What's the speed limiter set at?

[drummerdimitri]

I was able to drive up to 265 km/h today and was wondering if the car could reach the 300 km/h as indicated on the speedometer.

If not, is there a factory set limit for the top speed?

 

[gamegenie]

snipped from Wikipedia.

 

[drummerdimitri]

That's kinda pointless information since it is wrong otherwise how would I have been able to reach 265 km/h?

 

[RichardT]

That's kinda pointless information since it is wrong otherwise how would I have been able to reach 265 km/h?

It's not likely that the speedo is accurate (particularly at high speed)
265 is about 6% up on 249. And were you on the absolute flat? - that could make a difference as well.
Anyway, you can't trust Audi figures (whoops - did I say that!!)

 

[RO65ERS]

That's kinda pointless information since it is wrong otherwise how would I have been able to reach 265 km/h?

Speedo display to actual speed isn't 1:1...

 

[drummerdimitri]

It's not likely that the speedo is accurate (particularly at high speed)
265 is about 6% up on 249. And were you on the absolute flat? - that could make a difference as well.

Actually I hit 260 on a downhill then 265 on a slight incline.

 

[Martinbanshee]

Car speedos aren't precisely accurate, that's why you saw a figure higher than 155mph on the dash.

 

[gamegenie]

That's kinda pointless information since it is wrong otherwise how would I have been able to reach 265 km/h?

they sourced audi.com which states the same top speed for the S3 http://microsites.audi.com/pshome/models/a3/s3/index.html

perhaps your car is magical.

 

[veeeight]

Audi have always traditionally been "generous" in sticking to the 155mph gentlemen's agreement.

Plenty of YouTube footage on this



Also Fifth Gear videos on the runway with various S models

 

[veeeight]

Previous threads on this:

http://www.audi-sport.net/xf/threads/s3-vmax.227285/
http://www.audi-sport.net/xf/threads/top-speed.244774/
http://www.audi-sport.net/xf/threads/autobahn-top-speed.249181/

plus one deleted thread on this topic, when the forum thought police got on on @David83S3 's case!

 

[Wondering Soul]

Get a GPS speed reader, you'll soon see that you didn't reach 265kmh..

I have a GPS speed reader in the car and it usually reads about 1-2 mph less than my speedo at low speed (>35mph), on the motorway that gap increases with my speed.