What's the highest speed you have ever been in your Ferrari?

160 on Sunday in a 456GTA. It would have gone a lot faster but I ran out of track!

 

thats pretty cool that my Ford has went faster than most exotics

 

I have hit the rev limiter on the BMW at 155 (indicated 162). Stable.

Scary was 125 in a Defender 90

Need an F-car or a P-car

 

Marco is correct about the M Coupe. I had mine up to 260 km/h (161 mph) and still had more to go, but unfortunately for me, no road to see that happen.

 

207 on route 66 in a 556m with a tailwind

 

I've never rode in a ferrari before... But i went 135mph in a 2002 white Corvette. Some guy in a civic was trying to race us but It wasnt even a race.

 

165Mph on the north ring around Amsterdam (the netherlands) in a TR512.
2'o clock in the morning
Fast enough for me

 

Got my Testarossa upto 140 last Sunday

 

My first high speed driving was at 16 yo in old Pontiacs from the 60's, my first car being a 1966 421 ci GTO. But with 6.13:1 rear axle and a standard trans only about 85-90 top end with the engine in valve float range. But it could do 0-85 in like a second. Actually I dont know how quick, but it pulled the front end off the road if you punched it rolling in second gear (had witnesses). Dad sold the car a week after I got it cuz he though it was spooky.

I had a need to bury the needle in any car I drove back then. 73 Chrysler 440 of my dads would easily bury the needle behind the dash where you couldnt see it. later had the car on a dyno and learned that at 120 indicated the car was actually doing 134.

later I had a 65 Pontiac Lemans I put a big motor in, and converted from a automatic to a 4 speed but didnt know (dumb 16 yo again) that the rear axle gearing with the automatic trans had 2.78:1 ratio. Being a dumb kid I didnt bother figuring out how to reconnect the speedo, but I always felt the car was a dog, took it forever to get rolling. But out on the desolate intersate I once ran it up to 7800 RPM and scared the crap out of myself when I came up on a group of cars that seemed to be sitting still. Do you realize that @ 180 mph your eating 3 miles per minute? close to 300 feet per second?Moments before I could see 2 miles ahead through a small valley and the road was clear. Had to pass on the shoulder going so fast the cars were out of sight in seconds. Later on the same dyno the guy asked if I thought I had some kind of nascar car, said it was measuring 156 at 6000 rpm. I didnt drive fast for a very long time after that and the car mostly sat while I fell in love with my MGB/GT. Maybe 100 downhill with a tail wind in that car

Oh, in a Ferrari? about 130+ in a 308 GTSi, and maybe 100+ in my carbed GTB. More next year, with a speedo of course.

Too soon old, to late smart

Paul Colberg
77 308 GTB

 

me driving: 160 +/-5 mph in my 550 - probably would have kept going if I hadn't noticed everyone else I was supposed to be "following" in my rear view mirror making a right turn about a half mile behind me. Then I got to go 160mph in the other direction to catch up again! All the while I was under police supervision... from my passenger seat.

also good to know that other people have the "engine compartment open" light coming on at those speeds. Kind of freaks me out whenever it comes lit - usually between 140 and 150. I have enough to worry about when I'm driving that fast without having images of my hood coming open flashing into my head! Could be the only reason I haven't gone much faster at one time or another.

me as passenger on the ground: whatever the take-off speed of Concorde is. I think it's about 225mph

me as passenger anywhere: M2.02 on Concorde. I sure miss that silly plane!

 

More amazing to me is to imagine all the changes my grandfather seen come into being. From 1903 with the Wright brothers, to 2003 and the grounding of the only operational supersonic aircraft to ever enter service, with no replacement on the drawing boards and nothing planned. From Hemi Daytonas lapping Daytona in the 60's in basic chassis at 200 mph, to run of the mill aero bodies in NASCAR with run of the mill engines restricted to less than that, killing people. Detuned le mans cars, detuned Indy cars, detuned aircraft, neutered space vehicles, now it sounds like we'll have neutered F1 cars. Maybe my 308 needs some balls?
Anyone who rode Concorde has my vote. I always had hoped one day I could afford a ride. Now it will never be. What a beautiful bird she was, and I never even got to see her. But when that accident happened, I knew that day that its days were numbered. Knowing it cant get airborne on two engines is a lot different than seeing it happen.

 

133mph in a Ferrari Challenge Car (not the Challenge Staradale) I passenger it was on a track though if that counts. I was in Martin's 360 Challenge Car

 

Testarossa at 435 mph.








Just kidding. Never been in a Ferrari. I am planning on fixing that through.

 

See:
http://www.okorszem.hu/static/funpic/traffi.jpg

 

130mph in a 1977 400 auto two weeks ago before I chickened out (you lose yr licence for a few months if caught doing over 100 in the UK - and there are speed cameras and police everywhere).

 

Drove a 355 challenge to about 160 mph and just a couple of weeks ago reached 150 mph with my 328 GTS.
These were done on empty tollways with light traffic.

 

PRETTY DAWG DAWN FUNNY!!!!! "Well over 150 in a 86 TR", perhaps you might not want the actual owner of the car to know about this. Besides, if he knew, it would most likely be disputed.

"160 a couple of times in a 512TR".... Well, it's obvious your are referencing my 512TR, but there was only ONE time as a passenger you had witnessed 160+, and you shall never have the privilege again.

"100 in a 35 zone in a 2004 Gallardo 2 days ago".... Yeah, every one knows this is a result of a "test drive" posing as a potential buyer from the Bimmer Store. The same route is used over and over for people like you as a passenger.

Owning and/or admiring a Ferrari basically requires integrity and honesty, both of which are unobservable with your behavior and character.

Let the chips fall where they may.

 

160 in F355 going to Atlanta trying to show a clk230 that kept bothering me how insignificant he was. At the next gas station, he agreed.

 

140 mph in an Audi S4

 

168 miles/hour in a 996 Porsche Turbo on an Italian Highway just out of Switzerland

It was so fast it was scary. I stopped accelerating and slowed down to a more comfortable 145-150.

 

193 mph - Murcielago

 

I got my WRX up to 135 a few times
I Drove 155 in a BMW M3 Convertible on the way to chicago with the top down
Got a MB C32 AMG up to 141 on the highway once

I was a passenger at 130-140 mph in a Ferrari 355 (on a track)
I was a passenger at 130 mph in a Ferrari 550 (on the highway)
I was a passenger 110 mph in a 360 Spider (on the highway)

 

I could not get the Defender 90 that I drove to exceed 90 mph....speed limiter kept kicking in.

 

Street: 160 in my former de-smogged 77 308 on two different cool (by Florida standards) mornings. (Yes, 8000 RPM in 5th.) Beautifully stable.
Passenger: about 155 on track in a competitoon Daytona. Indescribable!

 

Yea, I got 160 mph out of my carb 76, 308 also. And somebody said the stock 308 can never pull that far...