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    #212
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,305 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    105mph in a Toyota Condor just outside Swellendam in South Africa. Didn't realise I was going that fast until my passengers asked me to slow down. This is a Toyota Condor - not exactly a sports car...

    Toyota%20Condor.png


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    #213
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,401 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    drdre wrote:
    well u donot have a clue then about cars, i have a golf so i know what o am talkin about

    Bejaysis fair play to you if you got your 1.4 liter golf up to 190 km/h on the M50. I've never managed anything near that with my V8 BMWs

    What did the trick, NOx kit, aftermarket turbo or cheapsh!te overstating speedo?


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    #214
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    ~30mph in an '86 Nissan Micra
    Some serious G's :rolleyes:


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    #215
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    unkel wrote:
    Bejaysis fair play to you if you got your 1.4 liter golf up to 190 km/h on the M50. I've never managed anything near that with my V8 BMWs

    What did the trick, NOx kit, aftermarket turbo or cheapsh!te overstating speedo?
    Vivid imagination more like.

    I'd be a bit skeptical about 100 in a Daihatsu Domino too. I drove one of those on the absolute limit, down a hill (the stretch into Midleton from the Cork side), with a tailwind, and the needle wouldn't budge over 91mph. And I'm glad it didn't, I was positively pooing myself as it was.

    Don't really get top end though tbh, does very little for me. I'd be quite happy with a car limited to 80 or so, just as long as it had plenty of oomph.

    adam


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    #216
    100gSoma
    Registered Users Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭100gSoma


    the guy who said he did 162mph in a TT made me smile. :) thanks


    135mph (alfa cloverleaf)
    153mph (bmw M3)
    165mph 3 door Sierra Cosworth (whale tale like rs500. 3000 sterling worth of engine work done to it.


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    #217
    MercMad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,269 ✭✭✭MercMad


    Thing is most speedos are WAAYyyyyyyyyyyy off in terms of accuracy !

    I know they are all supposed to be within 10% but I've verified a few with my GPS and they are generally ludicrous, especially when accelerating hard, the needle tends to accelerate more than the car does !!

    Curiously my old Merc speedo read about 12% slow !! :eek:


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    #218
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    just under 180 k/mh in a 1.6 mazda 3 on the athlone dual carriageway two weekends ago. What's that, about 110mph or 115mph?


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    #219
    Borzoi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭Borzoi


    The thread that just won't die

    *bang*

    That should do it. Locked


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