4S maxed out at 154 MPH

[ciaranob]

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Well unless you have PSA's on how to drive in the right lane and a generational culture change, that won't ever happen in this country.

Helps to read a post before you respond to it - your response should be directed to the op? I said nothing about building autobahns!

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[MBAZ]

Yep, responded to the wrong post, my bad. Most people here figured that out…most.

 

[ciaranob]

Yep, responded to the wrong post, my bad. Most people here figured that out…most.

Most people figured out where ‘Edit’ is - most.

 

[iten]

For some reason I clicked the title thinking someone ordered a $200k 4S.

This is actually cooler.

It's actually quite easy to hit the USD200K price tag here in Asia, even for a base model.

 

[sbarker108]

Finally got a chance to go all out. The 154mph is expected but getting there was the unknown. The car pulled hard right up to 150 then the computer kicked in and regulated the acceleration slowly to 154. So solid, smooth and eerie (hearing the wind instead of a turbo V8). It would have been nice to get a little more out of her but for all intents and purposes 154 is fast enough.

I need to ask, you were doing 154, whipped out your phone and took a picture of the dashboard? Balls of steel!

 

[ciaranob]

Never mind me - was in a less than positive mood . Like the old adage, better sometimes to count to 5 before clicking send!!

 

[Tighlines]

I need to ask, you were doing 154, whipped out your phone and took a picture of the dashboard? Balls of steel!

I found that starting a video before the run starts, then just recording the run is much easier than trying to fiddle through phone prompts. Then I took a screenshot of the top end. The video is pretty good too, just easier to post a pic.

 

[ciaranob]

Perhaps but imo more about being factually correct

Whilst people indeed will drive as they please and regularly exceed speed limits there was (and I assume still is) a ratified speed limit on 130 published by TxDOT which was to the original point - and as in this article way back in 2012 on opening the toll road.

I am indeed familiar with it but have only driven on it once to date- not my neck of the woods! And agreed re I35 - almost ranks with 45 here in Houston which is a paper mess.

https://www.texastribune.org/2012/09/06/texas-officials-approve-85-mph-limit-toll-road/

 

[Jrkennedy37]

I drove the southern part of that toll road back when it opened and thought it was superb. The northern part of the toll road with the 80mph limit I drive a few times each year and is a different story. Not sure if it’s poor design, no maintenance or our shifting clay soil, but it’s complete trash - hard to go much over 80 due to pot holes, gaps with bridges, unmarked merging lanes and no/low banking - and patrolled heavily.

The US could never pull off a proper autobahn due to the sheer miles of roads and lack of funds to properly maintain roads.

 

[TDinDC]

Ok, veering a little off topic here . . . but I am a HUGE fan of high speed (albeit I have never been a tailgater or someone who aggressively weaves through traffic). Over time, though, I have come to realize how much speed, and particularly speed differentials, scare the bejeezus out of many drivers. The years of driving the Tesla at or near the speed limit for the sake of range helped me realize this as well, much like walking around my own residential neighborhood and gaining a different perspective of how speed and noise even in residential areas can be intimidating to others and perceived as aggressive (even though I have never meant that ever when I am the driver). For these reasons, I am really trying to gain wisdom and the self-control not to speed too much (albeit nearly nobody does the speed limit anymore).

Having lived in Germany, I can say that there are fewer and fewer portions of the autobahn where there are no speed limits. I can also say that having no limits whatsoever is more stressful than having a limit that people don't always obey. I saw some pretty horrific wrecks on the autobahn, including where a truck tries to pass someone on the down side of a hill and a car traveling at a very high rates of speed crests the hill and does not have enough time to avoid slamming into the back of the truck (or so that was the presumed cause). So yes, it can be fun, especially once in awhile, but it is not the Elysian Fields that many US drivers imagine it to be.

 

[RoundRock]

Indeed - fastest stretch of Hwy in the US is here in TX but only to 85 mph and only from Austin to Seguin so only 50-60 miles (actually think less than that as not for entire distance).

I drive this road regularly on my way to the Circuit of the Americas and Houston. For well maintained cars, it’s nothing. But it does make you pause when you get passed by the 30 year old rent-a-wreck with 20 year old tires, original suspension and non-working brakes. The road regularly hosts fatal accidents because some of my fellow Texans have zero common sense with maintenance and driving standards.

 

[magnitude]

I drive this road regularly on my way to the Circuit of the Americas and Houston. For well maintained cars, it’s nothing. But it does make you pause when you get passed by the 30 year old rent-a-wreck with 20 year old tires, original suspension and non-working brakes. The road regularly hosts fatal accidents because some of my fellow Texans have zero common sense with maintenance and driving standards.

That's why in Germany, you have to take your car to "TÜV", a government agency, every two years, for a mandatory inspection. Given that everyone may drive on the Autobahn, it's prudent to do so. It predictively has quite a positive effect on the standard of maintained cars: You won't see dilapidated cars in Germany. You won't even see old ones, unless they are well taken care of by enthusiasts (you can get a special license plate for that).

Seeing the wrecks that are passing me by sometimes here in California... I wish that was the case here as well. I do my best to keep far away from any car that looks like it may be falling apart.

 

[xyeahtony]

I mean if you want to see a Taycan gunning it at max speed you can see Kyle from out of spec traveling all over germany at top speed in a Taycan that the car overheats.

(2) Top Speed In The Porsche Taycan Turbo Sport Turismo On The German Autobahn! - YouTube

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