driver training and attitude isnt good enough unfortunately. they already struggle with 110

Apparently there was a highway or something like that with no speed limit in the NT

​@@brycewarren2536yeah, this fcking highway in the video hahaha

That would be nice but I can't see that happening anytime soon lol.😅

@@borismcfinnigan3430 lol yeah, pretty sure it has a 130 limit now days

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So fucking true!!!

Tong Spoon well said mate.😀

Amen to ur comment.Lest we forget our muscle cars mate

I'm a Holden guy too, and I prefer the XY.. each to their own hey

The fear is real. I did about 230kmh on my VFR800 up there and that was mad enough. I did that in the middle of the day, late afternoon would be bloody suicide with the animals out.

+cmealing1 On a 35 degree day with a headwind? 297 sustained is very good Aerodynamics come into play. If you've been anywhere near 240kmph its starts getting very um...require your concerntration as if you hit something here...there was some caution in his driving. This is a stock car not with the boost wound up even more...a intercooler would have made it go well past 210mph. Somebody may have done it overseas. Would be happy on a autobahn. I think a few were sold there. If a completely unaerodynamic much heavier Bentley can hit 206mph this car is underrated. Considering the stock car is speed limited to 250kmph and still running the standard tailshaft- their is allot of room for improvement. Hopefully the FG-X XR8 will get its chance to beat it.... im sure some HSV can do that to. But we all cannot get our triple ton specials and go up to see how fast they go...and have all the telemetry to record it too.

cmealing1 they did a speed run hsv maloo got the record for fastest Ute and it only broke 270

I'm a ford man don't like holden there are shit I have had to much bad experience with holden I have owne about 3 or 4 to mini far as I'm concerned my first car was a eb Falcon now I own 2006 BF Mark 2 XR6 I would never turn back ford For life!!!!

Done 287 in my lancer so....

@@farvatron any work done

Skippy at dawn and dusk mostly. Rarely seen in the middle of the day out here. Camels and cattle you can see for miles. You would have to be an idiot to hit one in daylight. How do I know? I live in Alice.

@@0Zolrender0 internet so bad up there you replied a year ago and only just come through now.

Robert Chinnock-a holden wouldn't handle this speed thats why it was done in a ford.

True mate but oh I'm Holden an chevy an have a 64 mini Cooper's But to do those kmh makes you were are we going how fast are we gunna HIT think the chopper got Reid of the ANIMALS CHEERS MATE

Oh for sure

All day

Haha, that's crazy

same with my 2007 XR8. with the way the world is going.... yes hang on to them.

The Zombie Squad bf2 xr8 great car 👌🏽

joel bow been tempted to sell and get a mustang couple of times. Still can’t do it 😅👍🏽

@@homebrew332 did you sell it? Price of performance falcon have shot up massively

@@COLDoCLINCHER37 I did sell it for what I thought was a good price 2 years ago, which is about 15k short of what it’s worth now. 🤦🏽‍♂️😂 Positive is I got a corona special, a mustang with 6000km out of Melbourne when it was all locked down for very cheap. In hindsight I would have kept the falcon if I had shed space. But probably would have sold it around now for the coin. I miss it especially for comfort, the mustang is faster and sounds better.

Had my bmw e39 530i m sport at 245 and it started getting a bit bouncy with the soft suspension. Be surprised how many cars can reach 250 these days.

Bleak Hollow......like nothing else except for maybe an AMG Mercedes, Audi 5.2, BMW Msport, Volvo S60 Polestar.....😂

@@warrenlp8536 Haha... Oh wait you're serious. Euro shit is muffled beyond belief, it sounds like it's misfiring

@@Sh3rk69 Yet "euro shit" makes more horsepower per litre, gets better economy and makes less pollution. Tell me any of the AMG cars are muffled BTW.....even the A45 AMG sounds better than most US V8's

@@warrenlp8536 why would I give a flying fuck about hp/L, economy or emissions if I'm talking about how it sounds. No, Merc V8s do not sound better than a Chevy V8. You're a tosser

@@warrenlp8536 I'm not watching this to talk about European cars which depreciate like crazy and cost a fortune to buy and fix..I'm watching because this is one of the last Australian built muscle cars and it 's magnificent.And just for the record the Supercharged Coyote is a world class engine.

GT-F wasn’t mass produced. Only 550 were ever made. Mass produce is like 5000+

Exactly, if the speed limits are so important they would just build all cars to go no more than 110ks an hour

Half a billion dollars a year for each of the Eastern states.. And they sure as hell aren't spending it on road safety initiatives. It's one of the most successful scams ever run. Put the fines up, but make sure they don't use up all their points, so you can get repeat business. Reduce the tolerance from 10% to 2% so you can catch people doing 63 in a 60 zone. Then put a bunch of hidden cameras around so people don't even know they got a ticket until it shows up in the mail. And anytime anyone says anything about it, you play the safety card. Think of the children!!i! And all the while our shitty roads and death tolls remain about the same.

After I have a few beers I can get my 200 series up to 225 kph along the Old Geelong Road, bugger the laws man there for fools.

In case high speed is necessary, like if y don’t have a phone and can’t call the ambo and you/your kid gets bitten by venomous snake

Also it’s the car manufacturers who build the cars like that

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In 1999 a couple of workmates and I drove a Toyota Landcruiser Troopy to Darwin and back from Mt. Isa. When we weren't going through townships we sat on a dollar seventy no problem on the straight bits of the Barkly Highway from Tablelands to Waramungu, and then same speeds north along the Stuart Highway to Darwin.

I have never been to that area, though I have been told If I did, expect to see camels.

The NT has never had " no open road speed limits", especially late 80's early 90's. If so I would never have been booked for speeding, which I was. Nice story, full of shit though.

That area did have no speed limit until a fatal crash during a Gumball Rally involving a Lamborghini decades ago.

Tell that to the victorian government... Nothing like doing 80 in a well lit, well paved 4 lane highway with a solid barrier between both directions and exterior walls. Unbelievable.

Because Tony Abbott refused to tip any more money into our vehicle manufacturing. Australian Auto manufacturing was heavily subsidized by the Commonwealth Government.

Yeh i know the reasons. Dont even get me started. Five years have passed, and im still bitter!

No one bought them. Suv's.

@@mvnorsel6354 Idiots prefer to buy Hyundais because of 7 year warranty!

I do things out of spite yeah i wonder how my xk 144ci would have done up there with its speed limiter removed

I reckon you would of got about 140 before things start to break

Hilarious! They don't build 'em like that anymore, eh? :)

106 kmh

106...

+Higgo that would be super cool.. the last ever V8 Falcon hits 300kph !

its electronically limited

Yes I know, but they could disable that for the test. Like they did with this one.

Higgo and apparently making more power than the GT-F at the wheels too !

I wish they could that. It would be interesting! without the limiter of course! Or even a comparison between the FPV GTF and Ford Falcon FGX XR8 SPRINT which one would be the best?!

LOL No

Read that article. Sounded like it struggled to stay in a straight line though😮

Not a chance

It will….. just not legally. 😉

LOL No. No it couldnt. I am a race engineer and have actually looked after one of these Turbo Falcons, that had the limiter removed as well as numerous other tweaks to prepare it for circuit racing competition. And i can tell you that at Bathurst in 2014 or 2015, its fastest trap speed all week was 243km/h. This was a 310kw FPV by the way not a basic 245KW XR6.

I'd think it would do it. I've got a fg gs 2009 boss 302. it speed cuts at 248, pretty well all stock,exhaust,growler intake, n ultralow suspension. it still had more in it but speed cut

​@@borismcfinnigan3430 210km/h bashing the limiter in my FG XR6. 36+ km/h isn't much difference + FPV and the turbo 🤔 For a stock FG XR6 she goes pretty smooth at 200+ on NZ highway

Buddy It’s got air hitting it at 297kmh it’s not heat soaked

@@nocomment5847 do you own one?.. I do. In the NT heat, simply prepping doing a few runs and getting ready it would have heat soak. Once it’s got it no amount of speed really makes a difference at high ambient temps. A short burst at 200kph + would have zero effect on AIT’s. I’ve watched mine driving it in many conditions to form this opinion.

I done Darwin to Perth in 32hours in 2016 in my Holden Avalanche, 6.0litre, fully worked, 400kw

Mate, no way your boat anchor 5.4 did anything like 295. I have owned a stock, then tuned, blown fg gt and also bf pursuit, and they are worlds apart. Not to mention, your "stock" super pursuit is speed limited to 235kmh, 10km less than the sedans due to the longer tailshaft.

I done 240km in a 1990 RS Legacy Sedan. Felt surprisingly safe for an old car

+Orion a cold still winters night would be much faster than '35 degrees and windy'. Its a aerodynamic game after 240 after the wind starts pulling your car around....it steady at that speed which is good for those with inter coolers.... unoficial GTHOs. The overboost will not be running at 100% to protect the motor at high temps thus its not as angry as it could be... it would have done 205+ with no headwind im sure. Not to say others have done it already- unoficially. Considering how non aerodynamic the boxy bentley front is getting to 206mph the nose of the Falcon is much more lower... as is based on the V8 supercar shape...

Joys of meeting emission standards.

That car is over 400kw. If that's underpowered in your eyes then I'd love to see the top fuel dragster that you daily drive mate

aircon was probably on too

351

Nah.. too much wind resistants..with a tailwind yeah maybe

Are you smoking dog shit?

John Bowe is a very good race car driver. I reckon whatever he did was to get the best out of it. Also my opinion is the the ratio change from 5th to 6th would have been too much, ie engine might have produced a bit more power but the ratio change means less will be transmitted to the wheels

+Rodney McGiveron regardless of manual or auto, the F6 will redline around 285kph at the top of 5th gear so I would say that would be it's theoretical top speed... it would need more road to reach that speed though as it's 90hp down on the GT-F

+Rodney McGiveron The 6 speed manual has a top speed of 326KPH with 245 45 18's on it. That's what car speed calculator reckons anyways with mine. I've been no where near those speeds. Even with 300rwkw, I doubt I reach it. To be honest I'm surprised the GT-F made it with only 30 more RWKW than mine.

Falcon six turbo doesn't have the horsepower and torque. The GTF has 50 more kws.

and probably kg

Travis Clifford very got a mate that’s a cop he says the commodores are unstable on high speeds

But they still make HSV. Manufactures don't stop building good cars.

@@sv4851 HSV build Camaros, Colorados and Silverados now. The old Commodore is gone and no-one wants the new one, especially HSV.

For a start HSV does NOT build " Camaros, Colorados and Silverados now." GM USA does, all HSV is doing is converting them to RHD. But the fact still remains that any car manufacture does not stop building cars that the public want and the Falcon stopped simply because it was a pile of shit and the Commodore is only half a point better. Aussie design and manufacturing went along fine with other world makers until around the early to middle 80's when the rest of the world took off in regards to build quality and design but Aussie just continued to build buckets of poo. Take the cost of what was then a new Falcon or Commodore and look at the Euro, Japanese and USA cars and you will get twice the car for the same money. How would I know? A GM dealer for over 20 years.

@@sv4851 Well they did. When Ford axed the V8 Falcon people assumed it was because the market for high powered V8s was dead. Ford introduced the Mustang as a niche car, expecting to sell 1000 a year. They ended up selling more than that in a month and ten times more than that in a year. Even staunch Holden people ordered the Mustang because the "cheap" V8 market was empty after the Commodore bowed out. By your own admission HSV don't "build" anything, at this point they're a glorified importer. The Camaro is set to have a retail price of nearly $100,000 for what is essentially a right-hand drive SS with pretty much even or lower specs than the current Mustang GT. Yet, orders are still funneling in for them. The newer, smaller Commodore (which is what the public wanted, apparently) has been a sales bomb, as has the new Equinox SUV. Of the 990 Commodores sold in March, 474 of them were VFIIs, rather than the ZB.

The speedo is doing 240. The car isnt.

​@@borismcfinnigan3430Police calibrate the speedos

Electric?

Knew a guy who had a FTP 400Kw said its only 400Kw between shifts . . but still at the time i had a 6.0 thunder and i did not come close sweet cars they are.

The gts would do 300 no problem at all it has a lot more torque 740nm compared to the fords 650 in overboost and only 570 without overboost also the hsv has better suspension 👍

There no street commodore that can touch this. Would love to see the new HSV GTS do this with the GTF. The GTF has 351KW however Ford have said that this a conservative figure and has been recorded as having close to 400KW.

Yes there were plenty faster than that the hsv that I have now would pass 300 very easily 😀

Well the GTF is 16KW quicker don’t properly not as not 297KPH

The top was 297 because that is as fast as it would go. 🙄🙄 It wasn't in top gear, since shifting up to 6th would have produced less wheel HP and would not gone as fast. Yeah, with an aftermarket diff swap (lower ratio) and using 6th gear, it might have gone faster... however the whole point was to see how fast a stock-standard off-the-dealer-floor car would go.