I got my little Saturn up to 105 once. Scared the bajesus out of me.
But if I was on a long, straight stretch of road? No cops or trafiic? In the day? Maybe 140. Maybe.
When she jumped into the car on our first date and immediately gave me a tonsil swabbing with her tongue and grabbed my crotch. It took me back for a moment…but, hey, it was fun.
Dave
Oh…never mind. Guess I need to read the actual OP first. Bust above.
Dave
On open road, I once pulled about 85 mph in a sprint. No traffic, straight highway, the usual. This was in my old, hand-me-down late-70s Toyota, about 14 years ago. I don’t think that car ever went that fast before or since.
I’ve never taken my '01 Toyota far over 70. Come the spring, though, we’ll see.
I’d love to go to a NASCAR or IndyCar fantasy camp, and take one of the race cars out on the track at 180+ mph!! At the rate things are going, I just might treat myself to that for my birthday next year.
whippingboy points out the speed limit here is 70mph but really cruising speed on motorways is ~85mph for most of the traffic, seeing people doing 90+ is not unusual.
If DVLC are watching let’s say these are hypothetical…
In my old Renault 25 I got to 115 before bottling out, it was an empty motorway but it got too bumpy.
In my current Mercedes 180 got it to 120 (empty motorway again) but ran out of road - when you’re going 60mph faster than other traffic it comes up fast. The car still felt stable tho’
It depends a lot on the car, I drove a friends Fiat Uno and like my old ford Escort if you managed to get it past 75 it did not feel safe.
My Rav4 has it’s own speed governor at around 80-85mph, when the front brush bar begins to seriously vibrate, and I need to immediately back it down to 75mph or so (I feel wild shaking is NOT a good thing for the brush bar mounting).
This doesn’t matter all that much in downstate NY, where all the speed limits are ridiculously too low anyway. 
When I first got my Camry I took it up to about 115 mph on a nice straighaway before chickening out, both because of the cars shimmying and my fear of a very expensive ticket. On interstates I rarely take it above 90 or so.
Lol, Get a german car, They are designed to driven at very high speeds.
I don’t think I’ve ever topped 85. My Aerostar isn’t happy above 75 or so. If I had a clear road on a good day and a good car, I’d probably try to get to 100, but I truly have no need for speed.
On the road, I’m usually no more than 5 over the limit.
Once I got an Audi A6 4.2 quattro up to 230 kph (that’s about 140 mph) on a really empty stretch of German autobahn (between Memmingen and the Austrian border). I must admit it’s a strange feeling. You get this highway stare, where you’re trying to figure out what the drivers a couple of kilometers ahead of you are going to do next.
If you’re whipping along at that speed, and a VW rabbit suddenly decides to pass a truck while going about 50 mph, so it enters into your lane a couple of hundred meters ahead of you, you’re going to have to hit the brakes hard and fast. To be honest I couldn’t take it more than a few minutes before slowing down to a more leisurely 80-90 mph.
It’s also a strange feeling when you are going that fast for a while and you have to exit the autobahn. At that point going 40mph feels like you’re standing still.
I got my 2000 Celica GT-S up to about 120mph and it was very stable. I could have gone faster but my exit was coming up and I was getting kinda freaked out anyway by how fast I was going. I normally drive 75-80 and hit 100 or so every once in a while.
Depends on traffic conditions, road conditions, how far ahead I can see the road and the traffic, and the condition of my car (shocks and springs, steering tightness and alignment, tire tread and inflation). Oh, and the condition of me 
In the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico winds State Road 44, which has nice long stretches you can see, gentle changes of direction, and very light traffic. I used to cruise my '65 Bonneville down it at around 130 mph and was very comfortable and relaxed. As **Mycroft Holmes[/ b]says, it gets interesting when someone does something you have to compensate for. A car in your own lane doing 55 is getting closer to you at a rate of 75 mph and the driver isn’t necessarily paying much attention to you.
There are very few places around here (New York City) that I’d feel comfortable driving at such speed. Possibly the William Floyd Parkway on Long Island at 3 AM. If I had a “Get out of jail free” card in my wallet, maybe (way too many traffic cops in these parts).
I’ve done over 120 MPH in a Renault 11, but it’s not so much the speed itself that’s the restraining factor but the combination of speed, the driver, and the driving conditions. My brother, for instance, seems to have great difficulty actually paying attention to the road when there are others in the car. I’ve been in too many accidents to want to be in another - and I’ve seen unedited photos of some really nasty ones.
Forgive me for being ignorant in regard to metric equivalencies, w/o looking at a speedometer, how many MPH does 100KPH approximate?
Once got my old Integra GS-R up to 135 MPH. Wasn’t scared for my safety, but was afraid of getting pulled over/arrested.
I took my Porsche 944 turbo up to 150mph. The world was passing me by at an alarming rate at that speed, so I didn’t stay there long. I would regularly cruise at 120+ though. This was on long flat farm roads between Champaign, IL and Naperville, IL. I could do the trip in 1hr 45min which was about an hour quicker than the norm.
It is amazing how much faster 150 feels compared to 125. It’s one of those things you gotta do once in your life, but make sure you’re in a vehicle that can accomplish it safely and make sure you have good visibility.
100 kph = 62 mph, so I was doing 242 kph, for you canucks and UK’ers.
Thought you were speaking of sex and dating… gosh, you’re a tease!
I once raced a total stranger at 140+ on the backroads of Northern California.
In my youth, I used to do late commutes home on the southern California freeways at 90-100 MPH.
Nowadays, I don’t go over 80.
100 KMPH = roughly 67 or 68 MPH (going of the top of my head, I may be wrong)
shit, I see that dil already answered.
Actually, I’m not sure how fast I was going. The car I was in was a Dodge Omni and the speedometer numbers ended at 80mph, but the needle would keep going. At peak speed, the needle was pointing straight down at 6 o’clock and pointing at the ‘P’ in ‘MPH’ which was printed at the bottom of the speedometer.
OK, math majors…what is the value of ‘P’? Assume that acceleration has peaked to zero and is not yet declining. Answer is to be in Miles Per Hour, not points per license or dollars per fine and you must show your work.