Rev limiter kicks in at 155 mph!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

[Mr Freefall]

Picture this. Going through France and averaging around 110mph (still returning 24.75 mpg!!) and I come across a couple of point of motorway that were 3 lanes wide and must be al least 3 miles long, dead straight, perfect tarmac.

The little red horn’s come out of me head, there isn’t a car on the road it’s midday, and not a cloud in the sky. Right time to see how far I can get this up to 200mph. I’ve go the car, the road conditions and I’ve been driving at 110mph for the last 35minutes so I should be acclimatised to the speed.

So right foot down up to 155 and then… “ WILL YOU BL**DLY WELL SLOW DOWN NOW, AND I MEAN NOW!!!!!!” screams the wife!

I try to explain the situation, re perfect weather etc etc etc, and promptly get told you ‘you aint doing that speed with me in the car’ so 155 it was and a very disappointed Tuscan driver.

Yes I did have the thought of dropping her off at the service station, going off to the speed then coming back to pick her up, but I value my life!!!

Hey ho

[granville]

Were there any complaints AS you accelerated BEFORE reaching this speed?

In my experience, the best way around this one is (a) let the speed creep up and up and up, rather than completely giving the game away in one, admittedly virtually impossible to resist, satanic spurt or (b) drive something infinitely more refined (and hopefully soporific for the passenger[s]) so that whether you're doing 90 or 140, say, doesn't make THAT much difference!

Still, you have my upmost symapthies; such 'opportunities maximus' are fleetingly rare so it's highly frustrating for a spot of EIN (Er Indoors Nerves).

Btw, were you al fresco?

[tony m]

the best thing to do at that sort of speed,when you hear the scream is tell her to shut the f--k up

[chaos]

derestrictor said:

In my experience, the best way around this one is (a) let the speed creep up and up and up, rather than completely giving the game away in one, admittedly virtually impossible to resist, satanic spurt

I've found that the "satanic spurt" method usually results in immediate silence from the passenger seat except for a very sharp intake of breath. This usually lasts till the slowdown phase of the manouver, when conversation then resumes.

As I'm not married I don't know if this has the same effect with wives, I guess you might be worried about the tack the conversation might take once it resumes ... perhaps a method you can only really use once with a wife

[HarryW]

tony m said: the best thing to do at that sort of speed,when you hear the scream is tell her to shut the f--k up

I take it you are not married tony , If I took this advice I don't think I would have lasted very long

Harry

[blondemoment]

I also had to take a sharp intake of breath as the Tuscan reached 165mph roofless on the autoroute, but what FUN!!!! Yes, I AM female, can be a 'girlie' at times, but there's nothing like it!!!! Just tell her to be quiet!! You only get one life!

[Pubman]

tony m said: the best thing to do at that sort of speed,when you hear the scream is tell her to shut the f--k up

Mmmm!!, would not be so disrespectful. I tend to wait for her to fall asleep then feed in the power.

[robkola]

. . what was she doing talking when she should have ben holding the camera steady!

[Podie]

"s**T, the throttle's stuck wide open! - damn TVR!"

- that'd have been my line...