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unkel

Originally posted by Tommy Vercetti
I get about 5-6mpg more by driving at 60mph on the motorway than 70-75. That saving alone will cover most of my insurance for the year...and it costs me about 2 minutes of my life every day...

So your daily motorway mileage is 8

seamus

I get about 55mpg and my tanks holds just over 4 gallons, so I'm not too worried

Atomic Pineapple

105mph in a 1.25zetec Fiesta on the m1 in the north, they have great roads up there.

just about touched 110mph in my 1.4 Focus on a straight road beside me house at half four in the morning, had to slow down as i was turning off the road, dunno if it would go any faster.

as for saving petrol i get mine for free from the company hehe good stuff

smoke.me.a.kipper

94mph in my micra between waterford and carrick on suir. thats the fastest my little run-around will let me go.

Bogger77

115 (indicated) 03 Reg Corrolla 3dr Hatch on the M20 nr London, pretty much maxed out. saw blue lights so I slowed down

115 (indicated) 00 reg Corrolla 3dr Hatch, on the N25 from Midleton to Youghal, 5am. empty car.

Madness, I agree, but only crash I've had was a collision with a Stolen car, its fault not mine.

No more than 5 to 10 mph above the limit, depends on road conditions normally, do about 500 mile/week

Tommy Vercetti

Originally posted by unkel
So your daily motorway mileage is 8

More like 60

unkel

Originally posted by Tommy Vercetti
More like 60

My calculation was wrong

(timeonmotorwayinminutes+2)*60/60milesperminute = timeonmotorwayinminutes*75/60milesperminute

hence

timeonmotorwayinminutes = 8 minutes

so

milesonmotorway = (10/60 hours) * 60mph = 10 miles

if your mileage is 60 then you'd save 12 minutes,
presuming you can eiter do a constant 60mph or a constant 75mph

Your fuel saving is 5mpg. Presuming that it is petrol @ €0.97 per liter and that you get 40mpg @60mph and 35mpg @75mph then your 60 miles on the motorway will save you €0.94

So you save €0.94 for 12 minutes. This is €4.70 per hour - about twothirds of the minimum wage

Sorry - just felt like a wee calculation on a Saturday evening to clear the head - I know it's sick

conZ

67mph in a '91 1.6l Mazda 323F with the 'aul lad beside me. Slowed down to ~60 after that - I want him to have some bit of trust in me when he lets me out on my own :ninja:.

Decent enough, seeing that I've only had about 4 hours driving experience, and about 2 hours road driving.

Hopefully getting insured soon, so I must bring it up to the Ennis -> Limerick Dual Carriageway, and break it in .

Endless amount of high speeds while being a passenger. 'Aul lad is a cop (immune ) and has an Advanced course done so he's always hitting savage speeds.
Hit about 70 or 80 in the below Pajero on about a half mile of road. After dropping me home, the friend who was driving it was pulled less than 200m from my house, overtaking a car at savage speed, while going around a bastard of a left corner after going under a tight bridge. Luckily, his aul lad is a cop too, and therefore immune.

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In relation to damhsatasfksajs's post...

How can you disconnect the speedometer cable?
Friends got a '94 Pajero 2.8l TD and his 'aul lad checks the mileage at every chance he gets. (you know why )

Tommy Vercetti

Originally posted by unkel
My calculation was wrong

(timeonmotorwayinminutes+2)*60/60milesperminute = timeonmotorwayinminutes*75/60milesperminute

hence

timeonmotorwayinminutes = 8 minutes

so

milesonmotorway = (10/60 hours) * 60mph = 10 miles

if your mileage is 60 then you'd save 12 minutes,
presuming you can eiter do a constant 60mph or a constant 75mph

Your fuel saving is 5mpg. Presuming that it is petrol @ €0.97 per liter and that you get 40mpg @60mph and 35mpg @75mph then your 60 miles on the motorway will save you €0.94

So you save €0.94 for 12 minutes. This is €4.70 per hour - about twothirds of the minimum wage

Sorry - just felt like a wee calculation on a Saturday evening to clear the head - I know it's sick

Don't forget to factor in the lower blood pressure from not having some twat up your arse (oh the mental images of that....)

Wanton

fastest personel 98mph in my little 1l corsa, was soon stopped by the gardai at 82, leaned my lesson i can tell you, a bit too l8.

fastest as a passenger, civic import of some kind, went off the clock at 180kph, looked like it easly topped 200kkph, so somewhere in a the region of 120mph. not somthing i would do again, just did it once to say i did it.

robbie1876

Once drove from New Orleans to Memphis, a distance of 400 miles, in 3 1/2 hours, and that included stopping for lunch! Was driving a rented Lincoln Town Car. Just cranked it up to 130 and hit cruise control. Thats the fastest I've been.

At one stage I was overtaken by a Viper who must have been doing at least 160.

trotter_inc

Nothing too crazy from me.... bout 95 mph in my Mitsubishi Colt.

SouperComputer

erm,

142Mph, 90/94 Freeeway (US), 1988 oldsmobile cutlass supreme (driven 2003!), hilarious car, check out the bottom photo: http://www.4wheelz.net/oldsmobile/new/cutlass_supreme/en/oldsmobile_cutlass_supreme.htm

102Mph N11, 93 Nissan Sunny, pretty pathetic

115mph, 100cc kart, mondelllo park, flat through duckhams

felt safest in the Kart!

SouperComputer

kayos wrote:

Hmmm not true at all I am normally hitting ~120MPH by the end of the start/finish straight in Mondello and my car is not the fastest that would be on track.

thats pretty good, what car is it? You should be getting more speed out the back though.

stratos

You won't beat this i did 280 mph in Swords north county Dublin.

stratos

on another note i was doing 100 mph one nite up the m1 and in the distance was a tr7 ( i didn't own one then). I laughed ha ha I thoght that ol crock won't catch me. It did, it strolled by me, screaming like a banshee that missed a banshee union meeting, thus loosing it's lunch allowance. It was then I learned of the tr8 !

lomb

stratos wrote:

on another note i was doing 100 mph one nite up the m1 and in the distance was a tr7 ( i didn't own one then). I laughed ha ha I thoght that ol crock won't catch me. It did, it strolled by me, screaming like a banshee that missed a banshee union meeting, thus loosing it's lunch allowance. It was then I learned of the tr8 !

if u want to really speed legally take it down to the autobahn on a quite sunday morning and open it up. i know there are recommended limits but these are not legally enforcable. apparantly many people travel at 140mph on traffic free strectches in the fast lane.

$lash

165mph - Ferrari 328 GTB
155mph - Subaru Impreza
145mph - BMW 328
140mph - Mitsubishi Lancer EVO V
135mph - Honda Civic Type R
133mph - Fiat Punto GT Turbo

there has been countless others but they are the ones that spring to mind... My current car is limited to 180kph .. Just as well too

OfflerCrocGod

stratos wrote:

You won't beat this i did 280 mph in Swords north county Dublin.

In what exactly?

Squirrel

170kph in an MR2. Only from 1 exit to the next on the M50 though, it could have gone higher

kasintahan

Passanger in a '81 Volvo 240 gls @ 105-110mph - was testing the breaks/new low profile tyres or somesuch..

ExoduS 18.11

the evil belly wrote:

turns out it was a fire engine anyway so no ticket

or jail sentance :P

ExoduS 18.11

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

In what exactly?

i think he means a airplane, the airport is in north swords ya?

unkel

ExoduS 18.11 wrote:

i think he means a airplane, the airport is in north swords ya?

That's what I thought too

OfflerCrocGod

ExoduS 18.11 wrote:

i think he means a airplane, the airport is in north swords ya?

I thought passenger planes went around 400mp/h.

unkel

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

I thought passenger planes went around 400mp/h.

Not straight after take-off or just before landing. It would be a good bit less

Non- supersonic passenger planes can do up to about Mach 0.9. This is equivalent to about 1100kph (700mph) ground speed, not corrected for wind speed

E@gle.

I see you all forgot to go metric.

unkel

E@gle. wrote:

I see you all forgot to go metric.

nope - mph was in brackets after kph in my last contribution...

ambro25

Citroen AX 1.4 TZS - 205 kph (speedo, downhill, A4 Strasbourg-Paris)
Delta HF Integrale mk.1 - 194kph (speedo, some nationale in northern France, Strasbourg-Phalsbourg)
Pug 205 1.0 - 163kph (cop's radar, some other nationale in northern France)
Citroen CX 2.5 GTI Turbo - 243 kph (cop's radar, racing a 911, same downhill/A4 Strasbourg-Paris as AX)
MX-5 1.8i - 118mph (speedo, racing a Lotus Elise, E40 Brussels - Luxembourg)
Subaru 2.0 n/a - 123mph (speedo, some guy in a 3-series annoying me, M18 Sheffield-Hull)

Now sedately sticking to the speed limit since becoming a responsible father, and leaving the land speed record attempts to younger blood

shagman

I've gone faster but defo the scariest was hitting 85mph in a 1973 bog standard mark 1 escort 1.1L with 5 passengers and 3 surfboards on the roof. The majority of that speed was produced by a hefty tailwind normally the car would struggle to hit 60mph.
I've been a passenger in some modern top repmobile (can't remember TT or BMW or some yoke) cars doing over 100 but it's like sitting on a couch waching the landscape channel.
If you don't feel like you may die at any minute whats the point of putting yourself in the situation where you could.