
Originally Posted by
Hermes
I will preface this by saying I do not encourage behavior of this sort, I was younger and much less mature at the time...
I went appx 155-160 on the 15 after passing Primm/stateline about 4 years ago. Late January, cold thick air... the car got up to speed fine but did not handle that nice at extreme speed on that stretch of road. I blame aerodynamics for the issues I had at speed. Hell, M3 GTRs (600hp monsters) would only get up to around 190 on the stretch between the gantry and bridge (Green Hell reference)
Edit: Honestly Meric, to give you an example you will better understand it would be like one of your buddies saying then went top speed in a Cessna. If you want to go fast, find a car that can do 200. That is the true measure of driving a fast car.