What is the fastest you have ever been & done

[JC]

120mph as a passenger in a skoda, legally as a passenger on a public road!

 

and 110mph driving round silverstone in my own car yesterday

 

 

Around 500 mph (roughly).

Swiss Airbus A330 a few months back.

You didn't say it needed to be a car.

 

Yes I did.

 

What is the fastest you have ever been in a car, and what is the fastest you have ever done in a car, what where you in.

 

pmsl!

Edited August 9, 2010 by Lordjc

[tezmanian devil]

Done 130 in my old silver escort

 

but iv been in a mates cossy at 170

 

and hoping to get 180 out of my car wen finished

[shawdreamer]

various motors as driver and/or passenger,

 

Astra Gsi (me) 145-150

Astra Turbo (me) 155+

" "(pasenger)160+

Cavalier 4x4 Turbo(me) 165+

Porcshe911 (dad) 170+

Focus St (me) 145+

Vectra Gsi,MDApreped (me)145+

" "(passenger)140+

 

fastest Ive driven is the Cav Turbo that I recently sold.

[smithyandco]

140mph... I forget the car, just the remember the speed.

 

130mph in a Transit van... With a 6th gear or a car Duratorq gearbox it could have seen more (although probably not much more before drag became too high)

[RyanML]

135mph on the dails in the escort

 

and 155mph in an e36 m3 as a passenger

[mrmetallica]

140 in my focus st

[ChunkiEgg]

As a passenger, 125 in a mondy mk2 2ltr- was sat in back too and could feel the back end squirm a bit at times hehe

As a driver, 115 in my 2k though only whilst keeping up with a Saff cossie I was in a convoy with heh.

 

If I can find a private road round these parts and the mrs lets me, might have to see what my mrs' ST200 can do

 

Not usually one to do silly speeds, can't afford the fuel and value my license too much

[foxdie]

176mph. MR2 turbo circa 300hp. On private road(ish)

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/foxdie_gti/Flow/test.jpg

[sidrick]

Department for Transport statistics, based on casualties in accidents reported to police, showed that 28,567 people were killed or seriously injured last year (2008 statistics).

 

No wonder.

[KNITERIDER]

Sid, talk about put a downer on it.

 

From whatbi can remember:

 

on my 900 Honda hornet: 156 (then it started spluttering still had more revs left tho)

my e30 touched 130 and was still pulling at 5am on way to ford fair iv been a passenger in a porche at 140ish all these speeds were speedo indicated.

[foxdie]

here's some more pointless Statistics:

 

1 – The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).

 

2 – It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.

 

3 – 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

 

4 – The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

 

5 – Every year, over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.

 

6 – When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometers away in Australia.

 

7 – Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

 

8 – Every year lightning kills 1000 people.

 

9 – In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .

 

10 – If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

 

11 – Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

 

12 – The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.

 

13 – The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.

 

14 – Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

 

15 – When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.

 

16 – If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.

 

17 – Astronauts cannot belch – there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

 

18 – The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.

 

19 – One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.

 

20 – DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.

 

21 – The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.

 

22 – The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.

 

23 – The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.

 

24 – Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

 

25 – Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.

 

26 – The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.

 

27 – Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for 18 days.

 

28 – An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

 

29 – ‘Wireless’ communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.

 

30 – The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.

 

31 – In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.

 

32 – Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts – not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.

 

33 – There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

 

34 – An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

 

35 – On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.

 

36 – The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.

 

37 – A quarter of the world’s plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

 

38 – Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.

 

39 – At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.

 

40 – The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.

 

41 – Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.

 

42 – More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

 

43 – The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

 

44 – It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.

 

45 – Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.

 

46 – The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.

 

47 – Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.

 

48 – Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.

 

49 – Even traveling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.

 

50 – A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.

[KNITERIDER]

I actually found that intresting and enjoyed reading that lol but I'm sure iv seen a giraffe lay down

[Lee R]

indicated 165 ish in my old Cosworth.

[shawdreamer]

I actually found that intresting and enjoyed reading that lol but I'm sure iv seen a giraffe lay down

 

 

only when ill and sometimes during labour, however they stand to give birth........and yes........ its one feckin hell of a drop for the kid

Edited August 9, 2010 by shawdreamer

[KNITERIDER]

i was watching a programme omn giraffes (think it was inside natures giants) and there was one laying down (i think) the baby they diseted survived the drop...then fell over n killed itself