Posted on 12/17/2013 12:51:07 PM PST by nascarnation
In what he claims is a first-ever trip to 200mph by a tuned C7, JH “tests” the Ez-Tag system by blowing past it at more than double the already-enthusiastic 80mph toll-road speed limit. Interestingly enough, the factory speedometer in the LCD display appears to be dead-on accurate.
“The road is smooth as silk, easy-breezy,” Hennessey indicates, in a phrase that will no doubt launch at least a dozen imitators.
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When I was in Florida many years ago I saw the state police driving Porsches to stop speeders there.
**I’ve been on that toll road. Speed limit is 85 mph.**
You are thinking of SH 130 south of Buda. This is a different toll road. I’ve never been on 130 past US 71 when we go to Austin Bergstrom Inconvenient Airport.
Last time we took our friend there for a flight, I was driving 85 and never passed a single vehicle.
It is common for automakers to “overclock”. It adds miles to leases, expires warranties faster, improves gas mileage and performance. Honda and Toyota have already been successfully sued for this about a decade ago.
At 200 mph, you’re not driving a car, you’re aiming it.
My 1995 stock Mercedes sl500 will do 120 effortlessly. I’ve done that in short bursts many times. It is computer controlled to top out at 155 but they say with a new chip and a few tweaks you can get it in the 180+ range. To me it’s not worth investing the money to find out.
As a stupid kid with a DPS 440 Coronet from the auction, I hit an Armadillo at over 100mph...Sounded like I hit a basketball made out of lead under my car. Looked in rear view to see him uncoil and continue across the road
Did 145+ in a rented Audi A8 on the Autobahn south of Innsbruck once. When the big Mercedes and the BMW blew my doors off passing me at that speed, I decided to slow to around 100 for the rest of the trip.
Aero smero. I just finished replacing some wheel bearings that had seen 500,000 miles and that helped the go fast a lot since it no longer rumbles. Maybe time to push it to 90!
I did 100 mph less than that in an old military 3/4 ton. I never got out of the right lane.
LOL I thought I was hot stuff back in 1967 when I averaged 87 mph between Toledo and Cleveland on the Ohio Turnpike. That speed was calculated based on the time stamp on the toll card.
Bias ply tires, drum brakes, yadda yadda.
When I was a pre-teen (late 1950s) the guy next door had a 57 2-door. Truly a classic design.
Yup, it is built like a rock. That picture is when I first got it. Made a fair amount of repairs/improvements since than, both mechanical and cosmetic. It still needs a couple years work, but there is so much meat to it that I can repair everything.
It’s a little rough, but damn if it wouldn’t put another 500k on it easy. Try that with a C7
Just shy of the length of a football field every second. No thanks.
He was holding the nitrous switch in his left hand, that nitrous was what got him over 200.
Obviously the man is an environmental criminal...
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My ‘92 Saturn SL2 would do 115-120 and felt great at that. Oddly enough, that was the only car I ever got speeding tickets in, and in California to boot. I believe that was a combination of it’s extremely good handling at speed, it’s “oddity” factor since they weren’t all over the roads in the first few years and the fact that they didn’t start using radar on CA interstate highways until the late 90’s or early 2000’s.
In Virginia, I had my 1970 1/2 RS Camaro up to a rats ass under 150 once, for a while, and it was pretty tight too. Most notable was that power steering was a waste up in the 100’s. I had new tires, brakes, air shocks and station wagon coils and Berlinetta leaves in it, plus a shift kit, headers and a bit of cam under the hood (though still the 2 jet on top). My Z-28 pack had rusted out on it and it sounded like a low flying aircraft.
I have a picture of me standing next to it (in my 1982 WHO concert T-shirt) in our office kitchen at work captioned “NEVER sell that which will be extremely difficult to re-aquire in the future”...
I’ve been 155 in a C5 with the top down.... That’s moving along on an interstate that wasn’t closed.
Be warned Ferrari, GT class belongs to Corvette.
Wow...that’s impressive.
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