What is the fastest you have ever driven?

[Takumi]

My 2001 Prelude has a top speed of 140. I've gone 102, but I should get bonus points for doing it in Virginia.

Heh. My 120 mph was in Northern Virginia. I slowed down when I realized I was approaching a car up ahead at more than double that car's speed!

Y'all are damn sure braver than I am!

Eh. 3:30 AM, only car on the road, in a spot where I know police don't go because it's physically impossible for a car to sit there.

[noelbotevera]

85 mph during the rain with crazy drivers during rush hour on I-81. It wasn't too bad.

[Max Rockatansky]

85 mph during the rain with crazy drivers during rush hour on I-81. It wasn't too bad.

Isn't that kind of thing frowned upon these days?....under-aged minors driving the car? 

[jakeroot]

85 mph during the rain with crazy drivers during rush hour on I-81. It wasn't too bad.

I too drove when I was 12, but it was only to the liquor store. You got balls m8

[Max Rockatansky]

85 mph during the rain with crazy drivers during rush hour on I-81. It wasn't too bad.

I too drove when I was 12, but it was only to the liquor store. You got balls m8

Used to pull stumps for the neighbors with the Chevy LUV when I was 9.  I was actually tall enough to operate the thing at that age.  I was told a couple times not to leave the neighborhood by the local county sheriff.  Granted this was the 1980s, if something like that ever happened today there would be a internet rage freak-out.

[noelbotevera]

85 mph during the rain with crazy drivers during rush hour on I-81. It wasn't too bad.

I too drove when I was 12, but it was only to the liquor store. You got balls m8

Well my dad was driving with about 28 or so years of experience. So...yeah, it's not me.

85 mph during the rain with crazy drivers during rush hour on I-81. It wasn't too bad.

I too drove when I was 12, but it was only to the liquor store. You got balls m8

Used to pull stumps for the neighbors with the Chevy LUV when I was 9.  I was actually tall enough to operate the thing at that age.  I was told a couple times not to leave the neighborhood by the local county sheriff.  Granted this was the 1980s, if something like that ever happened today there would be a internet rage freak-out.

Well lucky you, because I'm only barely 5 feet tall. You must be tall in real life.

[Max Rockatansky]

I was about the same height as you at the time.  I seem to recall that I did something at the time that got my Dad angry and added to my yard work for about a month. 

[OracleUsr]

80 in a Toyota Corolla, I-95 between Houlton and Orono

[freebrickproductions]

Almost 100 on I-65.

[3web]

Whenever my family and I go on road trips, the speed limit is usually 65 to 70, so we just got 80. Fastest is 85, which is impressive for our car.

[WillWeaverRVA]

I somehow managed to get up to 95 on I-95 between Ashland and Fredericksburg, VA...and cars were still passing me. Go figure.

[7/8]

I think the fastest I've ever driven was probably 150 km/h (93 mph) when passing someone. I almost never drive that fast though, because going 150+ in Ontario is considered street racing (not worth the risk!)

[jeffandnicole]

I was doing 90 today.  And that was simply going with the speed of traffic in the left lane.

[Max Rockatansky]

I'm honestly kind of surprised how many people haven't even gone 100 MPH.  Seems like a normal thing to do at least once...at least to me.

[hotdogPi]

I'm honestly kind of surprised how many people haven't even gone 100 MPH.  Seems like a normal thing to do at least once...at least to me.

Some people (like me, but I don't know how to drive) live in places where the terrain won't allow it.

[Max Rockatansky]

I'm honestly kind of surprised how many people haven't even gone 100 MPH.  Seems like a normal thing to do at least once...at least to me.

Some people (like me, but I don't know how to drive) live in places where the terrain won't allow it.

Well...suffice to say that I wasn't driving in New England during the age that I lived there.  But I sure did hit 100 a couple times in my teenage years a couple times in the Carolinas and Midwest.  I seem to recall going pretty fast on the Chicago Skyway or something when I was 17 or 18.  It just seems like a lot of these lower speeds are coming out of the east coast.  Maybe I just got too used to speed limits of 75, 80, or even 85 MPH.

[pumpkineater2]

I'm honestly kind of surprised how many people haven't even gone 100 MPH.  Seems like a normal thing to do at least once...at least to me.

Hey I would've gone 100 and beyond, but my vehicle wasn't capable

[cl94]

95 on I-95 in southern Massachusetts. I thought 30 over in another state was plenty fast.

[michravera]

Title says it all. Additionally, how fast can your car go?(If you ever attempted to see)

94 is the number for me. I did it in a 1997 Dodge ram 1500, which topped out at that speed.

I thought there was already a thread for this; I searched twice, found nothing.

About 180 knots (~215 MPH) in a rented Piper Arrow on desent into San Jose International. On the ground, I usually keep it below 100 MPH. I was on a Texas toll road near Austin with an 85 MPH posted speed limit in a rental and had trouble getting it much past 90 MPH.

On a Memorial Day weekend back in the 1990s, there was a huge accident that blocked access to I-15 (posted 70 MPH/55 MPH TRUCK) from the LA area. My then fiance'e, her parents, and I were in my Father-in-Law's one-year-old Honda Accord coming from the Bay Area and Central Valley with the three of them falling asleep, ideal weather, well lighted roadway, nearly straight, the Southern California people off the road because they were blocked, and all of the CHP dealing with the accident. I discovered that somewhere between 150 and 160 km/hr was comfortable and safe. I got it up to about 180 km/hr before I decided to slow down to the more normal Autobahn speed. People were passing me when I drove 140 km/hr (my guess is that 85%tile was my speed).

[Ian]

This past summer driving out west, I got my car ('08 Hyundai Sonata) up to 125 driving through the Mojave Desert in southern California. I believe it was somewhere between Kelso and Amboy.

Before that, I've gotten my car up to 115-120 on I-95 north of Old Town, ME, where there are more moose than other cars on the highway.

[cl94]

Before that, I've gotten my car up to 115-120 on I-95 north of Old Town, ME, where there are more moose than other cars on the highway.

I would have done that if I knew there wouldn't be cops up there. I kept my cruise control at 80. Only passed a couple of trucks and zero vehicles passed in either direction when I was being secondaried at the border crossing.

[J N Winkler]

I have a GPS track log that alleges 102 MPH in a 1994 Saturn SL2 while completing an overtaking maneuver on US 400 east of Wichita in July 2015.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

105 on I-25 in Wyoming (north of Casper) last year. I dropped back to 90 pretty quickly between the terrain (which is great for hiding troopers) and not knowing Wyoming's speeding laws.

[Ian]

Before that, I've gotten my car up to 115-120 on I-95 north of Old Town, ME, where there are more moose than other cars on the highway.

I would have done that if I knew there wouldn't be cops up there. I kept my cruise control at 80. Only passed a couple of trucks and zero vehicles passed in either direction when I was being secondaried at the border crossing.

You can get away with a lot on that stretch of I-95. The only place you may see a cop parked in the median may be Island Falls or Houlton as you get closer to Canada, but even then, it's rare. I drove south from Medway last weekend and averaged about 90 almost all the way back to Orono.

[cl94]

Before that, I've gotten my car up to 115-120 on I-95 north of Old Town, ME, where there are more moose than other cars on the highway.

I would have done that if I knew there wouldn't be cops up there. I kept my cruise control at 80. Only passed a couple of trucks and zero vehicles passed in either direction when I was being secondaried at the border crossing.

You can get away with a lot on that stretch of I-95. The only place you may see a cop parked in the median may be Island Falls or Houlton as you get closer to Canada, but even then, it's rare. I drove south from Medway last weekend and averaged about 90 almost all the way back to Orono.

Wish I knew that 2 months ago when clinching I-95. Some spots with beautiful scenery, but that stretch went on forever.