In a Jan. 22, 2013 photo, the speedometer of a 1984 Monte Carlo is seen at the GM Heritage Center in Sterling Heights, Mich. For years, most speedometers topped out at 120, a speed that many cars ...

The 1984 Chevrolet Corvette did more than usher in a new generation of America’s sports car, it dragged the dashboard into ...

The Yaris got its 140 mph speedometer in a redesign for the 2012 model year, giving it the same top reading as the original 1953 Chevrolet Corvette sports car. Even the new Nissan Sentra compact has a ...

DETROIT — The speedometer on the Toyota Yaris says the tiny car can go 140 miles per hour. In reality, the bulbous subcompact’s 106-horsepower engine and automatic transmission can’t push it any ...