driving Fast [re: C5 racing]

[Peter Berrevoets]

Can't help but smile at this kind of thread...

Few years back now; a pearl black with butter yellow (and soft) leather 1993
BMW M5 - 276 kph indicated - around 172 mph, with the rev limiter preventing
anything faster.

Felt like a freight train on rails, hunkered down and rock solid -
beautiful... too bad it wasn't mine =(

These tales of T44s doing that speed begs me to ask - doesn't the gearing at
redline limit the top end to around 240 kph (150 mph) at best?

JME

Cheers!

Peter

Peter Berrevoets
pjberr at rogers.com
1990 200TQ
1989 200TQ - Donor
Toronto, Canada

http://members.rogers.com/pjberr


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Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 4:09 PM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: driving Fast [re: C5 racing]


Someone, probably on that thread elsewhere, mentioned that getting "up to"
150
mph or so is one thing, because the acceleration tends to stabilize the car.
But then,
when you try to "maintain" that level of speed, things get very light and
scary.

So, that's probably another problem, someone getting caught off guard once
they let
up on the go pedal after reaching speed, even just going in a straight line.

Ken

l.leung at juno.com wrote:
>
> Various lister's have inputed that the C5 is fast, which it is Quite fast,
> great acceleration, great brakes, and great, totally benign handling with
a
>  rather effective stability control, even when driving 10/10ths. The only
r
> eal performance problem with the car is that it's so fast and so good that
> it'll take most of us up (possibly well) beyond OUR abilities to keep up
wi
> th it. It may be a chebby and it may be made of plastic, but it isn't a
car
>  that most any of us can seriously take on an expect to win, unless the
dri
> ver is an idiot.
> As for hopped Civics and GTi's....Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha, hee, hee....