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Originally Posted by RM7
Low end torque.
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How's that help you enjoy an engine on the street? You're at illegal, monumentally illegal, speeds in no time, you can never wring it out, even a bit.
Hell I rented a Mustang GT and jesus H, wonderful engine for the dollars, and for a V8 it actually likes a rev, but still, 2 seconds on the throttle from a rolling start and I am at 140kmh.
I get low end torque if we are talking daily drivability of regular cars, let's say a 1.8 lite turbo vs a 2.5 NA 4 cylinder, I get that. But a 550HP NA V8 vs a 680hp blown V8? Why? It feels like people get obsessed with numbers and forget what it is like to drive these cars. This is a bit of a cross thread post with the SL Roadster thread, but instead of 550 blown HP i'd more than happily take 400 NA HP that red lines at 8500rpm and can't pull the skin off a bowl of old soup.