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

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I mean in a vehicle on the road, excluding any type of legal racing.

I think mine would be around 140km/h (around 87 mph) on the freeway.

I got up to about 110mph on the back roads in Wyoming (only did it once, scared the crap out of me, considering the vehicle I was in). One of the few benefits of the barren landscape is you can see the cops from miles away.

Don't think I've had to go faster then a 100km/h. I don't usually drive long distances or on the highway. Unfortunately our highways were not planned well, so due to congestion you'd be rather adventurous to drive more than 120km/h. Plus driving in my city is like driving in an obstacle course, so I rarely go past the residential speed limit of 60km/h.

I rode my motorbike on the A1 in England at 140 miles and hour many years ago. It had a top speed of 170 miles an hour but that would have been a bit dangerous.

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

- I have pegged the speedometers on both my 1970 Corvette & 1970 Dodge Challenger RT: that be 160 the former & 150 the latter; as both are also modified/enhanced from their original stock build, those speeds are understated even - but, at such an velocity I didn't have the desire to note them precisely (was busy trying to keep 'car on the road'.) This was done on two lane roads with NO traffic in sight (obviously) so that had I 'lost it' the only human entity that would've been the worse physical wear would have been myself.

'No' traffic in sight is the operative word. If you have ever seen the 1971 motion picture (original version) "Vanishing Point", you might identify with the experience mine I am about to describe... Charlotte Rampling as 'Death' to my 'Kowalski' nigh on almost appended, my Challenger.

'Vanishing Point' still resonates within my soul, some 40 years aft it was filmed. It hasn't a single allure, but many. It is Kowalski, the Challenger, the music, the trip - and yes it is (was) the times - all of which made it very personal for me, having lived them.

So much so that in the summer of 2003 I retraced Kowalski's path in the US from Colorado through Utah & Nevada in my 1970 Challenger RT. It's a long, long ride but the scenery is still magnificent & the Challenger still dominates the highway and - to the point of my story - surprises the occassional state trooper like the one who eyed me just outside Eureka, Nevada - arriving but a moment earlier he would have heard me go by at 150 mph.

I was approaching the top of a rise (speedometer needle pegged) heading west on the two-lane road (unable to see the other side) when 'something' (common sense? fate?) beckoned me 'slow down.' Down to 95 by the time I topped the rise, I saw him: came face to face with a Nevada State Trooper's car coming toward me. Slowing down & whirling his steed around to pursue me, the thought entered my mind just as in the movie: should I?

Presently, I let him catch up to me as I held the Challenger steady at 65 mph. The trooper slowly passed me, looked me over, then went down the road just a bit ahead of me & pulled off onto the shoulder. As I passed him, he turned his car around & again headed back in the opposite direction away from me which he was headed when he first saw me.

As we both disappeared from one another leaving each in the rear view mirror the other, I had dodged ticket and perhaps even worse, while the trooper had an up close look at as fine an example of a vintage muscle car as was ever built. Drive it like you stole it? To be sure - that goes with the territory. Yet, 'live' and learn... and vice versa.

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I got the Mazda MX-6 I used to own up to about 120 on the I-90 bridge in the middle of the night once, the bridge is the better part of a mile long and completely flat in the middle so it made an ideal straightaway. I also managed a sustained 95 while driving through Wyoming and Montana when I moved to and from Denver, and that was hauling a trailer behind a Crown Vic, I made the trip back to Seattle in two days flat.

250 km/h on the 407 ETR in Ontario, Canada, for about 30 minutes in September 2007 in a Lotus Elise. The police actually stopped me and let me go with a verbal warning. That was roughly the top speed of the car. I could have driven that speed all day on that road.

280 km/h in a last-generation Supra in Arizona, 2004. That was very brief though.

Not quite top speed on a good road for a Subaru Impresa in decent condition. I'm not sure how far I accelerated before stepping on the brakes. Impressive brakes; straight stop line.
Normally, I would keep a five to ten km/h margin to the upper speed limit. My father wanted to try the brakes.

If you had gone on to 170, I would have been about 50 behind you on my LowRider ... but I did mine laying back on the seat with my hands lazily resting on my belly.

105mph. Governor kicked in, and couldn't go any faster. Good thing, too.

Young and foolish...

In what? An Econoline?

LOL--no, some Nissan "sports car" from the 80's--I don't remember the exact model--with automatic transmission. On I-90 through NY state. A million years ago and a million miles away, seemingly (and mercifully)...

The NY Thruway is actually not a bad road, I used to drive over 105 on it almost every day.

Probably 80

I don't know, about 10 KPH in a car.

The fastest I've driven is around 160 kph in my friend's 350Z, without a license, in my hometown. Good fun!

The fastest I've seen as a passenger is around 240 kph in my friend's 996 GT3. Missed out on riding in a modded Bentley Continental GT, which hit 325 kph on a stretch of highway outside Dubai.