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Old 03-06-2012, 01:54 PM   #106
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Originally Posted by LSxJunkie View Post
This idea that power is useless on the street is narrowminded. If you're focused purely on blasting to the speed limit, sure. However, I miss having gobs of torque for passing at ease. And I've driven a couple of cars that'll blow the tires off from a 60mph roll at 1/2 throttle. You can certainly use all that power every day, just not from standing stop acceleration runs. Hell, at 550whp, you're not even at WOT until second gear unless you're on drag radials anyways.

I don't think the FT needs more power for what it's designed for. However, this idea that you only need enough power to get to the speed limit and the rest is wasted is certainly untrue.
I think the way you drive in public may be different to that of others in this thread.
My current car weighs 3200lbs has 170hp and 180lb/ft and not once have I thought I needed more power.
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