Renault Clio - 1.2 16v 75bhp
Max Speed (official) - 106mph
My Max Speed - 117mph (indicated...on a private track of course ;) )
bare in mind people that what your speedo says and the speed you are actually doing a very different. speedos are in general not very accurate!
Legally there is an allowable tolerance of +/- 10% in the UK, more likely to be a +10% reading, even on your digital readouts.
The legal requirement is as follows:
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, as amended, allows the use of speedometers that meet the requirements of EC Community Directive 75/443(97/39) or ECE Regulation 39. Both the EC Directive and the ECE Regulation lay down accuracy requirements to be applied at the time of vehicle approval for speedometers. These requirements are that the indicated speed must not be more than 10 per cent of the true speed plus 4 km/h. In production, however, a slightly different tolerance of 5 per cent plus 10 km/h is applied. The requirements are also that the indicated speed must never be less than the true speed. In theory when you think you are doing 30 you could be only doing 24 mph though I don
People Eating Tasty Animals.
I did get my worked 'lil Corolla over 200kmh once, but I would hardly brag about that since I should've been locked up. Now I drive a Holden station wagon....because it transports my 100cc Yamaha Go Kart on Race Day ! ;D woohoo ! ok it only does 120kmh (the Kart) , but it does that with my arse 2" off the ground ! Planning to upgrade to 250cc Superkarts , once our state government upgrades the availability of race trakcs here in New South Wales. ()read never)
