The fastest you've driven?

I got to well over 100 in the foothills in L.A. a few times; not purposesly (ahem) but if I was tired after a long day at work and not really paying attention I wouldn't change my driving enough to compensate for being on a long and fairly steep incline (decline? downwards) and then I'd glance at the spedometer and whoa!!

Not just me, though, I'd often be just keeping up with the flow of traffic. People in L.A. are insane.

I forgot to mention, the 130mph in the BMW was down a side street kids were playing kickball on.

I got a total of 30 points.

I've buried the speedometer on a Chevelle SS Superspot with 396 back in the day....I've been over 100 in a fiat x1-9, and I've hit 100 on a motorcycle...but that ws when I drank al ot and was coked up years ago.

I'm not really that crazy about high speed on land, but I have been over 70 on a jet ski and I love that......

I once drove a '68 Roadrunner GTX at above 160 miles per hour on a five mile stretch of uncompleted interstate (it had a 160 mph speedometer, and i buried the peg). We had to drive over a cornfield to get there, but the car owner didn't mind. We all took turns. I was 17 years old. I was drunk. I cannot now imagine doing that.

Jetskis are fun as hell. I hit around 55-60 on one, and it feels so much faster.

265 kph on my bike. That's 164.6 mph.

What kind of bike do you have Wilso?

CBR600

150mph (240kph) in a VW Passat stationwagon hire car on the Autobahn from Munich (skis on the roof - before and after !)

115mph (185kph) on my motorbike - BMW R1150GS on a newly build piece of road in France. Could probably go faster without panniers on and the faring was set high, too. Quoted top speed is 126mph.

My favourite bike speed piece is on The Mall, right in front of Buckingham Palace, where I regularly do 0-60-0 (mph) between the sets of lights. I don't need to get out of second gear!

KP

180 mph in an Audi A8 on a autobahn in Germany. When I looked at the speedometer, I got the **** scared out of me

Back in the early 60's when I was 15, my 16 year old cousin and I took turns driving my uncles brand new Buick down a stretch of RT 1 in northern Maine at over 100 mph. This was/is a narrow straight road with gentle undulations in the road bed and if you got over 100 mph you got an anti gravity effect (weightlessness). Every time I think of that now I want to crawl under my desk (what were we thinking?!?!)

Man, I've gotta get better cars. I've never been over about 110 mph (180 km/hr).

Back when I had youthful reactions and good eyesight, I raced semi-pro, in drag machines, SCCA, and stock cars. Spent a whole slug of money, smashed up some very nice machinery, and hit well in excess of 225 MPH any number of times, over 250 on occasion (drivin' other folks' drag machines - none of my own were that quick). On public roads, with street-legal machines, I've cracked 180 several times.

One early AM, about Zero-Dark-Thirty, many years ago, I was headed eastward over the Hayward-San Mateo bridge across the SF Bay. I was driving a factory-owned Ford Mustang SVO 5 Litre, and as the bridge is several miles of divided multi-lane, was deserted, and I was silly, I decided to wind the puppy out. The speedo pegged at 140, but the tach kept climbing, so I left my foot in it. Glancing in the mirror, I was surprised to see headlights gaining on me. Figuring if I was busted, I was busted, I just let the Mustang keep galloping. Moments later, a reddish blur thundered by on my left, resolving into a huge double pair of round tail lights that shrunk into the distance. I was able barely to keep them in sight, and as the east end of the bridge approached, both of us began backing out of it. The tail lights pulled into a restaurant parking lot shortly past the bridge, and I followed, just to find out what the hell that was. A Ferrari Mondial, with a hugely grinning driver, was sitting there, ticking and clicking busily as its engine and exhaust cooled. The Ferrari's driver and I had a nice chat over coffee and pastries, then blended responsibly :wink: back into the world of traffic laws.

The acceleration of a car that can hit 250mph must be unreal.

i hit 150 in a an 91 Audi 90 quattro 20 valve on the highway, the funny thing is it was smooth and not even taopped out but i was scared shitless, so i had to slow down, on a boat in missouri we hit 80 on the water that was scary

Ok, some people have said some questionable things here...but 150 in an Audi 90??? I don't know about that...unless the car was pretty heavily modified.
Don't some speedometers become grossly inaccurate at high speeds?

Just to be a total dork, I googled the top speed of a 91 audi 90. Est. 125-135, which is still pretty good for a little engine like that.
http://www.audiworld.com/model/historical/91/90.shtml

About 110 - 115. Screaming like banshees on a dusty country road in Louisiana. Don't remember what kind of car it was but this was the early 70's and we were in my Aunt's old car.

That reminds me. 80-90mph in a sh!tbox Ford Fairmont that feels like it's going to shatter on the highway feels worse than a solid BMW going 120+. Or a rattle-box 1983 Trans Am going 120 on snow tires isn't exactly stable, either.

I think I've had the slowest cars ever, the 1979 Ford Fairmont with a 4cyl, and a 1982 Pontiac 6000LE that ran awful. Both cars went 0-60 in about 20 seconds. I hated pulling on the highway, thought I was going to get rear ended.

Years ago I drove my 350 small block '71 Chevelle at 100 mph. That was fast enough for me....LOL. I'm not much of a racer.

I rode on the back of a Harley Softail going 105 mph and in a Jet Boat doing 75 mph.