100% Premium Donating Member Donating Members 641 Member For: 21y 2m 21d Gender: Male Location: If it says ONLINE below, in front of the computer, if not, tearin' up some bitumen! Posted 17/02/04 12:40 AM Share Posted 17/02/04 12:40 AM Touche'Well said! Agree totally.A mate of mine is a paramedic and while working on a patient was bashed senseless by the guys mates! All emergency service people are there to help us. Get in the way of them doing their job and you deserve the worst!Or pehaps we should just make it that offenders can get away if they make it to their cars before they're caught. Coz it'd be bad to chase them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Here since the start... Lifetime Members 10,282 Member For: 21y 8m 15d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 17/02/04 12:55 AM Share Posted 17/02/04 12:55 AM I've driven many cars, at well over 200 Kmph, yes on public roads, even in the rain in high traffic, dual carriageway.. Completely safe and legal. Even at night, even, in when it gets a little icey. Not all of these were high powered performance cars, some where dinky little hatchbacks with 1.6L engines, fwd and 185 tyres.Safe and legal! Congratsulations you're exactly the type of person who kills other road users everyday, the only difference is you haven't actually killed anyone yet. Who knows maybe you never will, but you are sure increasing the risk of it happening! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curious Member 504 Member For: 21y 2m 8d Location: sun, beach and plenty of T T's Posted 17/02/04 01:02 AM Share Posted 17/02/04 01:02 AM ????? Geea.everyone else is rambling Id thought I would too. Anyone can hold a sterring wheel straight and flatten the pedal. The real trick is being able to DRIVE a car. Then you will be the wise Sempai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixfan Flaccid Member Donating Members 2,503 Member For: 21y 7m 20d Gender: Male Location: NOONAMAH, go figure..... Posted 17/02/04 02:07 AM Share Posted 17/02/04 02:07 AM Guys, can you argue the merrits or otherwise of who can do what how fast elsewhere? Try Chit Chat, the road safety debate. I'll join you there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypnodoc It's All In Your Mind Gold Donating Members 2,198 Member For: 21y 2m 12d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 17/02/04 04:20 AM Share Posted 17/02/04 04:20 AM I drove mine from Sydney to Darwin, still accellerating at 240 with no sign of the limiter :banghead: Same, same. On a private road out the back of nowhere my T wound itself up to just over 240 then began to surge, standard wheels etc, felt like a three legged racehorse and no hope of stopping quickly. GT just a whisk over 250 and no sign of any speed limiter, feels glued to the road and stops on a dime . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NT TURBO Member 1,128 Member For: 21y 9m 26d Gender: Male Location: Darwin NT Posted 17/02/04 07:54 AM Share Posted 17/02/04 07:54 AM That was before I went out for a drive with it in "police" mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-carty nutter Member 1,966 Member For: 21y 4d Location: Wagga Wagga Posted 13/04/04 06:43 PM Share Posted 13/04/04 06:43 PM (edited) sorry for bringing up an old thread... but...when my brother had dads XR8, he said he wound it out to 240 in 4th, no limiter (must not had hit the rev limiter)ive been with my dad when he took it to 230, it stopped there, but we were in 5th...now that just dont seem right does it?... Edited 13/04/04 06:44 PM by -jep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyturbo Member 500 Member For: 20y 9m 26d Gender: Male Posted 15/04/04 11:19 AM Share Posted 15/04/04 11:19 AM I think everyone would agree that if you own an xr6t you arnt going to always stay on the limit. I am not saying that speeding is right, but I think that as long as you do it when there arnt any other cars around and you are an experienced driver then its ok. Because in the end its up to you how confident you are and if you arnt putting anyone elses life in danger its your choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BA_Turbs Member 836 Member For: 21y 4m 21d Gender: Male Posted 16/04/04 04:09 AM Share Posted 16/04/04 04:09 AM This is most likely because a speedo is allowed to have a 10% degree of error in it.At 230 km/h, you can understand that your indicated speed may not even be close to your true speedThe carsw at work have the police flash done, so a digital speedo that is also calibrated to be exact. Sometimes the digital speedo can very greatly from the indicated speed on the normal speedo.My point is, your old mans car does have the limiter, but the speedo was just being generous with your indicated speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blown BA In Your Face Member 6,195 Member For: 21y 10m 1d Gender: Male Location: Peninsula Posted 16/04/04 06:12 AM Share Posted 16/04/04 06:12 AM (edited) Had chance this morning on a deserted piece of road to wind past 240ks and hit 260 had no probs with no limiter....what a rush l tell ya Edited 16/04/04 06:12 AM by Blown BA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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