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Our sales director (who is quite 'the driver') insists that both his old 325 & now his new 335d must have done at least 160mph, as he had the needle 'off the clock'.
Is this even possible? Sounds like M3 speeds to me & I call BS.
Aren't bmw's (even the quick ones) speed limited to 156mph anyway?
A salesman talking bollocks? Never!
Googling,
http://www.whatcar.com/car-reviews/bmw/3-series-saloon/325d-m-sport-4dr/summary/68459
Top speed 152 mph
So, no. File under 'Salesman'.
160Km/h, perhaps.
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With speedo inaccuracy it might be reading 160mph+ on the clock though.
They have a 155mph limiter. A 325D will hit the limiter
Back in the day, I managed to get my 112mph XR3 showing 130mph going down Reigate hill on the M25....so if he's mad enough and on a slope reckon its possible. 8)
I have been passenger in a 535d with the needle 'off the clock' at 160+ but no way of telling if that is accurate.
dependant on how the speed limiter works he might momentarily get close to it, before it reigns him back in..
I call bulls**t anyway, simply because he is a salesman.
Was in an Alpina Z4 that showed 180 on the clock. Was late for a funeral. Surprisingly not ours.
I've had at least 160mph out of a 325.The caravan began to weave a bit beyond 130mph. 😆
Would be close to limiter cutting in, aside of that 150 (ish) on anywhere other than on a track is a bit silly.
When I was 12 I cared about this kind of thing.
Tell him you will believe him if he confirms it by email with HR CC'd in 😉
I've had 140mph (indicated) out of a 13 plate 2.0l diesel Audi on Hullavington's Runway, so I'd say it's possible. But i'd also say that an estate will be slower than a saloon due to VIT.
Was in an Alpina Z4 that showed 180 on the clock. Was late for a funeral. Surprisingly not ours.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry
In my youth I have a 1.1 popular Fiesta that did "h" miles an hour.
(Speedo went from 0-90 or 100 and then it said "Mph" at the bottom, the needle went all the way down to h")
No baby robins or child's faces were harmed, but obviously I would not do that now.
My old 330I was electronically limited to 155.
Is this like when we were at school and it was a competition about whose dads car had the highest number on the speedo?
My T5 I think goes up to 140 or 160.
[i]Is this like when we were at school and it was a competition about whose dads car had the highest number on the speedo?[/i]
Absolutely! 😀
Just don't tell Moley about it! 😉
What?
I once did 100mph in a 950cc Fiesta mkII. It required a long motorway hill though, on the flat it would only do 85.
I didn't know that at the time my Dad was using cheap tyres rated to 65mph...
my 120d went 144 before i bottled it. Can't see why the 325 wouldn't d more.
The limiter in teory should kick in at 155, but somtimes its a generous 155.
The 335d will do it easy.
My 320d will do 140, a 325 with a remap will comfortably hit 160 if you have the room.
A 335 (especially the all-too-common stage2's at close to 400bhp) will be doing 160 faster than you can read my post.
I owned a couple of 535d sport tourings in succession and on the autobahn both would hit 160 on the clock. Only did it a couple of times and for very short period, just to see if they would do it.
Can't see why a 325d wouldn't push it to the limitter, but whether that's 160mph is anyone's guess.
Let's hope he didn't do it in the UK.
an aquaintance has a M5. has been derestricted and will happily sit on the Autobahn at just shy of 300km/h, so around 180mph.
160mph is easily possible from a 325d.
this guy got 250km/h from hius 325d... (250km/h = 155mph)
Whatever the speedo says is largely irrelevant, those cars are limited to 155.
A 335 I owned briefly would accelerate staggeringly quickly...and then stop...at the limiter funnily enough.
Tell him to download one of those GPS/datalogger type apps that uses your phones accelerometer and GPS functions to get some legit stats on his car for accurate non salesman/BS readings.
The dash on a car like that is as much to amuse the 10 year old boy in all of us as anything else, think about the 'this goes up to 11' scene in Spinal Tap to understand what I'm getting at!
I also had a Yamaha R6 with a rev counter that showed the redline at 18,000 rpm....magazines tests showed the engine actually 'only' revved out to 16,000 rpm but it didn't stop people buying them and playing pub Top Trumps with BS stats like that!
Either he's fibbing, in which case he was being a nob, or he's letting the truth, in which case he was being a nob.
What's happening here guys? This is STW FFS! Half of the replies to the OP's post should have, at least, referred to lawbreaking, damage to the environment and the possibility of killing young children and/or kittens.
Man drives BMW like a cock shocker.
Vs
Salesman talks bollox shocker.
It's a tough one.
Don't worry, I'm sure the usual suspects will be along shortly to dump all over this thread in that holier than thou manner they manage to pull off whenever a thread pops up about cars or motorbikes!
He sounds like a knob. Where does he "make progress" so that I can avoid the area?
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Bradford. Because your work web site is linked to your account!
Best get the mods to shut this down as these sort of threads have a habit of finding their way to the wrong person.
155MPH is not [i]that[/i] far off 160MPH. Give him his dues. And anyway, is it not compulsory to take one's current motor to the limit just once? To see where it is like...*
* I have never driven above 70 MPH.
Don't worry, I'm sure the usual suspects will be along shortly to dump all over this thread in that holier than thou manner they manage to pull off whenever a thread pops up about cars or motorbikes!
Looks like usual sanctimonious contingent aren't being drawn into this one. 🙂
Someone I know drives on blue lights. He said that the beamers they use get a bit funny after a while at 130. The machine kind of concentrates on the essentials, and auxilliary stuff like the fan stops working.
He also said it's rather scary, someone pulling into lane three in front of him at seventy would be sudden death for everyone in both cars. That's with all the lights, btw. He did mention the tyre rating too, but I forget exactly, maybe it was 135.
Your chap was very brave, or perhaps not.
It's the bikes on the roof rack that I'd worry most about.
I've done 165 on a German autobahn in my old Alpina B3s. Tbh I was scared to death. I slowed down a bit!! Germans seemed a nuts in that regard. As soon as the no speed limit sign kicks in, everyone seems to go crazy. Even at 165 I had people trying to get past me. 90 is fast enough for me I think.
*visits website*
That doesn't look like Bradford!
*opens streetview*
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...more like it
*rubble - check
*small wonky buildings- check
*Golf with aftermarket alloys - check
*Isis - check.... eeer, hang on. Jambalaya to the thread please!
You have more tabs open than my mum does on her iPad
Explain to your sales director that if hes ever involved in any death crash you'll bring up his heroic driving ability in court..
You have more tabs open than my mum does on her iPad
Just noticed that 😀
I get a bit stressed after about ten and have to start closing some.
Explain to your sales director that if hes ever involved in any death crash you'll bring up his heroic driving ability in court..
And if there's any justice left in the world the judge will declare his actions 'fully awesome' and fine the prosecution £100 for not living life to the max.
You have more tabs open than my mum does on her iPad
Not this again! I save a load of addresses to research the contents of, then open them all at once and work my way through them into my Lit. review etc, closing as I go.
Just opened a new batch.
Unlike an iPad, this machine is unfazed by the load.
Well like all sales people he talks agood drive
How does Mike feel about you telling the internet he drives like a ****? After almost 19 years with the business he might expect a little more respect...
Maybe the thread should come to a natural end now. Weather looks nice, anyone riding tonight?
Bet he's told you he has working indicators as well coz we all know BMW's have them deactivated at the factory gates.
Could he have chipoed past the limiter?
Anyway, I was told it is possible to wring 85mph out of an FS1E...
Is his name surfmatt?
Who parked across the dropped kerb, then?
*continues sanctimonious content*
Would a [i]standard[/i] 325d do a [i]genuine[/i] 160mph. Er No.
Could you ever see 160mph [i]indicated[/i], er possibly, given a long enough run up, a following wind and a downhill road.......
My 335d will just about hit the 155 limiter given enough space, but it takes ages to get there, and even in Germany on derestricted autobahns, you generally never have enough space to do so these days (unless you go out at 2AM, and don't mind passing trucks with a 100mph differential speed...........)
Remember the power required to cancel aerodynamic drag increases as the cube of velocity, so there is a BIG power requirement difference between doing say 150mph and 160mph.
I had a 2005 535D Tourer that was remapped and derestricted and that would see over 165 on the Autobahn on the Sat Nav rather than the speedo.
Would pull like a bloody train as well.
I distinctly remember an older M5 slamming into its limiter at 155mph as my mates R32 skyline drove along side it on the M6 many years ago, that felt pretty fast to be sure but I'm not sure a 325d would do it unless it was heavily remapped and the road was loooooooong
100mph out of a 950 Fiesta? Did you throw it out of a plane? 😀
I inherited my dad's MK1 950 Pop.
I just couldn't drive it over 80- the unholy racket made me feel sorry for it.
And once you'd driven anything else, the brakes were terrifying.
Still miss it.
I've only owned three cars that could do over 100, and two of those were so shagged out they'd have shat themselves or wobbled into the Armco long before that.