Introduction

[Rusty]

Hello Flatfour and welcome ... even more so as your chosen steed is GREEN !
I have just ridden home from work in the pouring rain and I just love my Gtr ... I am sure you will too ... enjoy ! 

[Boomer]

How anybody could say green is the fastest colour when we all know black is beyond me.

Yup, especially given that the Green is a 2012 colour and thus limited (as are all 2010 and later models) to 155Mph (250Kph).
The 08-09 models are limited to 186Mph (300Kph) so we KNOW that Black/Silver is faster. 

[Deon]

Yup, especially given that the Green is a 2012 colour and thus limited (as are all 2010 and later models) to 155Mph (250Kph).
The 08-09 models are limited to 186Mph (300Kph) so we KNOW that Black/Silver is faster. 

My 2011 is certainly not limited to 250Kph !!!!!
AND - it is BLACK   

Deon

[pistole]

- welcome welcome !!

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[O.C.]

Yup, especially given that the Green is a 2012 colour and thus limited (as are all 2010 and later models) to 155Mph (250Kph).
The 08-09 models are limited to 186Mph (300Kph) so we KNOW that Black/Silver is faster. 

Actually George the Mettallic Green is a 2011 colour

2012 colours are Candy Arabian Red and Metallic Midnight Sapphire Blue

Both colours are 'limited' and obviously slow 

[Boomer]

Whatever the colour the 2010- are limited to 155Mph.
How they measure that 155Mph I have no idea.
I do know that at that speed the speedo over-reads by quite a lot.
My speedo momentarily peaked at around 165 on my last Autobahn blast.
I'd be amazed if that translated to 155Mph real speed.

[Deon]

Whatever the colour the 2010- are limited to 155Mph.
How they measure that 155Mph I have no idea.
I do know that at that speed the speedo over-reads by quite a lot.
My speedo momentarily peaked at around 165 on my last Autobahn blast.
I'd be amazed if that translated to 155Mph real speed.

275 Kph on GPS

Deon

[O.C.]

Whatever the colour the 2010- are limited to 155Mph.
How they measure that 155Mph I have no idea.
I do know that at that speed the speedo over-reads by quite a lot.
My speedo momentarily peaked at around 165 on my last Autobahn blast.
I'd be amazed if that translated to 155Mph real speed.

Very true.......my speedo consistently reads about 2-3mph faster than my GPS which I imagine is more accurate.

[Bumpkin]

Had an interesting trip round Northern France recently - they have sections where speed cameras relay your speed back to you.

In about 10 "zaps" my Garmin 550 was spot on 8 times and 1kph optimistic twice, although on one occasion it quickly changed to the right speed.  So I quickly stopped paying any attention to my speedo whatsoever

[Lonewolf]

I've previously measured the accuracy of a Tom Tom sat nav against a Vascar unit in the works car and it was 100% accurate. Needless to say the speedos in these cars are calibrated too so they all matched.


However in my own car or on the bike as you increase speed the difference of the two readings between sat nav and speedo can increase significantly also.

[Winston Smith]

 

They are spot on. 

[mecki]

The faster I go the bigger the difference between the Zumo 550 and the speedo.
I'd say the speedo is about 10% optimistic. I rather believe the GPS is spot-on, though.

[Lonewolf]

They are.

[Rusty]

"Vascar Uni in the car" ... Steve ... you ARE showing your age !! 

[Lonewolf]

They've just had them installed, we used to use a stop watch and tape measure!