this car goes to 101

One thing I never got to test was whether the Prius could break 100MPH. I thought maybe Toyota would have installed a governor in the car to keep you from burning so much fuel. I guess I should have figured that the display would obviously allow triple digit speeds, given that I could switch to metric speeds, but I never thought that deeply about it.

Anyway, while driving through Montana, past home of the reasonable and prudent speed guidelines, I finally got to push my Prius to its (or my) limits. Some people seemed to still go by the old (lack of) rules, and drove much faster here than anywhere else I've seen. So I gave it a shot, and broke 100! I got as fast as 103MPH before I backed off.

Oh, and for the record, I was driving downhill, so I used that momentum to help get my speed up.