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Do you know of any American sedans that can reach 200 MPH? No worries...

Hell, virtually no major manufacturer American cars (currently in production, or recently out of it) can reach 200. I think it would be the Ford GT, and that's about it.

I drove a friend's Corvette Z06. That thing was pretty damn fast! Had acceleration like big bore streetbikes. Super impressive, although the front window was too low for me and the bodywork always seemed like it was wigglin' and shakin' under duress.

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Hell, virtually no major manufacturer American cars (currently in production, or recently out of it) can reach 200. I think it would be the Ford GT, and that's about it.

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Get Buick to revive the Grand National/Regal GNX - 18 years later, see what they can do with it and the tech available to them now.

Bren R.

I think Buick gave up the ghost many many years ago...

Just to riff further on 2x6/Peter's proposition:

If NASCAR were to go to this formula, you can bet that American auto makers would start making much, much faster sedans (high end, limited production, major $$$). In addition, if they had to use the spare, you can also bet that the spare tires in said high end, pricy machines would be up to the task...

Psst... by the way, that all does exist - it's "Street Stock"... available at your local community race track.

I should get out to a race this year.

Bren R.

The corvette Z06 (405hp @ 6000rpm) has a listed top speed of 171mph. I'd bet that with a chip switch (to defeat the most likely installed "kill switch") this car would top 200mph.

Without restrictor plates, NASCAR would be hitting 200 at the big tracks - thus the restrictor plates. And NASCAR is far from what it was - a car you could go purchase at a dealer.

Formula 1 doesn't even represent a "real" car even in the guise of a sheet metal body...it's a rocket with wheels.

Either way, we aren't comparing apples to apples - more like apples to oranges to kiwi.

Very few cars are capable of 200mph directly from the show room (especially American - and my guess is that it doesn't have as much to do with the manufacturers as it does the insurance companies and the American Way - a.k.a. sue everybody for your own dumbassedness)

As for me, if I had a car that went 200mph, I would go 200mph and would have been dead long ago...I'll stick with my toyota 4x4 - it's blazing top speed of 85mph is dangerous enough in Atlanta...hell Atlanta intimidated me into selling my motorcycle - too many close calls.

When I retire I'm moving out west with a corvette, a Harley and a ivory handled set of six shooters and I'm gonna fly through the desert like sh*t through a goose with guns a'blazin - cursin' and spittin'...and er, uh...what was the question...

my 2.

^billy

Funny stuff.
I ran out of gas out in the Nevada desert once on my bike. Along came the guy that killed Jimmy Hoffa (so he said). He offered to give me a ride to the next gas station. I declined very politely. Made me wish I had my six-guns handy.

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Along came the guy that killed Jimmy Hoffa (so he said).

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No, no... I've met the guy.. he killed a "six" one night WITH Jimmy Hoffa.

Bren R.