Ah, come on Alex... what's your number? You're among friends here...

 

I have taken my 1.5lit Honda CRX 20 years back up to 120

 

 

About 130 mph on a quiet country backroad.
The problem in Minnesota is you can beat a man half to death, rape his wife and steal his dog and be treated less harshly by the law than if your caught going in excess of 100 mph at 4 in the morning on a deserted dead straight freeway.
You WILL spend the night in jail, your car WILL be impounded and more than likely confiscated, and fines and other costs are prohibitive. Some places just can't help taking the fun out of everything...
Yes I'm moving!

 

Don't give away our secret. LOL.

 

Now this is coincidence.

At the time, I also piloted my 1985 5 spd CRX to just shy of 120.

I recall this vividly, because I had a third person in the hatch area and it was downhill for a long ways to be able to reach that speed. I also had an epiphany of how ridiculously stupid that stunt was right after slowing down to a sane speed. The idiocy of youth I guess.

The fastest I ever went after that was at a dragstrip with my C5. I think I hit around 115 or thereabouts.

 

Today
11 degrees Celsius; cool =HP

168 MPH 270 kph
controlled environment and everything goes eerily "quiet".......

 

I've been there..... eerily quiet. I think that's when the adrenaline kicks in full force and blocks out all the non-essential sensory input.
My speed limiter kicked in at 154, but that was I had the selector in "D". The next pass I put it in "S" and let 'er rip. I didn't know, but then it went up to 166 before I called it quits, but it wasn't limited then. It did get a tad squirrely though.
Beats me, man.

 

I'm at 90 mph while my bride has done 100. Normal cruising is at 45-55 mph range. Enjoy the ride.

 

While the XKR is a tremendously quick car and mindblowing over 80kph, I didnt get the feeling that it (or any of my jags) was all that well planted at high speed on our rubbishy roads. Maybe that is contributed to by the bumps in the road, where one tyre bites and you get a bit of yaw under heavy acceleration which can be a heart starter.

Strangely enough of my cars the one which I felt was the best built for high speed (in a straight line) was a volvo s60R. AWD, lowered, heaps of downforce - the faster I drove the more planted it felt, and the braking (4 piston brembos) was awesome as well. Cornering was another thing entirely (FWD bias) and the turning circle was 14m from memory, which is why it departed in favour of my first XF and the start of my jag love affair.

 

Just 100 for me but often do 90 in spurts on the toll road. It's way too easy to get from 70 to 100. Have to watch myself! I can imagine what the XKR is like....

 

I'm still looking for the right XK, but my trusty '89 Turbo Supra has taken me to 157mph (on the speedo) on a deserted desert highway in Nevada. It was still slowly accelerating but I decided to back off when I got that floating sensation. 90 seemed awfully slow after that.

 

I haven't been to the track in over a year (just too busy) before I had the pulley and tune. and X-pipe done to my XKR. On the weekend of November 18th, So Cal Audi Club and Hooked On Driving are holding driving events at Buttonwillow Raceway, and I'm going to try and get there for at least 1 day. Hooked on Driving takes one curve out of play at the beginning of the back, long straightaway giving a mile long run where you can really hit very high speeds. With a V-shaped turn at the end of the straightaway which tests your ability to play "chicken" with your brakes, I look forward to getting up there. I just hope I can get away.

 

Talk about being well planted the xk cruising at 140mph on a rain soaked autobahn (the clip is towards the end)

 

That Sabina keeps herself in the spotlight wherever she can..

 

Probably 110 or so. I am also not a speed junky and it's hard to find a road empty enough in an urban area to do a speed run, but it's not impossible...

 

The absolute fastest I had driven was in the 1990s in my modified twin turbo, 3rd gen RX-7. With precise calibration of the tires, gearing, speedometer I reached 172 MPH before having to lift for a slight curve in the road. Needless to say that "slight curve" made the hair stand up on my back at those speeds :-).

The most recent "higher speed" was reached less than two months back during my drive through the Nevada desert. The roads we took were generally deserted to the point where much of the time there were no other cars visible for many miles. The XKR quickly ran up to an indicated 160 MPH before I backed off, not wishing to touch the speed limiter. Not sure how accurate the speedometer in the XKR is but, the car was rock solid at those speeds. My passenger did not seem uncomfortable, at all during the high speed runs.

 

A31 Autobahn, early on a Saturday morning: 296 kph or 184 mph, clocked on GPS. The speedo was off the dial, but I assume the car thought it was doing 300 and the limiter stopped it going further. The car was rock solid, which I guess is down to the 24% extra downforce from the Speed Pack bodykit, and it would quite happily sit at 182-184.

 

That would NEVER work in the States, too many morons going the speed limit or less plant themselves in the left lane and refuse to move right for ANY reason.
I've only found one place that is very long, perfectly straight, absolutely flat, zero intersections, zero wildlife, and very little traffic. Oh, and I've NEVER seen law enforcement on that 42 mile stretch either.

 

The Germans are very disciplined, mainly because they're accustomed to having fast movers coming up with a closing speed of 80+! You can flash your lights from half a mile back and they take steps to get out of your way. The Dutch, less so; this autobahn is close to the Dutch border, so der not-so-Fliegen Hollander use it as a shortcut. They're a bit more "I want to pull out, so I will".

The A31 is a great road for fast driving, other than being only 2 lanes - relatively new, dead flat, mostly dead straight with only very-large-radius curves. Basically, it's built for speed. And, apart from a small stretch that gets a reduced limit if it's foggy, it's unrestricted from Essen most of the way to the Baltic.