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    Everyone drives around 130kph on the open road here and in the UK and the road toll is far lower than NZ. Nothing to do with speed just bad driving and poor road surface. It switches from freezing to 40 degrees and I have never seen tar bleed or a road worker blobbing down bitumen and flinging loose gravel over a patch and calling it "fixed".
    I love the smell of twin V16's in the morning..

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    Given that the average car speedo reads anything up to 10% fast, most of those showing a death-defying 110 on the speedo will still only be driving at the current open road legal limit anyway.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pete376403 View Post
    Given that the average car speedo reads anything up to 10% fast, most of those showing a death-defying 110 on the speedo will still only be driving at the current open road legal limit anyway.
    gps dawg .

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    Yes, got one of those, that's how I know the speedo is inaccurate. Don't think they are fitted to every car, though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pete376403 View Post
    Yes, got one of those, that's how I know the speedo is inaccurate. Don't think they are fitted to every car, though.
    certainly becoming more and more common. any car made in the last decade probably has.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Akzle View Post
    yet to meet the cop that can keep up with me on gravel
    Yeah but if he was in a car and not on a push-bike the outcome might be a bit different.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Akzle View Post
    certainly becoming more and more common. any car made in the last decade probably has.
    Not ones that display speed though. Not saying they're not out there but I drive a lot of late model Euro's etc and whilst a lot have built in GPS I've not seen a function to display speed.

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    Right. The satnav in my Honda Accord can do everything but predict next weeks Lotto numbers but to display speed it has to be in diagnostic mode, then a combination of touch panel presses (and its all in Japanese) brings up a display showing road speed, direction, altitude and how many satellites it can see. Not totally straight forward.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pete376403 View Post
    Right. The satnav in my Honda Accord can do everything but predict next weeks Lotto numbers but to display speed it has to be in diagnostic mode, then a combination of touch panel presses (and its all in Japanese) brings up a display showing road speed, direction, altitude and how many satellites it can see. Not totally straight forward.
    Probably don't display it to stop people complaining about their speedos being innacurate. I'm sure they stopped fitting oil pressure gauges as standard to stop people complaining about oil pressure being out of specification.
    I love the smell of twin V16's in the morning..

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