The only engine Volkswagen have listed is the 2.0, not the 2.8. Even so, the jump between 150 and 190 is a LOT. iirc a Focus RS tops out at 153 MPH, and your not telling me that a Golf Diesel is faster than that...?
The W12 Phaeton does 155 from 450 HP (But it is REALLY heavy - and i suspect it's limited as a 250 hp one does 150 MPH), a 200 HP Passat pushes 146 MPH, and the "top of the range" 3.2 L R32 with 250 HP is good for 155 MPH - i doubt a diesel will do 190, unless you mean KM/h
iirc thats a Gentlemans agreement, they are not bound to it, and people like Porsche never complied with it. Of course it's a good marketing ploy to say the car does 155 MPH as if you know about the limiting it makes you think it will go faster, while at the same time letting you tweak gear ratios for acceleration...
I agree...just today I was driving on a highway (speed limit 130km/h) and I caught a middle-aged woman in a new clio, with fog-lights turned on in the middle of a clear day . She was one of the worst drivers I've ever seen on highway - she started overtaking a caravan when she was at least 400m behind and when she finally got to him, she started braking - on the overtaking lane...I mean..how dumb can you be - overtake quickly or stay behind. Then when she finally got back to diving lane we overtook here (carefully and quickly )...5min after she flew pass us over 150 km/h...
5km later she was driving 120 in the middle of the road - on both lanes, causing traffic behind...
Interesting about these people is that when you pass them you look at them and see how "unrelaxed" they drive. Wheel below her chin, looking forward and nowhere else...
I would never say I'm a great driver, since I don't have much experience, but from time to time I go faster when I know I don't endanger the others
for those who lost their lives on the road I have to say I'm sorry, because IMO in 90% it isn't their fault...
90 mph (145 kmh) on level ground, 94 mph (151 kmh) down a slight hill. I was in a deep tuck with the throttle pinned looking ridiculous on my little dirt bike.
But delimited it will push 200 (202 iirc) and you can have it derestriced by a garage, or when you buy it if you have a racing license i believe (or is that Mercedes).
I do wonder how many cars this guys driven / driven in considering last time his age was in his profile he was 14
Its not easy to delimit. And if you did de-limit, why only go another 3 mph? (in his case)
(ps the new M5 will do 202. But i bet its not a new 06 M5, it was probbably the previous model)
As for how many cars he's driven, its probbably a big fat 0. The only thing that fool has driven supermarket round tescos. He may have learnt to drive, being taught by one of his parents (like me) and have driven from a young age, but i'd doubt that, since all he talks is Bull dung.
???? and for the record the car has never let me down nor broke down.
I mean i normally just hit 100mph-110mph on the motorway.. depends on the time of day and traffic.
Only because i choose to drive a ford and not a skyline? I've done a few mods to the car, upping the BHP to 190bhp now, 0-60 time hasnt gone down much due to the car being on the heavy sidebut 0-60 is around 7.5sec.
Anyways always been into ford, say what you want.
Another car i would love to drive is the RS version, what a car.
Well techincally it's delimited, so should do about 72.... KM/h (Can't get down to the garage to change the speedo with my foot), but i've actually got to get my CBT done to ride it first, so under my own power my top speed is about 5 MPH round the garden on it (I weren't pushing that thing from the drive (where it was delivered) to the garage that for some obscure reason is at the bottom (well techically the top as it's on an incline) of the garden), but Karting i've probably hit 35 or 40 (I'm not slow, but the Karts are - if only they'd let me out in the 270's :shrug, probably only ever done 95 in a car, as my Dad's not a very fast driver in a heavy-ass car, although i got a ride in a friend's Dad's TVR, wasn't fast in a straight line, but around a corner it was!
129mph (210KPH) in my Dads Subaru Impresa WRX Sti (2.5lt 365BHP) Picture on the FM Website if you want to look at it www.fragmaster.net, had more speed but, we was only doing 3 junctions on the motor way, and a bit of traffic, but it was pretty cool.