What RPM doing 60, 70 and 80 on a motorway?

[Goksly]

Focus 1.6, roughly:
60 - 3k
70 - 3.3k
80 - 3.75k
90 - 4k

 

[FreeStream]

2100 @ 50
2400 @ 60
2700 @ 70
3000 @ 80

1457 cc 4+E Mk 1 1983 Golf...

 

[Conscript]

Focus 1.6
2500 @ 60MPH
3000 @ 70MPH
3500 @ 80MPH

 

[Xez]

300rpm for 60, 3500rpm at 70 and 4000rpm for 80 for my clio

 

[peterattheboro]

Can't remember properly off hand.

I think it's 2500rpm in 6th @ 70mph. Which I thought was quite high for a 3.0 V6 I was expecting lower.

 

[spaz]

In 6th gear in the s2000:
3500rpm @ 60mph
4250rpm @ 70mph
4600ish rpm@80mph

Can't remember what it's like in the mr2.

 

[peterattheboro]

In 6th gear in the s2000:
3500rpm @ 60mph
4250rpm @ 70mph
4600ish rpm@80mph

Can't remember what it's like in the mr2.

Holy vtec y0 that's high

 

[I_M_Weasel]

70 3800rpm, 1.2 corsa

 

[nicRob]

No rev counter, but few calculations puts 70mph as around 3000-3200rpm, Fiesta 1.8td

 

[Matthew.M]

about 3800rpm at 70mph in my MX5, could really do with a 6th gear.

 

[[TW]Fox]

3000ish @ 80 i think.

 

[PMKeates]

5th gear on the motorway, in my Renault Megane 2002 fiji, I am doing something like 3200 RM at around 70 and almost touching 4000 RPM when hitting 80. Just sounds a hell of a lot more painful on the engine compared to my old Ford Escort.

That's mathematically impossible in the same gear unless you have some major slippage!

3200 RPM @ 70 MPH = 46 RPM per MPH

80 MPH * 46 RPM = 3680 RPM

Mine is 2750 RPM at GPS 70 in 5th, so:

60 - 2400 RPM
70 - 2750 RPM
80 - 3150 RPM
100 - 3950 RPM

 

[Nor]

Think it's just under 3k at 70mph in my KV6 MG ZS. Just before the valves open so it's running frugally.

 

[Overlag]

(roughly)
40mph = 2100rpm
50mph = 2700rpm
75mph = 4000rpm
100mph = 5400rpm

sometimes i wish they squeezed a 6speed box in the ST

Yet my mate wont use 5th gear @ 40mph even though its perfectly useable

 

[PMKeates]

75mph = 4000rpm

sometimes i wish they squeezed a 6speed box in the ST

That's about 6k at 110

 

[Overlag]

That's about 6k at 110

7k at 130

(136 top speed)

 

[[TW]Fox]

That's mathematically impossible in the same gear unless you have some major slippage!

3200 RPM @ 70 MPH = 46 RPM per MPH

80 MPH * 46 RPM = 3680 RPM

Mine is 2750 RPM at GPS 70 in 5th, so:

60 - 2400 RPM
70 - 2750 RPM
80 - 3150 RPM
100 - 3950 RPM

So my car is geared to 175mph?

 

[Gaijin]

4400rpm @70mph

 

[PMKeates]

7k at 130

(136 top speed)

Is the engine actually noisy at those revs when going along at say 110, or is it just buzzing? Like I find my engine is OK and more buzzing at different tones until around 5.5k, then gets genuinely loud pretty quickly after that.

 

[Overlag]

So my car is geared to 175mph?

probably, but does it have the power to get it there? (if it was delimited?)

honest question. The gears are probably setup to be "eco friendly", not so it can push 175mph