QOTD: Is 1,000 Horsepower Too Much?
The "moar power" part of me thinks nah, not at all.
But on the other hand, very little of the car's horsepower, or its more than 800 lb-ft of torque, is very useful on the street. Speed limits and safety mean that any moneyed enthused who buys this car will have to save its full capabilities for the track.
Which is as it should be -- we won't hesitate to flame the first idiot who bins one of these at a Cars and Coffee or on a busy city street. Save it for the track.
The question is, if all that power can't be used for the street and it's only useful for the track, why even bother? Why not just make a separate track-only car?
Maybe to make it a numbers contest against other super cars?
Sound off below.
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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