Top Speed ?

[Kaleido]

Anyone know the top speed of this car? I don't see it anywhere in the manual or specs. I had mine up to 110 yesterday, went from cruising at 80 to 110 quite quickly! It felt like it could do WAY MORE than the spedo says. I wonder it there is something that limits your top speed also, since this car is one big computer. I would have pushed it more, but I had all the windows and the sun roof open and I didn't want to be distracted and close them up while speeding along.

[Spartamare]

I can find out after I pick up my car in two days and after the break-in period. I don't have a speed limit on the autobahn near me. :)

[kuzzi]

alpha took his to a track a couple of weeks ago. I think he's working on a detailed post about his day there and his tests. Hopefully he found out for us. Maybe he'll post here or in his track day post.

[hermans]

I can find out after I pick up my car in two days and after the break-in period. I don't have a speed limit on the autobahn near me. :)

More and more the speed on the autoban is limited. Not that many wide open areas left.

[hybridbear]

I believe the car is electronically limited somewhere between 110 & 120 MPH. I remember reading about the top speed in a car review of the FFH back last year before we bought ours

[acdii]

You are referring to top speed on a race track and not an open US road with a speed limit, correct? (hint hint)

[GrySql]

Car and Driver magazine seems to think the top speed is limited to 105mph.

Seeing as how the OP has already seen 110mph, wonder how C/D came to that conclusion.

 

The '13 Toyota Camry is supposed to have a top speed of 117mph.

 

[djminfll]

I can just visualize the mpg gauge plummeting as you get higher and higher above the 75 mph level. :shift: :rant2:

[kuzzi]

I can just visualize the mpg gauge plummeting as you get higher and higher above the 75 mph level. :shift: :rant2:

No kidding. I've taken the bike above 120 before, it feels like I'm trying to drive through a vat of pudding with all the air resistance. I can't imagine how much more resistance would be on the car. Also, power/weight on the bike is much larger than the car and it was struggling after 120 (speedo ends at 120 so I don't know how fast I ultimately got it, but it was uncomfortable.)

[acdii]

I took my 79 LTD wagon up to 130 once. The car had no headliner so when that big metal roof started flapping it scared the crap out of me so I slowed down. I think I could have squeezed another 10 out of it before I ran out of RPM. Amazing how much power you can get out of a blueprinted 302.

[ROB281]

Car and Driver magazine seems to think the top speed is limited to 105mph.

Seeing as how the OP has already seen 110mph, wonder how C/D came to that conclusion.

 

The '13 Toyota Camry is supposed to have a top speed of 117mph.

 

 

 

 

I hit 105 with the wife in the passenger seat one day, it seemed that it would have kept going, but my passenger seat governor kicked in

 

Edited June 18, 2013 by ROB281

[hermans]

 

 

I hit 105 with the wife in the passenger seat one day, it seemed that it would have kept going, but my passenger seat governor kicked in

 

Not my passenger - she wants to go faster. I'm the sane one.

[acdii]

 

 

I hit 105 with the wife in the passenger seat one day, it seemed that it would have kept going, but my passenger seat governor kicked in

 

I posted elsewhere the perfect solution to the right seat speed governor.

 

But this seems like a better place to put it.

 

[Kaleido]

Car and Driver magazine seems to think the top speed is limited to 105mph.

Seeing as how the OP has already seen 110mph, wonder how C/D came to that conclusion.

 

The '13 Toyota Camry is supposed to have a top speed of 117mph.

 

I wonder if I WAS at the max, but running 46 psi in the tires and on a slight downgrade maybe it just tweaked over to 110.

I'm making the same trip next weekend, and I'd love to try it again, but conditions must be just right because I'm on a 65 mph road

and I'm counting myself lucky to have tried it once. I LIKE having a drivers licence.

[GrySql]

All this talk of high speeds brings up the point of the tires on each particular car.

The speed Service Rating is stamped on the sidewall of your tires.

I suppose Ford put decent tires on the cars, I just looked at my GY Eagles and they are rated as a 'V', so I'm good up to 149mph (right, maybe later today - LOL).

 

I think it is amusing how back in the 'good old days' we never bothered with stuff like tires when going 130mph in a 5,500lb station wagon.

I do know that the convertible top staples start popping out of my GT's top frame at 125mph, gives it a 'balloon' look, had to get that repaired.

 

I was just thinking, some heroic FFH member can set 3 records at the same time, Top Speed, Highest Water Temperature and Lowest MPG's, how cool is that?

Reset the Trip gauge before you start, engage the Engineering Mode to Temp and hold your iPhone camera in one hand and blast off!

... and think of the SOC when you slow down!!

 

 

[rico567]

No one has asked the obvious question yet, so I'll do it. How, pray tell, is any speed over 80 mph or so relevant in today's United States? I'm much more interested in how long it takes to get to a particular speed than such idiotic notions as 120 mph.

[kuzzi]

Hwy 130 in TX had a posted limit of 85 for a couple of months, I don't know if it's still instated.

[GrySql]

such idiotic notions as 120 mph.

Adventure, man, adventure - explore where no man has gone before - and all that stuff! :)

 

It is a bit paradoxical to engage in a discussion of this type on a economy car forum but calling it idiotic is a bit harsh me thinks.

[Sleddog]

Here's the fastest hybrid...

 

http://www.caranddriver.com/news/2014-ferrari-laferrari-photos-and-info-news

 

 

Ferrari’s hybrid system (detailed here) uses two electric motors developed in conjunction with Magneti Marelli. The first helps power the wheels, while the second powers the accessories. The battery pack consists of 120 cells arranged in eight 15-cell modules and is assembled in-house by Ferrari’s racing team. Attached to the chassis just aft of the passenger compartment, it weighs just 132 pounds. That pack is charged any time the carbon-ceramic brake discs are working, even under extreme, ABS-activating deceleration.

Edited June 18, 2013 by Sleddog

[acdii]

Instead of calling it Idiotic. Let us all agree on one thing, it didn't really happen,(wink wink) IE We as a group don't condone the driving of a car over the speed limit and breaking the law. (yeah we ALL do it every day, just not to this extreme) This was what I was trying to convey in my earlier post at the beginning of this thread.

 

 

BUT! No street racing stories! Got that! (like that will ever happen with our hybrids) LOL

[GrySql]

My usual droll sense of humor got carried away, I repent.

I was being facetious when I suggested that anyone should hold a cell phone in their hand while attempting to get their HVB in the highest possible State of Charge (SOC).

[46stang]

I've gone as fast as 140mph in my Mustang Cobra (which takes roughly 13 seconds btw) BUT every time I think about flooring it in the FFH I just imagine seeing all the leaves flying away on the tree until it is a bare tree trunk. Then that makes me sad because of all the careful driving i had to do to grow that little dash forest! So I just leave it on eco cruise instead.

[acdii]

I haven't looked at the tree in this car, all I remember of the last one is the dead branches on that screen.

 

When I feel the need for Speed, I can always head up to Wisconsin and take a few passes on the drag strip up there. Did that in my 2010 Flex EB, and it was a blast pulling 13.3 in that box.

[46stang]

No one has asked the obvious question yet, so I'll do it. How, pray tell, is any speed over 80 mph or so relevant in today's United States? I'm much more interested in how long it takes to get to a particular speed than such idiotic notions as 120 mph.

One mans idiotic notion is another mans form of entertainment! Look how many people travel to the Bonnevile Salt Flats to try and get a 200mph hat!! Or in my case, do 122 miles per hour in 11.5 seconds in exactly 1320 feet.

 

 

 

I haven't looked at the tree in this car, all I remember of the last one is the dead branches on that screen.

 

When I feel the need for Speed, I can always head up to Wisconsin and take a few passes on the drag strip up there. Did that in my 2010 Flex EB, and it was a blast pulling 13.3 in that box.

 

Wow, 13.3 in a Flex is awesome! My beater 98 GT mustang can't even do that with a v8. lol. Best it ran was a 13.6 with better heads and cams.

I wonder what these cars would run in the !/4 mile. lol. The slowest car I ever saw at the track was a 1960's Cadillac Hearse, and it actually had a coffin in the back. lol. No dead person in it, thank God as that would have gotten a little ripe, but still funny. It ran a 26.x @ 56mph. I think the FFH could beat it unless we use ecocruise to accelerate?

[hermans]

This takes me back to my very early days of drag racing and then my hobby/career in sprint car racing.