GTO3 Top speed ???

[nick francis]

Seems to me that no one actually can answer your question, Rainman, from their own personal experience. I for sure dont anticipate hitting that top speed any where in the UK (including Race circuits) Clearly it is important for you but I suspect most of us dont really care what the terminal velocity of the noble is. I guess that ultimately wind speed , altitude and trajectory would be components that might affect results on the day.

HUmbly I would suggest you be happy that the car is quick, very quick in fact. tell the kids at the fuel station it cost £100,000 and that it goes 200 mph and leave smoking the rear tyres. they'll love it to bits and never doubt you!

:-)))

[Rainman]

nick francis said: Seems to me that no one actually can answer your question, Rainman, from their own personal experience.

So it would appear. Never mind.

I for sure dont anticipate hitting that top speed any where in the UK (including Race circuits) Clearly it is important for you but I suspect most of us dont really care what the terminal velocity of the noble is.

"So, you spent 51 big ones on a sports car and you don't even know a simple thing like how fast it goes!"

That was the remark made by someone during a recent conversation. It's not really that important to me as I tend to live in the world of lap times, but you do look really silly when you can't deliver a definitive answer to a really simple question - given ideal conditions, how fast does it go, period, no waffle.

Your average bloke on the street isn't interested in theoretical clap-trap. If you want to send someone to sleep before you get in your car and drive off then by all means tell them that it's 3% quicker than your misses with a shopping trolley in tescos depending on the colour of her knickers on the day in question.

Phil

[guysh]

Well I ran my car pretty much flat out at Bruntingthorpe and the speedo was shaking between an Indictated 165-170 -unfortunatly i did not have my GPS switched on so I could not tell you whether or not the speedo is accurate at that speed but at an indicated 130 mph ish the GPS reports 127 ish so i think the factory's figure of 165 is about correct - next time i have the chance i will measure it with my GPS properly!

[EVOTIM]

The Autocar test March 2001 had the car at a VMAX of 155mph. To be honest I really dont think the car has the power to overcome the significant drag it would be experiencing at 150+. I'd say that for both the 2.5L and 3.0L 165mph + is pure 'pub talk'. I've had mine up to a speedo indicated 165 and that was it, hit the proverbial 'brick wall'. Have to look at the Autocar test to analyse the speedo accuracy. To the man in the street just say it'll hit 60 as fast as a Diablo SV I'm sure that would impress more than an 'irrelevant on UK road' top speed. I suppose it boils down to what floats your boat top speed or acceleration, acceleration wins for me every time hence why I'm selling the M12 and getting a R500 or JPE, 145MPH top speed'll do me fine :-)