driving fast

[Mihnea Cotet]

At 13:00 4/04/2002 -0500, Dave Hord wrote:
>Two summers ago I took my stock 1989 90 quattro up to my fastest speed ever...
>
>Beautiful summer day, empty highway, great visibility...
>
>Brought it up to just over 215km/h...about 217km/h...speedometer was still
>climbing, but at about 2km/h per kilometer.
>
>Now that I've started to really rally the car, and solo II it...I just
>find the
>whole speed on paved roads boring.
>
>Had to do it once, you know...be young and stupid...tack it up on my imaginary
>wall of 'personal achievements'.
>
>But, I honestly don't think I'd do it again unless it was legal (Autobahn?).
>
>Hey...wait a second...is this going to be in the archives!?!

Heh, yep, it's gonna be in the archives ;-) everyone is busted till now :-)))

I've driven my coupe quattro more than once at past 200 km/h, like
210-215... this usually happens every 3 months to see if it didn't loose
anything with the age, and it didn't actually :-)
Now my personal record is 240 km/h as per the 200q20v's board computer
where the speedo would indicate something like 280 km/h but this is because
the speedo is a weird model that goes up to 300 km/h and hasn't been
recalibrated, so it's very wrong....at 150 km/h the BC indicates 125...
As a passenger I've once been at about 260 km/h and it was damn fast!!!
I just had to add my personal experience as well... :-)


Mihnea