What's the S2000's top speed?
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I've tried to find it in one of the computers I have but of no avail. The car in the video hit 283KPH briefly (I'm a TV editor and I have a photographic memory) or about 175mph.
It's in the archives, because I remeber commenting about the jerk with the F-40 video doing over 200mph in England, or Sweden and he lost his license because the prosecutors used the video as evidence against him and I warned this other guy about it --- so that may be why you can't find it!!!
I've tried to find it in one of the computers I have but of no avail. The car in the video hit 283KPH briefly (I'm a TV editor and I have a photographic memory) or about 175mph.
It's in the archives, because I remeber commenting about the jerk with the F-40 video doing over 200mph in England, or Sweden and he lost his license because the prosecutors used the video as evidence against him and I warned this other guy about it --- so that may be why you can't find it!!!
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My best is an indicated 135 with the top down, near sea level (East Texas), warm day. Not exactly ideal conditions. Felt like it would take forever to get there; there was essentially nothing left.
I'm sure everyone's telling the truth about indicated speeds on here (OK, maybe not, but benefit of the doubt to each poster), but some of these numbers don't seem right. All the tests of the S have its top speed well below 160, at least those I've seen. If the Cd is also close to what I've seen, i.e., something like 0.36 top up, 0.42 top down, then top end with the top down would be something like seven percent slower, assuming mechanical drag is a mniority but non-zero component of the total. (Mechanical drag is a linear function of speed, aerodynamic a square function; power requirement (versus force) raises the exponents to three and two, respectively.) If 155 is the max with the top up, it should be somewhere around 145 with the top down, not the numbers some are seeing.
Again, I believe that y'alls speedos said what you say they did, but the speedo error could easily be large. There is no reason that an electronic speedometer can't have a nonlinear error function.
In other words, if you don't have a calibrated speedometer (and not many on here seem to), you don't know what your car can do.
Oops, just noticed on edit: sorry to bump an ancient thread.
I'm sure everyone's telling the truth about indicated speeds on here (OK, maybe not, but benefit of the doubt to each poster), but some of these numbers don't seem right. All the tests of the S have its top speed well below 160, at least those I've seen. If the Cd is also close to what I've seen, i.e., something like 0.36 top up, 0.42 top down, then top end with the top down would be something like seven percent slower, assuming mechanical drag is a mniority but non-zero component of the total. (Mechanical drag is a linear function of speed, aerodynamic a square function; power requirement (versus force) raises the exponents to three and two, respectively.) If 155 is the max with the top up, it should be somewhere around 145 with the top down, not the numbers some are seeing.
Again, I believe that y'alls speedos said what you say they did, but the speedo error could easily be large. There is no reason that an electronic speedometer can't have a nonlinear error function.
In other words, if you don't have a calibrated speedometer (and not many on here seem to), you don't know what your car can do.
Oops, just noticed on edit: sorry to bump an ancient thread.
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Originally Posted by Cavok,Sep 11 2002, 10:05 PM
I've done 258km/h (153mph) with top down. 
For all this talk of inaccurate speedos, MOTOR magazines Performance Car of the Year test clocked the 2003 S2000 @ 246km/h (153.75mph) with a radar gun, before the braking area of Avalon airstrip. They mentioned how the digital speedometer was "bang on accurate" reflecting that exact same number. Just more to discuss if you wish.
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