What is the fastest thing you have driven?

[Matt]

I'm sitting in the resteraunt of Oulton Park race track in Cheshire with some time to kill. I'll be driving an Ariel Atom, Ferrari 360, Aston Martin V8 Vantage and an Audi R8.

 

So I was wondering, what is the fastest thing you have driven?

[Partridge]

BMW 535d. Sorry.

[Parky]

Mazda MX6 for me. Not particularly exciting!

 

Acceleration wise it would be a different answer - Renault 5 GT Turbo

[chaseracer]

Very, VERY modified Sierra Cosworth.  Some poo may* have come out.

[Dave_Q]

Sl55 amg. But I only drove it a short distance, slowly.

[2MB]

A toss up between a fiat panda hired in Turin and a fiat 500 hired in Murcia. They were both 1.2s but they fucking flew

[cort16]

An Audi rs6+

520 bhp is waaaay too much for an Audi estate .

Cars that accelerate that fast are fun but in reality under full throttle I found the speed too fast for my brain to process which means you're really just holding on for dear life . At them you've just got white knuckles and clenched bum cheeks .

 

I recon 0-60 in 7 secs is about as quick as you'll ever need on the road.

[DodgyBastard]

Bmw e36 318is, original differential with a 2.8 engine, lightened flywheel, shotgun exhausts. Stripped interior. This thing was rapid, acceleration was phenomenal.

[Luckythirteen]

Pa's Legacy turbo. Once, not long after I'd passed my test, which concluded with him saying I'd never drive it again.

Second time, when he rang from the hotel bar...

[AlabamaShrimp]

Er I can't remember. my fiesta ST is proper fast but heavy too, it does accelerate very nice though

[Jim Bell]

Not much.

200bhp t4 or 197 bhp Slk 230K.

Both felt fast to me.

[dugong]

Porsche 911 Carrera (993).

 

One of the very few cars I've got out of thinking: "Yes, I can see why people go mental for these."

 

Depressingly, the fastest car I've owned is probably D888 XJM, my old Isuzu Piazza Turbo. MUST TRY HARDER.

 

[castros_bro]

Test drive of a Porsche 911 Turbo S on the unrestricted Frankfurt-Darmstadt A5 Autobahn

[Jimcit]

I was a passenger in a friend's Atom, I've never known something accelerate so quickly.  I don't think my reactions would be quick enough for it, especially on public roads.  I've been in some 'posh' cars that can do high speed and you don't notice the speed at all in them, which is potentially quite dangerous if you're driving when a bit tired.

 

I was once late for a ferry in a 2cv going down a big hill at about 85 with the tops of the doors starting to bend out - that certainly felt like the fastest car in the world at the time.

[twosmoke300]

Honda nsx , ariel atom , zzr1100/1200 .

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Over the years I've driven a lot of fast,big saloons but an MX5 at 70 feels faster and more exhilarating than hitting the limiter in a big German barge.

Recently the fastest thing I've driven was an Audi V10 R8, but the owner (albeit pissed and asleep) was sitting next to me and MrsN was following and didn't know the way home, probably the most frustrating 60 miles I've ever driven.

One of my brothers bought a Bandit 1200 a couple of years ago and pestered me into having a spin, when I got back he asked if I noticed the vibration braking into roundabouts from 140, of course I agreed even though I hadn't taken the fecker over 70- I is old.

[sierraman]

My old company's van. I pity the people who bought it after it got sold, it had been took within an inch of its life on an almost daily basis.

[dollywobbler]

Dodge Viper at 130mph on one of those super car days. Astonishingly powerful, astonishingly awful. I've done an indicated ton on the road in quite a few shite cars - Citroen BX diesel, Daewoo Matiz (hit the rev limiter downhill, Rover 414Si - but many years ago. I'm more sensible these days.

[talbot928]

Maybe not the fastest, most memorable has to be a Talbot Sunbeam Lotus.

[tooSavvy]

CD9kLPT... didn't top it out, mind.

 

I understand other, more powerful versions were available.... 

 

NotThatBrave.....

 

 

TS

[Six-cylinder]

My friends Mercedes SL55 AMG, what a great car, fast yes but civilised to drive, no compromise for comfort. 

 

I was lent this car for a whole week, what a memory!

 

The photo is the very car.

 

[cms206]

Fastest car I've driven was between my old Senator 3.0 24v and the 850 T-5 which was frighteningly fast off the line.

[dave21478]

I did a driving day a few months back and had a fancy tuned Mustang...Saleen perhaps? dunno. Stunning grunt from it, but it felt pretty strange as the soundproofing and comforts insulate you from the sensation of speed.

 

 

Years back, I owned a V6 Calibra that made 200bhp on a rolling road and that was a fast cruiser - very long gearing meant that acceleration was not stunning but it would sit at 100+ with ease.

I remember going to a VBOA show at Billing years back in it.  A friend had a Cavalier turbo and we did a really fucking stupid thing on the M6 on those massive long sections around the borders and towards Carlisle where it is three lanes, no junctions and little traffic. Both cars were capable of double the speed limit....if we had been caught doing that it may well have been jail time for both of us....thats the kind of shit that makes national headlines.

 

 

 

These days I prefer to just potter along like a pensioner. Its all about the fuel savings.

 

[dave21478]

Oh man looking at those photos has re-ignited my love for these. I would give my left nut to have that car back today.

[Six-cylinder]

I had a 1994 Calibra 16v Red Top, company car rated at 150bhp but felt like 170bhp, really enjoyed having it.

[Cavcraft]

Hmm, nothing too exciting I'm afraid. Probably between a Formula Ford 2000 (or something like that, it was a sort of mini F1 car) or an Omega 3.0 that was incredibly incredibly quick for such a hefty barge, an Alfa 3 litre or the CLK320 I had.

[saucedoctor]

Hmm, nothing too exciting I'm afraid. Probably between a Formula Ford 2000 (or something like that, it was a sort of mini F1 car) or an Omega 3.0 that was incredibly incredibly quick for such a hefty barge, an Alfa 3 litre or the CLK320 I had.

 

FF2000s can fucking get a shift on. Drove one myself many years ago, decided that I wasn't brave enough, and stuck to the FF1600 Van Diemen.

 

I think probably the fastest road car I ever drove was my ex's A-M Vanquish. Stupidly fast, stupidly heavy car. Glorious, though.

[Paul Dupart]

A Saab 9000 Aero I used to own.  Tweaked for a little more boost.  Don't know how fast, as it went of the clock.

[DVee8]

The Jag S-Type R that i had a few years ago was really fast around 450bhp and rear wheel drive

 

A mate took me out in a BMW Alpina 5 series twin turbo so so fast

 And a Nissan 350z turbo

[DS20]

My old Alpina B10; it was huge fun to drive