Fastest you have been in 'Dads' or a Rental/Company car?

I'm not into flogging company vehicles, as some of them stay together by the grace of God... Now, I had a good time with my Aunt's '03 Dodge Stratus. "I don't think it's running right, will you take it for a test drive"? Uh...sure, no problem . Those little 2.7L Chrysler V6's will rev and rev and rev! 6800 RPM or some crap like that. Try that with your Taurus/Malibu.

An exceptionally good time was had by yours truly when offered the keys to a 1974 MG Midget. Too bad I couldn't drive a manual at the time...

Never any real high speed excursions involving other people's cars though. In high school I enjoyed driving my dad's Dodge Dakota pickup truck, not because it was faster than my car, but because it was rear wheel drive. If he only knew. Or maybe he does...

 

If you ever have a car from an Avis lot at an air port and once above 20mph you have a horrendouse bouce and vibration of the car, you can thank me for flat spotting as many as of the tires I could on the car. Everything from yanking the parking brake in an empty parking lot at speed (I have watched too many BMW films) to just dragging the rear wheels (the e-brake is up) and just flooring it on a front wheel drive car and dragging the rear wheels sliding the car back and forth. Many road excursions also have been had down some dirt roads I came across pretending I was the next ralley champion.

Some say it is bad to treat rental cars this way, but I have actually learned alot by doing this. No one wants to beat their own car, so a rental is perfect in figuring out how a car rotates when certain manuevers are pulled or how a car reacts on dirt and gravel as compared to pavement. So I just want to thank all the rental car companies for allowing to me progress my driving skill.

 

I had a company Corolla for a time; on several occasions when it was raining I went down to the parking lot of a large factory (one of these 40 acres of pavement places) and spent a little while learning how to control slides and skids in the rain. Also how to do e-brake turns and 180 turns, but that's a different story. But getting used to the feel of a car *right* at the grip limit and when it loses grip was a great learning experience. The last generation of Corollas were also governed at 104mph. So I've heard.

As for a rental, about 92mph in a Mitsubishi Mirage. What was more impressive was the fact it made Boston to Newark, NJ on less than $10 in gas (filled up in Boston before leaving, filled up at airport to drop off).

 

Fastest I ever drove my dad's station wagon was 38 mph
Fastest I ever drove my mom's 'vette was 120-ish mph
Fastest I ever drove a rental was a Kia Sportage at 77 mph (drag limited)

 

My dad had a '55 Chevy with a 2 speed powerglide automatic transmission/283 V8 with a 2 bbl carb. I used to put that car in neutral, rev it about as far as it would go and then drop it into 1st to make the tires squeal. I am surprised I did not blow the engine, tranny, or both. The car sure shook when I did it. BTW, I got my drivers license at 14 (Texas) so I guess I was not very mature about the whole thing. If my son did that...........

My dads car -------about 110 mph
Moms Chevy Caprice-----about 100 mph
Friends Buick G/S stage III----120 mph
Friends front engine B/Gas dragster(in 1966)---148 mph
Friends McLaren F1------------175 mph!!!!!!!in 4th gear----------------
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This all sounds pretty weak except the Mclaren one. Aren't there any Risky Business type stories out there?

My mother (yes, mother) has had 5 Porsches, but now drives a Mercedes. When I was working for the local Porsche dealer, I had the good fortune of being her service valet. I would take the car in for its regular servicing and any toher repairs. Of course, I felt obligated to thoroughly road test the car after each service. One such road test in her 1989 Carrera 4, while she was out of town of course, ended up being quite extended, and at about 2:00 AM on a quiet four lane highway in Illinois, I found my self passing the 160mph mark on the speedo. At about 162, I backed off, as it was very, very dark, and the thought of meeting a stray deer or other forest creature at that speed did not appeal to me.

Years later, my mother and I were reminiscing about her old cars, and the question came up of how fast either of us had ever been in the car. She wasn't too thrilled to find out I had seen a significantly higher figure than she had.

 

149 mph in a 540i, sadly nothing like Jimmy's.

Yes. But I'd rather not let the folks find out.

 

235Km/hr in my dad's M5. I didn't want my dad to find out as he would have killed me. But he did.......
The only reason im alive right now is because he was smiling when he overtook me doing 270km/hr in his GT3. Not fair!
Aparently he followed me knowing what i was going to do!! Bastard!
Too bad i just took over his business! Sucker!

 

I am lamer than everyone else!! LMAO
dad's car? pfff 140km/h in the Intrepid and perhaps 130 in the xk8. For some reason, the Jag reaches that speed much faster ... LMAO
Rental ... must have been in the 90-100mph in a Trailblazer.

Only place I really let it out is out on the track ... and on the dirtbike. No pigs to bother me, and the higher the better.
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hmm.

I hit 95 maybe once in my mom's suv.

I think I managed 80 in my father's old 6 cyl. explorer.

 

Cool Zorro, I like it.....................

Lake Whitney National 250 // Early 70's My factory Kawasaki ride.... Yea baby it was fun.......................
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I maxed out a 318i in Germany. She was bumping the rev limiter on the autobahn. It was a late model 318i. I guess it was around 240K ?



I "may" have been spedn in a ohffishal U.S. Guv kar ?

 

Many years ago, I was in a rental piece of crap as I came over the Lolo pass outside of Missolua, Montana. Right as I creasted, two old bikers pulled out doing the "ride into town" boggie on a couple of old style bobbers. I don't know how fast we ended up going because I was too busy trying to keep that bland econo box on the road. The bikes where splipping and a sliding. At each corner, they would shoot up sparks from grounding the bikes. By the time we got to the bottom, the rental junk cage felt like it was ready to fall to pieces, and there was the unmistakable smell of cooked brakes. I brought the two bikers a beer after they pulled into a road house just to thank them for leading the way.

Dr "I'll never forget the Lolo Pass" Tax

 

I rented a Pontiac Grand Prix to go pick up a porsche 993 one time well on the way to pick it up about 8 hours away I decided to see what WIDE Track was all about hahaha it hit 114 then the revlimiter kicked in.......but other than that I've hit about 100 in my dad's escalade truck.

 

about 110. Best bang for the buck from Enterprise Rent a car IMHO. I am guessing it had a limiter on it because it would just not go any faster than that even though the engine had room for more. here is the road test link.

http://www.ferrarichat.com/discus/messages/132929/337619.html?1066964530

 

Mom's Volvo S80T6 - Maxed out on highway 20 back home in Montreal. She used to be Revenue Manager of Canada for Hertz car rental.

 

Topped out the Kia Rio I had as a dealer loaner, but that was only at 85 mph....

 

Cant tell my father reads this board

 

130+ in 1996 Impala SS (friend's dad's; caught up to traffic)
75 in 2007 MB E320 Bluetec (dad was still in the car)
108 in 2000 Buick Park Avenue (fuel cutoff; rental)
110 in 1989 Ford Probe turbo (friend's car, stock)
115 in 2007 BMW 335i convertable with top down (BMW's Ultimate Drive)
120 in 2009 BMW M3 (BMW's Ultimate Drive)
105 in 2008 BMW 535i (BMW's Ultimate Drive)
110 in 2008 BMW X6 (BMW's Ultimate Drive)

Officially, I never broke the speed limit, in case anyone asks.

 

87 in my mom's 1984 Buick Regal, I got a ticket for it after dropping her off at the airport.

 

Sort of on topic...

I had a friend that used to rent cars just to thrash them and get his jollies out. As a jerk off 20 yr old I thought it was great fun...unfortunately I grew up and he didnt.

 

Took my father's CL500 to 145mph.

 

when my dad started working from home, and my car not being road legal i got to use his car all the time. mostly worked nights, fastest i've had it was 148mph (didnt go further, bmw rates its topspeed rates it at 148. speedo read just under 160). on a spirited run on a b-road i've drained a quart of the 80 litre tank in 10 minutes. can be quite easy in normal petrol cars but this was a diesel. a heavy one but still (bmw 730ld).