Welp, I bought my p5 Sat. It's red! Pictures are coming! 1st task. Yellow calipers. Cheap enough. I read in the owners manual that there was no break in period. I'm still keeping the car under 4 grand RPM...except for yesterday! I was coming home at 2am and this old infinity drove up next to me. I've got 550 miles on my car now...we sat there for a while, then starting creeping up on speed! P5 was at 118!!!!!!!!!! STOCK! Sweet. Seemed fairly stable too! What a fun car!


L8r,
SnoBoarder_X

 

Some people say that there is a brake in period and not to run the car over 3000 RPM or to drive with the cruise on for a long period of time (half hour or more).

 

I've had mine up to 120 on the freeway here. Me and a bunch of friends were driving around town late one night and all decided to give it on the freeway.

 

My boyfriend and I were on the Queensway and we were going 160km hr.

 

185 KMH for mine on highway. Cant go faster cuz 1 KMH faster your on the cut off.

 

No $h!t??? Does the P5 have a speed limiter? I know my bf's focus has one at around 109, I think! If not, I need to check that out! WooHoo!

 

120 mph is the cut off

 

Cut off is at 132 mph, it's redline in 5th gear. So it's rather rev-limiter, than actual speed limiter
I run it on dyno, so this info is 100% accurate.
If it can't go faster than 120 mph on the road is due to drag and lack of power.
Alex
BTW, it's canadian version.

 

when I was doing the research looking for my P5 I saw in a couple of the articles that the top end was at 118mph. In cases when this is due to a governor they state that, in the cases that they do not it is due to drag limiting.

That's just what the stock car will do.

 

Back to the break in..I think you should drive your car the way you intend on driving it for the rest of its life. If you drive in the higher RPMs, drive in those RMPS, now. Just drive it the way you intend to drive it all the time.

 

Preach on Mitch!! I've got the extended 6 year warranty so ya know...if it's gonna break, I'd rather it be now.

I'm driving about 3 hours out to W.V this weekend which should put me over the 1000 mile mark. I'll let ya know what it can do when I get back. The suspension and lack of body roll kicks a$$. You can do that without going over 3000 RPM!!

 

got my P5 almost 3 month ago... factory standard, no modifications (yet), automatic (they screwed up my order but ofered a decent deal to get this one)... anyways, is it normal not to be able to go over 190km/h ??? I was expecting at least 210 out of this one... I'm a bit dissapointed.

 

I think they rated max sped of 195km, I think that's manual trans.

 

A few of us have hit 200kph. (5spd.)

 

ditto.