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To: RegulatorCountry

I rented a HERTZ Yellow and Black Corvette a few years ago after flying into Tampa. I had it up to 140 twice on I-75 south of Tampa and it was plenty fast. I had been about 125 (speedo only registered 120) in my 1975 Ranchero GT back when I was 17 and that didn’t phase me too much but the extra 20 MPH in the ‘Vette (sitting so low to the ground you feel as though you are going even faster), combined with rapidly catching up with traffic and not familiar with the types of cop cars and where they hide on I-75 got my heart racing pretty good. Had I been on my home turf I would have tried for a little more.


41 posted on 12/17/2013 1:39:19 PM PST by Married with Children
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To: Married with Children

Plenty of modern cars, even fairly modest sedans, are predictable and stable up to around a hundred. Go beyond that and the number of predictable and stable cars falls off pretty rapidly. Not very many are drivable at all at 150 even if they could reach that speed. 200 is impressive for a largely factory spec car from any manufacturer.


43 posted on 12/17/2013 1:41:59 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Married with Children

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.


87 posted on 12/17/2013 4:02:53 PM PST by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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