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View Poll Results: Just how fast have you driven on the road? | |||
More than 250km/h |
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31 | 18.79% |
225-250km/h |
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25 | 15.15% |
200-225km/h |
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38 | 23.03% |
180-200km/h |
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22 | 13.33% |
160-180km/h |
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22 | 13.33% |
140-160km/h |
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8 | 4.85% |
120-140km/h |
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6 | 3.64% |
Never over 110km/h, are you insane? |
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13 | 7.88% |
Voters: 165. You may not vote on this poll |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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With all the babble going on about just how dangerous it is to go fast on a road, I am wondering just how fast everyone has actually gone LEGALLY (and survived).
As we are all nice non law breaking people here please only talk about going fast when it was not naughty. Also please just include times when you travelled at the speed for more than say 10 minutes not just a 20 second blast before panic set in. My highest was 254km/h in NT but that is a little bit fast for a FPV and eats petrol in a big way. 150-200km/h was a better idea. N.B. Not naughty includes open limits in Austraila or overseas, private roads, public roads that were closed for competition (Targa etc.) but not permanent race tracks. Last edited by Auslandau; 11-04-2011 at 10:59 PM. |
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Although in my AU I do know the speed limiter was active at 180km/h due to the dyno printout having a major power drop when it hit that speed.
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Ipswich, Qld
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115km/h (I'm holding a 10%+- leniency here)...
Unfortunately, I hit a roo and decided speeding was bad mmmkay... ![]() On populated roads - just the speed limit...I promise ![]() I just saw your NB...and in that case, 140....and was also reminded of my expedition in the FG...so I have to say now 119 :(
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Hervey Bay
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I've hit 200kph on a few occassions. Haven't looked, going down the back straight at QR but did glance once while going through the Kink at Lakeside in my FG F6 and was doing 215kph. (You get there quicker now that the entry coming onto the pit straight is widened).
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Join Date: Jun 2009
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faster and faster until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.......
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Adelaide SA - Newman WA
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Did a 250km/hr + run in the NT. The GT was rock solid on this run - extremely stable.
Evidence has shown that more accidents occur at less than 60kms/hr as people "switch off" and pay little attention to the road. At 110kms/hr you pay attention At 250kms/hr adrenaline makes you pay attention to EVERYTHING on the road.
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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A year or so ago was the last time I was going fast hit 200kmh in a VW Golf GTI in Malaysia early morning on the way to the airport as we were running late, I was a passenger.
Speaking of VWs and fast, once had a little old nonna in Italy in a VW Transporter van sit on 160 (taking us to a hotel) in a 130 zone, she was whinging it uses too much fuel to go any faster... |
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Perth
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Damn wish the NT was open limit still...
I dont even rate a score on the poll....90kmph here on P1 licence..stupid and dangerous as i do a bit of highway driving... ![]()
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Melbourne
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Before the limits were set in NT, I had a rental BA for work and had it on its speed limited 200km/h for a fair whack of the trip (Alice to Darwin and back, with stops in between).
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Australia
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What are the limits now in NT? Also, I would have to say 110km/h :(
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Join Date: Jun 2010
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Hitch-hiking from Townsville to Alice around June 1986.
Got a ride from Tennant Creek to Alice in a Telec** Commodore with a couple of tech guys - sat on 160 all the way without much problem, but the smorgasbord of ingestible substances they had was a bit of a worry. The full story is typical of the time and place, and shows how much luck plays a part in survival. Woke up the next day with my toes in my nose and took the train to Adelaide. |
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Northern Suburbs Melbourne
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I drove 65 in a 60 zone and survived....I was so impressed that my car didn't burst into flames and kill the masses.
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: SE Melbourne
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Well I guess im a real nancy boy then, I have never driven through the NT and my high speed fix has always been satisfied at the race track.
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XD Sundowner
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Dam I just wrote an essay then re read op ..
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When in doubt, GAS IT!!
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Lower Eyre Peninsula, SA
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I've hit 210 but for only a couple of minutes till I realised my fuel gauge was sinking faster than the titanic. But I did take great pleasure in passing a police car on it's way out to the jail outside of Alice springs going 170kph in a TE Cortina back in the 90s, the driver just waved as I flew by, ahh the memories.
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100klm/h as per P plate laws in SA. If I ever get a car worthy of tracking and I get it to a track, I'll go faster.
Once I did 62 in a 60 and didn't die, can someone please explain this???
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XD Sundowner
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: moranbah
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Lucky I got to edit my earlier post , I will always do the most that I can etc 119 in a 110 zone etc ...but in saying that I am a nanny on town , i just poke around no saving in speeding when you only got to drive 10 k to get somewhere and its all set by how many lights you get anyway . The rest is very incriminating ...ie blackbird ,
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Back a few years on the stuart highway in NT of course ;)
My R1 (no longer own and no longer interested in the speed) saw 295km/h on the digi-speedo without a worry. Stable as a shed full of horses. |
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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mine was 180kph before the car quit playing.. I had 20s on tho with no speedo calibration
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what where you in??
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Cracked 185km/h from Alice Springs to the boarder in the AU wagon. Just didn't have anything else in it and seemed a while to get from 180 to the 185.
In the Landau though can get to 210km/h in the space of 11 seconds! Going fast is no where near as fun as getting fast quickly! ![]()
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mine was 180kph before the car quit playing.. I had 20s on tho with no speedo calibration
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Ahh good ol NT before the government finaly woke up and realised how many deaths there were in the unlimited zones: Reminds me of a Simposons or South Park episode where they were gauging select TV viewer repsonses::
....And we all know that 1 negative response counts for 100 Billion People... My 1989 Barina (with 1/2 Litre of water in the front right tyre) - 145kph My Honda XR250 (with full knobs) - 145kph Dads MY2000 TD SR5 Hilux - 160kph My AU3 - 180kph My Aprillia SXV550 - 180kph (death wobbles at that speed) My Kia Grand Carni - 190kph My Suzuki 500F - 190kph My 1997 Mirage - 130kph? (pi** weak engine) My SY Terri - 190kph My VX Senator over 200kph My Vy HSV - 200kph Work Vehicles (all NT): Toyota Coaster - 160kph (wasnt driving) Toyota Tarago (4cyl) - 200kph/180kph with the sliding door open (wasnt driving) Toyota Prado - 180kph Toyota Hilux (4cyl ULP) - 180kph Toyota Lancruiser 200 Series - 180kph (could have prob done it skull dragging a car on its roof too) All legal and either done on drag strips/track days, dirt fire trails, private roads or NT... except for once on the bike... but I got caught and paid the price - and I did learn from that lesson!
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Cruising at well over 200km/h for hours on end in Germany while living in Europe. Used to cruise at 160-180km/h on the freeway to work in The Netherlands. Not the speed limit but Dutch cops are fairly liberal. Here I just can't be bothered as most of the other road users here are not awake when they drive, the roads aren't made for speed and Mr Plod will treat you like a mass murderer if the exceed the limit by more than 10km/h.
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Buy a lottery ticket NOW! I have never heard of such luck. I have only done 170km/h in a 2000 Magna 3.5 V6. I didn't want to go faster in it. When I am in an appropriate car and at an appropriate place I want to break the 200 mark. 250 will be fine for me. |
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Exactly 260kph on a German autobahn in a 997 series Porsche Carerra S. That was holding it absolutely flat on a long straight. Only did it once. Rest of the trip was around 140-160kph with the odd blast to 200 or so when on the unrestricted stuff.
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Sunshine Coast QLD
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I used to live in an area where it was possible to do long stretches at high speed in the the nt!
I owned an eb series 2 then, which was at that time a new car. It used to go well enough to place the needle past 200kph and hit the stop at the other end of the speedo if that makes sense. In other words I would wind it off the dial. As it was possible to do it, it was a weekly occurance along this particular 35 klms stretch of road. The road wasn't straight either. It had a series of fast sweepers along its length. I used to slow down to 160 for the slowest bend. It was a fun 8 minutes. I have also seen over 250 on a bike and over 200 with pillion on the back, again on areas where it was legal and safe to do so.
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in the country that needs an autobahn the most, we're limited to 110km/h. i suppose it'd be too expensive for the long haul between brisbane and sydney.
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