I love my 2019 VW Arteon. After the first service everything came back healthy. That being said, I love to drive in sport mode and accelerate as quickly as possible. When I’m driving back roads I sometimes like to bring it over 120mph. The top speed of the car is 155mph. It handles well at high spee…

At some point you will discover the tires will give up traction or someone else will pull a maneuver you were not expecting before the engine surrenders. Unless you run it low or out of motor oil…

[image] wethepeople: . I heard somewhere that if you drove the jetta like a sports car it would brake down, but the Arteon was meant to be a fun car and more durable, certainly the suspension has been. Wanna hear something funny. It has the same chassis, engine and transmission as the Jetta G…

I appreciate everyone’s concern for my safety. It was on a straight, flat road with no intersections and very good visibility. There was no significant risk to anyone’s safety. Additionally, I rarely rarely drive like this. I wanted to see what my car could do. I was very familiar with the road.

[image] wethepeople: It was on a straight, flat road with no intersections and very good visibility. [Video Of Hitting A Deer While Driving Over 100 MPH] Tester

My old racing bud said it does not hurt a good car to go fast, kind of doubted it after he had to do a couple engine rebuilds.

[image] bcohen2010: I doubt any of these models could even reach 100 MPH All of them could crack 100 mph. 2.5 four and 3.0 V6. Lower drag helps CAFE numbers, but also helps top speed. Stupid to do so… but they would. [image] Tested: 1990 Dodge Daytona ES The back-road brawler bec…

That’s interesting. I always wanted a Dodge Shadow with the 3.0L engine. There was one on Craigslist here a few months back, but when I called, the person said someone else was coming to buy it.

I used to own an ES Turbo version of the '90 Daytona. The 2.5L Turbo engine was rated at 150hp. I never went this fast in it, but my brother once told me (from experience) that it could do 130mph. Don’t know if that was max or if there was some room left.

Note that even the 2.5 non turbo had a 108 mph top speed.

Come on, none of you guys ever went 120 on a public road? Or is it do as I say, not do as I do? None of you ever wanted to enter the Cannonball? It was a real event they made a bad movie about and was run quite a few times.

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