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Top Speed?

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When all is well with your bus what is your top speed?
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What engine also? :|

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85 - gets a bit white knuckle after that though :rofl

I only get that speed cos mine is a tintop and almost everything in it was constructed using the lightest materials. :D

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epic, not had the chance to go full pelt in mine with all running smoothly.

Mine is a 1.9 DG.

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Had 90 out of mine (well that's what the speedo said anyway). Don't make a habit of it though........

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They do say if you flap the wing mirrors and shift about in your seat you can do 100 but unfortunately no one has lived to tell the tale. :D
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CovKid wrote:They do say if you flap the wing mirrors and shift about in your seat you can do 100 but unfortunately no one has lived to tell the tale. :D

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Wound mine up beyond 65 once.

It will never happen again.... dont have a rev counter but it must have been spinning faster than a jet turbine judging by the noise...

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fodtommo wrote:Wound mine up beyond 65 once.

It will never happen again.... dont have a rev counter but it must have been spinning faster than a jet turbine judging by the noise...

1.6d n/a - not fast, not furious


My trusty stead always sounds furious? :D

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Usually sit at a stready 65 (dial says 70) but I have hit 75 (80 on dial) downhill on motorways

Don't make a habit of it though. Uses too much lpg and the price is only going up :roll:

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:rofl if it ever did go 80 mph it would be using 80£pm

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CovKid wrote:They do say if you flap the wing mirrors and shift about in your seat you can do 100 but unfortunately no one has lived to tell the tale. :D
Or fit a decent engine and you can easily see 100mph + :ok :ok :ok

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I've seen 125 on the clock in my 2.1 Atlantic :shock:

Bugger............forgot its in kilometres :wink:

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Don't know the exact speed since the needle touches the end stop.
Sounds like a jet engine at these speeds and have only done it a couple of times

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Mine will sit at 80 on the speedo on the flat but sounds rather strained. No rev counter but must be somewhere near max revs. 1.9DG on LPG.
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We did 70 one time down hill with the wind behine us fully loaded with camping stuff and a full tank of LPG. But I think gravity might have had something to do with it. We got 60kph on the back of a french recovery truck 2 years ago does that count. (1.9 DG High top on LPG) :wink:
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