M5 vs 550 Maranello

TDiddy · 12-21-2005, 06:36 AM

The M5's speedo goes to 205 miles per hour but it's supposedly governed at 155. tough to tell what they're really at.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...8656&q=ferrari

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bamachem · 12-21-2005, 06:44 AM

holy crap that's stupid. if you look close, they're on some type of limited access highway like an interstate. if the speedo goes to 205, it looks to me like they went over 155.

nucking futs. plain and simple.

i did however notice how fast they both hit 120+ from cruising speed. crazy-fast cars are cool.

Silver_Truck · 12-21-2005, 11:41 AM

you can get the speed governor on m5s pulled pretty easy, also notice how much quieter the m5 is then the ferrari.

fiveofeen · 12-21-2005, 10:02 PM

wow... at night too. Gotta love the paddle shift.. slammin gears still rules though.. but at 150+ its nice to keep both hands on the wheel.

Yamaha+Toyota=Fun · 12-21-2005, 11:54 PM

It looks like the speedo is in kilometers per hour

marko3xl3 · 12-22-2005, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Yamaha+Toyota=Fun

It looks like the speedo is in kilometers per hour

Definately in kilometers per hour. Here is why....

If you pause the video at a good location and count off how many numbers there are you'll come to the conclusion that each number is 20 units and that the biggest number is 260. Now, 260 km/h is completely plausible while 260 miles per hour is plain crazy (416 km/h). I have been in German BMW's before and their speedos top off in the 300's (km/h) eventhough they never reach that speed stock because a common German agreement between automakers governs all their cars at somewhere below 300 km/h.

So yeah, they were basically going about 135 miles per hour. The km/h scale also explains why the needle seems to shoot up this fast.

Also note that this video originates from a german site, and again I can say from experience that the highway you see looks very like a German autobahn with no speed limit. At night, sometimes long streches of them are empty, so racing like this is very safe.

surf4runner · 12-22-2005, 12:08 PM

if its on the autobahn or european, woudn't it be a RHD?

marko3xl3 · 12-22-2005, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by surf4runner

if its on the autobahn or european, woudn't it be a RHD?

RHD? What is that?

VolcomTacoma · 12-22-2005, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by marko3xl3

RHD? What is that?

Right Hand Drive

Jared · 12-22-2005, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by surf4runner

if its on the autobahn or european, woudn't it be a RHD?

All of Europe isn't Right Hand Drive, just the crazy brits and all of their former territories. Europe is ALL left hand drive.

So unless this is in the UK, South America, South Africa, India, or some Island in the South Pacific, it's correctly left hand drive.

Randomness · 12-29-2005, 12:06 PM

FWIW, the M5 DOES have a top speed of 205 MILES per hour.

stevrock · 12-29-2005, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by marko3xl3

So yeah, they were basically going about 135 miles per hour. The km/h scale also explains why the needle seems to shoot up this fast.

It doesn't matter if there was nothing written on the spedometer, the needle is still going to move at the same speed.

Swissdrums · 12-29-2005, 08:15 PM

if that thing were topping out, it woulda taken a lot longer...musta been in kilometers per hour

marko3xl3 · 12-29-2005, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by stevrock

It doesn't matter if there was nothing written on the spedometer, the needle is still going to move at the same speed.

No, because it has to cover a greater distance...think about it, the scale on those is different.

12-21-2005, 06:44 AM	#2 (permalink)
bamachem Banned Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 0	holy crap that's stupid. if you look close, they're on some type of limited access highway like an interstate. if the speedo goes to 205, it looks to me like they went over 155. nucking futs. plain and simple. i did however notice how fast they both hit 120+ from cruising speed. crazy-fast cars are cool. Last edited by bamachem; 12-21-2005 at 06:45 AM.

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