I drove this afternoon a TD5 from Brive to Toulouse, nice motorway, good sunny weather ... it climbed effortlessmy to 160 km/h, i.e. 100 mph, and was running like a charm
after that brief moment of pleasure I went back to earth and to the allowed 130 km/h or 81 mph
The most I've had out of mine is 60mph, it'd probably do more but 60's fine by me.
and my 160 reading was from the speedometer, so probably optimisticThat's about right as they were road tested at a max of 98 both with a manual and an auto box, the V8 at 106mph.
My disco easily sits at 70mph without any problem at all. In fact the engine wasnt even turning though the AA Recovery van was struggling a bit with all that weight on it.