What's the fastest you've been in a car?

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159 in an Opel GT heavily modified (v8 ford 289 ) on the Abahn in Germany, as a passenger. Yes to be fair we were passed by somebody in a Porshe and were trying to catch him. Never happened he just kept pulling away.

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165 MPH in my 65 396/425 HP Corvette. about 2 AM going South on the Jersey turnpike in 65. Amazing what old tire technology would let you get away with. That was with 3:73 rear gears @ 7200 RPM. Not bad for a car that had a list price of $5008.00. Hit the century mark in the MM going to town yesterday. Things happen quick in the MM. Looking forward to the S/C.
 
140 twice. once in a Richard Petty car at Gateway International and once in my 88 XJ-S V-12, had 1000 RPM left and ran out of room. "--telephone poles going by like a picket fence"
 
Porshe Club of America had a rally at Road America (?) in Wisconsin, I was in high school in charge of checking wheel lug torque at the safety inspection. Some guy took me out in a slope nose 930 Turbo around the track a few time and I thought I was goona die, said we hit 160 a few times.

With a 14month old so there is no chance of anything close to that happening again, maybe 100 in the MM
 
Let's see........


I've took my 99 V8 Taurus SHO upto 138mph and it had lots of pull left in it

01 SVT Cobra upto 135mph before chickening out
02 SVT Lightning to 135mph before chickening out
02 Honda S2000 to 152mph, and it was still pulling


So far, i've been upto 110mph in the Marauder about a week ago at 2am on a straight stretch of completely empty highway, but didn't go any faster since I don't want to stress my motor too much since it only had about 1200 miles on it then. This motor sounds really good at WOT.........
 
In my Marquis? - 108mph...and that took me 30 or 40 seconds...from 60.

In a 2001 Porsche 911 - I don't know...things were blurry...we were past 130 when I had last looked.
 
105 in my dad's T-bird, no I wasn't driving. It tops out at 120 or 130.
 
Driven...141mph on the German autobahn in a Ford Sierra.
Riden...180 mph in a Mercedes 300SEL, also on the autobahn.
I think that's what I miss the most about Germany;)
 
The fastest I've ever driven was 148 mph, completely topped out, in my 1999 V-8 SHO. Car felt like it was literally on rails at that speed!
 
My V8 SHO was fun, but IMO, it doesn't hold a candle to the Marauder in terms of potential performance and reliability. BTW, I think I could have possibly gone faster on that 148 mph run, if I didn't have any 250Lb passengers. The Marauder is a full second faster in the quarter mile than my old SHO, stock for stock.

Stock SHO 1/4 mile times: 15.7
Modded SHO 1/4 mile times: 15.1
Stock Marauder 1/4 mile times: 14.7

Stock SHO top speed: 138
Modded SHO top speed: 148
Stock Marauder top speed: 120
Modded Marauder top speed: TBD :D
 
MassMarauder said:
155 in a 944 turbo
145 in a 928
130 in my 82 Mustang GT
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wow was that 82 GT STOCK? that must have been a ride to hold on too!! :0

163 at ATLANTA MOTOR SPEEDWAY in a petty car FUNNY THING WAS IT WAS THE M&M'S CAR it was destiney to own a MM!
 
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Well, 113 mph in my old 2000 ssei after that it starts to buck
135 mph in my older 1994 Z-28 it felt like it was leaving the road
and so in my mm i've hit 120 mph but i'll let you know how far it does go soon..
 
Well coming back from the Hershey meet, we had the MM up to 125 running with a Camaro. But at the time, I had it floored and it wouldn't go any faster. So a week later, we went back out on a long strech of highway to try again. This time, Gordon had the MM up to 125 again with me following behind in the Firehawk. We had to give because of traffic. The third and final trial, was a lonely back road, where Gordon had our MM up to 140. He was finally happy!! :D
 
Out of curiosity, what is the top speed of a mostly stock Marauder providing you remove the speed limiter, and install a metal matrix driveshaft, with those being your only 2 mods?
 
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