Car and Driver is wrong. Trust me, I have a RSX, when you're flooring it down the freeway at 6th gear, wide open throttle, you're probably sitting at 5000 RPM (out of 9000 RPM) but not going any faster. It's not the redline. It's not enough torque to keep the car accelerating.
It's not aero-limited or redline limited. The stock RSX does not have enough torque to get to 150 MPH without running out of room to accelerate. Turbocharged RSX's (with a low final drive and 6th gear) have easily accelerated way past 155 MPH.
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Car and Driver is wrong. Trust me, I have a RSX, when you're flooring it down the freeway at 6th gear, wide open throttle, you're probably sitting at 5000 RPM (out of 9000 RPM) but not going any faster. It's not the redline. It's not enough torque to keep the car accelerating.
It's not aero-limited or redline limited. The stock RSX does not have enough torque to get to 150 MPH without running out of room to accelerate. Turbocharged RSX's (with a low final drive and 6th gear) have easily accelerated way past 155 MPH.
The RSX has no speed limiter. I have a race-prepped RSX Type-S. http://www.doubledgarage.com/?p=3812 I also have the "hacked/programmable" ECU for the RSX and there is no parameter for disabling the speed limiter (because there is none). http://www.hondata.com/kmanager.html