Pop quiz - What is worse than an E36 driver?

[JGood]

Haha nice. I didn't think they could go that fast. My A4, although not an S4, would push the pedal back at me at 125 it wasn't chipped though so maybe that is why. First and last time I went over 100mph in it, like you said its just not safe on any street or highway.

your A4, whether it's a 1.8T or 2.8 6 cylinder, is a very far from the power of even a stock bi-turbo S4. And ECU upgrades with boost increases give those cars ~60hp. Those cars are no joke.

[smonkbmw]

i like how he pointed out he used to speed in his trans am before he owned his audi. wonder what that was like?

[george graves]

Yea, I did that shit *once* and only once when I was 18. Took a honda up to 120-125 (speed limited), I swear it tool over a mile to stop. I ended up blowing through a interestion, and pissing my pants a little bit.

[Il Duce]

fricken idiots. I can't say I haven't had my fair share of attempts at the sub $10k car landspeed record. But looking back- It's simply not the smartest thing you could ever do. I wish people like that would either die, (darwin style) or save it for the track. Although I must say that I prefer the latter...

[Mr. Lin]

shit, i'm afraid to go above 80 out here.

[rede30]

i drive the 5 so much from socal to norcal i feel ok going 100+ and so does the fast lane.

[RVAe30]

wow i barely go above 80. The number of cops on the highway I take to get from school to home or vise versa kinda limit the amount of speeding i can do. I never know where one might be lurking, sneaky bastards.

plus i have a 2.93 dif in my car. it takes to long to get up to speed.

[WillisE30]

Driving aggresively on the street is plain stupid. On the right road when no one is around, sure ok. I've yet to see the stretch of I5 in question that S4 boy spoke of truly clear of traffic. I still maintain that it's stupid though, there's far too many variables at play on the street, what if there's some gravel in your favorite corner or any of a thousand other what if's, Don't get me wrong I still put the pedal to the wood on the street but I damn sure don't take many chances, just not worth it anymore.

[wRek]

I hope this will discourage at least a few of you from speeding out on public roads... This happened this past fall to a friend of mine. Some people on here who go on VWvortex may have already seen this. Drew is a good driver, and knew how to handle his car... But he was going entirely too fast, in an area where he shouldn't have been. Now, months later... He is finally out of the hospital, following countless surgeries, skin grafts, and he still can't walk. He is in a wheelchair, and still has to start his rehabilitation. He was lucky... He's still alive, and will most likely come out of it with very few problems. But not everyone is that lucky.

Not only could he have killed himself... He could have killed someone else.

I once hit 140 in my old mk2 vr swapped GTI... I did that at 5am, on a wide open stretch of highway in the middle of nowhere. And now after what happened to Drew, I feel so stupid having done so.

Here's what his car used to look like...


...and here's what it looked like the night of the accident. I'm told it was even worse in person. His brother had to pull him out of the car, as it was on fire.
The paramedics and police said they are positive that the only thing that kept him in one piece, was the roll cage that had been put in a couple weeks before the accident.

[MarshallM]

How fast was he going? Your average rollcage is not too effective in a high speed accident. A 4 point or 6 point cage probably wont help you much in a 120mph crash. In fact there is a good chance the thing will either crush you or a tube will break and stab you (the break would be assuming the cage was welded by a amateur). Compare a rally car or other race cage to your average scca event cage and you'll see what it takes to make a cage high speed safe. Rally cages have the harness several feet back from the driver near the C-pillar to prevent the driver from contacting it.

[nando]

165 *is* pretty fast on a public street.. but I can't say I've never been over 100. it's really not hard to get there at all, nor is 125+. 80 is basically the speed of traffic flow around here..

[Funkmasta]

I'm not going to lie, I get up to 120 a couple times a year, but it is always under the most perfect of conditions. I have had enough friends, acquaintances, and acquaintance's friends, that have been seriously hurt or killed, or have killed others due to driving like an idiot...

A friend of a friend is STILL in Prison...

In reality, In well maintained condition, our cars ARE safe to be driven at triple digit speeds. That is what they were designed to do. Our highways werent designed to accomodate that though. So if you step on it, just use good judgement.

[dom]

So if you step on it, just use good judgement.

couldn't have said it better myself.

[george graves]

With that said, people need to rembemer that 160 mph is a totaly different animal then 110, 120, even 130 mph.

[Funkmasta]

any engineers in here able to compute the difference in force of 120mph into a wall vs 160mph into a wall?