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200MPH On A Texas Toll Road, In a C7 Corvette
The Truth About Cars ^ | 12/17/2013 | Jack Baruth

Posted on 12/17/2013 12:51:07 PM PST by nascarnation

In what he claims is a first-ever trip to 200mph by a tuned C7, JH “tests” the Ez-Tag system by blowing past it at more than double the already-enthusiastic 80mph toll-road speed limit. Interestingly enough, the factory speedometer in the LCD display appears to be dead-on accurate.

“The road is smooth as silk, easy-breezy,” Hennessey indicates, in a phrase that will no doubt launch at least a dozen imitators.

(Excerpt) Read more at thetruthaboutcars.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Hobbies; Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 200mph; corvette; texas
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

When I was in Florida many years ago I saw the state police driving Porsches to stop speeders there.


81 posted on 12/17/2013 2:55:47 PM PST by American Constitutionalist
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To: Responsibility2nd

**I’ve been on that toll road. Speed limit is 85 mph.**

You are thinking of SH 130 south of Buda. This is a different toll road. I’ve never been on 130 past US 71 when we go to Austin Bergstrom Inconvenient Airport.

Last time we took our friend there for a flight, I was driving 85 and never passed a single vehicle.


82 posted on 12/17/2013 2:59:20 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: TalBlack

It is common for automakers to “overclock”. It adds miles to leases, expires warranties faster, improves gas mileage and performance. Honda and Toyota have already been successfully sued for this about a decade ago.


83 posted on 12/17/2013 2:59:56 PM PST by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suck at the tit of Capitalism.)
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To: nascarnation

At 200 mph, you’re not driving a car, you’re aiming it.


84 posted on 12/17/2013 3:04:49 PM PST by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

My 1995 stock Mercedes sl500 will do 120 effortlessly. I’ve done that in short bursts many times. It is computer controlled to top out at 155 but they say with a new chip and a few tweaks you can get it in the 180+ range. To me it’s not worth investing the money to find out.


85 posted on 12/17/2013 3:24:58 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: mountainlion

As a stupid kid with a DPS 440 Coronet from the auction, I hit an Armadillo at over 100mph...Sounded like I hit a basketball made out of lead under my car. Looked in rear view to see him uncoil and continue across the road


86 posted on 12/17/2013 4:00:33 PM PST by halfright (FAST & FURIOUS! DON'T ALLOW THEM TO DIVERT YOUR ATTENTION.)
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To: Married with Children

Did 145+ in a rented Audi A8 on the Autobahn south of Innsbruck once. When the big Mercedes and the BMW blew my doors off passing me at that speed, I decided to slow to around 100 for the rest of the trip.


87 posted on 12/17/2013 4:02:53 PM PST by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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To: nascarnation

Aero smero. I just finished replacing some wheel bearings that had seen 500,000 miles and that helped the go fast a lot since it no longer rumbles. Maybe time to push it to 90!


88 posted on 12/17/2013 4:03:12 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: tcrlaf

I did 100 mph less than that in an old military 3/4 ton. I never got out of the right lane.


89 posted on 12/17/2013 4:06:12 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: DaxtonBrown

LOL I thought I was hot stuff back in 1967 when I averaged 87 mph between Toledo and Cleveland on the Ohio Turnpike. That speed was calculated based on the time stamp on the toll card.
Bias ply tires, drum brakes, yadda yadda.


90 posted on 12/17/2013 4:06:36 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: nascarnation
Varrrrooom!


91 posted on 12/17/2013 4:09:33 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: DaxtonBrown

When I was a pre-teen (late 1950s) the guy next door had a 57 2-door. Truly a classic design.


92 posted on 12/17/2013 4:11:21 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: nascarnation

Yup, it is built like a rock. That picture is when I first got it. Made a fair amount of repairs/improvements since than, both mechanical and cosmetic. It still needs a couple years work, but there is so much meat to it that I can repair everything.
It’s a little rough, but damn if it wouldn’t put another 500k on it easy. Try that with a C7


93 posted on 12/17/2013 4:16:05 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: mountainlion

Just shy of the length of a football field every second. No thanks.


94 posted on 12/17/2013 4:27:12 PM PST by Benito Cereno
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To: RegulatorCountry

He was holding the nitrous switch in his left hand, that nitrous was what got him over 200.


95 posted on 12/17/2013 5:38:07 PM PST by CARTOUCHE (I will not comply !!!! I'm non-compliant now and forever.)
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To: CARTOUCHE

Obviously the man is an environmental criminal...

/s


96 posted on 12/17/2013 5:40:23 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: RegulatorCountry

My ‘92 Saturn SL2 would do 115-120 and felt great at that. Oddly enough, that was the only car I ever got speeding tickets in, and in California to boot. I believe that was a combination of it’s extremely good handling at speed, it’s “oddity” factor since they weren’t all over the roads in the first few years and the fact that they didn’t start using radar on CA interstate highways until the late 90’s or early 2000’s.

In Virginia, I had my 1970 1/2 RS Camaro up to a rats ass under 150 once, for a while, and it was pretty tight too. Most notable was that power steering was a waste up in the 100’s. I had new tires, brakes, air shocks and station wagon coils and Berlinetta leaves in it, plus a shift kit, headers and a bit of cam under the hood (though still the 2 jet on top). My Z-28 pack had rusted out on it and it sounded like a low flying aircraft.

I have a picture of me standing next to it (in my 1982 WHO concert T-shirt) in our office kitchen at work captioned “NEVER sell that which will be extremely difficult to re-aquire in the future”...


97 posted on 12/17/2013 5:44:55 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: nascarnation

I’ve been 155 in a C5 with the top down.... That’s moving along on an interstate that wasn’t closed.


98 posted on 12/17/2013 5:47:28 PM PST by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: nascarnation

Be warned Ferrari, GT class belongs to Corvette.


99 posted on 12/17/2013 5:51:53 PM PST by stboz
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To: kjam22

Wow...that’s impressive.


100 posted on 12/17/2013 5:55:07 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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