The Fastest Speed in the Slowest Car EVER Thread
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In response to the 'Fastest youve been' thread, i noticed alot of people complain of unsuitable machinery for such vmax shananigans, so whats the fastest youve been in a totally unfast car? And put power figures if you know them for extra chucklevision.
I'll start it off with 116mph in a 200,000 mile-old peugeot 205 diesel that pobably didnt have many of its 59hp left.
I'll start it off with 116mph in a 200,000 mile-old peugeot 205 diesel that pobably didnt have many of its 59hp left.
Hit the rev limiter in top, 4-up with luggage in my Mk3 Golf GTI on way back from the Nurburgring. 22.9mph per thou in top and 6.8k rev limit = 156mph. Not bad for a 2 litre. That said, we were lost, late for the ferry and going down a steep hill on the motorway that went for at least a mile.
I bettered it in the Honda last month though - exactly same bit of road...!
I bettered it in the Honda last month though - exactly same bit of road...!
105 in an Isuzu trooper LWB fully loaded, late for the ferry on the Le Mans weekend. You did not go round corners you tacked and braking was more akin to a supertanker than a car, as the saying goes '2 stretched cables and a prayer' Very scary.
French were on strike so we made the ferry
French were on strike so we made the ferry
1982 Datsun Sunny 1.2L automatic, 20yo and probably not even an attempt of maintenance for the last few years of it's life, aside from topping up the leaky radiator I never did any either, did I mention it was free 
. I once had this speed machine nudging the heady heights of no less than 60, yes sixty, miles per hour, which was almost the speed limit on that particular stretch of road. The car was vibrating so badly I though it was going to shake itself to pieces (well more pieces than it was already in).
1987 Daihatsu Charade 1.0L 3 cylinder, well over 200,000km on the clock with a fairly tired engine and clutch, car barely holding together by this stage of it's life. This crept to an indicated 85mph at one point on a quiet industrial road at 4am one cold evening. I've been much, much faster in far better cars, but nothing comes close to how fast it seemed from behind the wheel (measurement by buttmeter). I even had to drop it back to fourth as in fifth it just didn't have the grunt to keep pulling. With another 5km of straight road, a tailwind and slight downhill gradient I reckon I could have pushed her to 90mph
. I once had this speed machine nudging the heady heights of no less than 60, yes sixty, miles per hour, which was almost the speed limit on that particular stretch of road. The car was vibrating so badly I though it was going to shake itself to pieces (well more pieces than it was already in). 1987 Daihatsu Charade 1.0L 3 cylinder, well over 200,000km on the clock with a fairly tired engine and clutch, car barely holding together by this stage of it's life. This crept to an indicated 85mph at one point on a quiet industrial road at 4am one cold evening. I've been much, much faster in far better cars, but nothing comes close to how fast it seemed from behind the wheel (measurement by buttmeter). I even had to drop it back to fourth as in fifth it just didn't have the grunt to keep pulling. With another 5km of straight road, a tailwind and slight downhill gradient I reckon I could have pushed her to 90mph
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