What's the fastest you've driven your e9/e3 (allegedly)?

[Drew Gregg]

All of the above posts could be the next verses in the song "Transfusion".......
Now I really have to find out what 5000 RPM in 5th gear reads in my car.
4000 was 105MPH on the speedo.

 

[Belgiumbarry]

240 km/h....... no wait , that was in my 650i and Morgan GTN , also with the BMW V8 .
180 km/h in the rally CS .... as it is geared to that as max.

 

[deQuincey]

80 km/h, and respecting my lane, in a road that should be driven (safely*) at 54 km/h...

**the legal limit is 90

 

[lafngrvy]

One of the last jobs I had for my father's dealership was to deliver a 2800CS out to a customer in Idaho. My father's dealership was in Minnesota which meant I had to drive out 94 through North Dakota and Montana. This was back in the day when the speed limit in Montana was "reasonable and prudent." Well when you're 18 years old in a brand new BMW on an open and empty freeway through the big sky country, what's reasonable and prudent? That's correct, flat out. Not sure what speed I hit, but it was all that straight 6 had!

 

[Mot27cars]

All of the above posts could be the next verses in the song "Transfusion".......
Now I really have to find out what 5000 RPM in 5th gear reads in my car.
4000 was 105MPH on the speedo.

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[aearch]

MY STOCK E46 MAXS AT 119

 

[dang]

I guess we shouldn't compare how fast we've been in other vehicles with Drew around.

 

[GolfBavaria]

The Bav with my worn valve sleeves and when it had the 3.0L with stock Zenith carbs and the 4-spd would show over 100MPH on the speedo. But was that accurate, I think 5-10mph should be knocked off, but regardless it was fun and didn't feel like I had to "white knuckle" it. As apposed to the X3 diesel my wife and I rented in Germany when they first came out, we were going over 153MPH (246KPH) on the autobahn and sitting up kind of high in that little SUV, I won't lie, I was still white knuckling it. No mattresses jumping out in front of us, but I always think of blowout, especially when slightly top-heavy. Bav will be done with the latest "plastic surgery" after the shipping "incident." Rear bumper is getting tucked like it should be pre-'73. No more 10mph metal hoop rings, should look amazing. I will have pics soon. Body work is done, just waiting on paint. It was minor damage but a good excuse to finally tuck the rear bumper in. Super excited to see the results. Carry on......"petal to the metal!"

 

[CSL177]

At Sebring, best lap time with my old CSL (now Tyson's) was something like 2:30 or :32... about 90mph average. Unsure of the top speed but likely less than 135.

 

[Andy of Finland]

215 indicated

 

[zinz]

I had the old 2000CS right at 100mph chasing you, Steve, on the drive outside New Orleans. That was a great weekend

EdZ

 

[Strato102]

One of the last jobs I had for my father's dealership was to deliver a 2800CS out to a customer in Idaho. My father's dealership was in Minnesota which meant I had to drive out 94 through North Dakota and Montana. This was back in the day when the speed limit in Montana was "reasonable and prudent." Well when you're 18 years old in a brand new BMW on an open and empty freeway through the big sky country, what's reasonable and prudent? That's correct, flat out. Not sure what speed I hit, but it was all that straight 6 had!

I have seen your in car videos. Pretty sure you aren't exaggerating.

 

[Arde]

Seriously, I think I hit 90 mph when the car was a 3 speed automatic and 110 mph after the 5-speed conversion.
In other words, every gear adds 10 mph to your E9...
I know all BMW speedometers are optimistic by about 5 mph.

 

[OCCoupe]

This was coming off the throttle on the way to meet up for Targa California 2018. Hwy 46 headed east about 100 degrees out with the a/c on. Speedo hit 210 and the Waze app showed 132 that’s when I let off the throttle.

 

[Barry.b]

I once went, flat out in 2nd gear.
With standard getrag 262 transmission and factory 3.0 csi diff running on the factory wheels and tyres.with the standard 12 volt battery and factory starter motor.
I held nothing back , whatever I could get from under the hood was put down to the tarmac that day !!!
( please check the link for more details)
… p.s. I’m just kidding for now but hopefully I’ll get there some day!

Is this an E9 engine

Barry, Your VIN is a LHD coupe delivered to the UK, it has a 2265xxx VIN, a RHD CSi has a 435xxxx VIN. RHD csi also came with 2264XXX vin numbers ??

e9coupe.com

 

[Candia4441]

Back home in 1997 I had a blue 3.0cs everything original with over 80,000 kilometers on the clock I was driving with total 4 people in the car wide open road night time and it was cold I couldn't go more than 180 kilometer clock was down to 170 and up to 180 I believe if engine was new and good health it would make easy 200 kilometer

 

[Mal CSL 3.0]

Here are the reported top speeds for road tests back in the day. The big BMs were certainly very quick versus almost everything else at the time (aside from the sports-cars Ferrari, Porsche etc)

 

[HB Chris]

MPG is Imperial gallons, 1.0 Imperial = 1.2 US gallons

 

[Arde]

Here are the reported top speeds for road tests back in the day. The big BMs were certainly very quick versus almost everything else at the time (aside from the sports-cars Ferrari, Porsche etc)

Cool chart. The Lada test driver defected to the West in the middle of the test.

 

[roundel]

About 150 MPH on the Mulsanne, a bit annoyed that someone went faster on the Autobahn.....