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  Highway Patrol Officer Keith Odle testified that he estimated Abadie
  had been driving her Toyota Prius at 85 miles per hour (137 km/h)
  in a 65 mph (105 km/h) zone when he pulled her over.

Case dismissed. Oh and Officer you're being suspended without pay for falsifying evidence, everyone knows a Prius can't go that fast.

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"Woz gets $700 speeding ticket for doing 104 MPH in Toyota Prius" (http://macdailynews.com/2007/08/21/woz_gets_700_speeding_tic...)

That's no stock firmware.

Google says that the top speed for a Prius is 112.

There are few if any cars that can't reach 85 mph sold in the last decade in California.

I've been lectured by the wife for driving her pod car...err...prius at speeds she doesn't appreciate. That speed was somewhere between said post and what Woz was cited for. It it possible, though in general they prefer to stay in the #1 lane at below the posted speed limit.

No. You can easily do over 100mph.

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