the lane I was in was clear...sooo 70mph turned into 80 easily enough and I knew...when 80 got to 125 and I noticed I thought hmm I should slow down.

Thats what I drive as well. Seems like the Focus likes to go fast!

Another Focus driver and yeah they do seem to creep up without you realising. Most of the time on Motorways or D/Cs I'm at 80 without even realising it. Fastest I have gone is 110 on a deserted motorway one Sunday evening, just to see how fast I could push it. Then I remembered the love of Speed Cameras, Camera vans and unmarked traffic cars we have in this country and slowed down just in case.

As an example of the unmarked cars, I was doing 40 in a 30 zone one night (everybody does it, it's a really steep hill and if you don't hit it at speed you lose all momentum). The car infont of me was a dark coloured Skoda Octavia, also doing 40. Suddenly, its blues came on and it sped off up the road. Phew, I thought to myself, glad it was infront and not behind. As I crested the hill and took it back down to 30 the car following me, a dark coloured VW Passat, also turned on its blues and I damn near shit myself. I went to pull over, only for it to tear around me and head off after the first car. As a result, if there is a car around me that looks like it could potentially be police, I 100% behave myself now.

 

[Harkonnen64]

I was following a guy once, and ended up going about 90 mph.

Meh.

 

[Ympulse]

154mph in a modified Mustang on a stretch of highway just on the California side of the Nevada/Cali border, outside of Primm.

Good times.