NEWSFLASH!! I have now gone 220km/h (136mph) in my 348. That 220km/h was done in a 100km/h zone. So here in Aus, I am sure that would be an 'indifinte' loss of licence and a HUGE fine! No jail time though I am sure. I still dont to find out what is the case though.
JAIL, possible confication of the car .... Not a good thing. However, get a good lawyer and maybe it will only cost you $15-$20K in fees and fines. Then again, maybe the officer would be a fan of the marque and let you go for a ride in the car. BTW: I would never drive my 355 over the posted limit, honestly, never ... officer.
135 mph passenger in 308 QV in the UK.. a long time ago 130mph in the rain riding a Kawasaki GPZ750 Turbo 145mph in the dry riding a Yamaha RD500 My most recent joy was overtaking a Gallardo on a sweeping turn at 125mph driving my "old" Porsche and the driver admitting that he had to lift. try as I may I could catch the F430 in front.. In Arizona
Daytona 125mph, 550 Straman Spyder 125mph, 456MGT 120mph I wasn't trying of course as they are all good for more.
140ish in 355 F1 GTS on the track. Of course when the F50 and Formula 1 (circa 200) cars passed me it was a thrill too. Faster than that in the 360 F1 Spider, with the top down, of course.
I wasn't driving, but riding along on the track. Was in Linder's F40 going around 150, then a 360 going 135-ish a little while afterwards the F40 ride. Thought about seeing how fast I could get my sisters little Tiburon up too one night, but couldn't get the courage
Lets see: 125 driving BMW 2002 130+ driving '60 Alfa Romeo SZ (note 1.5L) 135+ driving '49 Ferrari 166MM (note 2.0L) 135+ driving Renault R5 Turbo 135+ driving (sister's) Ferrari 275 GTS 140+ driving (dad's) 250 GT Lusso 145+ driving (dad's) 365 GTC/4 145+ driving BMW M1 150+ driving BMW 330i 155+ driving 275 GTB/4 155+ driving (friends) Bentley Continental GT The only question is how many times in each of these. Only one of the above was a one time deal, and there are various I can't recall. Cheers, George
I should test that soon.. haha.. I did maybe 140 on mine, but it can go higher for sure. I have done 170 in 3000GT 190 or so on my gt-r before, but not for long. ewww. scary.
In 2004 the washing machine accidentally hit 1800 rpm when I forgot to load anything and it overreved, and just last week 12000 rpm with the angle grinder, cutting off the door skins on my rusty 308.
i have had my pf coupe over one twenty five indicated (probably wildly optomistic) on many occasions, some of them on the original tires that were on the car when i bought it......bias ply dunlops from ninteen sixtey eight or so. kindof sllly really. tom w
Last week in my Gallardo I did between 160-170 in 5th at 8000rpm. I was just about to shift into 6th but passed a cop going the other way so I ducked off the highway instead.
Except for those in Germany, most people here are probably risking jail and license revocation. 100 mph is a big deal in the US. News reports of police car chases often tout "speeds up to 100 mph!"
In VA it used to be a day in jail for each mph over 90. Now its supposed to be an even tougher penalty.
As a driver- 141 in my old Audi TT (stupid speed limiter) As a passenger- 160 ish in my friends Turbo Civic, the speedo stopped at 130, but we kept pulling hard long after that And a ticket for 103 in a 55 plus neglegent driving. It didn't help that the cop could hear me downshifting to 3rd in my old Honda before he even saw me.
Last summer in 2006 I was passenger in a 360 going 250 km/h in a 2 km long tunnel in Norway. What a sound form the F engine accelerating hard in the tunnel. As a note: Norway is plastered with speed cameras. Back in Denmark 3 weeks after the trip to Norway, I read in a paper that a Norwegian had been sentenced to 2 weeks in jail for 173 km/h..... .
Southern Europe (Italy and Spain) is still driveable - barely. Even France has been impossible for the past few years. Tracking and closed-road rallying are becoming very popular.