142 mph in speedo and still climbing before I let off due to exit. Planted and solid as a rock.
09-16-2008, 01:40 AM
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Speed is a strange thing... (check link)
I have been driving quite a lot on German Autobahns. Speeds of 160-200 Km/h is a normal, everyday thing, even in a compact car. It feels right, and absolutely safe. You tend to be more alert and focused in speeds like this, which is a good thing.
In a car like the 8, cruising at 200-220 Km/h on these roads is a walk in the park, this is what the car is made for. It's even legal. :-)
Start to exceed 240-250 km/h, and everything changes. The car still behaves perfectly fine, but the sensation of high speed becomes very apparent. Side vision becomes blurry so that your field of view narrows dramatically, you can't focus right on close objects, objects appear and disapear faster than you like. The feeling of not having absolute control grows quickly as you pick up more speed.
It's like I never get used to it, even though I have done it many times, in many different vehicles. I have done it on motorbikes well capable of 300+ km/h, and a couple of Porsches capable of the same. Something happens at about 250, the feeling of having control rapidly disappears. This might very well be an individual thing, I don't know.
When it comes to what the S8 is capable of (speed limiter removed), check out this link:
<a href="http://www.germancarblog.com/2007/04/audi-s8-running-300-kmh-on-german.html">Video of S8 cruising at 300+</a>
For the record: I don't do speeds like the ones discussed here on public roads outside Germany. 90-100 mph is acceptable on many European highways, but that's normally it.
In a car like the 8, cruising at 200-220 Km/h on these roads is a walk in the park, this is what the car is made for. It's even legal. :-)
Start to exceed 240-250 km/h, and everything changes. The car still behaves perfectly fine, but the sensation of high speed becomes very apparent. Side vision becomes blurry so that your field of view narrows dramatically, you can't focus right on close objects, objects appear and disapear faster than you like. The feeling of not having absolute control grows quickly as you pick up more speed.
It's like I never get used to it, even though I have done it many times, in many different vehicles. I have done it on motorbikes well capable of 300+ km/h, and a couple of Porsches capable of the same. Something happens at about 250, the feeling of having control rapidly disappears. This might very well be an individual thing, I don't know.
When it comes to what the S8 is capable of (speed limiter removed), check out this link:
<a href="http://www.germancarblog.com/2007/04/audi-s8-running-300-kmh-on-german.html">Video of S8 cruising at 300+</a>
For the record: I don't do speeds like the ones discussed here on public roads outside Germany. 90-100 mph is acceptable on many European highways, but that's normally it.
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