What's the fastest you've ever driven - BE HONEST

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How could I forget it:

I'm a really good driver.

No, that still sounds pretty dang scary to me.

But then I freak out a little bit going full speed down a snowy hill in a sled



I don't know about everyone else, but I'm just really good at not paying attention to the speedometer (though I'm usually over more than I'm under, since I just try to stay at the speed of traffic).

How did the police catch you, when you travelling at that speed?

I must admit to being a bit of a speed demon.

The fastest I've driven was on the autobahn in Germany, in a VW Golf estate, which was a hire car, and I was late picking up a friend from the airport, so I floored it. I'm British, so I've grown up thinking in miles per hour, so the numbers on the speedo didn't mean anything to me.

It was only afterwards, when I did the conversion that I thought Eek!

I vaguely recall I was pushing nearly 200 kmph, so nearly 120 mph, I think.

And then another time, I was driving in my Saab 9-3 1.8 turbo convertible on the motorway between Doha and Al Khor in Qatar and I whizzed along at 180 kmph, just over 110 mph. I saw a car in the middle distance and didn't slow down, sailed by, and only realised when I glanced in my rear view mirror, that the car in front of that (which I couldn't see from behind), was a Fazaa (traffic police) Landcruiser. That stretch of road had at 120 kmph limit, so I was 60 kmph over! But thankfully, they didn't bother chasing me.

I'd only drive that fast on a pretty clear stretch of road though, wouldn't do it in the UK as the motorways over here tend to be too crowded.

105mph, because someone really ticked me off...good thing I wasn't caught; they don't give tickets for that, they just pull you out of the car and shoot you...

I've never driven, so I can't really tell you.

Not saying but fuel usage readout suggested car was doing between 0-5 mpg in top gear .

Drive everywhere at legal limit in old ,slow car now, and it makes me sooo happy.

Going fast is high blood pressure , eyeball-out-stalking when sudden braking, making very fast unnecassary cornering calculations , ultimately empty tank, worn tyres, wrecked engines, unhappy, better than you , bigger weeny (-not) ,empty soul driving. But was fun at time and
survived. Maybe one of natures tricks to reduce population numbers through non stylized shows of aggression, I thought and bough old car.

Mmm third and fourth gear and HPT though, 3am, no won't be tempted back.

about 130 kph on highways is my normal speed, 160+ while overtaking, did 210 as a passenger once, some years ago. (going at high speed is more fun, but needs too much fuel etc )
I keep to the speed limit +5 though, don't want to risk my license, drive a lot
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I once drive roughly 120 MPH on open highway covering 300 miles in a little over 3 hours including the rest stops.

110 - 115, but I am usually drive around 5 mph below the speed limit.

I took my car to 95 mph going home from work, because it's basically a ghost highway. I don't really care to do it much anymore, a cop flashed his lights at me but didn't pull me over for some reason.

I could usually max out at 105-110 mph on the interstate in the old Volvo I used to drive, but that required flooring it and waiting for the speedometer to get that high. My highest speeding ticket (and my only one so far *knockonwood*) was for 89 in a 65 zone (I'm pretty sure I was going faster, but the cop gave me a break because 90 or more would've qualified as reckless driving). I've barely driven since then because my folks won't let me near the driver's seat of the family truck anymore, and we've since consigned the Volvo to the scrap heap.

You were in far greater danger on the bike. You had nothing to protect your body in case of collision or a spill.

ruveyn

Probably 0.01km/h?

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PS:When I was a kid, driving was a daily routine. But sad to say, I've forgotten the skill as I grew up and have to re-learn it.

PPS: Driving was a daily routine as in driving my parents crazy.

While trying to catch up to some people i was cruising to the florida keys with, i hit about 105-110mph in one of those "passing zones" that the 2 lane highway has down there (they add a passing lane for a few miles every 15-20 miles or so but most of it there is no passing) in my trans am

Were you listening to Joe Walsh's "Life's been good" at the time?

"My Maserati does 185, i lost my license and now i don't drive"

110 mph, twice, a few years ago, testing out my car and verifying. That is the governor on my car, apparently.

In Texas the cops are jerks and there are too many 18 wheelers on the road so it's dangerous even with the 80 mph speed limits.