I was driving my wife's Fit yesterday (she's had it over 2 months and only has 950 miles on the car), and I noticed that the car has a 140 MPH speedometer. Really, how useful is that? It may look sporty, but all it does is compress the useful part of the speedo into a much smaller arc. Is it some type of cost saving item between metric / English units?

Aside from the lack of center armrest and short bottom seat cushion, I like the way the Fit drives around town better than my Prius. I also wish she would have bought (could drive) a car with a manual transmission.

 

I like to think that it shows that Honda has a sense of humor.

 

Most every car is like that. My old Dodge Avenger had a 160 MPH speedo.

I doubt a 1.5 ton car with 160 bhp is going to reach that.

 

This, the Chrysler Pacifica goes to 160mph.

Besides, if you look at the speedometer in terms of complete usefulness for everyday they would all stop at like 80mph.

 

Somewhat useful to someone planning on putting down some power turbo/etc since it's gear limited to ~130ish

Yeah though, most cars' speedos are like that.

 

It would be quite sad seeing 100 MPH as the maximum on the speedo you know :C

So they put a 140 so we can all feel better!

 

I read that putting a high speed number on the speedometer is a sales tool. You buy a car and speedo says 140 MPH and you think, hmmm, and it makes you more inclined to buy the car. How fast can a Fit really go? Isn't top speed limited to 110 electronically?

 

It might be useful if a Lambo was behind me with its nose touching my rear bumper and pushing me up to speed!

Other than that, a dream.....

 

Back in the halcyon days of "55 stay alive" speedometers were 85mph max. Of course my 65 chevy had a 120mph speedometer but would only do 85. The more things change...

 

About 114 - 115 mph, and drag-limited -- according to Car & Driver, who have tested the car on a track with enough room to let it top-out.

 

i remember the days when speedo's were 85mph.

 

Yup of course a way for sales, I remember when I was a lot younger looking at my parent's speedometer and thinking "WOW your Honda Odyssey can go 140mph" Yeah...noo haha

 

There's another psychological reason: drivers tend to cruise such that the needle points straight up, which for the US they set at 70mph. Doesn't mean the Fit is like my buddy's Porsche whose actual most efficient cruising speed is 70mph though.

 

I have UK GE6 Jazz 1.4EX (late 2008). The absolute top top speed in mine is 120 MPH . The speedo showed about 132 but my 3 Navigators all displayed 120. They were an iphone 4 Running 'Witness' (it's like a Blackbox recorder, do not ask to see the recording), and HTC HD2 and HP ipaq 5550 both running iGO8. This I have done many times. What happens at the GPS120 is that the engine cuts out, if I take my foot off the throttle and reapply I pick up again to 120 (GPS) and it cuts out again. It is as if there is a gearbox speed limiter that either cuts off fuel or ignition (spark) to 2 or all cylinders. I am not a boy racer with modes to the car. But I feel I have the 'Herbie' version of a Jazz. This was with semi and now fully synthetic oil. Plenty cameras flashed in Germany and Austria, I better not get stopped in Berlin or they will have me, apparently...
If I only had 130 MPH on the speedo I could have bent the needle.

 

I remember on some of those speedometers, the "55" was larger than any of the other numbers on the display.

 

Isn't the 2015 supposed to be slightly sleaker than the older Fit's? Given that and the extra horsepower I wonder if the new one could actually break 120mph? I don't suppose anyone has done a top speed test yet.

-Dustin

 

The M stands for meters, not miles.

 

If you think thats funny, many cars including sporty cars of the 80s had 85mph gauge clusters with the 55mph mark in bold (freeway speed limit back in the day). Look inside a mid 80s Delorean is has a 85mph cluster. The Fit can get close to its speedo max, ive had mine up to 130mph before.

 

It should do it unless it has a governer, my 12' feels like it has a governer but its soft so i cant tell if thats all she has as it was taking a while to get up to that speed.

 

WTH are MPH?