Top speed of 16v

[cняis]

my vr read 145 (with more to offer) once but the speedo over exaggerates 

it was probably more like 50mph 

[Neo Badness]

My old mk3 16v was doing an indicated 156mph up the River Tay, unfortunately no sat nav at that time to confirm but -10% would be 140.4mph
But I suspect that the engine is perhaps not completely standard.

Mk2 16v has been up to around an indicated 115mph (private road) but as the tracking is wildly out which makes it a bit of a white knuckle ride at the mo'.

[Diamond Hell]

Ive hit 135 in a standard 16v.

I've hit a fat bird in bed.

[rob.043]

they do 160 dont they? thats what the speedo goes up to

was watching top gear USA, tother day, the chubby guy was upset at an Aston Martin that had a speedo that went to 220, while the car only did about 180 iirc. He then decided that this sort of lies must be a British thing!

[andynorfolk]

did a top speed run in the 8v last night with a 421 mani and full system and then engine has been bored out to 1.9L pulled off the clock (goes to 120) my mate used a gps speedo on his iphone and when topping out at about 124mph on the speedo it was actually doing 111mph, so the speedos aren't exactly accurate! aha

[Neo Badness]

According to a Garmin Satnav I used to have i did manage to do 728mph in 2.5D Transit .

 So satnav is not always accurate either.

[Agreeable Slick]

I did 88mph once.

Then found myself in the wild west, so technically I travelled faster than time itself. The clocks on the dash were a little out though as it said I was doing 160mph.

[Horney]

Great Scot!

[Neo Badness]

Where we're going we don't need roads...

[gti-vw]

Some years back my wife and I in our 8v Mk2 ended up neck and neck with a 16v Mk 2 on an autobahn heading to Netherlands. We smiled and the 'race' was on. With my speedometer needle crushed against the stop we watched as the 16v slowly (very slowly) pulled ahead of us at a rate of about 0.2 mph. The 'race' went on for many miles and by the time we hit the border he was 200yds in front. We both braked back to legal (Dutch) speeds.

I think it depends very much on the condition of the car.