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A very unpolitically correct topic !

Please mention where and when you drove the fastet with a car ?

For me, I will answer the following :

- In Germany, I had rented a Mercedes in Frankfurt and had to drive to the Netherlands, I could sometimes drive about 200 km/h... But in Germany, it is not funny, as there are no speed limits.

- Therefore, my record is 210 km/h with a BMW I once rented in France (speed limit 130 km/h) : it was at night coming back from the Champagne region... A real pleasure.

- I got caught once by the highway police in France at 177km/h close to Chartres (South-West of Paris) : As I still own a Belgian dirving licence, I got away with a fine of 90 €...


Only mad drivers are allowed to answer this topic : so, please, no blabla bullshit about "it's not good not to respect the rule".

Crazy Phaseolus-driver

100km/h But I don't have a driving licence yet! It was with the driving school car (Opel Corsa).

210-220 km/h is my highest speed
(in driving school my best was 199 km/h )

haemoglobin wrote: (in driving school my best was 199 km/h )

Do you mean that the driving shool allows you to drive so fast in Germany ?

I would dream of this !

Personnaly, I was thinking of taking some additional driving course for learning how to react exactly on wet roads or on snow... Did anyone took such lessons ?

@Phaseolus: Come to Finland in few days, if you want to learn to drive in snow.

My record, when I'm driving myself, is something like 180km/h. It's about the maximum my parents old car goes. It was crazy and I didn't like it, but had to try it once (one does stupid things in his youth).

I have once been on car, that my friend drove ~200km/h on a two-lane road. I was so scared the whole time...

I like driving a bit over the limits, especially on highways that have four-lanes, but on normal roads I prefer to stick with the limits.

Klazu wrote:@Phaseolus: Come to Finland in few days, if you want to learn to drive in snow.

I have been to Finland three times, and i have been driving twice : once in winter, once in summer.

In winter, it was my first time I had "nailed" tires : that was surprising for me : a first experience.

In summer : I had been told that fines in Finland were proportional to your salary... That was enough to discourage me to do any stupid things... (Yes, I am a coward )

Some months ago I drove 45 km/h with a tractor

On the German autobahn I have reached the topspeed of my car. It was 172 km/h.

On Dutch roads I sometimes drive a bit over the speedlimits.

Here in Belgium where I live now I don't really have the urge to drive too fast as the speed limit here is quite high according to the road conditions.
Outside the city limits it is standard 90 km/h but on most parts it is brought down to 70. And that suits the road situation good almost always.

On my bike? Well, uhm quite hard

very good topic!205 km/h with my old alfa romeo, when i was a baby, just 18 years old!But now in Italy we have "patente a punti" and radar everywhere, that's suchs!

With a rented Mercedes 220 km/h but the car could go faster...

200km/h with my Seat Leon on the German autobahn

160 km/h with a Renault Grand Espace in Germany and Austria.

Of course german driving schools allow you to drive fast, my instructor there encouraged me even to drive real fast when I was close to the examination as an monitored excercise. I drove there 210km/h. Later on I had a job to bring brand new cars to field staff of a company and take back their old (which usually ment 2-3 years old), I got the once a car with many horse powers, so my record is 250km/h were usually the cars are limited to. This was a funny thing, you may accelerate quite good up to this speed and then quite surprisingly there is nothing more.

On the second day of my holiday I took a short stretch of German Autobahn. I brought my car (a 2001 Seat Toledo) to 185 km/h when traffic forced me to slow down. I will have to find out the maximum during a following visit to Germany.
Reached that same speed almost in a 1983 Fiat Ritmo, but that was downhill with the pedal-to-the-metal. Couldn't get that one over 160 on a flat road.