What's the fastest you've ever driven on an open public road (US only)
- Thread starter SLUPSU
- Start date
175- very briefly- in Northern Vermont on my Suzuki Hayabusa
It was a long straight on I91 and there were no other vehicles in sight- still too fast and I could feel my vision narrowing as the speed increased- I never had any desire to do it again
the bike had more speed left- I didn't
It was a long straight on I91 and there were no other vehicles in sight- still too fast and I could feel my vision narrowing as the speed increased- I never had any desire to do it again
the bike had more speed left- I didn't
Yes, thought I always thought it was called Penfield. Looked it up on Google and you're correct. I was driving 5 players on our high school basketball team home from a summer tournament in St. Marys. Hit 128 twice same night.
Greg I have this car. I have a 2007 Shelby GT500 red and white stripes. I purchased last year with 5000 miles. The car is a beauty. The paint is absolutely perfect no swirls. A great value for an American muscle car.I'm currently looking for a GT 500, 2007-2009. Red with red and black interior. But when I find one for the right price I believe I'll try and stay out of 5th and 6th gears....
What year is yours?
It's really hard to say. When you're chasing someone at real high speeds it puts alot of the rest of the motoring public at risk too. Hopefully traffic is scarce. Being polite, honest, and probably humorous were always big factors in what I issued to the offender. I pulled over a girl, (PSU Grad), once heading eastbound on I-80 and asked her where she was going so fast.......she says she is headed to a bachelorette party on Long island, and was running a little late. I started walked back to the car to issue her a Non-Point pinch when she gets out of her car and yells, "Trooper......come look at this". I walk back towards her car as she pulling out this big sheet cake shaped like a big cock and balls....flesh colored icing ta Boot! I'm dying laughing on the side of the road!!! Tell her to get the hell out of here and slow down.
On several friends Kawasaki 750 two strokes over 100 but the wind resistance got too great for any more. Shotgun in a friends 1968 Dodge Super Bee 383, 145 mph on the speedo, it wasn't calibrated so accuracy is in question. The friend said he hit 155 when driving solo. I was 16 at the time and scared, big time. This guy was an amazing driver, should have moved to the stock car racing circuit.
If anyone lives in Phoenix and drives to Tucson that is a great road. Speed limit was 75 when I lived there and had to travel to one of my stores in Tucson. I would drive 90-95 in my galant and cars would fly past me. Mostly straight away.
Those 750's were death machines and the 500's were even worse! The front ends would come apart at high speed, and it was easy to get to high speed. I had a KZ900 before I got the LTD. Used to drag race at Atco in New Jersey when I was 17 and 18 years old.
The limiters are usually tied to the speed rating of the tires the car comes with, not the powertrain capabilities.
I don’t think I’ve ever hit 100, nor do I have any desire to do so. I did notice I had my minivan (Chrysler Pacifica) at 93 driving back from Florida a couple weeks ago. That’s probably about my highest, five or take a couple MPH.
I’ve been on that road and you’re right. I was going 95-100 most of the way and passing/getting passed in equal measure
My wife hit 96 with our family in the car crossing western North Dakota, that's our individual automobile family record. It seemed like 65 on I 90 in ND.
Yep, they were death machines.
Undertakers used to bury the rider & the bike at the same time.
Not much was left of either.
2 for 1 is not a bad deal!
I wonder how many cars these days have governors .... I used to hit the governor often in my 2001 Silverado as it was set at just under 100mph
My neighbor has a Ford GT .... for a second I thought you were talking about the same car.
Anyway, I just asked him how fast he has been in his GT .... 175mph on I75 in Michigan.
The GT is 880 hp, 3200 lbs, tops speed 221mph
Please always spell-out North Dakota Carl.
When I see ND, my blood always boils!
LOL!!
Last edited:
While I’ve been in my car (2010 S4) when it’s been to the limiter at 155, I’ve only driven to about 140 in it. Probably once or twice a year I see 130+ in it - open road with no one around and a chance to open it up. The car drives the same at 40, 70, 100, and 130 - rock solid, predictable, and wants to keep going.
Back when I was going to Philly a lot I would regularly cruise at 90-95 on the turnpike - makes for a quick trip from Harrisburg.
Back when I was going to Philly a lot I would regularly cruise at 90-95 on the turnpike - makes for a quick trip from Harrisburg.
I worked with Daewoo when they were launching a car in NA market in the early '00s.
They asked me where we could test drive the car to do some cruise control calibration, so naturally I told them Vegas.
So I took a scouting trip for a week, then a few weeks later flew to LA, picked up the car, drove to Vegas and met a couple Daewoo engineers from Korea (they had top share a motel room at a dive hotel that must have been <200 yards from the airport runway).
We spent close to 2 weeks working on that cruise control (and it totally sucked, the car was so under-powered).
We drove that stretch north of Vegas over and over for days. There was some roadside diner we ate at every day .... the Korean guys ate the same thing every day eggs with big ham steak).
After the trip Daewoo shipped the car to my office in Michigan for some further testing.
When that was done, they didn't want the car back, but my company couldn't find a way to keep it either, so I sent it to be demolished, which was a fitting fate for that POS car)
LOL...you remind me of a friend's story. His 70 something mom got pulled over for doing 105 many years ago and he had to go to the station because they wouldn't let her drive (40 mph over the speed limit). She had never even had so much as a parking ticket before. When he picker her up he said "mom, what the hell were you doing going that fast?" She said she had the car in the dealership (a green dodge dart) and the mechanic said the carburetor was full of crud and deposits because she rarely drove over 35 mph. he told her that every once in a while she has to take it out and blow the crud off the carburetor by opening it up on the interstate. So she now goes out once a month, when she gets her SS check, and drives for ten minutes at 100mph on the interstate.
Last edited:
Waze. I’ve retired my Valentine One.
Seriously, with instant-on Ka band being the standard, the fuzz buster isn’t very useful anymore. You need traffic within a couple hundred yards in front of you at all times and then hope you catch a reflection. And who wants traffic in front of them all the time, anyway?
Use Waze religiously and don’t speed unless there’s at least light traffic so chances are someone will report the cop ahead before you get there.
Haha well we B8/B8.5 S4 owners have been told to drive more aggressively to keep the secondary air injection system clear of carbon build up. Audi paid for one SAI cleaning for me at 50k miles, I took their advice and drove more aggressively and made it to 140k for the second cleaning.
For those with prior tickets in PA here's a court search engine. Select Participant Name on the the drop down, than fill in Start Date and End Date, along with First and Last name. Birthday is also handy if you have a common name. Have fun.
I worked with Daewoo when they were launching a car in NA market in the early '00s.
They asked me where we could test drive the car to do some cruise control calibration, so naturally I told them Vegas.
So I took a scouting trip for a week, then a few weeks later flew to LA, picked up the car, drove to Vegas and met a couple Daewoo engineers from Korea (they had top share a motel room at a dive hotel that must have been <200 yards from the airport runway).
We spent close to 2 weeks working on that cruise control (and it totally sucked, the car was so under-powered).
We drove that stretch north of Vegas over and over for days. There was some roadside diner we ate at every day .... the Korean guys ate the same thing every day eggs with big ham steak).
After the trip Daewoo shipped the car to my office in Michigan for some further testing.
When that was done, they didn't want the car back, but my company couldn't find a way to keep it either, so I sent it to be demolished, which was a fitting fate for that POS car)
Yeah I made that drive to and from Vegas to Indian Springs 5 days a week for 3 years. saw SO MANY vehicles with that crazy zebra paint job that they do when they're testing.
you guys eat at the indian springs casino? or was your dive somewhere outside of vegas and indian springs?
Somewhat related to this subject...I'm driving down I-95 a few months ago from Delaware into Md and all of the sudden traffic grinds to a halt...turns out there are 4 cars (one in each lane) that decided they wanted to race so they slowed down to a crawl to let all the traffic in front of them clear out and then they race for a 1/4 mile or so...rinse and repeat. At one point I thought the semi two lanes over from me was going to slam into the cars in front of him as this continued about 3 or 4 times and each time we were having to lay on the brakes heavily to avoid the cars in front of us. Eventually I saw all 4 cars shoot off one of the exits. And this all happened on a Sunday afternoon with very heavy traffic...ridiculous. Oh how I wished I were in a huge truck right behind them so I could just keep rolling over top of them when they slowed down.
I live about a mile from I-90 just west of Cleveland. I can hear the crotch rockets racing in the middle of the night on I-90. I've been on the road and have one pass me doing ~ 100mph from time to time. I once had one pass me ~ 10 at night doing ~80 mph while doing a wheelie. When this kind of thing happens I keep thinking I am going to see them along the road, dead, just around the next bend.
The other one is being stopped or near stopped in CA and having some idiot motor along at a fairly high speed between the stopped cars. I imagine it isn't good when someone opens the car door to dump cold coffee at the wrong time.
Agree to disagree. I use Waze along with my V1 and there are absolutely times the V1 has saved me where Waze comes up short. Had two cross country road trips over the last month and both trips the detector picked up cops that were driving from the other direction with their radar on. Cops on the move don't get tagged in Waze. Never underestimate human laziness, plenty of cops just sit with their radar on.
If I could only use one, it'd be Waze but having both covers pretty much every base short of a cop pacing you from behind.
Waze did help me bait some jackass who was tailgating me at 95mph into a ticket last week. Cop was marked behind a bend coming up on highway, I got up to about 110 and let them pass me right before the bend. She probably blew by the cop doing 120 or so.
I owned a Utility Police Interceptor for a couple of years as it was an inexpensive utility vehicle. Obviously looks like a cop car. One evening down below Huntingdon, I was driving along a two lane state highway doing between 65 and 70. This car comes flying up on me and passes me in the no passing zone. Had to have been pushing 90+ when he went by. I am absolutely certain the guy's asshole puckered when he went past me as he kept on it. We were headed into a long, sweeping curve and while he was out of sight initially, evidence of his lack of negotiation of the curve was readily apparent. A few hundred feet further down the road he was head first into a big tree in the middle of someone's front yard. Both occupants had exited the car by the time I got by and were clearly wondering how the hell they got into that situation.
I spent probably 120+ days in California from early 2018 to the end of 2020 for work. Any time I drove on the highway I was paranoid about lane splitters. IMO it is really stupid to make legal because while the legal limits on it are sane, very few riders restrict themselves to those limits. The other problem is that the left lane is continuously occupied by Prius drivers hypermiling at ten below the limit on most CA highways. One Sunday night around 10p I was coming up the 405 just into Orange County where it's probably eight lanes wide on my side with almost no traffic. I watched a Prius come down the on ramp and cross all eight lanes just to camp in the left lane at 55 in a 65 with traffic running 80+.
You got me on this one.
Moving radar is not legal in Pennsylvania and as such isn't something I worry about. Living in State College, I don't frequently drive into other states.
You got me on this one.
Moving radar is not legal in Pennsylvania and as such isn't something I worry about. Living in State College, I don't frequently drive into other states.
Gotta leave the bubble sometime... I've been through Delaware, Maryland, PA, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Kansas in the last 28 days.
Ohio is the only state the V1 didn't go off in... even when I saw the cops I was driving by. No idea what troopers use on the highway there. Gotta be laser I guess, but that would mean they never shot me, which is curious, and I drove by a ton of cops there.
I have a speed run from the Toftrees exit to Valley Vista exit. You can see pretty well and you never leave the merging lane. It is pretty short but I have had an S2000 and an SLK55 AMG both around 110mph in that stretch. I can't remember if I have ever been faster but this thread has thrown down the gauntlet.
