[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FCYBVvIPYI"]Subaru BRZ record breaking top speed run - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDJX6Tbo00I"]Toyota GT86 Drift & 259 km/h Top Speed downhill Test sport auto Christian Gebhardt - YouTube[/ame]

this video was veri at 250 km/h
ohh yeah and he was getting a good , well about 10 mpgs at 155 mph... lol... not bad!
a bugatti veyron only gets 1.8 mpgs at its top speed! but then again its 100 more mph...

I'm sure this thread does wonders for enhancing the reputation of this forum and giving a good public impression of its members to the outside world. Please guys, tell us more about how fast you were going on public highways, and how close you came to getting pulled over by the cops, I'm absolutely positive that nothing but good can come of this.

some of us live close to airfields/autobahns/ect

you should check out the TT Lambo forums... "yeah bro i got a longer final drive! i can hit 260 mph now!"

You are correct! :)

Calculated top speed in 6th gear at 7400 rpm = 167.3 mph.

Figure the rev limiter cuts in just a bit above redline and you'd have 169 mph.

It is clearly drag limited in top gear, unable to pull redline.

There's a guy on youtube who pulled 230 km/hr (142.9 mi/hr). Who knows for certain what the conditions were, though. But, I thought I read in some auto mag that it is around 142 mph.

Now this is for the manual transmission. The auto has an impossibly tall 6th gear, hence the superior fuel economy on the highway, but in 5th it would probably pull close to the manual transmission car.

Our MT cars should pull 128.3 mi/hr in 5th gear at 7400 rpm.

On a side note, I would discourage bouncing your engine off the rev limiter. Yeah, I know people do it all the time, but it's still hard on the machinery with all that vibration at such high stress levels, so ... I wouldn't do it. Jackie Stewart doesn't like it, either. When Sir Jackie talks, I listen. ;)

(I watched Jackie Stewart coming up when he was a youngster. Something to think about. LOL! :) )

Here's a pop quiz for you, Shawn. How much is the drag increased by when we double the speed? Speed = 2x, then Drag = ?x :) (roughly)

I never said that all of you don't have legit reasons or excuses for taking the car up to those speeds. But at least 2 or 3 people in this thread have indicated that they were on public highways - inferred by the police presence and their fear of getting caught.

I won't take the moral high ground because I have, in the past, gone a teensy bit over the speed limits. However, this IS a public forum, and these forums DO promote the FR-S and the BRZ, this thread gives the impression that people drive these cars far above posted speed limits. I needn't tell you that perception, however right or wrong, is often a stronger influence than reality.

Basically, if you have gone to those speeds, at least qualify it with the statement that it was done on a track or airstrip, or autobahn, or as we call it up here in Canada, a "closed track in Mexico".

I'm not Shawn but whatevs.

4x roughly. It's a square function in many cases. Or is it cubic? Can't really remember.

i agree and threads like these should be shut down because it does sully the image of the owners when a few speak out for the many thousands who own the car. depends on the scenarios too, here in texas you can find yourself on the toll ways doing 90 and traffic still seems to pass you easily at times... ive been to 95-100 mph just keeping up with traffic. In the texas handbook we are allowed to speed up if we are getting in the way off traffic and there is no cap on it...

in the middle of the night there are a few car clubs that move about the empty toll ways in pretty decent packs (30-100 cars) going about 100-120 and have been doing it for a few years, the cops dont do anything about it and none of us have been in accidents, and keep proper distance in-case someone were to blow a tire,ect

BUUUUT that is a scenario where the people involved aren't trying to hit top speed, we just sit comfortably there going from place to place, going from a meet to a bar, then we part our separate ways at law abiding speeds on the way home.

i mention the highways here because the cops are very well aware that we do it... lol but none of us drive that way (well for the most part) drive like hoons around public traffic
in fact... our midnight hoons, keep most of us from speeding during our 9-5 work week, track time hones our skills. A car enthusiast that is comfortable at speed, and has some track safety training who knows the limits of their car, are more likely to avoid an accident. Most of the car groups that do highway runs here, also own $25,000 + cars and not $2k beater civics, we love our cars... we do drive enthusiastically, in fact most of the accidents reported in the DFW area concerning car enthusiasts are, well being rear-ended... lol

but as a serious final note, if you are doing this on the highway, please be it on a remote highway in Mexico, THANKS!

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...224730_193.jpg

On a closed road off a military base.. Used when they filmed a Lamborghini commercial .. At that time I used my bike

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lol, what i think when i read your post was: when people see our cars for the first time and think "wow, theres a guy that likes going the speed limit" and we dont want to sully that by going fast
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But on substance i agree with you. However the op asked about top speed and i wanted to post and didnt want to lie or be hypocritical so i just told my story. im not telling anybody else to speed, its just i was in that situation and thats how it went down for me.

Fastest I've gone was 185 on an airstrip. Kilo

"Well, I suppose if you had a straight stretch of track with a level grade, and you weren't haulin' no cars behind you, and if you can get the fire hot enough, and I'm talkin' about hotter than the blazes of hell and damnation itself... then yes, it might be possible to get her up that fast."

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134 MPH.

That was before all the tickets, never again...

WOW!

Look at the fuel gauge....