R56 Top Speed
#26
It gives you a tone when you hit that speed. It's one of the options availabe under setup on the nav screen. It looks like you may need navigation for this. (p. 62 of the manual). Navigation... Car Data.....Limit... Change Limit.
Last edited by Loony2N; 04-27-2007 at 08:27 AM. Reason: Add sentence
#27
The stupid thing about it, and the reason I really don't use it... it does give a tone when you cross the pre-set speed, however it also stops the tone after a few seconds, and won't go off again unless you go below the speed and back over it again. Also, if you have the stereo turned up, you never hear it anyway!
At least that's how it was in the 1st Gen. I wonder with the R56 if they made it more prominent and persistent... louder and continuing to beep away. Yes, that would be annoying, but if you didn't want the warning, you'd disable it in the first place!
#28
#29
The stupid thing about it, and the reason I really don't use it... it does give a tone when you cross the pre-set speed, however it also stops the tone after a few seconds, and won't go off again unless you go below the speed and back over it again. Also, if you have the stereo turned up, you never hear it anyway!
#30
Now that it's broken in, I went for a little spin down A6. Analog speedo indicated ~145 mph, Digital speedo indicated 233 km/h (144 mph).
My Garmin GPS was indicating 225 km/h, which mini.de lists as the top speed. That translates to 139.82 mph, which mini.com lists (well, they list 139).
I'll bet the GPS is on the money, and the speedo is wrong.
On a different note; when my wife and I test drove an S we noticed the car was extremely stable at 110mph (I posted in another thread that she never drives that fast), and there was little sensation of speed... i.e.: you don't feel like you're going as fast as you really are. Once you exceed 110, the car becomes much less settled, particularly in the turns. That may explain BMW's effort to improve aerodynamics in this generation. In comparison, my Volvo ('05 S40 T5) was much more composed at speed. The mini of course handles twisty B roads much better. An "autobahn-cruiser" it's not, I'm afraid.
My Garmin GPS was indicating 225 km/h, which mini.de lists as the top speed. That translates to 139.82 mph, which mini.com lists (well, they list 139).
I'll bet the GPS is on the money, and the speedo is wrong.
On a different note; when my wife and I test drove an S we noticed the car was extremely stable at 110mph (I posted in another thread that she never drives that fast), and there was little sensation of speed... i.e.: you don't feel like you're going as fast as you really are. Once you exceed 110, the car becomes much less settled, particularly in the turns. That may explain BMW's effort to improve aerodynamics in this generation. In comparison, my Volvo ('05 S40 T5) was much more composed at speed. The mini of course handles twisty B roads much better. An "autobahn-cruiser" it's not, I'm afraid.
Last edited by dneal; 04-28-2007 at 11:17 PM.
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