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> I don't know how fast the car will go and probably never will. The car was built to thrill me, not kill me. That doesn't stop me from the occasional blast on the highway though.

but I am unsure if that means he has never driven it using the jet engine, or whether the engine even will power the car or just kinda runs on its own. I'm curious to see it go at all under jet engine power.

Edit: maybe this is it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-ipYAl3o40



I think he means he's used it plenty, but hasn't tried to max out the speed.


That's my reading as well.

I have a vague memory of this site or an interview previously saying he got up to 130 mph once, before deciding he'd rather not find out what speed a VW Beetle lifts off the pavement.


That videos's an original Beetle, not a New Beetle.




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