Mine's governed at 150km/hr. It is effortless on the freeway. I've owned a lot of cars since the 70s, including 4 Mercedes, one of them an AMG, a BMW that constantly broke and left me places, a Maserati that constantly broke my wallet, and a few obscure vintage cars. One I drove around the continent twice was a '76 Toyota Land Cruiser. I learned to drive a manual tranny on a '74 VW Bug that topped out at 60mph with the wind. The smart is much better than a lot of my old vehicles. My wife's Mercedes offers no real advantage to me except a bit of extra comfort on long trips. In the real world, I long ago decided that several hundred hp was fun, but unusable, and just ended up costing big $ to insure and run. In the US, you don't pay what we do for cars, insurance or gas (yet). The subcompact end of the industry will make a comeback yet.