Wagging the tail

racetrack?

 

You're entitled to your own opinion, but facts are facts.
I've driven in probably a half dozen nations where speed limits are (or were) over 105mph - and the Prius is a WORLD CAR.
Heck....I'll bet there are even people who are members here that don't live in the United States.
(No @Mendel Leisk Canada doesn't count!!! )
It is true that in the US....there are always posted speed limits (as of 2017) but it is also true that there are vast swaths of this country where you can set your cruise control at 100 mph and listen to a chapter or two of your favorite book and not encounter another soul.....and if you live where it's flat enough to stand on a bucket and see the back of your head then it's rather unlikely that the local constabulary is going to be bothered with bothering you much about it.

The Prius does have a top speed limiter....but I'm sorry to inform you that as of this writing all four generations have top speeds of over 105 mph IIRC.

As far as stamping out this "illegal activity".....
The mods are going to be awful busy!
Top Speed | PriusChat
Top Speed??? | PriusChat
Top speed | PriusChat
Top Speed of Gen 4 | PriusChat
curious....your top speed? | PriusChat
07 Prius Top Speed | PriusChat
Question about top speed | PriusChat
priuschat.com/threads/prius-v-wagon-top-speed.125247/
Engine performance on top speed | PriusChat

 

I get antsy going 100 kmh. 80 kmh (50 mph) on secondary highways I'm more comfortable.

 

OK, technical question here. Hypothetical, but I am curious, and the discussion has already headed this way:

If you were to take your favorite Prius out to the Bonneville Salt Flats, with a fully charged traction battery, and do a wide-open throttle speed test for several miles, what would the speed do?

Some issues in this question:
I see the Prius with the engine rated at a certain HP, and the electric motor with its own HP rating, and then the total HP is less than the sum of the two. Explanation? Transaxle limited? In general, I can see that testing at the limit like this, the transaxle would be a very important factor.

Doing this speed test, I assume with the full traction battery you'd soon (e.g. within a mile or so) hit top speed. What speed?

And then as the traction battery depletes, what would happen? How long would it take to get to steady state, etc. (keeping it floored the whole time)

And a quick google showed me this, which does not look to be endangering even the salt. Fears of a 100 mph Prius is probably not something I will be losing sleep over.
EDIT - the clip is only 26 seconds long, but still, you might want to change the playback speed to 2x to make it slightly less uninteresting.

 

Guess this would be a bad time/thread to mention I made 180 mph last weekend in my ZR1.

 

I went over 150 mph in my C6 vette coming back from NYC on I78 a couple of years ago. I could see that traffic was almost non-existent on a swath of the highway coming over a ridge. The whole speed-up and slow-down took less than 30 seconds, the car was rock solid, and nobody was nearby. If you were in the passenger seat, and not looking out the window, you probably would not have known it happened.

I would have liked to have seen 180 mph, but it would have taken longer than my willingness to risk the ticket.

I've tracked my vette numerous times. I feel that the best is on VIR (Virginia International Raceway), where the 4000' back straight run up the hill after the Oak Tree turn is the fastest point on the track. I never got much beyond 135 mph, and even the best with enough HP will touch 170.

Your ZR1 owned the track record two years ago. 2019 Corvette ZR1 Becomes Fastest Production Car Ever At VIR

 

Now we'll both get banned.

 

Terrorists.....

 

Some years ago I took a suggestion from PriusChat (umm, Bob Wilson maybe?) and had a "lifetime alignment" done at Firestone.

That's an alignment you pay a little more for up front, but then you can go in for rechecks whenever.

If the recheck finds something needs tweaked, I guess you pay for the tweaking.

 

No speed limit on certain highway in Germany.

 

I jaywalked yesterday to my car after work and forgot to use my turn signal making an unprotected left turn with no cars around. The worst was when I was holding traffic up driving the post speed limit in the AG capital.