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Owner was informed that new cars don't come with speed exemptions.
i love people, lol.
I mean, technically it could be a 2023 that was sold as brand new in 2025... and it was never titled to anybody until the last few weeks or a few months.
Last edited by PeterUbers; Jul 9, 2025 at 04:57 PM.
Depends on the road of course but the car feels smooth as silk at 120 mph and it really doesn't feel all that fast. During the European delivery tour we did 170+ on the autobahn on the last full day of the tour once the breaking in was completed and it was still pulling, but we were out of room.
Did hit 150 and change on a cross country drive out in the middle of nowhere once.
In So Cal the typical speeds in the I5 are easily 80 mph and it's not hard to hit 100 here and there almost accidentally, but 123 mph would be hard to convince as accidental even as smooth as they are :-)
There's a time and place as they say. Like the poster above, I've driven much much faster than that on the German Autobahn legally. Some day we can have a conversation about how come the USA has about a 4 times higher traffic fatality rate than Germany. It's not the speed that seems to kill, as many want you to believe. Germany is ranked 16th, with Monaco ranked 1st with 0 traffic fatalities. USA is 85th out of 191, so there are worse places, but it does put things in perspective a bit.
I would much rather see them place a big emphasis on keep right except to pass and the existing slower traffic move over for passing driver laws on the books than speeders. That and distracted driving.
Have watched so many people automatically head straight for the left lane as soon as they enter the interstate and then just sit there. Blocks traffic and causes much frustration with other drivers, necessitating all sorts of lane changing and passing on the right, road rage, etc.
California just implemented a no-touch law for mobile phones. Doubtful that this will help, but I guess it can't hurt. I used to bicycle a lot during my lunch break at work, but quit years ago because so many drivers aren't paying attention and cross into the bike lane frequently as they're texting, doing makeup, masterbating, whatever. The lack of focus of the average driver is really frustrating.
As a former motorcycle road racer, have many miles at triple digit speeds and totally agree speed isn't the problem . . .
I've had two vehicles that were individually hit by two different drivers that were using their phone when they hit me. This definitely has affected me and in my community all I see are people buried in their phone all the time as they're driving.
I actually feel that drunk driving while paying attention to the road is safer than texting and driving well stone cold sober (both are terrible of course). I wanna say that I read or saw something that supported this notion in the recent past.
I've had two vehicles that were individually hit by two different drivers that were using their phone when they hit me. This definitely has affected me and in my community all I see are people buried in their phone all the time as they're driving.
I actually feel that drunk driving while paying attention to the road is safer than texting and driving well stone cold sober (both are terrible of course). I wanna say that I read or saw something that supported this notion in the recent past.
Yes, the link below speaks to that. Texting drivers are 23 times more likely to be involved in a crash, whereas drunk drivers are 4 to 23 times more likely. So texting is consistently very dangerous whereas I guess drunk driving comes in shades of grey. Depends on how drunk the driver is I suppose. But yes, there's little true enforcement of distracted driving. As said above, here in California they passed the no-touch law recently, which at least ups the punishments. We'll have to see how it's gonna get enforced and if it's actually gonna make a dent.
Having lived and driven in both Europe and the USA and getting my first driver's license in Europe I could probably come up with a long list of why it's such a chaos on US roads. Top of the list would probably be effectively zero driver education. Everybody drives by the seat of their pants and any idiot can just walk into the DMV and get a driver's license even if it takes them 20 attempts to pass the written test. In Europe you have to go see a professional if you keep failing the driving tests to assess whether you have a learning disability or are simply unfit to drive. And after the age of 70 you have to go for a thorough medical assessment every two years to determine if you are still fit to drive. My dad for example is on probation, because of his eyesight and he was recently diagnosed with Parkinson's, so at the moment he is only allowed to drive for another year and then he has to get assessed again. If I remember correctly, California passed something recently as well that requires regular assessments after a certain age. Pilots have to regularly go to training, get their hours in a prove that they are still fit to fly, but everybody can just hop into a 9000 lbs Hummer in this country and barrel down the road. BTW, Europe also has gross weight limits on driver's license of 3.5 tons, so you can't even legally drive some of these heavy oversized pickup trucks that people here use to commute to work. There are also limits on how much power a car can have for young drivers.
I'm pretty tired of the BS in the USA. Officially writing speeding tickets is all for safety, but then the revenue finds its way into the general funds of the police departments. Can't say it's for safety if you have a finical stake in writing tickets. It'd be different if the money from the tickets would go towards driver education and real measures to improve the safety on the roads. Starting with what kinds of vehicles should be allowed on the road w/o needing a special driver's license and additional certification. 16 year olds who just got their driver's license shouldn't be allowed to drive a 7000 lbs CyberTruck with almost 900 hp. And how about we follow Europe and up the driving age to 18? One example of how Europe just approaches these things differently is the fact that the drinking age in Europe is 16 and the driving age is 18. So you have 2 years to get the drunk out of your system and mature a bit before ever getting behind the wheel of a car. Here in the USA you can drive at age 16, but have to wait to drink till you are 21. So all these college drunks have driver licenses. What could go wrong?
I wonder how many on this forum have gone faster than that? Maybe the number would be smaller if the question were "How many haven't gone that fast?"
My top speed on the road is 138 mph. Early 80’s. Vicinity of Bradley, and heading toward Lake Naciemento(aka Brogdan’s pond).
But it was a motorcycle. Honda VFR 500 Interceptor. Near maxed out RPM top gear(11,000rpm)
In a car, maybe 120mph.
I have to concur that American drivers in my experience are the worst. I’m not sure if the fact that you virtually just have to show up at the DMV to get your license though. But I’m not sure if that’s the whole problem.
When I got my license in Taiwan the tests were pretty rigorous but the driving style there are what can be described as polite Italian. And don’t get me started on Israeli drivers that need to spent many hours in driving schools to get their license.
The best country for drivers that I’ve lived in was Ireland. When I first lived there about half of the drivers didn’t even have licenses.
Both indicated (perhaps not actual) and only on a deserted road far from people and traffic. The midwest has lots of those through the farmlands.
Now that I have the S63 and could easily top those numbers, I find I no longer have quite the "need for speed". That said, it's been over 140 a few times because it gathers speed so quickly on the highway. "I'll just punch it and get around this left lane blocker. Oh crap, now I'm going WAY too fast".
I have to concur that American drivers in my experience are the worst. I’m not sure if the fact that you virtually just have to show up at the DMV to get your license though. But I’m not sure if that’s the whole problem.
When I got my license in Taiwan the tests were pretty rigorous but the driving style there are what can be described as polite Italian. And don’t get me started on Israeli drivers that need to spent many hours in driving schools to get their license.
The best country for drivers that I’ve lived in was Ireland. When I first lived there about half of the drivers didn’t even have licenses.
If we're including two wheels, the number of times over 100 were innumerable - multiple times each weekend at Palomar Mt back in the good old days. No clue to top speed on the road, probably 170 something but typically I didn't go fast on the street for the sake of going fast - rather have fun in the twisties.
On the track, it was something in the vicinity of 165 on the "straight" at California Speedway (RIP) in Fontana just off my gearing and tach figures, but doesn't count wheelspin. I have videos from track days where you can see bikes I was following laying black marks exiting the infield section all the way up and onto the banking. Not sure that I ever quite hit the same speed at Willow Springs because turn 8 takes all your attention at that point. Buttonwillow was the track I enjoyed the most but I'm guessing only about 150 ish there.
Sadly, now I'm entering my old fart stage and the bikes are just about all gone - down to a KTM 1190R, 500 EXC, and TXT300 Pro trials bike. All of which are going on the market soon.
Italy is ranked 35th, so on the high end among its European neighbors, but still less than half the fatality rate of the USA. I've been to Italy many times, so not sure what you are implying.
Recently bought a 997 TT and on my drive back got clocked 99/75 ---- but I think I was doing like 115 just a few seconds prior to the slow down --- dreaming may be
Cruised at 145 for a while on I-5 in that stretch with miles of almond groves. The pickup trucks were doing over 100 so I figure what the heck. I briefly took it to 150 but it took an exhausting amount of concentration so I backed off to about 90. It felt like we were crawling.
Italy is ranked 35th, so on the high end among its European neighbors, but still less than half the fatality rate of the USA. I've been to Italy many times, so not sure what you are implying.
I am not implying anything. After seeing traffic in Naples, Trieste, and other Italian cities, I saw so many near miss accidents in less than an hour, than a year in the US. The stop lights were treated as advisory. They had a rule that if a driver could get their bumper in front of yours, they could cut you off, side you out of the lane, and take the right away from you. Also, they had another rule, that if you looked at another driver, that meant you relinquished your right of way. So all the drivers stared straight ahead. They must have trained their peripheral vision to make up for not swiveling their head. I thought it was tremendously dangerous. Also, a lot of scooters weaving in and out of traffic.
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