I must say, there are a lot of people who deserve their backs patted for knocking on the door of the vRS's theoretical maximum indicated speed of 152mph (or 145mph for those who've measured their speed with sat nav)!!!

Tell me, how did you manage to defeat drag and rolling resistance?

Erm i dunno just keep ya foot planted for long enough lol

Theoretical max speed based on the stock power? And if the road is long enough, it will get up to speed eventually

With talk of gear ratios, it's worth mentioning that most people will have the revised box with the shorter final ratio. It was fitted to March '04 cars onwards.

Steve

Ive regularly done 140+ sat nav and she felt steady as a rock. More recently after more £ooo's, I have seen 150 sat nav, still pulling. I never did get the chance to see what the absolute vmax was :(

"I have seen 150 sat nav..."

was it off the clock?:eek: What were the revs?

TH

Revs would be pretty high by then, but remember Shifty's PD130 had big injectors, stage 2 hybrid, and weighed probably around a third less compared to the stock Fabia vRS

Revs would be pretty high by then, but remember Shifty's PD130 had big injectors, stage 2 hybrid, and weighed probably around a third less compared to the stock Fabia vRS

It wasnt flat out, trust me. Still had a good 6-800 rpm left to go. I reckon with more power it would top out at 160 ish.

Standard Fabia vRS will easily travel at over 130mph on long stretches of the Autobahns, last time topped out at 147mph (on the speedo). Feels weird mind undertaking lorrys on a dual carriage way at that speed.

Really smooth the standard vRS at speed doesn't really get unstuck, I would say get a four wheel alignment done before you go.

Also I would have thought Mr Postman Pat would have said something about the passenger ride he had across germany in a standard fabia vRS :P

oh yeah and finally you will get a really good fuel consumption

My fuel economy was mildly f*cked when getting up to 3 digits (not in UK) but cruise performance and figures were not actually that bad considering what a petrol would get

Plus derv is cheaper on the continent

I took my old lass off the clock....just by guesing i would imagine it would be just shy of 150 in real life....it took nothing to get to 140 then a bit more to get to 150

There really isn't any point though.....at the end of the day a car does what it does ...... i only took mine to that to see if a local lad running the same spec was bull****ting or not......turns out he wasn't who in a realistic mind is going to be racing another car at those sort of speeds and expect something out of it ?!?

As for stability.....you cant expec to drive at 130 mph and expect it to be the same as 75....just do what you feel is comfy !

there have been times when i have been driving to london from leeds that i have been doing 100mph and not even realising. mine is completely standard and feels really steady... as for car damage, i cant really see what can go wrong... obviously if you have upped the boost or played with the engine you runt he risk of developing porbs, but a standard Vrs is tested vigourously prior to been released to the public, so any rpoblems should have been ironed out at the testing facilities.

I would not like to run the stock turbo with high level of tune at high revs for a prolonged period of time under high load (as you would get at those kind of speeds). It 'should' be ok but it does put more load on then is expected in normal driving in most countries in the EU at least

Also posting you did 100 mph from A to B in the UK on the normal motorways may not be the most sensible idea (not saying it cannot be done though ) - I got dead lucky when I got pulled with the cruise on 3 digit (mph) speed about a year ago and only ended up with 3 points and 60 quid fine at that time.

It is fun though

I would not like to run the stock turbo with high level of tune at high revs for a prolonged period of time under high load (as you would get at those kind of speeds). It 'should' be ok but it does put more load on then is expected in normal driving in most countries in the EU at least

Also posting you did 100 mph from A to B in the UK on the normal motorways may not be the most sensible idea (not saying it cannot be done though ) - I got dead lucky when I got pulled with the cruise on 3 digit (mph) speed about a year ago and only ended up with 3 points and 60 quid fine at that time.

It is fun though

i got 5 points on my back!! as soon as i saw i was doing 100 i quickly came off the gas.. my cruise is usually set to 70-75mph on the tomtom.

Theoretical max speed based on the stock power? And if the road is long enough, it will get up to speed eventually

With talk of gear ratios' date=' it's worth mentioning that most people will have the revised box with the shorter final ratio. It was fitted to March '04 cars onwards.

Steve[/quote']

Theoretical maximum speed is simply based on gear ratios: speed at 1000rpm in 6th, multiplied by redline revs. It's 32mph at 1000rpm in 6th on the later gearboxes, but as Steve points out, the older ones had taller 5th and 6th gears - but not by all that much; 1 or 2 mph only. So that could make a difference, as could having a remap that raises the redline (which is only controlled by the ECU in a modern diesel, anyway.)

BUT... This all assumes that the car's able to overcome the resistance all the way to the redline in top gear. Rolling resistance is more-or-less constant (the deformation of the tyres means it increases slightly with speed - hence more road noise), however drag is the killer. Drag increases as the square of speed, and so sooner or later most standard and 'just' remapped Fabias simply run out of puff because the torque produced isn't enough to overcome the resistance at high speeds. The Fabia's shape has quite a bit to do with this, and is why the listed top speed of the vRS is a teensy bit slower than that of the equivalent (more curvy but just as powerful) Ibiza. It's also why modern supercars like the MacMerc and Veyron have to be put into 'top speed mode' with the spoilers tucked in and the suspension set as low as possible - at those kinds of speeds, drag's so much of an issue that road-holding has to be compromised in order to be able to actually reach top speed...

It's probably a bit early in the morning for this kind of lecture, though! :P

I agree with your post - thus mine regarding Shifty's old car - less weight, vastly more power.

Combined providing a much higher theoretical top speed.

The aerodynamic shape of the vRS is about the same as a brick and can be heavily noticed >100 mph, especially stock. Tyre choice and pressures also make a big difference.

I think the aerodynamic properties of the fabia can be felt at even lower speeds than that - I think they start to take their toll at around 85 or 90mph to be honest.

tbh im too tight to sit at triple figures I could imagine it though rev counter climbing up slowly speedo doing the same and fuel gauge moving in front of my eyes with the piddly lil 45 litre tank crying for more and in the father land its not cheap!!!!!!

also a lot of it has speed restrictions and the local old bill are very good at policing those roads have spent many an hour driving all over germany and seeing others getting pulled

The Fabia's shape has quite a bit to do with this, and is why the listed top speed of the vRS is a teensy bit slower than that of the equivalent (more curvy but just as powerful) Ibiza.

WOW he used the "I" word .... im telling