Top speed!
 

This evening I was racing around and not caring about mileage and thought, I wonder how fast this thing would go? Anyone push it? I've done 86 or so. I know stupid, but just curious what this baby can do? :) Anyone push a hunski?

***hypermilers please disregard***

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I know the speedo will indicate atleast 90mph....

I drove about 30 miles probably averaging 80mph, touching 90mph a couple times, and at the end of that high speed sortie/commute the display said I averaged something like 34-37mpg lol. Still way better than most cars. :thumbs_up

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I've gone 88 mph when driving in the desert between San Diego and Phoenix, but I didn't like the handling of the car at that speed. And mileage plummeted, but the drive is too long and straight not to go fast. :)

115mph.............
 

That's what the road tests say, but.........................

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We need someone who lives out near the Montanabahn :) My fastest so far was about 75 coming down a hill in WV. There really aren't any places around here where I can just open it up and see where it gives up, and a 1/4mi isn't enough to see just how fast it'll go before needing the brakes.

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HA HA. I've done 110 mph in the car. And definitely 100 at least 5 or 6 times....

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I had a dump truck bust my window on my '03 a month after I got it. He knew he did it and did a fake exit where he swerved back onto the interstate and I got stuck on the exit so I had to reenter the interstate. I "needed" to speed to catch him so I did it. Hit 105 before I started catching up with traffic and chose not to go at extreme speeds around other people so I backed off. Never caught the culprit but I did get the company name who never paid up and my insurance took a hit because of it. It's been 3 years but I will pay them a visit when I get around their portion of the country again. Sorry to stray off topic. Short answer: didn't get top speed but did get 105. :)

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I pushed her up to 67 once.

My MPG dropped so I brought her back down to earth. :D

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87.My boss is forever teasing me for driving slow. I usually drive 55-70, and he is amused. He has a lead foot. So I went fast and took a pic of the dash! He said I had no proof it was really my car. Hybrid had no difficulty getting up that high. Faster I ever drove was on 1-95, Summer of 1986, driving home late at night from work with my older brother. We worked at the same McDonald's, and shared a 1973 Chevy Impala with our other brother. One night we decided to see what that big old hunk of Detroit steel could really do. It could do quite a lot as I recall. Something around 120. How we were not killed or pulled over I have no idea.

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LOL! I've got a co-worker with a lead foot who ends up behind me going into work on occasion. He sighs and says, "if you go zero miles per hour, you get infinite mpg".