False top speed claims, stories please

[StottyZr]

I've been reading the "Entirly false 0-60 claims" thread and it got me thinking about top speed claims.

I'm currently sat next to somebody at Uni who's been telling me about how his 1.6 8v Polo hit 150mph on a country lane... I told him its bullst and he disagree's. Of course he can't take me out and prove it because he no longer has the car. Shock!

Can anybody share there stories? And stories of actual (indicated) top speeds reached that you have witnessed yourselves, obviously on tracks or closed roads

[Jasandjules]

When a friend discovered my TVR could hit 140 his Ford Escort could do 145...

[PIGINAWIG]

Approx 172 mph in a DB9 (GPS speed) - fastest I've been on four wheels

Bmw S1000RR - feck knows, but close to a 'real' 190mph I would imagine.

Suzuki GSXR Hayabusa - see above! (think they're restricted to 186 mph)

I'm sure Superman himself will be along shortly to announce 250mph speeds on a unicycle, downhill, with a favourable tail wind etc..

[Great Pretender]

Have we not had this a billion times already?

I hit an indicated 192.3 mph in a mate's Nova yesterday.

[StottyZr]

Great Pretender said:

Have we not had this a billion times already?

I hit an indicated 192.3 mph in a mate's Nova yesterday.

Been on here a couple of months now and not seen one yet

[ikarl]

I did once manage an indicated 210 on my 2000 Hayabusa - a few mods but pretty much indicated speed was close on GPS

[GroundEffect]

Maybe it's because all my friends are either engineers or physicists (students or otherwise) that I don't get this BS. Fastest I've been in a car was about 160mph in the passenger seat of a RUF CTR Yellowbird in Canada (friend's car) on this country road. That was beyond pornographic.

[PIGINAWIG]

Great Pretender said:

Have we not had this a billion times already?

I hit an indicated 192.3 mph in a mate's Nova yesterday.

Via GPS reading or the Nova's own clocks?!!

[Great Pretender]

PIGINAWIG said:

Great Pretender said:

Have we not had this a billion times already?

I hit an indicated 192.3 mph in a mate's Nova yesterday.

Via GPS reading or the Nova's own clocks?!!

Clocks. My mate modified them to read up to 250mph.

He reckons 197mph is possible if he removes the rear seats.

[RizzoTheRat]

I assume he's got a baked bean can on the end of the exhaust to manage to get that kind of speed out of it

[stewjohnst]

Great Pretender said:

Clocks. My mate modified them to read up to 250mph.

He reckons 197mph is possible if he removes the rear seats.

He doesn't need to remove them, just fold them flat, apparently...

[gareth.e]

gone off the clock and then some plenty of time in both a corsa b and an my current 306 gti-6 (140mph clocks)

my 306 gti-6 is very stable and seems more than happy to keep going faster where as my corsa sounded and felt like death was imminent

Not heard many I've gone x miles an hour stories really unless they are like 100 or 120mph, no dreamer or speeder

[Aviz]

Many years ago, my standard Civic hit an indicated 160. Speedo must have been well out, as i'm sure it;s top speed was around 145.

[pinchmeimdreamin]

Fastest I have seen GPS verified was 1482 mph

[mnkiboy]

gareth.e said:

gone off the clock and then some plenty of time in both a corsa b and an my current 306 gti-6 (140mph clocks)

You've posted about the Corsa on the other thread. I can't see how a 60bhp Corsa can get anywhere near 140mph. I've owned a 170bhp car which couldn't quite hit an indicated 140mph on the flat. 60bhp should get you to about 105mph at the most.

[shibby!]

I had a Metro Gti many years ago...

I was convinced it could do 120... (i had seen it before) Must have been downhill with the wind.

I was asked to prove it.... 105 was all the old girl could manage. I was shamed!

[Terminator X]

GPS verified 158mph in my lightly modded scoob, rev limiter stopped further progress rather than lack of "road" ... was on the runway at a RAF base. 160mph speedo was reading way off the clock!

TX.

[Greg_D]

a mate brought a 1.2 punto for his missus so we did what any self respecting PH would do......TESTING!!!

downhill, with the wing mirrors folded in and bonnet rudimentarily (sp?) taped we saw an indicated 100 for a brief second

The poor thing was screaming, muchos fun indeed

[Willy Nilly]

The speedo on one of our tractors spits its dummy out once in a while, it's the radar having spasms I think. Once it a while it will show nearly 90mph up hill.

I once hit an indicated 54mph on an unmodified C90 MG

[Pet Troll]

I had the speedo needle off the top of the clock on my 205 GTI, sat nav indicated 155mph. No one believes me, even though I have a video!