What's the speed limiter set at?

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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?

 

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snipped from Wikipedia.

 

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

 

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drummerdimitri said:

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

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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!!)

 

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drummerdimitri said:

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

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

 

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RichardT said:

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.

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

 

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

 

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drummerdimitri said:

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

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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.

 

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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

 

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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!

 

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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.