Audi RS5 does the speedo indicate it's habitat

[Mermaid]

I bagged this pic of the dash & speedo of the new RS5. Does anyone else this the 30 mph sector does not show up well (& positioned badly) for you can get done for doing 34mph in a 30 zone. Digital readout is available but has to be selected each time. or do they expect this car's habitat will be the autobahns.

[mercfunder]

Wack it on cruise control/speed limiter in a 30 zone, problem solved.

Edited by mercfunder on Monday 5th July 18:02

[Kevin VRs]

I do not see any problem with that, seems very clear to me.

[philmots]

I think i could cope!

[thinfourth2]

I would guess getting the 200Mph figure on the speedo is far more important then making a speedo that actually is easy to read at normal speeds

[anonymous-user]

Many many cars go 20, 40 , 60 etc with marks in between, including mine. I find it no trouble.

Is that really positioned badly? It looks fine.

[Beefmeister]

I have a Mk6 Golf 2.0 TDi SE hire car this week (lovely thing, it really is), but the speedo annoys me.

It goes round in equal spaced increments of:

0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 100, 120, 140

So when you're joining the motorway at 70ish, it's very hard to just glance at your speed as you accelerate to 90, as the increment is now 20mph instead of 10.

Not a major biggie, but it seems a little odd. Opposite of the RS5 though i suppose.

[DaveL86]

On the latest VAG cars you usually have the option to show your speed digitally in MPH or KM/H in the central screen, and I don't see any issues working out the speed on the actual speedo anyway.

[Zod]

If you think that's bad, look at an Aston speedo. You need the digital one (it's in the tachometer), because the legal speed zone is so insignificant as part of the speedo's arc.

[the-photographer]

Beefmeister said:

I have a Mk6 Golf 2.0 TDi SE hire car this week (lovely thing, it really is), but the speedo annoys me.

It goes round in equal spaced increments of:

0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 100, 120, 140

So when you're joining the motorway at 70ish, it's very hard to just glance at your speed as you accelerate to 90, as the increment is now 20mph instead of 10.

Not a major biggie, but it seems a little odd. Opposite of the RS5 though i suppose.

VW claim its to make the more practical speeds bigger and clearer in the speedo sweep, in the UK it should work well. When in Germany you only need a 'rough' reading at typical autobahn speeds?

[pilchardthecat]

Does it have the imagine?

[S Line Luxury]

one of the best performance cars in the world, they are NOT going to cut corners ANYWHERE

[Fruitcake]

S Line Luxury said:

one of the best performance cars in the world, they are NOT going to cut corners ANYWHERE

Clearly they are. If they hadn't cut the corner off the speedo, we wouldn't be in this mess.

[jdbecks]

Fruitcake said:

S Line Luxury said:

one of the best performance cars in the world, they are NOT going to cut corners ANYWHERE

Clearly they are. If they hadn't cut the corner off the speedo, we wouldn't be in this mess.

[Defcon5]

How fast can it actually go?

[Chris_w666]

S Line Luxury said:

one of the best performance cars in the world, they are NOT going to cut corners ANYWHERE

Do Audi send you a cheque everytime you post?

[pilchardthecat]

S Line Luxury said:

one of the best performance cars in the world, they are NOT going to cut corners ANYWHERE

You can clearly see in the pictures above the vastly differing panel gaps between the bit of trim around the steering column, and the neighbouring interior panels. Gap on the left is massive, one on the right is tiny.

Sloppy, shoddy, third rate effort. Clearly it's just been casually hurled together with gay abandon by a bunch of half-drunk cowboys on minimum wage.

Utterly devoid of "imagine" as well.

Edited by pilchardthecat on Monday 5th July 19:35

[Jazoli]

S Line Luxury said:

one of the best performance cars in the world, they are NOT going to cut corners ANYWHERE

You are really a sad individual,

JazoliHondaAccord, reliablility, space, dullness, the most boring car in the world EVER, EVER, honest.......

[dave_s13]

jdbecks said:

Fruitcake said:

S Line Luxury said:

one of the best performance cars in the world, they are NOT going to cut corners ANYWHERE

Clearly they are. If they hadn't cut the corner off the speedo, we wouldn't be in this mess.

A PH legend in the making this one.

He's even got a catchphrase established, I'm been on here donkeys and no catchphrase yet...."imagine"

[ALawson]

Chris_w666 said:

S Line Luxury said:

one of the best performance cars in the world, they are NOT going to cut corners ANYWHERE

Do Audi send you a cheque everytime you post?

On another thread.

S Line Luxury said:

what on earth have you done to it, an Audi wont just break, they are the best designed/ engineers cars in the world

There are some more classics, although the english is even worse than mine!