Realistic top speeds?

[MrtW]

How can i make a car have a realistic top speed without having an exaggerated acceleration?

 

I mean i want to have my cars have a realistic topspeed of about 100-125 mph, but still have an realistic acceleration. If i choose high velocity and low engine acceleration, i will just end up with a car with slow acceleration and low top speed. If i make a high acceleration and high velocity, it will end up with a car with high top speed as i want, but also a completely insane and unrealistic acceleration.

 

I experimented a lot with it, and also found out, that the top speed and acceleration is limited by the cars mass (weight)? I don't know if you also found out, or know why? A very light car with a mass of about 300 will not go over 60 mph. even if it has a velocity and acceleration of 300, but as soon as you change the mass to about 2000 it will go over 150 mph. Very interesting. Anyone have any ideas?

[Mark]

This will probably be of use to you. I've only dabbled briefly on handling, but Cerberas known as probably the best person to ask on these forums about it.

 

Setting a vehicle top speed but leaving the engine acceleration a little lower, and engine momentum or whatever it's called to be quite high is probably the best idea for this bit.

 

As for weight...meh just a quirk of the phyics in the game. Setting vehicle weight to a standard car weight and generally ignoring it after that seems to do the job I find. Mind you I thought setting a vehicle top speed would counteract any low mass...meh.