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Ikenna351: If you meant 2008 Accord V6, of course, the Accord will be faster.

But just like i told people at the Peugeot owners Meet today in Abuja, I am a car person, a petrolhead and a Peugeot freak. What i look for in a car is not just the speed (even though i like and want them powerful), but "handling". Thats why the fastest car in a race doesnt always win the race. Also, that why in 1988, Peugeot 505 Turbo, with just 180 hp, won a race in USA. The car was not the fastest car in that race. But if watch the video of that race, you could see how it handled better than other cars in the race and won.

The bigger the hp, the more fun to speed on a straight line. But with poot handling, it sucks!

Ikenna

Ikenna351: Peugeot 406 with EW12, 2.2 litre Petrol engine develops maximum of 170 hp. And doing more than 200 km/h in 406 with that engine is not a big deal. A lot of people have done that.


Ikenna

tsiriman: Bros you don't need to open another thread for this, your Peugeot 406 can't be faster than a 4 cylinder 2008 accord talkless of the V6.

Siena: It will read a maximum of 250 km/ (155.3 mph) because the speedo will be made for different models of Peugeot 406, including the more powerful ones. It may also be fitted to the 1.6 / 2.0 engined cars. It doesn't mean the cars will use the entire scale. It is cheaper for manufacturers to have one speedo for different models.

Your speedo may well have "indicated" 150 mph. It does to mean that was the ACTUAL speed the car was doing. So many factors to take into consideration - wheel size, incorrectly calibrated speedo (that has been taken apart and reassembled) and of course, good old error margin that exists in ALL production vehicles.

Let's look at another example - a UK-spec 2004 Toyota Corolla 1.6 speedo has a scale of 140 mph. It will max out at 115 mph. A UK-spec 2005 Honda Civic 1.4 (2003) speedo has a scale of 140 mph. It has a maximum speed of 105 mph.

What a speedo has on the scale seldom reflects what the car it's fitted to can do. Otherwise a cheap way to increase the rpm on a Honda Civic 1.4 from 6200 rpm would be by simply fitting the rev counter from an Integra Type-R, which red lines at an ear-splitting 8250 rpm.

tsiriman: Guy please be serious, a 406 with EW10 engine has about 140hp while an i4 2008 honda accord has about 190hp, what more of the 3.5L V6 which has about 270hp.
How do you even begin to compare a 406 to these cars?

king406: u guys donno that a 406 with EW12 engine speedo reads 250kmph??

inze:
lol,

Siena,

i thought i was the only that saw what he wrote

240kmph

Siena: King406, the Peugeot 406 2.2 SRI makes 157 hp, with a maximum speed of 135 mph.
Now unless your car was extensively modified, there's no way it would hit 150 mph.
Your speedo must be over reading by a massive margin.