Out of curiosity.. Top speed gti ko4 turbo?

[RedRobin]

Wow i opened up a can of worms!   

....But a very interesting one 

It's good for us all to understand and share our attitudes via the forum. And ALL of us without exception can learn from discussion.

I have to say that if I felt that the majority of people on this forum had what I consider to be very irresponsible attitudes towards driving and road safety, then I would no longer want to be here. Fortunately that isn't the case so far.

[alackofspeed]

I hit a child in a 30 zone about 10 years ago. Thankfully the kid bounced down the side of the car, and other than a few minor scrapes and a sore head (he removed the wingmirror with his nuggin!) he was alright. Fortunately I was driving around 30, so had a chance to get on the brakes and swerve, but it did highlight how quickly stupid people can jump off the pavement and potentially cause a major issue!

Pleasingly there were numerous witnesses that stopped and confirmed to the rozzers that I'd done all that was reasonably possible and the kid had just bolted from the pavement. I was still breathalised, questioned, and made to feel culpable at first.

Whilst I disagree with plenty of speed limits (I'd happily drive flat out on the motorway if allowed and I judged the conditions appropriate), the potential to be utterly reamed if it does go wrong and it can be demonstrated you were speeding is very high and not a very pleasant prospect!

To get back on track - if you wanna try to top your car out in this country, an airfield day at RAF Odiham is a good place to start. Managed about 190 in a GT3-RS, and similar in a 997 Turbo. Feels slow on a wide open runway, as there's nothing to reference! As a bonus, despite being an airfield "track" day, the peri-track makes for a surprisingly good circuit.

[Tamiyoman]

I was driving through Kings Lynn about 16-17 years ago, it was 2 lanes into town (30mph limit) and one was standstill the other had no cars in it so chose that lane and was pootling along doing 25mph (A royal mail postie in mail van was behind me) and out of nowhere from inbetween stationary cars in lane 1 came a teenage chinese lad, By the time my foot hit the brake he was already mounting the bonnet rolling up the screen over the top of the car and off the back off the tailgate, bizarrely he managed to take all 3 wiper blades with him!. I pulled over and got out and he jumped up and said he was OK and set off running, A woman a few cars ahead stopped him and sat him down as blood was gushing from his head, it was then that this woman decided I was speeding!  , fortunately for me both the royal mail postie behind me and the guy whose car he came from in front of confirmed I was NOT speeding and was doing approx 20-25mph, the chinese lad (who was a 17y/o student) calmed down and said it was his fault entirely and the woman drove him to hospital (about 1.5 miles away), no police were involved.
My boss was not too happy tho as I had borrowed his company car (with full permission) to go get the Pizza for lunch and I brought hsi car back with a teenager sized dent on bonnet and no wipers  

9 years ago similar thing happened to me again although this time it was an adult and he was a "Coloured Gent", he just ran straight out in front of me as I was driving through Oldham fortunately for him I saw him in time almost in time and slammed on the brakes and just managed to get him onto the bonnet and off the side of the car, he had no injuries apart from a few bruises. The police turned up and luckily for me a CCTV camera points down the street so I asked them to reveiw it (unsure if they did, but they were on the radio for 5 mins and then they were fine with me), they also breathalysed me too (0.00), that annoyed me a little tbh as I was being breathalysed for something that was in no way my fault. I asked about the dent on my bonnet and said "What happens about that?" and they said I would have to take it up with the guy I hit, fair play tho he offered to fix it and got a dent company to fix it for me (I was In a company car and did not want to claim) I think it only cost him £30 or something