Quickest/Fastest Car You've Been In?

[JonnyFive]

Just thinking of what cars I've been in.. (Or driven for some of you!)

Either my friends Escort Cosworth when I was younger, the power was something else to a 15 year old boy I couldn't believe it was possible.

Or a Mercedes C63 AMG at Merc World SS when we went around the track in it. The acceleration was incredible and the brakes and in corner speed seemed ridiculous.

So what about you lot?

[B.J.W]

JonnyFive said:

Just thinking of what cars I've been in.. (Or driven for some of you!)

Either my friends Escort Cosworth when I was younger, the power was something else to a 15 year old boy I couldn't believe it was possible.

Or a Mercedes C63 AMG at Merc World SS when we went around the track in it. The acceleration was incredible and the brakes and in corner speed seemed ridiculous.

So what about you lot?

Quickest?

Ariel Atom - Nothing can quite prepare you. It is a motoring 'event' I will never forget, and have, thankfully, repeated since

Fastest?

If you are referring to fastest speed attained then it would be my in Audi RS4 where I managed 77 mph before being required to ease off ahead of a bend.

[Dominic H]

Fastest? E36 M3 Evo 155 Leptons....

Quickest? Mercedes SL55, ridiculously quick

[sinizter]

R8 V10 - Only drove it for a 40 mile round trip round the back roads, gently as it wasn't my car.

[Simbu]

Very recently an e92 330d (mapped (really!)). Very, very fast car. Would have de-skinned a very large rice pudding.

A year or so ago, a Pulsar GTiR turned up to 11. Was putting out about 400bhp and was completely mental. I loved it!

[JonnyFive]

I just mean fastest/quickest as some people could decide fastest was a car that can corner exceptionally well even if it won't set any land speed records.. So fastest/quickest hopefully covers the PH pedantics

[Mastodon2]

The fastest I've been in was an 05 Impreza WRX STI PPP, according to the owner it made 301bhp, but then I found out it is and always has been run on 95RON petrol, to keep costs down - morons! So more like 275bhp then?

My Cupra R does not feel that much slower, in fact when it comes on boost, it actually feels like it accelerates even more aggressively that STi did, though at the top end the STi would start to edge away, the difference is probably not that apparent until you were well, well into instant-ban speeds. Been in an Astra VXR booting it, that was bloody quick and very easily overwhelms it's grip.

Had my first passenger ride in a Fiesta ST today, and it was ahem, spirited, shall we say, for only 150bhp or so.

[edo]

Allegedly, somewhere, I think on a track, 165mph before the limiter kicked in on my E39 M5, and about 17something in the 997S.

[georgejoshington]

Only one that sticks in the memory is a Lotus Elise. It was the first car I'd ever been in that you could call even remotely quick.

[Crow555]

I've been in a few, not driven them though.

Exige S - Felt like a biscuit tin with a supercharger attached. Was being left for dead by the GTR in front though.

Aston V8 Vantage - Taken to 100mph in one of these, didn't feel "quick" though.

Mazda 3MPS - Shocking power delivery, proper pushing-into-seats stuff.

The one that caps it though is an R33 GTR V-spec with some mods being driving by a mate of mine who does rallying in his spare time. Blisteringly quick.

In terms of what I've driven, again a 3MPS (facelift version this time) and a rally LWB ur-quattro at Rally School Ireland.

[danneth]

550bhp evo 6

[Acheron]

Quickest - Ferrari360 on a track day.

Fastest - 152mph in a Vectra.

[Nash_wrx]

Dacia Sandero

[JonnyFive]

Crow555 said:

Exige S - Felt like a biscuit tin with a supercharger attached. Was being left for dead by the GTR in front though.

I'd love a go in one of these on full tilt.

And a GTR, I've been on a run before with one infront and the sound and the way it disappeared into the distance was incredible.

[Mr MXT]

JonnyFive said:

Just thinking of what cars I've been in.. (Or driven for some of you!)

Either my friends Escort Cosworth when I was younger, the power was something else to a 15 year old boy I couldn't believe it was possible.

Or a Mercedes C63 AMG at Merc World SS when we went around the track in it. The acceleration was incredible and the brakes and in corner speed seemed ridiculous.

So what about you lot?

• ahem*

[nonuts]

996GT2 - around 193mph (probably fastest top speed).
Noble / Ultima for acceleration / sensation of speed.
F40 at dads day out, however probably wasn't as fast as the above.

[JonnyFive]

Mr MXT said:

JonnyFive said:

Just thinking of what cars I've been in.. (Or driven for some of you!)

Either my friends Escort Cosworth when I was younger, the power was something else to a 15 year old boy I couldn't believe it was possible.

Or a Mercedes C63 AMG at Merc World SS when we went around the track in it. The acceleration was incredible and the brakes and in corner speed seemed ridiculous.

So what about you lot?

*ahem*

Infact, yes.. Very impressive. Will need further demonstration at a certain German track to confirm.

[markmullen]

A 727BHP Porsche 997 Turbo was astounding, the acceleration was something else. 650 BHP GT2s are pretty mental too.

For an old car the 959 was bloody impressive, as was the 288GTO.

[Crow555]

JonnyFive said:

I'd love a go in one of these on full tilt.

And a GTR, I've been on a run before with one infront and the sound and the way it disappeared into the distance was incredible.

I was in the Exige S for a charity event in Hillsborough in NI, they do so every year. In previous years I've been in a Dax Tejiero (with 4.0 litre Rangey engine), Jag XKR Supercharged, Porsche Cayman as well as the Aston and Exige I mentioned. There is a guy with what looks like an original SWB quattro that I hope to get a go in next time around.

2 mates of mine got a ride in a Sagaris at the same event. One of them came back white and shaking. Nothing to do with speed, just the angle of entry to most of the bends.

[Patrick Bateman]

A friend's R33 GTR with around 550-600bhp.

Things like that redefine quick if you've only experienced hot hatches.