Cars with ambitious speedometers

[sebhaque]

I was having a look at a 1.8 Audi A4 earlier and noticed that the speedometer went to 180mph. I know the speedos are standardised across the different engine options of a car, but I did chuckle at a car with a 140mph top speed having a speedo pegged 40mph higher than the car could achieve from the factory.



It also looks like the speedo isn't weighted (where the lower speeds take up more of the gauge), so your legally useable speedo range is from the 6 o'clock to the 10 o'clock position.

Anybody else know of some similarly ambitious speedometers?

[Second Best]

Similar to the original post, the 4-pot F-Type has a speedo going up to 200mph. The top speed is 155mph.



The (facelift) V8 F-Type has a speedo going up to 220mph. The top speed is 186mph.

I have a pre-facelift V8 and the speedo goes to 200mph, which seems perfectly reasonable for a 186mph top speed. Not sure why Jaguar changed it.