your fastest ride?

[lawsys406t]

hi all just wonderd what the fastest car is that you have been in. mines prob a scooby well till i went in my mates 20v turbo corrado today now im not so sure.

[teamster1975]

My brother used to have a porsche boxter, I swear he thought he was Stirling Moss, it went like sh1t off a shovel!

[jameslxdt]

i was a passanger in my mates impreza p1 racing a porsche up to 160mph, on a private road of course
the fastest ive been was 135mph in my old 406, ive only had the passat to 100mph, it gets quite floaty at that speed, plus im scared the cambelt will snap

[lawsys406t]

bet that was wicked had about 145 in me tubby myself mate

[steve_earwig]

Fastest ride? Easy, Boing 777, cruising at about 500mph.

[teamster1975]

Fastest ride? Easy, Boing 777, cruising at about 500mph.

I bet that was a bouncy ride Steve!
For me it's the Boeing 747

[steve_earwig]

Nah, Boing it is

[teamster1975]

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist

[mjb]

Fastest accelerating car I've been in was a scooby wrx sti with pro-drive performance pack. That was nuts

Fastest speed I've been in a car... I don't know. The V6 speedo only goes to 150mph and it was a long long way past that... On the, uh, autobahn of course... ;)

The tubby would pull to about 145 indicated, which was 132 on the GPS. Haven't compared the V6 speedo to the GPS though, but it seems to over-read by about 10% as well

[steve_earwig]

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist

And I couldn't be bothered to change it

My bike does 0-60 in about 5 seconds odd, you won't find many cars that can do that. Too far over the ton it's a bit of a handful though, I briefly had an indicated 130 on it (with quick peers over the fairing to make sure I was still on the road) but I wouldn't recommend it. I did an indicated 148 in the Senator, on the straight it was fine but I got surprised by a bend I hadn't really thought about before and suddenly things got a bit scarey. That was one heavy car...

Caveat: I dunno what it's like now but last I heard, if you get done for going 30mph over the limit it's an instant ban (unless you do what I did and hobble into court on crutches )

[STALLED]

HSV Coupe GTS - 0-100 in 4.9 seconds! 5.7L of Aussie V8 goodness

[Captain Jack]

Nissan Skyline R33 GTS 2.5L turbo. Very very quick. Fastest I've gone in my 406 diseasel was indicated 120mph (115mph on GPS) - not bad for a 9 year old car that has a maximum speed of 118mph when new. Fastest accelerating "ride" I've been in was in Rita Queen of speed in Alton Towers, which does 0-100mph in 3 seconds

[DaiRees]

I've never been in any really really quick machines. A mate of mine likes his fast cars, he's had several scoobys, and more recently he had a S2000 which he binned and now a Z4. He usually manages to show me the other side of 125 when we go out for demonstration runs. .

When I was a kid I had 2 uncles in particular who used to drive quickly. One was a rep so had a string of granada / clarton type company cars. He once spun me along in the back of his MK2 granada at an indicated 135 when I was a kid . They took his mk3 granada on a touring caravan holiday to barcelona and "almost forgot the van was there, had it over the ton several times"

The other "uncle" (friend of the family) was a rally fanatic. Always has rally replica escrote and stuff, most memorably an RS2000, great car! .

[mjb]

They took his mk3 granada on a touring caravan holiday to barcelona and "almost forgot the van was there, had it over the ton several times"

I call bs on that. I think the world record for towing a caravan's only about 125mph due to the power needed to move something so un-aerodynamic plus the issue of instability. IIRC Top Gear did it with a modified scooby or something and ended up destroying the caravan in the process

My betting is you would very much know you've got a caravan attached if you were doing that speed

[Welly]

Maybe it was one of those mutant caravans which fold down into a smaller thing

My collegue let me drive his Skyline GTS (280BHP standard) and fitted with a HKS 'HyperDragger' exhaust (which he never realised was straight-through when he ordered it ) and a HKS induction kit. The straight 6 with single Turbo and VVT pulled *very* strongly - actually made my stomach feel bad

Now he's got a Galant VR4 twin turbo running 360 BHP (lots spent) and that is bonkers - drives like it has a *huge* Diesel engine, loads of Torque.

Other 'memories' with me and my mates ......

Ford Escort MKII RS2000 Mexico
Vauxhall Astra GTE 16valve
Fiesta XR2
Cavalier Sri
Sierra Cosworth

Happy days