Thread: TOP SPEED for Disco TD5

Originally posted by Rosco+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rosco)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-duff

This is not to say I have seen a 180kmh Defender , but if it is as well behaved as the disco's at 160

I've driven both for quite a while ........... it isn't :roll:

The TD5 Fender at 140 is a white knuckle event 8O 8O 8O

That's apart from the engine scream, due to the lower gearing [/b][/quote]




<span style="color:blue">mines been to 150kph....down hill with a tailwind and a box trailer behind
roofracks and spare on top.....would have done more....but ran out of hill....

and its got 70,000 on the clock and the tyres.....

felt no different to doing 110-120kph....but in a straight line....</span>

Originally posted by duff
MickG 8O Actually I would say you must have been in a very unbalanced sports car 8O 8O 8O (maybe a 1940 model)TIC

Even an ugly V6 Magna wagon hire car I had last year cruised extremely comfortably at 180kmh thru the NT stretch.

This is not to say I have seen a 180kmh Defender , but if it is as well behaved as the disco's at 160 8) then they should be pleasureable 8) . . its chassis should handle the same...ish as a Disco.

I hear you duff, it was however an extremely well balanced ride at 180 (Nissan 350z) and could easily have done more, it was more the fact that I was travelling at that speed on a norrow road and thought I should be sensible and back off.......got kids to look after and all :wink: But, having travelled at that speed I am still amazed that a. the defender got there and b. it wasn't a white knuckle ride........good effort for giving it a go but you wont catch me trying to get that out of my D2 :wink: I'll buy another 350z for those sorts of speed 8)

Aye, Mick

all you really need to know is they over take smoke belching cruisers & pootrols with ease and leave them for dead

I have been in Rays truck and seen him drive, I would believe it.

I'll tell you whats funny, the faster my ZZR1100 went the more stable it felt. At 280kph (Not a typo) it felt like it was on rails.

When I wish upon a star, make my truck into a sports car!



Trev

Blackbird CBR1100xx @305 kph felt very stable.

The last time I exceeded 180 kph was in one of these:



On the road to Coonabarabran....

At that speed the thing sat down on the road and said faster.

Then there was the blow dry drive after the Sunday morning clean... the hill climb up the old Pacific Hwy from Brooklyn to Hornsby....

The sound of the 3.0 V6 that just wanted to keep spinning until the rev limiter over ruled.

Now I am getting nostalgic

I wonder if I can buy it back :wink:

It was assembled like a first timer's airfix kit :wink:

There's actually a warning in the D3 handbook advissing that its not a sports car and shouldn't be driven as such. Maybe they should put one in the Fenders handbook as well!

My GPZ1000 was stable at 260kph, but slowing down again was interesting.

Now the Forester at 160kph on a gravel road; stable and totally in control (as long as the roo's stayed away!)